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Film

Another clip from The Avengers
Gemma Arterton to star in Wright Girls
X-Men: First Class sequel to shoot in January
Joseph Gordon-Levitt leaves Django Unchained
Community‘s Ken Jeong joins Pain and Gain
BSkyB to invest in British TV movies

Trailers

Trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg
Trailer for Oliver Stone’s Savages

UK TV

A fifth series for Horrible Histories
The Fades axed
Saturday ratings: The Voice up to 10m

US TV

Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope all renewed
ReelzChannel acquires XIII
Breaking Bad final season to be split in two
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd to guest on Happily Divorced
Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin to play Ted Danson’s wife on CSI
Jimmy Smits joins Sons of Anarchy
A returning Burn Notice character [minor spoilers]
Thursday ratings: Community down 24% to series low
Friday cable ratings: Magic City starts badly
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: everything’s steady

US TV pilots

Bent‘s David Walton joins Bryan Greenberg comedy
John Amos and My Name is Earl‘s Ethan Suplee join Martin Lawrence pilot

Thursday’s “CBC job cuts, mad Mad Men ratings, Watson & Oliver 2nd series and a Mummy reboot” news

5 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Tuesday. Happy Easter everyone (in the UK)!

Film

Sebastian Koch and Yulia Snigir join A Good Day To Die Hard
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson to star in Paul Haggis’s Third Person
And now, a Mummy reboot
True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard to star in Hidden

Trailers

Trailer for Take This Waltz with Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen

Canadian TV

CBC to slash jobs
Alan Thicke to recur on The LA Complex

UK TV

Watson & Oliver gets a second series
Ratings: Touch up to 600k viewers; Mad Men down 50% on first episode; Game of Thrones opens with 522,000
Sky Go now has 2.5m users
S4C’s 2012 work plan

US TV

Bent dead
Campbell Scott and Brooke D’Orsay to be regulars on Royal Pains
Entourage‘s Emmanuelle Chriqui to recur on The Mentalist [minor spoilers]
1m people dumped cable for Netflix and Hulu last year
Dollhouse‘s Tahmoh Penikett to recur on Castle [minor spoilers]
Being Human‘s Jeremy Carver to replace Sera Gemble as co-show runner on Supernatural

US TV pilots

Body of Proof‘s Jeffrey Nordling joins Malibu Country, Party Down‘s Ryan Hansen joins Louis CK comedy, Penelope Mitchell joins Hemlock Grove
Cougar Town‘s Briga Heelan joins Counter Culture
Bryan Greenberg leaves Greg Berlanti comedy
Greek‘s Martha MacIsaac replaces Brittany Snow on 1600 Penn

Wednesday’s “Richard Coyle: suave KGB spy, David Tennant: suave British spy, and Emma Thompson: Gareth Peirce again?” news

4 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Emma Thompson to return as Gareth Peirce for The Secret Evidence?
Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell and maybe Dominic Cooper to star in Dead Man Down

Trailers

Trailer for Sparkle with Whitney Houston
Trailer for Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love
Trailer for Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise

UK TV

BBC4 working on Kenny Everett biopic
Nicholas Ferguson replaces James Murdoch at BSkyB
David Tennant and Janet Montgomery cast in The Spies of Warsaw

US TV

Richard Schiff to recur on NCIS
Coupling‘s Richard Coyle to recur on Covert Affairs
Emilie de Raven to return as Belle in Once Upon A Time
Sunday ratings: Game of Thrones returns with 3.9m viewers
Monday ratings: Bones up

US TV pilots

Super Bad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse to star in Friend Me

Tuesday’s “Hellraiser TV series, Allan Quatermain TV series and Woman in Black sequel” news

3 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Sequel to The Woman In Black, Angels of Death, planned

Trailers

Trailer for Eduardo Sanchez’s Lovely Molly

International TV

10-part Allan Quatermain TV series planned
Hellraiser TV series in development

UK TV

Clips from Ricky Gervais’s Derek
Gavin & Stacey‘s Matthew Horne and Green Wing‘s Michelle Gomez to be regulars on Bad Education
Universal acquires King

US TV

Netflix acquires United [registration required]
Ringer‘s Kris Polaha to guest on Awkward
Sunday ratings: The Killing down, Shameless up 26% on season 1

US TV pilots

Minor pilot casting
Casting on BET’s Young Man On Campus

Mondays’ “Marilyn Munster found, Martin Sheen to play Charlie Sheen’s dad and a Community feud” news

2 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

White Heat‘s David Gyasi to guest on Doctor Who
David Yates says the movie is still happening

Film

Colin Farrell out of Arthur and Lancelot
Chris Columbus to adapt Home Front
Mia Wasikowska to play Madame Bovary
Amanda Peet joins Identity Thief

Trailers

Trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s Ted with Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis

International TV

Swedish TV to adapt The Last Sami
Freemantle working on modern Fire of London drama

UK TV

Friday ratings: 2012 gets nearly 1m viewers
No new Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle until 2014
Imogen Thomas to guest on Shameless as herself [NSFW]
Universal acquires Breakout Kings [subscription required]

US TV

A Community feud
Martin Sheen to play Charlie Sheen’s dad on Anger Management
Trailer for season 3 of The Big C
Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown joins Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
Ben Cross joins Banshee
Private Practice‘s Erin Way joins Alphas
Dermot Mulroney joins Enlightened
Drop Dead Diva‘s Ben Feldman joins Mad Men
Thursday ratings: Community steady
Friday’s ratings: Fringe picks up

US TV pilots

Charity Wakefield to play Marilyn Munster on Mockingbird Lane
Sara Rue joins Jimmy Fallon comedy pilot
FX developing Inside, produced by Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Tuesday’s “Hellraiser TV series, Allan Quatermain TV series and Woman in Black sequel” news

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