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Film

New Scream 4 trailer
Clint Eastwood to direct remake of A Star is Born
24 movie to shoot this year

Theatre

Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon to star in The Painkiller

British TV

New Red Dwarf next year
Sky to double the amount it spends on original shows [subscription required]

US TV

AMC developing Man with the Golden Ears
Dawn Olivieri to star with Don Cheadle in House of Lies
General Hospital’s Annie Ilonzeh first of the new Charlie’s Angels
ABC picks up Canadian-UK-US co-production Combat Hospital
NBC gives Angela Bromstad the boot
Hot in Cleveland starts okay

Thursday’s “even remakes can become a Lethal Weapon” news

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Film

Robert Downey Jr leaves Oz
Warner Bros plans Lethal Weapon and Westworld remakes
Anne Hathaway to play Catwoman, Tom Hardy to play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises
Mike White drops out of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
New Red Riding Hood trailer

British TV

Jeremy Hunt plans national television channel
Civilisation to be remastered in HD

US TV

ABC orders pilot for The Last Days of Man
USA picks up A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
CBS wins Tuesday night ratings
NBC picks up Ronald D Moore’s ‘Harry Potter for adults’
Ricky Gervais to guest on next week’s Office as David Brent
Michael Clarke Duncan cast in Bones spin-off
Eric Balfour to guest on No Ordinary Family
Jonathan Banks to play Ed O’Neill’s brother on Modern Family
Sheila Kelley replaces Illeana Douglas on Gossip Girl

Wednesday’s “German number one” news

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Books

A new Sherlock Holmes novel

Film

James Franco to star as Richard Ramirez in The Night Stalker
Vera Farmiga and Mia Wasikowska to join A View From The Bridge

British TV

Digital TV uptake passes 90% [subscription required]

US TV

Fox orders pilot for Tim Kring’s Touch…
…and Rob Thomas’s little league comedy Little in Common
Being Human and Skins adaptations set new ratings records
Harry’s Law does okay
Fourth season for Sanctuary
L&A: LO pulled
Danni Lowinski to be first ever German TV showed adapted for the US
Santiago Cabrera joins Alcatraz, Larisa Oleynik joins Hawaii Five-0 + other casting
William Sadler to guest on Chase [minor spoilers]
SGU revival being planned
ABC Family acquires Teach

Tuesday’s new Spartacus news

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Film

RED sequel gets the go-ahead
The Expendables 2 to happen this year, with Jean Claude Van Damme

British TV

Dominic West to play Fred West in ITV1 drama
Downtown Abbey Christmas special commissioned
New trailer for Being Human

Canadian TV

BBC Kids Canada acquired by Knowledge Network
Fewer foreign shows for CBC [subscription required]

US TV

Liam McIntyre to replace Andy Whitfield on Spartacus
Lee Majors to guest on $#*! My Dad Says
Lauren Cohan, Robin Givens to guest on Chuck
Tricia Helfer to guest on No Ordinary Family
Anne Hathaway to guest on Glee

Monday’s “bye bye S4C2” news

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Film

Alien prequel dead, Ridley Scott to direct adapted version as Prometheus by Damon Lindelof instead
Mugatu to return for Zoolander 2

British TV

S4C to close down S4C2
Third series for Moving On but with half the episode-count
Sky Atlantic to create six home-grown shows a year

US TV

CBS commissions fugitive pilot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and medium-esque pilot from Susannah Grant
ABC picks up Suburgatory
Californication gets a fifth season
TNT picks up Robert Redford-produced Generations
Michael Emerson to guest, Jason Ritter to return on Parenthood
More changes on Nikita
Robert Wagner to play Charlie on Charlie’s Angels reboot
John Lithgow to guest on How I Met Your Mother
Ileana Douglas drops out of Gossip Girl

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