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Doctor Who

Rusty ready to quit sci-fi

Awards

The Broadcast Awards winners

Film

Eva Green to star in Dark Shadows

British TV

Sky Atlantic not coming to Virgin Media soon
Sue Johnston and Shaun Dooley working on Sugartown
MTV setting up on-demand service
Fiver to rebrand as 5*…
…picks up picks up Better With You, Parenthood and $#*! My Dad Says

US TV

NBC picks up four pilots, including adaptation of Channel 4’s Free Agents
A&E developing detective drama Overload
Kevin Williamson abandons Vampire Diaries spin-off for The Secret Circle
Comedy Central resurrects Playing With Guns
John C McGinley joins Luck
NBC pulls Chase
Sharon Horgan to make pilot of Bad Mom
Jane Seymour to guest on Castle

Thursday’s “sci-fi Treasure Island” news

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Film

Zach Galifianakis joins Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D.
Alyssa Milano joins New Year’s Eve

Music

White Stripes split

British TV

438,000 watch Boardwalk Empire
Freeview HD sales pass 1.2m [subscription required]
The History Channel acquires The Kennedys

Canadian TV

CBC to increase Canadian content [subscription required]

US TV

CBS picks up celebrity assistants pilot
NCIS gets another season after record 22.9m watch episode
Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland, Phillip Glenister, Keith Allen, Rupert Penry-Jones and Eddie Izzard to star in SyFy’s Treasure Island
Amy Smart joins Shameless, Chloe Webb to guest
Amber Heard to star in NBC’s Playboy pilot?
Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin to guest on Hot In Cleveland
Season 8 for Futurama?
A trailer for the Criminal Minds spin-off, Suspect Behavior, with Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo

Wednesday’s “Fletch lives” news

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Film

Fletch reboots planned
Cameron Diaz to star with Colin Firth in the Coen Brothers’ Gambit
Trailer for Bridesmaids

British TV

Grandma’s House set to return [subscription required]
Glee down to 1.3m
C4HD coming to Freesat in April [from press release]

US TV

The Cape cut to 10 episodes
Georgetown goes to pilot
Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray join Dallas update
The CW picks up four pilots…
…NBC picks up two
Stephen Tobolowsky to guest on Community as a Who’s the Boss? professor [minor spoilers]
Kathy Griffin to guest on Defenders
AJ Cook to return for an episode of Criminal Minds
Love Bites probably dead before it starts
Aaron Sorkin describes his new show
Harry’s Law continues to get 11m viewers

Tuesday’s “another win for Marie” news

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Film

Halle Berry replaced by Katherine Heigl on New Year’s Eve
Tyler Perry to play James Patterson’s Alex Cross
Jim Caiezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor to star in Savannah
John Woo producing a remake of The Killer

Radio

TMINE reader Marie Phillips co-writing historic gay horse romance for Radio 4

Theatre

Patrick Stewart to play Shylock in RSC’s 50th season

British TV

Dave loses trademark battle, may have to change its name again
Come Fly With Me gets a second series [subscription required]

US TV

ABC Family greenlights three series
CBS orders more Mike & Molly and Rules of Engagement to replace Two and a Half Men
Kristen Bell to co-star in House of Lies pilot
Teri Polo joins Man Up! + other casting
Lucy Griffiths gets a CBS holding deal
Casting on the Burn Notice prequel
Richard Dreyfuss joins Parenthood

Monday’s “Law and Order transfer” news

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The new Thundercats

Doctor Who

Hugh Bonneville to guest on Doctor Who
Four more actors join Torchwood

Film

Javier Bardem for next Bond movie?
Seth Rogen to team up with Barbara Streisand for My Mother’s Curse

US TV

Mark Wahlberg sells Home Game to CBS
Alana de la Garza leaves L&O for L&O:LA
Geoff Stults joins Bones spin-off
NBC picks up cop version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales from Buffy writers
ABC picks up My Frickin’ Family
Jordana Brewster to star in Dallas reboot
Pilot casting
Ratings: Archer back with slightly lower ratings, Vampire Diaries and Nikita strong
CW picks up zombie drama
Greg Grunberg to star in Big Mike
Grissom back on CSI?
The Closer to get six more episodes, possible spin-off
ESPN’s Colin Cowherd’s life inspires CBS pilot
CBS orders How To Be A Gentleman
Lucy Lawless to recur on No Ordinary Family
DirecTV will no longer save shows

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