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Doctor Who

Claire Skinner, Bill Bailey, Arabella Weir and Alexander Armstrong join the Christmas special [spoilers]

Books

Lost James M Cain novel to be published

Film

Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood join Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Trailer for The Grey with Liam Neeson
Trailer for Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea with Rachel Weisz
Clip from Batman: Year One

British TV

The Body Farm beats 71 Degrees North in the ratings
Sky 1 to air Terra Nova a week after the US [subscription required]

US TV

Victor Garber set to replace Robert Wagner as voice of Charlie in Charlie’s Angels
New Girl and Unforgettable start well, Glee and Ringer drop
Party Down‘s Ken Marino to guest on Whitney
CCH Pounder to guest on Revenge

Wednesday’s “poor old Emily” news

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Film

Trailer for Jackie Chan’s 1911
Jason Bateman joins Disconnect and The Longest Week
T:TSCC/Scoundrels‘s Leven Rambin joins Mavericks
Jeremy Renner to star in King of Heists
Jon Turteltaub to direct Last Vegas
Prison Break‘s Robert Knepper joins RIPD

British TV

Film4 gets best ever ratings in August [subscription required]
Bagpuss sold

US TV

Heroes‘ Jack Coleman to guest on Criminal Minds
Drea de Matteo to guest on CSI: Miami
Author Nicholas Sparks working on angel show for ABC…
…which is acquiring CIA and FBI drama projects from ABC Studios
Smallville showrunners join Secret Circle
Ratings: Two And A Half Men is big, Playboy Club is small

Tuesday’s “Downton SMASH” news

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Film

New trailer for The Thing
Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar

British TV

Downton Abbey crashes ITV Player…
…but doubles Spooks‘ viewers in the ratings
James Bolam quits New Tricks
Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson join Parade’s End

Canadian TV

The Daily Show‘s Samantha Bee and Lolita Davidovich join Good Dog

US TV

Gale Anne Hurd wants to adapt Jeffrey Archer’s The Eleventh Commandment
Elizabeth Perkins to guest on The Closer
Friday Night Lights exec Peter Berg to guest star on Prime Suspect
Cam Gigandet to star in TNT’s western Gateway
Melissa McCarthy co-creates a comedy for CBS
Lindsay Pulsipher to replace Hilary Duff in The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Monday’s “lots of American horror” news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood finishes with 3.9m viewers

Awards

Winners of the Emmys

Film

James Franco to direct Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Colin Firth to star in The Railway Man
Sigourney Weaver returning for Avatar 2

British TV

One million downloads for Sky Go [subscription required]
FX UK acquires American Horror Story

US TV

ABC Family renews Make It Or Beak It, cancels State of Georgia, picks up four pilots
ABC developing Jekyll & Hyde drama
In Plain Sight‘s Frederick Weller to recur on Blue Bloods
The Secret Circle gets 3m viewers
Modern Family‘s Eric Stonestreet to guest on American Horror Story
MTV picks up two new scripted shows
ABC buys Jennifer Garner comedy project, while Courtney Cox and David Arquette work on a new comedy
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia starts well

Friday’s “many remakes” news

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Film

Isla Fisher replaces Amanda Seyfried on Now You See Me
Trailer for The Awakening with Rebecca Hall
True Blood‘s Stephen Moyer joins The Barrens
Harlan Ellison sues Fox over In Time

British TV

Details of The Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair…
…and Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker plus…
…the entire Channel 4 autumn press pack
Trollied gets picked up for 26 more episodes

Canadian TV

Darker, scarier Primeval spin-off planned [subscription required]

US TV

Bones to get a mini-season over summer?
Lou Gossett Jr to guest on Psych
Martin Lawrence to get a CBS sitcom
Up All Night starts well, Free Agents doesn’t
Robert Englund to guest on Hawaii Five-0
NBC and John Wells to remake Bad Girls
CBS to adapt Source Code
The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff joins House of Lies
USA renews Covert Affairs, Royal Pains and Necessary Roughness
Rebecca Romijn to guest on Chuck
ABC Family cancels The Nine Lives of Chloe King
The CW to remake Beauty and the Beast
Blythe Danner to guest on Up All Night
Snoop Dogg to star in a family sitcom

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