News

Doctor Who

• Let’s Kill Hitler gets 6.2m viewers

Film

• George Clooney drops out of The Man from UNCLE

British TV

• Big drama changes at BBC1 by the end of the year
• BBC1 to broadcast comedy pilots
• Billie Piper to star in BBC3’s Tom and Jenny
• John Hannah and Suranne Jones to star in Sky1’s spoof crime drama A Touch of Cloth by Charlie Brooker
• C4 to plough £2.5m more into daytime TV [subscription required]
• The Hour gets a second series [subscription required]
• Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais writing BBC4 wartime drama [subscription required]
• David Tennant to star in improvised BBC1 drama [subscription required]
• BBC1 trailer, including clips from Sherlock and The Borrowers
• Channel 4 to make phone hacking comedy written by Guy Jenkin

US TV

• Jason Dohring to recur on Ringer
• Judy Greer to recur on Two and a Half Men
• Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke to adapt Deadman comics for The CW
• Fox to adapt Leif GW Persson’s crime books
• A&E picks up Longmire with Katee Sackhoff and Lou Diamond Phillips
• TNT developing drama with Jerry Bruckheimer about PI pawn shop owner
• Trailer for season two of Boardwalk Empire
• NBC adapting Israeli drama Pillars of Smoke
• My Boys‘ Jordana Spiro to recur on Dexter
• True Blood‘s Jessica Tuck to guest on Castle
• TNT orders Breckin Meyer bromance comedy pilot
• Suits creator to become its new showrunner
• ABC adapting How To Con Your Kid
• Apple ending TV rentals
• Heroes‘ Zachary Quinto to recur on American Horror Story
• DB Woodside to recur on Parenthood
• NBC to adapt Stupid and Contagious