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Doctor Who

Beeb commissions second set of Doctor Who games

Film

Casting on JJ Abrams’ Super 8

British TV

S4C’s secret investment fund
Thomas the Tank Engine up for sale

US TV

NBC picks up CIA agent pilot
The Big C and Weeds both get new seasons
Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn to star in another JJ Abrams show?
Callie Thorne and Rachael Carpani to star in pilots
Pan Am to be focus of ABC pilot

Monday’s “poorly stars” news

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Film

Mark Strong joins Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Trailer for The Dilemma with Vince Vaughn
Jennifer Garner joins The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Kate Beckinsale joins Contraband
Trailers for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network

British TV

Play School presenters to argue for calmer kids’ TV
BBC2 picks up Ricky Gervais’s Life’s Too Short
Lip Service press pack

Canadian TV

Canadian production company picks up all adaptation rights to 10 Jeffrey Archer novels

French TV

Advertising to remain on France Televisions for another two years

US TV

Showtime picks up Homeland, based on an Israeli format
Peter Coyote joins Law and Order: LA
Sadly, Spartacus without Spartacus
James Cameron’s True Lies TV show ends up at ABC
Warehouse 13 gets a third season
Teaser for FX’s Lights Out
Community‘s Christmas episode to be stop-motion
Big Bang Theory to go on hiatus to cope with injured star
Mena Suvari to guest on Psych

Friday’s “Paradise Lost” news

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Film

Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury
Alex Proyas to direct Paradise Lost

British TV

BBC to freeze licence fee to 2013
Project Canvas becomes YouView
Press pack for The Song of Lunch with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson
That Mitchell and Webb indie [subscription required]

US TV

Outlaw starts with okay ratings
Glee‘s Ryan Murphy and 24‘s Howard Gordon working on supernatural procedural for Fox
Jennifer Love Hewitt working on comedy show
Rachel Ticotin joins Law & Order: LA
Lee Tergesen to recur on Castle [minor spoilers]
Nancy Travis to recur on Desperate Housewives
Tracie Thoms to guest on Human Target
Trailer for final Smallville season
Lexa Doig to guest on Smallville
Original Danno James McArthur to cameo on Hawaii Five-O
Norm MacDonald to guest in The Middle
BBC America acquires Law & Order: UK
Judd Nelson to guest on Two And A Half Men
Victor Garber, French Stewart and Kathleen Quinlan to guest on Stargate Universe

Thursday’s “Deadliest Warrior movie” news

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Film

Jennifer Garner to star in Better Living Through Chemistry?
Oh dear God: Deadliest Warrior – the movie
Trailer for The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale
Malin Akerman joins Wanderlust
Olivia Wilde joins The Change-Up

Commercials

The return of Honey Monster

British TV

Sky to close Bravo, Bravo 2 and Channel 1 (aka Virgin 1)
Cast for the new series of Moving On
More drama for BBC Daytime
Rev gets a second series
S4C budget cuts illegal under 1990 Broadcasting Act?

US TV

CBS picks up New Jersey crime drama
Fox acquires JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz project
ABC developing Prince of Tides TV series
Parenthood, Life Unexpected ratings not brilliant
House guest stars to include Jennifer Grey and Candice Bergen
Lucy Liu to star in Marry Me mini-series
John Larroquette to recur on CSI:NY
ABC working on US vice-president dramedy

Wednesday’s “Single Father” news

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Film

John Oliver to star in Terry Jones film
Streetdance 3D‘s Nichola Burley joins Wuthering Heights
Trailer for Roland Joffe’s There Be Dragons

British TV

BBC Trust chairman to stand down
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt to be Channel 4 chief creative officer
Single Father press pack
The Inbetweeners returns to 2.2m

US TV

MTV greenlights drama and horror shows
Jamie Hector to guest on Lie To Me
TBS cancels My Boys
Comedy Central to adapt BBC2’s Time Trumpet
Denise Richards joins Blue Mountain State
The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles and True Blood end well
TNT renews Hawthorne
Ryan Reynolds to produce NBC drama
John Schneider to recur on Desperate Housewives
Trailer for season six of Supernatural
Matthew Lillard to guest on House
Ana Gasteyer to guest on Chuck
Trailer for Jennifer Aniston’s Cougar Town appearance

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