News

Trailer for Here Comes the Boom with Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler
Trailer for Hit and Run with Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold and Kristin Chenoweth
Trailer for Arbitrage with Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth

Canadian TV

Rookie Blue gets a fourth season

UK TV

Comedy Central picks up The Daily Show

US TV

BBC America picks up Orphan Black
Trailer for season 3 of Covert Affairs
Nathan Lane and Kristin Chenoweth to recur on The Good Wife

Tuesday’s “Restless adaptation, Marc Warren and Maura Tierney join The Good Wife, and Asylum of the Daleks” news

26 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

First episode to be called Asylum of the Daleks

Film

Mark Strong joins Provenance
Javor Gardev to direct Theseus
Angela Bassett joins Olympus Has Fallen
Lost ending of Phase IV found

Trailers

Trailer for Alex Cross, with Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox

Theatre

Rufus Hound joins One Man, Two Guvnors tour

UK TV

Zoe Lucker joins Waterloo Road
Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling to star in Restless co-prod between BBC and Sundance Channel
Google TV to launch in the UK in July
Lovefilm to stream Fox movies and TV shows

US TV

Watch the first episode of The Newsroom [US only]…
…which got 2.1m viewers on Sunday
Marc Warren and Maura Tierney to recur on The Good Wife

Monday’s “Sky 1 commssions two dramas, Devious Maids picked up and David Tennant to star in The Politician’s Husband” news

25 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Andy Lau out of Iron Man 3
Thin Man remake postponed
Alan Moore developing indie film series Show Pieces
Changes afoot for Transformers 4
Charlie Sheen joins Machete Kills
Aaron Eckhart joins Olympus Has Fallen
Reese Witherspoon joins Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Michael Kenneth Williams joins Twelve Years A Slave

Trailers

Trailer for Klown

Theatre

Anita Dobson to make RSC debut

UK TV

Trailer for Strike Back: Vengeance
Sky1 HD commissions The Smoke and Moonfleet, commissions second series of Moone Boy, Starlings, Little Crackers, orders more of Charlie Brooker’s A Touch of Cloth
Olivia Colman and Katie Leung join Run
David Tennant and Emily Watson to star in BBC2’s The Politician’s Husband
Greg Davies to star in C4 sitcom [subscription required]

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Boss [US only]
Patrick Wilson to guest on Girls
Marilyn Manson to guest on Californication
Jay Ellis joins The Game as a regular
Wednesday ratings: Dallas drop to 4.8m viewers

New US TV shows

Fringe‘s Blair Brown joins Political Animals
Detroit 1-8-7‘s Jon Michael Hill joins Elementary
Wolé Parks out of Next Caller
Lifetime picks up Devious Maids

Friday’s “Dallas starts well, John Cho joins Go On and Judy Greer joins Carrie” news

15 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Monday 25th June

Film

Judy Greer joins Carrie remake

Trailers

Trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution

International TV

Transporter resumes production
Sweden’s TV4 orders comedy about fictional royal family

UK TV

Wednesday ratings
Comic Strip returning… on UK TV Gold

US TV

Michelle Trachtenberg returning to Gossip Girl
Jeremy Jordan joins Smash
Robert Patrick to guest on True Blood [spoilers]
NBC announces fall schedule
Meghan Ory to be a regular on Once Upon A Time
Dallas debuts well

New US TV shows

John Cho joins Go On

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