News

Doctor Who

• Matt Smith not off

Film

• Anne Hathaway to produce and star in Three Days of the Condor-esque Puzzler
• Sequel planned for Dumb and Dumber
• Alice Cooper joins Dark Shadows
• New Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol promo
• Sean Penn to direct Robert de Niro and Kristen Wiig in The Comedian
• David Tennant, Joanna Page and Sheridan Smith start shooting Nativity 2 [subscription required]

Theater

• Ethan Coen writing stage comedies

British TV

• 3m HD Freeview boxes sold
• Cosgrove Hall resurrected
• BBC4 to lost history and science programming [subscription required]
• ITV commissions Ian Rankin drama from Stephen Fry’s production company [subscription required]
• Being Human team working on female-oriented comedy-drama about witches [subscription required]

Canadian TV

• Primeval spin-off to be darker and scarier

US TV

• White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason to guest on 2 Broke Girls
• NBC spending $100m on developing shows
• FX buys Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management
• True Blood‘s Kevin Alejandro and Grant Bowler to guest on GCB (aka Good Christian Belles)
• 24‘s Sarah Clarke to guest on Nikita
• Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Southland
• ABC buys CIA comedy drama from Silvio Horta and Will Gluck
• The Mentalist‘s Eric Winter to star in Scent of the Missing
• Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings up 17%, Suburgatory up 10%…
• …American Horror Story up, too
• Dan Lauria to star in TBS’s Sullivan and Son