News

Gemma Whelan joins Game of Thrones
Trauma/Royal Pains‘ Anastasia Griffith to recur on Once Upon A Time
Southland‘s Tom Everett Scott joins Good Christian Belles
Troy Garity joins The Playboy Club
Someone’s returning to Parenthood [spoilers]
A new regular for House
SyFy to renew Warehouse 13
USA to renew Suits and Necessary Roughness
Alphas guest stars to include Garret Dillahunt, Alaina Huffman, Brent Spiner, Lindsay Wagner and Peter Wingfield

Tuesday’s “Tits in the Pits” news

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Doctor Who

Future Torchwood depends on Rusty’s schedule
Karen Gillan joins Not Another Happy Ending

Film

Trailer for Like Crazy

British TV

PBS planning a British channel
UKTV to launch three more HD channels on Sky, joins Sky Anytime+
Penn & Teller: Fool Us finishes on 3m viewers
Downton Abbey to run for six or seven series? [subscription required]
Sky Atlantic acquires first Australian show [subscription required]

Canadian TV

Russell Crowe to guest on Republic of Doyle

US TV

Breaking Bad shopping around for a new home
Starz working on Tits in the Pits
William Baldwin to recur on Hawaii Five-0
The Playboy Club losing Hefner narration
Knight Rider‘s Justin Bruening to recur on The Ringer
Against The Wall gets 1.8m viewers
ABC Family orders 22 more episodes of Switched At Birth
Carrie-Anne Moss to recur on Chuck
Lucy Liu to recur on Southland
Trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance
Molly Parker joins The Firm

Friday’s “Ali’s back” news

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Film

Robert Patrick joins Gangster Squad
Ali Larter to star in feature version of The Rambler
Kevin Bacon to join RIPD?
Proper quality final scene + condensed post-credit scene from Captain America
Trailer for Tower Heist with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy

British TV

Little Crackers to return to Sky 1 with John Bishop, Alan Davies, Jane Jorrocks, Sanjeev Bhaskar et al
BBC2 acquires Pan Am
Virgin to offer Sky 1 and Sky Living content on demand [subscription required]
BBC launches its global iPad iPlayer app

US TV

No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to return?
Eastwick‘s Jaime Ray Newman to guest on CSI:NY premiere [minor spoilers]…
…Hellcats‘ Aly Michalka to guest, too
Julie Benz downgrades from regular to recurring on Gifted Man
The Walking Dead to get webisodes
David Anders to guest on Once Upon A Time
Eddie Izzard to guest on The Good Wife in British episode
BBC America’s first original scripted series is Copper
Teaser for Bored to Death, season 3
Michael Paré to guest in House season premiere [spoilers]
Party Down‘s Martin Starr to guest on Community
Patricia Clarkson to play Tammy 1 on Parks and Recreation
The Playboy Club being retooled?

Thursday’s “more Canadian TV” news

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Film

Trailer for New Year’s Eve
Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel join Danny Boyle’s Trance
Teaser trailer for Battleship
Simon Pegg signs on for A Fantastic Fear of Everything

British TV

The Hour drops to 1.9m viewers
ITV to trial additional pay content online…
…gets revenues of £1.03bn for 1st six months of 2011
Virgin Media grows 3.9%

Canadian TV

Regulator renews licences but requires more home-grown investment

US TV

A SHIELD TV series?
Mike Doyle to recur on A Gifted Man
Jericho‘s Alicia Coppola to guest on Suits
The Unit‘s Max Martini to recur on Revenge
Glen Mazzara signs up as Walking Dead showrunner

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