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Film

Trailer for Jeff, Who Lives At Home, with Judy Greer, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon
Vera Farmiga and Patrick WIlson to star in The Conjuring
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Diane Kruger joins The Host

Theatre

Jodie Prenger and Primeval‘s Hannah Spearitt join One Man, Two Guvnors

British TV

No more Sherlock for 2012

Canadian TV

Transporter series needs new showrunners… again

US TV

Bree Turner to recur on Grimm
TV Land buys comedy format based on Israel’s Zanzuri
Steve Buscemi to return to 30 Rock
Victor Garber to guest on The Big C
Boy Meets World‘s Alex Désert joins NBC’s Isabel
Friday ratings: Chuck hits season high, Grimm leaps 27%
ABC orders 666 Park Ave.
James Purefoy to recur on Revenge

Friday’s “Jerry Sadowitz returns, Windom Earle’s Black Marks and another CBS procedural” news

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Film

Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko to star in Oblivion with Tom Cruise
Terence Stamp and Twin Peaks‘ Kenneth Welsh join The Black Marks

British TV

Trailer for Being Human – series 4
Sky Atlantic picks up Kathy Burke autobiographical TV series, also featuring Jerry Sadowitz

US TV

Rizzoli & Isles‘ Lee Thompson Young to guest on CSI:NY
Anne Heche to star in Save Me
Fox greenlights teen spy drama
CBS orders Trooper from Jerry Bruckheimer and Heroes‘ Aron Eli Coleite

Thursday’s “Sex and the City prequel pilot, Source Code TV series and axed Mongrels” news

19 January 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

British TV

BBC3 axes Mongrels

US TV

The CW orders pilots of Green Arrow, The Carrie Diaries and a remake of Beauty and the Beast
White Collar comes back down
House of Lies dips 13%
Christopher Heyerdahl joins True Blood
CBS greenlights twentysomething ensemble comedy
Katherine Heigl has asked to go back to Grey’s Anatomy
Party Down‘s Martin Starr to guest on New Girl
Rescue Me‘s Daniel Sunjata to star in Jeff Eastin USA pilot
The Book of Mormon‘s Andrew Rannells to star in Ryan Murphy NBC comedy
Casting on Beautiful People, including Andrea Parker
SyFy orders pilot of suspiciously Source Code-like Rewind
Casting on NBC’s Sarah Silverman pilot

Wednesday’s “a warm welcome to Alcatraz” news

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Film

Adam Brody to star in adaptation of Neil LaBute’s Some Girls

British TV

Above Suspicion gets 5.7m viewers

US TV

Sean Hayes to guest on Parks and Recreation
Sunday/Monday ratings: Hell on Wheels finishes up, Being Human starts down
Monday ratings: Alcatraz gets 10m viewers
Fox orders The Asset
ABC picks up another Kari Lizer comedy
CBS greenlights Baby Big Shot and Elementary…
…picks up another Melissa McCarthy comedy
Jeff Goldblum to guest on Glee [minor spoilers]

Friday’s “Sally Phillips in the Sky, a Green Arrow TV show, more Luther and Dracula: the soap” news

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Doctor Who

Sophia Myles to be the next companion??

Film

James Franco to play Robert Mapplethorpe

Comics

Six DC comics replaced, with China Miéville to write Dial H

British TV

Luther to return later this year
Channel 4’s ratings drop in 2011 without Big Brother
Sally Phillips and Tom Conti to star in Sky1’s Parents
ITV commissions Mrs Biggs…
…and Tony Marchant drama Leaving
Sky Atlantic acquires House of Lies
SyFy acquires New Zealand’s The Almighty Johnsons [subscription required]

US TV

NBC working on Dracula soap-opera
Dennis Miller to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Portlandia’s cast to guest on The Simpsons
Wednesday ratings: Are You There, Chelsea? does well… for NBC
The CW working on Green Arrow pilot… without Justin Hartley
ABC orders two more episodes of Last Man Standing

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