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Film

Robert Downey Jr to play Perry Mason
James O’Barr reunites with The Crow producers for Gothic
Clint Eastwood to star in Trouble With The Curve?

British TV

Page 8 sequel in the works
BBC to cut 2,000 jobs

US TV

Charles S Dutton to guest on Criminal Minds
Denise Richards to guest on 30 Rock…
…as will James Marsden
CBS orders period news drama The Producer from Jerrry Weintraub
ABC picks up Shana Goldberg/JoAnna Garcia comedy
Walking Dead webisodes are online [US only]
Shameless season two teaser
Edward Furlong and Tom Sizemore to guest on Perception
Sci-fi White House drama written by Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci and Seth Green gets pilot at ABC
Fox to adapt Magicians
NBC picks up Snoop Dogg family sitcom
2 Broke Girls gets full season
Lizzy Caplan to guest on New Girl…
…which continues to do well in the ratings
Playboy Club to keep filming in case another network wants it

Wednesday’s “what are you thinking, NBC?” news

5 October 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Mister Ed movie planned
Kyle XY/Thor‘s Jaimie Alexander joins The Last Stand
Bridget Jones 3 needs a new British director
WTF? Werner Herzog to play the villain in Tom Cruise’s One Shot
Trailer for Another Happy Day, with Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore

Canadian TV

Stefanie von Pfetten to star in Cracked
Ratings for the week of Sept 26 to October 2

US TV

Brad Dourif to guest on Once Upon A Time
Chris Bauer to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Jon Favreau working on Tweaked
Michael C Hall/Showtime talks break down…
…as do The Simpsons/Fox talks
Ash Atalla sells I Lick My Cheese and another comedy to CBS
NBC cancels The Playboy Club, picks up Up All Night and Whitney for full seasons
Remake of French-Canadian Les Invincibles sold to Fox
Monday ratings: House, 2 Broke Girls down, Terra Nova, Hart of Dixie steady
ION acquires The Listener
The Coen Brothers developing a PI show for Fox

Tuesday’s adjusted news

4 October 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

The original opening to Scream 4
Trailer for Luc Besson’s The Lady with Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis
Kurt Russell joins Django Unchained

British TV

Comedy Central acquires Whitney
BBC4 acquires two Scandinavian crime dramas, The Bridge and Sebastian Bergman
ITV acquires US remake of Prime Suspect [subscription required]

French TV

Shooting begins on series 4 of Engrenages (Spiral)

US TV

AMC orders presentation of How To Cheat On Your Wife
SyFy adapting The Adjustment Bureau
Leslie Mann and Kevin Hart to guest on Modern Family
Paranormal Activity‘s Katie Featherston to guest on The River
Will Arnett to return to 30 Rock
Sunday ratings: Pan Am drops 19%, Dexter and Homeland score well
ABC acquires workplace comedy Sneaky People
Cheryl Ladd to guest on Chuck [spoilers]

Monday’s plummetting ratings news

3 October 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Finale gets 6.1m viewers

Film

Rubicon‘s James Badge Dale to join Flight
Second clip from The Thing

British TV

5* to air Alphas in October
Bleak Expectations remake The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff to feature Stephen Fry, Katherine Parkinson, David Mitchell and Robert Webb

US TV

ABC acquires comedy from Jim Breuer
NBC to give new shows time to build an audience
Trailer for season 2 of Portlandia
Arrested Development to get another season before the movie?
Thursday ratings: Charlie’s Angels, Whitney down, How To Be A Gentlemen starts okay
Friday ratings: A Gifted Man down 14%, most shows steady
A clip from American Horror Story
Misfits producer signs development deal with BBC America
Jason Lee to guest on Up All Night
Chuck and Grimm premieres pushed back a week
Danny Masterson to star in TBS pilot Men At Work

Friday’s “ABC comedies good, NBC comedies bad” news

30 September 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Trailer for Contraband, with Kate Beckinsale and Mark Wahlberg
Malin Akerman joins Tyler Labine in Cottage Country

Comics

Now Marvel’s rebooting

British TV

Abigail Thaw joins Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour
Sky Arts acquires The Onion News Network [subscription required]

Canadian TV

InSecurity retooling from spy parody to workplace sitcom

International TV

John Hurt joins Holy Grail mini-series, Labyrinth

US TV

ESPN sells ABC a sports fan comedy…
…Lost‘s Carlton Cuse sells them a spiritual drama…
…and Barry Schindel sells them a lawyer jailhouse comedy
Stan Lee to guest star on Chuck
The X-Files‘ Chris Carter to write, produce and exec mystery drama for MRC
House‘s Michael Weston to guest on CSI:NY
Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jack McBrayer, Penny Marshall, Andy Samberg and Amber Tamblyn to guest on Portlandia
Melinda McGraw to guest on NCIS [minor spoilers]
Dean Cain, Eric Roberts and Kristanna Loken to appear on Burn Notice
Rescue Me‘s John Scurti to guest on House
Wednesday ratings: Happy Endings returns to series high, Revenge drops 18%, Up All Night down 12%, Free Agents down 23%, Suburgatory gets 9.8m
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci sell Wyatt Earp western to Fox, which also buys dating comedy The Good Life
Parenthood gets another two episodes

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