Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Wednesday’s “Fox upfronts” news
Film
- Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu join Sleight of Hand
- Woody Harrelson joins Hunger Games
- Ethan Hawke joins Total Recall
- Rachel Weisz to join The Bourne Legacy?
- Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean join detective fiction version of Peter Pan story
- Hugo Weaving confirmed for The Hobbit
- Hugh Jackman versus robots in a trailer for Real Steel
British TV
- Sky1 HD picks up spy comedy series Spy starring Darren Boyd and Robert Lindsey
- S4C launches bilingual iPhone catch-up app for Clic
- A second (and possible third) series for Mad Dogs
- Laurence Fox joins Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me
US TV
- Fox picks up JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz, Bones spinoff The Finder, Zooey Deschanel’s The New Girl and Jaime Pressly’s I Hate My Teenage Daughter, cancels Breaking In, The Chicago Code, Traffic Light, Human Target and Lie To Me
- Game of Thrones ratings still on the rise
- House gets an eighth (and final?) season
- Chuck and CBS shows hit lows in the ratings
- David Hasselhoff working on Equalizer-esque show
- Lance Reddick to guest on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia