News

Doctor Who

• Gavin & Stacey‘s Adrian Scarborough to guest on Doctor Who…
• …as will Farscape and Stargate‘s Ben Broader

Film

• Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston to star in Get A Job
• Michael Clarke Duncan, S Epatha Merkerson and Smallville’s Justin Hartley join The Challenger
• Kristen Bell joins Writers
• Jake Gyllenhaal to replace Dominic Cooper on Motor City?
• Cloverfield‘s Jessica Lucas joins The Evil Dead

UK TV

• Skins to end after seventh series
• ITV has no plans to commission more Primeval [subscription required]
• Prisoners’ Wives finishes with 4.3m viewers

Canadian TV

• The Vampire Diaries‘ Sara Canning and Eureka‘s Niall Matter starring in Primeval: New World

US TV

• Tuesday’s ratings: Breaking In slightly up from where it was, Cougar Town gains a few viewers, The River flat
• The Forgotten‘s Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan to star in Mistresses
• Showtime adapting You Kill Me
• Happy Days‘ Marion Ross to guest on Up All Night [minor spoilers]
• Silk Stalkings‘ Eob Estes to guest on Necessary Roughness

US TV pilots

• Better Off Ted‘s Jay Harrington joins Guilty
• The Finder‘s Mercedes Masohn and One Tree Hill‘s Robert Buckley join 666 Park Avenue; Party Down‘s Ken Marino joins American Judy; ER‘s Anthony Edwards and Carmen Ejogo join Zero Hour
• Boss‘s Martin Donovan and Satisfaction‘s Peta Sergeant join The Selection
• Bedlam‘s Theo James to replace Ryan Phillippe on Golden Boy
• Aidan Quinn to play (Captain) Gregson in Elementary
• Bridesmaids‘ Wendi McLendon-Covey joins Only Fools And Horses
• A Gifted Man‘s Rhys Coiro joins Applebaum, Andrea Martin joins Melissa McCarthy project
• Keri Russell to play KGB spy in The Americans
• Colin Salmon joins Arrow
• Homeland‘s Brianna Brown joins Devious Maids
• The Tudors David Alpay joins Americana
• The Good Wife‘s Jeremy Strong joins LA Noir
• Greg Germann joins The Unprofessional