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Film

Trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Eva Longoria joins Baytown Disco
Trailer for Passion Play
Trailer for Cowboys & Aliens

Radio

Radio 4 Extra to offer twice as much drama as Radio 7

British TV

Jane Horrocks to star in Sky 1’s Trollied
Comedy Central commissions Threesome
Sky trying to poach Glee
Twenty Twelve gets a second series
Benidorm gets a fifth series
Life of Riley gets 4.5m viewers
Candy Cabs loses 1m viewers

US TV

HBO developing Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Happy Endings starts soft, Breaking In drops 20%
More pilot casting
Jodi Lyn O’Keefe to guest star on Law & Order: LA

Thursday’s criminal changes news

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Doctor Who

Interviews and clips from The Impossible Astronaut

Film

Sally Field joins Lincoln
Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page and Penelope Cruz join Woody Allen’s latest
Dexter creator to direct Michael C Hall and Vera Farmiga in Love, Scotch and Death
Hugh Laurie to star in Mister Pip
Trailer for Abduction with Taylor Lautner

British TV

Trailers for BBC2’s new dramas, including The United with David Tennant
David Jason to star in The Royal Bodyguard on BBC1
Press pack for The Shadow Line

US TV

Criminal Minds showrunner leaving and some old cast might return
Jessica Lange to star in American Horror Story
Jane Kaczmarek to guest on Wilfred
Mike Tyson to guest on Breaking In
The Game gets a fifth season

Wednesday’s dragonrider news

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Film

Michael Mann and Paul Haggis team up for Gold
James McAvoy to star in Welcome to the Punch
Trailer for The Debt with Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington
Paramount options The Martian Chronicles
David Hayter to adapt Dragonriders of Pern
Rufus Sewell to be the baddie in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Trailer for Monte Carlo with Leighton Meester

Canadian TV

Trailer for King

US TV

Being Human and The Kennedys end well…
…Mildred Pierce and The Borgias slip…
…and Chuck hits an all-time low. Again
Teaser for Damian Lewis and Claire Danes’ Homeland
ABC Family orders Jane By Design
Wonder Woman will have a third costume
Oded Fehr to return to Covert Affairs
Kerr Smith to guest on NCIS

Tuesday’s “exodus from Camelot” news

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Film

Adam Baldwin commits to next Woody Allen pic
Tom Wilkinson joins The Samaritan
Walter Hill to direct Headshot
Alyson Hannigan returns to Pie series for American Reunion

Welsh TV

Coalition formed to fight S4C cuts [subscription required]

US TV

CMT cancels Working Class
The Killing continues strongly, Camelot drops 23%
Two more join How To Make It In America

Monday’s “Life of Spiderman” news

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Film

Boardwalk Empire‘s Michael Shannon to play Zod in Man of Steel
Why Liam Neeson was cut from The Hangover II
Tobey Maguire joins Life of Pi
Trailer for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Trailer for Hammer’s The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe

Theatre

Simon Ward joins Pygmalion

British TV

BBC4’s Room At The Top pulled because of rights problems [subscription required]
Toby Whithouse talks about series three of Being Human, with minor spoilers for series four
Someone’s leaving Misfits [spoilers]

US TV

Chaos down in the ratings
Adult Swim orders Bob Odenkirk pilot
Amber Tamblyn to star in Ed Burns’ Fox drama about a teacher
Danny Glover to guest on Leverage
Clare Forlani joins NCIS: LA

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