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Doctor Who

Whose Line Is It Anyway?‘s Mike McShane to guest on Doctor Who (minor spoilers)

Film

Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss to star in Compulsion
Rooney Mara joins Spike Jonze’s next film
Andrea Riseborough joins Alexander Skarsgard in Hidden

Theatre

Cranford‘s Lisa Dillon joins Stephen Mangan for Birthday

UK TV

The Syndicate finishes with 5.4m viewers

US TV

Tuesday ratings: LA Complex gets lowest ever ratings for a drama debut
Five actors joins the Sundance Channel’s first scripted series Rectify

US TV pilots

Counter Culture shelved

Wednesday’s “Ray Stevenson joins Dexter, and Wild At Heart and Young James Herriot axed” news

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Doctor Who

John Simm won’t be returning

Film

Charlotte Gainsbourg joins Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Ben Kingsley and John Malkovich to star in Cut Bank
Owen Wilson to star in The Coup

Trailers

Trailer for Pixar’s Brave
Trailer for Lawless with Tom Hardy, Gary OIdman, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain

UK TV

Wild At Heart axed
Young James Herriot axed

US TV

The Lying Game gets a second season
Ray Stevenson joins Dexter
SyFy announces 28 projects, including adaptions of Charlaine Harris and Strephen King novels
Burn Notice – season 6 teaser trailer
Gossip Girl‘s Josh Safran to be Smash‘s new showrunner
Sunday HBO ratings: Veep gets 1.7m viewers, Girls and Game of Thrones steady
Monday ratings: House up

Tuesday’s “Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza united, The Bridge gets 1m viewers and more Defiance recruits” news

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Theatre

Abigail’s Party transferring to the West End

Canadian TV

CBC’s passes on Wish List pilot

UK TV

The Bridge gets 1m viewers

US TV

Sunday ratings
Lie to Me‘s Brendan Hines to guest on Covert Affairs

US TV pilots

24/The L Word‘s Mia Kirshner and Lost‘s Fionnula Flanagan join Defiance
Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza working on ABC comedy

Monday’s “Upstairs Downstairs cancelled, Matthew Perry’s Go On picked up and Russell Crowe is Noah” news

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Film

Ray Liotta joins The Rut
Russell Crowe to play Noah

Trailers

Trailer for The Five-Year Engagement

Canadian TV

InSecurity et al dropped because of CBC’s government budget cuts

UK TV

Upstairs Downstairs axed
Game of Thrones‘ Liam Cunningham to guest on Merlin
No third series for Grandma’s House
2 Broke Girls gets 1.1m viewers
Saturday ratings

US TV

Tim Minchin to guest on Californication
Rebecca Mader to guest on White Collar
BBC America acquires 2012
A returning character for the House finale [minor spoilers]

US TV pilots

NBC picks up Matthew Perry’s Go On
American Housewife gets the red light

Friday’s “Channel 4 finds Utopia, Bryan Fuller discusses Hannibal and William Petersen’s pilot” news

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Film

Tony Danza to play Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s father

Trailer

Full trailer for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson

Canadian TV

CBC’s returning shows

UK TV

Channel 4 commissions Utopia, from Dennis Kelly
Sandi Toksvig joins Stephen Fry’s production company

US TV

Wednesday ratings: ratings down across the board
Hulu announces its new programmes
Bryan Fuller discusses Hannibal

US TV pilots

Cinemax orders pilot of William Petersen’s Hurt People
Why there’s been so much recasting this year

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Thursday’s “LA Complex flops, Counter Culture shelved, and Mike McShane on Who” news

Wednesday’s “Ray Stevenson joins Dexter, and Wild At Heart and Young James Herriot axed” news

Tuesday’s “Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza united, The Bridge gets 1m viewers and more Defiance recruits” news

Monday’s “Upstairs Downstairs cancelled, Matthew Perry’s Go On picked up and Russell Crowe is Noah” news

Friday’s “Channel 4 finds Utopia, Bryan Fuller discusses Hannibal and William Petersen’s pilot” news

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