Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday’s “Ed smash!” news
Doctor Who
- Giving up Doctor Who cost David Tennant £1m
- Katherine Jenkins and Michael Gambon to star in Christmas special
- Stevie counters critics
Film
- Ed Norton dumped from The Avengers for allegedly not being a team-player
- Wicked closer to becoming a movie
- Kevin Bacon to be the villain in X-Men: First Class
- Gillian Anderson joins Johnny English 2
British TV
- Channel 5 leaves Project Canvas
- GMTV rebranded as Daybreak
- Lewis gets a fifth series [subscription required]
- Sheridan Smith, Matthew Horne and Steve Coogan to star in Chekov plays for Sky Arts
- Hulu Plus coming to the UK
US TV
- HBO orders pilot from Alan Ball based on The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
- Peter Serafinowicz to be a series regular on Running Wilde
- Kelsey Grammer to front right-wing comedy network
- Trauma‘s Taylor Kinney joins Vampire Diaries
- Joan Cusack to guest on Law & Order: SVU
- The Wire‘s Andre Royo to guest on Fringe