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Film

Gerard Butler to star in Olympus Has Fallen
Four and a half minutes of Iron Sky
Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin working on Outnumbered-esque movie
21 Jump Street sequel commissioned

UK TV

Hollyoaks‘s Gerard McCarthy joins The Fall
Johnny Vegas starring in BBC3’s UFO sitcom A Saucer Full of Secrets, BBC planning alien invasion comedy V Sign

US TV

Rapper TI joins Boss
House of Cards to film at The Baltimore Sun
Grimm gets a second season
Thursday ratings: Community up to 4.9m, Missing starts with 10.6m
Friday ratings

US TV pilots

Matthew Rhys to star in The Americans
Lost‘s Yunjin Kim to star in Mistresses
Dennis Miller to star in Awesometown
Jayson Blair joins The New Normal

Friday’s “Nathan Fillion is Hermes, trailer for Dark Shadows, E4 acquires Revenge and Idris Elba is Imhotep” news

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Film

Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana to star in Swindle
Nathan Fillion to play Hermes in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Clive Owen, Mila Kunis and Billy Crudup to star in Blood Ties
Hugh Jackman to star in Prisoners
Trailer and poster for Dark Shadows
Anthony Michael Hall, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke to star in Dead in Tombstone

Theatre

Tim McInnery, Samantha Bond and Georgia Moffet join Omid Djalili in What The Butler Saw
David Strathairn to star in The Heiress with Jessica Chastain

UK TV

E4 acquires Revenge
Idris Elba to play Imhotep in Warren Ellis’ Ascension
Sky and STV plan YouView launches [subscription required]

US TV

Gossip Girl‘s Sebastian Stan joins Political Animals
The Karate Kid‘s Ralph Macchio to guest on Happily Divorced
I Hate My Teenage Daughter shelved

US TV pilots

Upstairs Downstairs‘ Neil Jackson to star in Notorious…
…along with Damages Tate Donovan; Lights Out‘s Holt McCallany joins Golden Boy
John Corbett to star in Widow Detective
Scott Bakula to star in Table for Three (aka Daddy’s Girls), Rick Schroder to star in Fox spy drama, The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Hamish Linklater joins The Asset, Nurse Jackie‘s Zak Orth joins Revolution

Thursday’s “CBS renews 18 shows, Luck runs out, more Portlandia and Servalan returns” news

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Film

Thomas Felton joins Attachment
Chloë Grace Moretz and Rupert Grint join Beach Boys biopic

Audio plays

Servalan coming to Blake’s 7 audios

UK TV

Top Gear admits to staging scene
BBC confirms pay TV download service plans [subscription required]
Netflix and LoveFilm to be investigated as part of pay-TV probe

US TV

CBS renews (deep breath) NCIS, Person of Interest, 2 Broke Girls, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-0, NCIS: LA, Criminal Minds, CSI, The Mentalist, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory but not (yet) CSI: NY, CSI: Miami, Rules of Engagement, A Gifted Man, Unforgettable, Rob and Two and A Half Men
Portlandia gets a third season
Luck cancelled after horse deaths
FNL‘s Gaius Charles to recur on NCIS
NYPD Blue‘s Sharon Lawrence to guest on Rizzoli & Isles [minor spoilers]
Scrubs‘ John C McGinley to guest on Burn Notice [minor spoilers]
Ulrich Thomsen joins Alan Ball’s Banshee
Tuesday ratings: New Girl and Cougar Town hit series low

US TV pilots

Spartacus‘s Erin Cummings joins Baby Big Shot
Ringer‘s Andrea Roth joins Revolution
V‘s Scott Wolf joins Joey Dakota
The Playboy Club’s Laura Benanti joins Go On, Jenna Elfman joins 1600 Penn

Wednesday’s “William Peteresen in Hurt People, Spartacus casts Caesar and Mandrake The Magician movie” news

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Doctor Who

Star Wars/The Adventurer‘s Garrick Hagon to guest star

Film

Mandrake the Magician to get a movie
Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Brie Larson and Portlandia’s Fred Armisen to star in Relanxious
Jeremy Irons joins Beautiful Creatures

UK TV

Sherlock to begin shooting in early 2013

US TV

CSI: Miami‘s Khandi Alexander to guest on Common Law
Being Human (US)‘s Sam Huntington to guest on Warehouse 13
Monday ratings: Alcatraz at new low, Smash dips as well
Carsten Norgaard to recur on Luck
History Channel orders scripted Viking series
Spartacus casts Caesar and Crassus

US TV pilots

William Petersen to star in Hurt People
Spooks‘ Max Brown joins The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
Charlie’s Angels Annie Illonzeh joins Arrow
Freddie Prinze Jr joins NBC comedy
Make It or Break It‘s Neil Jackson joins Notorious
The Vampire Diaries‘ Matt Davis joins Cult
Gary Cole joins Scruples, Jay Mohr joins Applebaum + more casting
Lucy Davis out of Partners, replaced by Molly Shannon
Louise Lombard joins Fox spy pilot + more casting
The Chronicles of Narnia‘s William Moseley to star in The Selection
Miscellaneous casting, including Alexa Davalos on LA Noir

Tuesday’s “a William Wallace TV series, Endeavour gets 4 more episodes and David Cronenberg comes to TV” news

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Film

Chris Addison joins The King of Soho

UK TV

STV working on William Wallace TV series
ITV orders full series of Endeavour
Friday Night Dinner gets second series and Christmas special
Greg Davies and Andy Samberg to star in Cuckoo
Saturday ratings
Sunday ratings: Wild At Heart gets 6.6m, Upstairs Downstairs hits low of 4.8m

US TV

David Cronenberg to be executive producer, direct Knifeman adaptation
Trailer for Magic City [video, NSFW]
Two new regulars on Boardwalk Empire plus Tammy Blanchard to guest on The Big C [minor spoilers]
The Closer‘s Raymond Cruz to guest on White Collar
30 Rock‘s Katrina Bowden to guest on New Girl [minor spoilers]
Without A Trace‘s Enrique Murciano to recur on CSI
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time down, GCB up

US TV pilots

Michael Imperioli joins County
Stockard Channing and Kurt Fuller join Mandy Moore pilot
The Cosby Show‘s Tempestt Bledsoe joins DILFs
Outsourced‘s Ben Rappaport to star in Awesometown
One Tree Hill‘s Chad Michael Murray to star in Scruples
Necar Zadegan joins First Cut
Miscellaneous pilot casting

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