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Trailers

Trailer for Your Sister’s Sister, with Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt
Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, with Channing Tatum

International TV

Lilyhammer gets a second season

UK TV

Ceefax switch-off
Netflix UK picks up Lilyhammer, to air after BBC4 shows it
Channel 4 spring/summer press pack
Tuesday ratings: Touch down, Mad Men down to 39k

US TV

House‘s Michael Weston to guest on White Collar
Netflix will stream all 10 new episodes of Arrested Development at once
Friday ratings: Magic City up
Tuesday ratings: Private Practice loses viewers in move

US TV pilots

Vince Vaughn developing action drama

Wednesday’s “Vince Vaughn’s Rockford Files, The Angry Buddhist TV series and Nurse Jackie’s showrunners split” news

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Film

James Van Der Beek joins Labor Day
Vince Vaughn lined up for The Rockford Files
Michael Douglas joins Las Vegas

Canadian TV

Last week’s ratings

UK TV

Hidden‘s Séanin Brennan joins The Fall
S4C restructures
ITN profits up 480% [subscription required]

US TV

What stars are earning right now
Nurse Jackie‘s showrunners leaving
First episode of The LA Complex available on Hulu
Smallville/V‘s Laura Vandervoort to guest on White Collar
Dan Futterman and Roger Bart join Political Animals
Grimm‘s Bree Turner promoted to series regular
Angel‘s Amy Acker to guest on Person of Interest
Monday ratings: Gossip Girl up to 1.1m viewers, How I Met Your Mother falls to season low

US TV pilots

Kevin Williamson’s serial killer pilot now called Mastermind
Showtime developing The Angry Buddhist

Tuesday’s “Star Trek captains united, Jared Harris is quiet and Joe Gilgun to guest on Ripper Street” news

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Doctor Who

Virgin removes Doctor Who logo from David Tennant ad

Film

Mad Men‘s Jared Harris to star in Hammer’s The Quiet Ones

Events

All five TV Star Trek captains to unite for convention

UK TV

Misfits‘ Joe Gilgun to guest on Ripper Street
Sunday ratings: Homeland up

US TV

Cyndi Lauper to return to Bones
Sunday ratings: GCB down, Titanic poor, NYC 22 starts okay…
…while The Client List grows…
…and Girls starts okay

Monday’s “Walliams joins Blandings, Sky Atlantic acquires Awake and Titanic sinks” news

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Film

Danny McBride to star in remake of Danish TV series/movie Klovn
Tina Fey joins The Intern
The Rock to star in The Lore
A new Sabrina The Teenage Witch movie
Ciaran Hinds joins suspense thriller
Mark Wahlberg joins The Partner
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake to star in Runner, Runner
Justified‘s Joelle Carter joins Jessabelle

Trailers

Trailer for Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Trailer for Hysteria with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dandy

Books

William Boyd to write the next Bond novel

UK TV

David Walliams and Paloma Faith join Blandings
BBC1 commissions Me & Mrs Jones with Sarah Alexander, Robert Sheehan, Neil Morrissey and Nathaniel Parker
Eddie Marsan and Rob Brydon to star in BBC2 drama about the Paralympic Games from Lucy Gannon
Stephen Fry and Douglas Henshall to star in ITV adaptation of Ian Rankin’s Doors Open
Sky Atlantic acquires Awake [subscription required]
BBC working on 3D comedy drama
2m watch Derek
Saturday ratings
Sunday ratings: Titanic sinks

US TV

Breaking In pulled from the schedules
Community‘s Donald Glover to return to 30 Rock… as Tracy Jordan
Treat Williams to guest on Leverage
Jesse Eisenberg to cameo in The Newsroom pilot
Denise Richards to guest on Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management…
…and here’s a teaser trailer for it
Ellen Burstyn joins Political Animals
Lizzie Brochere joins American Horror Story
The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman sells Thief of Thieves to AMC
Teaser for Wilfred, season two
Teaser for True Blood, season five
Trailer for Tron: Uprising
Tuesday ratings: Justified finishes on a high
Wednesday ratings: Don’t Trust the B… starts okay
Thursday ratings: The Office falls to ratings low
Friday ratings: The Finder hits low, Grimm up, Fringe down

US TV pilots

The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Tricia O’Kelley replaces Salli Richardson on Downwardly Mobile
The Almighty Johnsons‘ Keisha Castle-Hughes joins Rewind
Edi Patterson to co-star in Super Fun Night

Wednesday’s “Harrelson and McConaughey’s cop show, Game of Thrones’ 3rd season and two BET renewals” news

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The Daily News will return on Monday

Film

T:TSCC‘s Leven Rambin joins Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Allison Janney joins The Seagull
Emily Watson, Anna Friel and Lena Headey to star in The Poisoners

UK TV

Monday ratings: Silent Witness beats Scott & Bailey

US TV

BET renews The Game and Let’s Stay Together
Game of Thrones gets a third season
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson to star in True Detective
Sarah Clarke replaces Rebecca Creskoff on Covert Affairs
James Van Der Beek to guest on Law & Order: SVU
A promotion on The Walking Dead [minor spoilers]
Monday ratings: Two and a Half Men hits series low

US TV pilots

Dark Blue‘s Omari Hardwick joins Being Mary Jane

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Thursday’s “More Lilyhammer, less Ceefax and Channel 4’s spring/summer season” news

Wednesday’s “Vince Vaughn’s Rockford Files, The Angry Buddhist TV series and Nurse Jackie’s showrunners split” news

Tuesday’s “Star Trek captains united, Jared Harris is quiet and Joe Gilgun to guest on Ripper Street” news

Monday’s “Walliams joins Blandings, Sky Atlantic acquires Awake and Titanic sinks” news

Wednesday’s “Harrelson and McConaughey’s cop show, Game of Thrones’ 3rd season and two BET renewals” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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