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Film

Nathan Lane joins The English Teacher
Arrested Development to shoot next summer?
Trailer for We Bought A Zoo with Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon

British TV

Sneak preview of Misfits – Vegas Baby!
No more Psychoville
BBC4 may be saved cuts – by BBC2 management merger

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Eastbound and Down
Trailer for How To Make It In America season 2
Lee Majors and Shirley Jones to guest on Raising Hope
Sarah Paulson to recur on American Horror Story
Ken Kercheval to return as Cliff Barnes for Dallas update
Ringer gets decent ratings
Fox developing The Spectre comic as TV show
NBC developing Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio cop drama

Wednesday’s “another modern Sherlock” news

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Doctor Who

Julie Gardner discusses the evolution of Torchwood
Clips from Doctor Who’s The God Complex

Books

Joanna Trollope to rework Sense and Sensibility

Film

Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme confirmed for The Expendables 2
The IT Crowd‘s Richard Ayoade joins Ben Stiller’s Neighborhood Watch
Twilight‘s Ashley Greene to play not-Dickens’ Olivia Twisted
Another clip from The Thing
Indian actress Nikhita Thukral banned for three years for alleged affair
Hugh Grant joins Cloud Atlas

Canadian TV

Hiccups cancelled

US TV

SNL‘s Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael’s Walk of Shame accepted by ABC
Scrubs/Cougar Town‘s Bill Lawrence sells second pilot to Fox
USA greenlights two comedy pilots, including one starring Nathan Lane
Michael J Fox to return to The Good Wife
Shaun Cassidy and Tommy Schlamme developing a western for NBC
Homeland series premiere available to view online [US only]
Rachael Harris to guest on Free Agents
CBS doing its own Sherlock Holmes update
Prison Break‘s Wentworth Miller to guest on House

Tuesday’s “night of the long remakes” news

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Film

Colin Salmon returns to Resident Evil franchise
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct Highlander remake
Kelly Reilly joins Flight
Hellraiser remake semi-dropped
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Guillermo del Toro’s Mama
Vanessa Hudgens joins Frozen Ground with Nicolas Cage and John Cusack
Point Break remake planned
Top Gun being converted to 3D
Dustin Hoffman‘s directorial debut to star Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Sheridan Smith et al

Fast-paced TV shows ruin children’s attention span?

British TV

QI does well on BBC2 but loses a million viewers

US TV

Cheryl Ladd to guest on NCIS [minor spoilers]
24‘s Annie Wersching to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Sandra Bernhard and Kathie Lee Gifford to guest on Hot In Cleveland
Bryan Fuller working on Hannibal Lecter TV series
McG’s Wonderland sells five drama projects
TBS orders sitcom pilot from Conan O’Brien’s production company
ABC picks up another Shonda Rhimes drama
TNT developing Tom Clancy’s Homeland Security

Monday’s “self-defeating boycott” news

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Film

Brian Cox and Natascha McElhone to star in Theatre of Dreams

Books

Waterstone’s to launch its own e-reader

Awards

Winners of the 2011 Creative Arts Emmys
Winners of the Venice 2011 film festival

British TV

Plaid Cymru backs TV licence boycott to defend S4C
Nick Berry and Michael French returning to EastEnders? [spoilers]
Sky Living acquires Secret Circle [subscription required]

Canadian TV

Dan For Mayor cancelled
Rossif Sutherland joins King
CTV acquires The Protector

US TV

David Keith to guest on Nikita
ABC adapting Beauty and the Beast
The CW considering The Carrie Diaries
Trailer for Enlightened with Laura Dern
Larry Cedar to play Pierce’s dad on Community
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi teaming up for NBC comedy project
ABC buys Reba McEntire comedy pilot
Sarah Chalke to recur on Cougar Town

Friday’s “Australian miserables” news

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Film

Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas to collaborate on Judah Maccabee drama
Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman to star in Les Miserables
CSI: Miami‘s Adam Rodriguez joins Magic Mike and Dark Knight Rises

British TV

Peter Serafinowicz to host interactive film programme on Facebook
BBC1 commissions Ripper Street

US TV

ABC to adapt Candace Bushnell‘s One Fifth Avenue
Laura Innes to recur on Awake
Lifetime cancels The Protector
HBO picks up Aaron Sorkin’s newsroom drama

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