News

News

Film

Denzel Washington to be The Equalizer?
Trailer for Rock of Ages
Winona Ryder replaces Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Iceman
Paradise Lost put on hold

US TV

Another trailer for season 3 of Justified
Trailer for season 2 of Breakout Kings
Hulu acquires BBC3’s Mongrels
Steve Carell to guest on The Simpsons
The League gets a fourth season
Sunday cable ratings: Boardwalk Empire does well (big spoilers), Luck does poorly…
…but A&E’s mini-series Bag of Bones does well
William Devane to guest on Revenge

Tuesday’s “end of time?” news

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Film

Trailer for Men in Black 3
Trailer for Perfect Sense with Eva Green and Ewan McGregor
Hot Fuzz 2 to start filming next year?

British TV

Sky Living acquires Unforgettable
3G BBC iPlayer iPhone app now available

Canadian TV

CTV acquires Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management

US TV

Jennifer Beals to guest on Castle
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time hits new low
Anastasia Griffith to co-star in BBC America’s Copper
Eva Longoria sells Vega v Vega to The CW

Monday’s “old Doctor Who episodes returned” news

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Doctor Who

Galaxy Four, episode 3, and The Underwater Menace, episode 2, have been returned to the archives
Doctor Who games coming to PlayStation

Film

George Clooney to make film about the Smothers Brothers
Trailer for Battleship

British TV

5* acquires The Lying Game and Gilmore Girls
Channel 5 acquires Thundercats remake [subscription required]

Canadian TV

TV Ontario orders 13 episodes of Hard Rock Medical
Lost Girl gets a third season

US TV

Thursday ratings: Grimm does as well as normal, but better than Prime Suspect did…
and does about the same on Friday, while Chuck does slightly better
Castle to get an extra episode
Pilot casting
Lifetime cancels Against The Wall
The opening fight scene from Spartacus: Vengeance
Jim Beaver returning to Justified
Alanis Morissette to guest on Up All Night

Friday’s “Smashing” news

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Film

Patty Jenkins off Thor 2
Trailer for The Three Stooges
Ben Kingsley joins Ender’s Game
Trailer for The Iron Lady

British TV

Sky Atlantic acquires Smash, commissions drama based on Javier Falcón novels
Peter Capaldi joins The Hour

US TV

Wednesday ratings: Modern Family up, I Hate My Teenage Daughter down 25%
Homicide‘s Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson working on The Box for A&E
Lost‘s Mark Pellegrino to guest on Castle
Richard Drefuss, Ellen Burstyn, James Woods, Geena Davis to star in Coma
Neve Campbell to star in Lifetime Amish pilot Sworn to Silence
More episodes of Castle ordered
Uma Thurman to appear in five episodes of Smash
Ed Asner to reprise his 1975 Hawaii Five-O role on Hawaii Five-0
Man Up! pulled from the schedules
The Firm to air in 111 territories
David E Kelley and Dr Sanjay Gupta team up for TNT medical drama

Tuesday’s “Newsroom” news

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The Daily News will be back on Thursday (possibly) or Friday (probably)

Film

Benicio Del Toro turns down Star Trek 2…
…Peter Weller doesn’t
Trailer for McG’s This Means War with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy

British TV

The IT Crowd‘s Chris O’Dowd to write Moone Boy for Sky1, starring Steve Coogan and Johnny Vegas
Toby Jones to play Hitchcock, Sienna Miller Tippi Hedren in The Girl
Black Mirror starts with 1.9m viewers

US TV

Ice Cube to star in vigilante drama for FX
Psych‘s Sage Brocklebank to guest on Once Upon A Time
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show to be called Newsroom
Lost‘s Titus Welliver to guest on Grimm
Someone’s returning to Supernatural [spoilers]
The CW buys faux-lesbian comedy starring and written by Sara Rue
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time, Pan Am, Desperate Housewives hit new lows
True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten to guest on New Girl
Web Therapy gets a second season
Russell T Davies puts his US projects on hold [subscription required]

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