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Monday’s “John Leguizamo is US Del Boy, Matthew Perry joins Good Wife, and Steve Coogan is Paul Raymond” news

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Film

Steve Coogan, Anna Friel and Imogen Poots to star in King of Soho
Adrianne Palicki joins Coffee Town
Michael Fassbender working on Cuchulain story
Kyle Chandler joins Kathryn Bigelow’s hunting Bin Laden movie
Dean Parisot to direct Red 2
Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas to star in Dark Was The Night

Radio

David Tennant and Emilia Fox to star in Love Virtually

British TV

Last Hustle watched by 5.3m
Jennifer Saunders to star in Sharon Horgan’s Dead Boss
Vision TV adds foreign channels to Internet-connected Freeview HD boxes [subscription required]

US TV

Mad Men season 5 teaser trailer
Friday ratings
Why have the ratings been lower this week?
Anthony LaPaglia to star in Americana
John Leguizamo to star in Only Fools and Horses
Matthew Perry to recur on The Good Wife
Sharon Osbourne and Henry Winkler to guest on Up All Night
Donald Sutherland joins Living Loaded, Life Unexpected‘s Austin Basis joins Beauty and the Beast + other pilot casting
Prime Suspect‘s Brian O’Byrne joins Gilded Lilys
Mary McCormack to star in ABC comedy pilot
Perfect Couples‘ Hayes MacArthur to star in Rebounding

Friday’s “E4 enters Suburgatory, futuristic Zorro, Fry goes to the Globe, and Malin Akerman” news

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Film

Community‘s Gillian Jacobs joins Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey in Burt Wonderstone
Trailer for Wanderlust with Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Alda and Marlin Akerman
Gael Garcia Bernal to play futuristic Zorro

Radio

Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran writing a radio and theatre play

Theatre

Stephen Fry to make Globe debut in Twelfth Night

British TV

E4 acquires Suburgatory
SyFy acquires Todd & The Book of Pure Evil
Dirk Gently details
Brian Cox (no, not that one) to star in Bob Servant Independent for BBC Four
UK Gold to invest millions in original content [subscription required]

French TV

TF1’s revenue static, profits drop 20%

US TV

Emma Greenwell and Noel Fisher promoted to regulars on Shameless [registration required]
The L Word‘s Kate Moennig joins Ray Donovan
Ugly Betty‘s Michael Urie joins Partners
Veronica Mars‘ Ryan Hansen joins El Jefe
Breaking Bad‘s Giancarlo Esposito to guest on Community
Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk to star in The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
Wednesday ratings: CSI ratings up thanks to Elisabeth Shue
Jean Smart joins The Smart One…
…as does Malin Akerman
Eamonn Walker joins Chicago Fire
Eureka‘s Colin Ferguson to star in Like Father

Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

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Film

Forest Whitaker to play Desmond Tutu
Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan to star in Joss Whedon’s In Your Eyes
Meryl Streep to play Julia Roberts’ mother in August: Osage County

British TV

Coup adds Gina McKee, Charles Dance, Rupert Graves and Sylvestra Le Touzel to cast
More Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week of the 6th

US TV

Netflix working on Orange Is The New Black
Michaela Watkins joins Prairie Dogs…
…as does House‘s Kal Penn
Rescue Me‘s Steve Pasquale joins Do No Harm
Terry O’Quinn to star in 666 Park Avenue
Zeus be praised! Ali Larter to star in The Asset
Katie Cassidy to play Black Canary on Arrow…
…to be joined by Susanna Thompson and Willa Holland
Heroes‘ Dania Ramirez to star in Devious Maids
Valentine’s ratings: Cougar Town returns to all-time low, Ringer drops 40% to series low, The River drops 29%
HBO buys 44th Street
Paget Brewster leaving Criminal Minds again
Shameless‘s Zach McGowan promoted to series regular
Mimi Kennedy joins Judy Greer comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Hannibal Lecter: the TV series, Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes and Smash drops 29%” news

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Film

Trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Trailer for remake of Pusher with Richard Coyle
Michael Rosenbaum to direct and co-star in Old Days

British TV

Whitechapel rises to 5.8m viewers

US TV

Shawn Ashmore joins Kevin Bacon/James Purefoy serial killer show
Jonny Lee Miller to play Sherlock Holmes in Elementary, plus other pilot casting
Hannibal Lecter series Red Dragon gets picked up to series, Notorious gets a pilot
Allison Janney to guest on The Big C
Regis Philbin and Joan Rivers to guest star on Hot In Cleveland
Monday ratings: Smash down 29%
The Daily Show‘s John Hodgman to guest on Community

Tuesday’s “The Walking Dead breaks records, why House was cancelled, Whit Stillman returns and Kevin Sorbo as Hermes” news

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Film

Gina Carano to star in In the Blood
Trailer for Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress
Guillermo del Toro to direct Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast, Andrew Davies writing the script
Jennifer Aniston to star in London-based Miss You Already, co-written by Morwenna Banks
Game of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau joins Oblivion
Michael Mann developing The Big Stone Grid
Tom Hiddleston and Anna Paquin join Elijah Wood in Black Wings Has My Angel
Michael Bay to direct Transformers 4 and Pain and Gain, with Mark Wahlberg and The Rock
Matthew Perry, Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson join Kevin Sorbo as Hermes in The Whole Banana
The Killing‘s showrunner Veena Sud to write remake of Alfred Hitchock’s Suspicion
Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

US TV

The Walking Dead gets record-breaking 8.1m viewers
Why House was cancelled
Spartacus‘s Peter Mensah joins True Blood
Law & Order‘s Alana De La Garza joins Do No Harm
JK Simmons joins White Van Man
BET greenlights Single Black Female
Chuck‘s Zachary Levi to star in Let It Go

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Monday’s “John Leguizamo is US Del Boy, Matthew Perry joins Good Wife, and Steve Coogan is Paul Raymond” news

Friday’s “E4 enters Suburgatory, futuristic Zorro, Fry goes to the Globe, and Malin Akerman” news

Thursday’s “Ali Larter is The Asset, Black Canary cast, Valentine’s ratings disasters and Archbiship Desmond Tutu” news

Wednesday’s “Hannibal Lecter: the TV series, Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes and Smash drops 29%” news

Tuesday’s “The Walking Dead breaks records, why House was cancelled, Whit Stillman returns and Kevin Sorbo as Hermes” news

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