News

Amy Sedaris to guest on Necessary Roughness
Best Friends Forever pulled from the schedules
Trailer for A&E’s Longmire, with Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips and Katee Sackhoff
New trailer for HBO’s The Newsroom
Thursday ratings: 30 Rock and Community up, everything else down
Friday ratings: Fringe up, everything else steady or down

US TV pilots

E! announces development slate for first scripted dramas, including Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz update, Anne of Hollywood and the Amy Devlin Mysteries

Monday’s “E!’s Wizard of Oz, Best Friends not Forever and trailers for A&E’s Longmire and HBO’s Newsroom” news

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Film

Disney to adapt Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
Stellan Skarsgård joins The Railway Man

Trailers

Judd Apatow‘s This is 40 with Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann
Three-minute trailer for Prometheus

Canadian TV

Call Me Fitz gets a fourth season, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil cancelled

International TV

Sweden’s TV4 to adapt Maria Lang books

UK TV

Sophie Okoneda, Peter Firth, Aidan Gillen and Lesley Manville to star in Mayday
Saturday ratings

US TV

Amy Sedaris to guest on Necessary Roughness
Best Friends Forever pulled from the schedules
Trailer for A&E’s Longmire, with Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips and Katee Sackhoff
New trailer for HBO’s The Newsroom
Thursday ratings: 30 Rock and Community up, everything else down
Friday ratings: Fringe up, everything else steady or down

US TV pilots

E! announces development slate for first scripted dramas, including Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz update, Anne of Hollywood and the Amy Devlin Mysteries

Friday’s “More Muppets, Fringe, Prisoners’ Wives, The Syndicate, Happily Divorced, True Justice; less Make It or Break It” news

27 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Muppets sequel given the go-ahead
Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia to star in Admissions
Kelly Reilly joins Innocence

Trailers

Trailer for Hick, with Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Juliette lewis and Alec Baldwin

UK TV

Prisoners’ Wives gets a second series
ITV orders series of The Job Lot with Russell Tovey
Gina McKee, Jan Ravens and Phil Nice join Hebburn
The Syndicate gets a second series

US TV

Arrested Development return will be US-only
Wednesday ratings: Don’t Trust the B—– down to 4.9m…
…and The LA Complex gets better ratings for its re-run than its premiere
Fringe gets a fifth, final season
Betty White to guest on The Client List
Someone else returning for the House finale [minor spoilers]
Oh surely not. Steven Seagal’s True Justice gets a second season
12 more episodes for Happily Divorced
Make It Or Break It cancelled

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