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Doctor Who

Joanna Page denies Who rumours

Film

Paul Greengrass leaves Fantastic Voyage
Never say bad things about the director: Megan Fox dumped from Transformers 3…
…Gemma Arterton to replace her?
Gerard Depardieu to play Rasputin
Alfred Molina joins Abduction
Drew Barrymore to direct Wizard of Oz sequel?

British TV

Lunch Monkeys starts work on second series
Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth join Matt Smith in Christopher And His Kind
David Baddiel to star in online football sitcom for Dave [subscription required]
Watch to rebrand [subscription required]
Rusty and others ask Beeb to cut US imports to make more UK kids shows [subscription required]

US TV

TNT unveils 11 original series
MTV picks up Teen Wolf
Smallville to end next season…
…but a regular is leaving (sort of) [spoilers]
Someone’s taking a break from House [spoilers]
Eureka and Warehouse 13 to cross over [spoilers]
NBC’s Day One is dead

Wednesday’s news after all

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Doctor Who

An interview with Steven Moffat

Film

John Hurt joins Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
Jemaine Clement to play the villain in Men in Black 3

British TV

Funny or Die UK to close [registration required]
David Jason going cockney again for tele movie
ITV considering remakes of Sapphire and Steel, Charlie’s Angels
Rab C Nesbitt gets a 10th series

US TV

Vanessa Williams joins Desperate Housewives
CBS cancels Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Miami Medical, Accidentally on Purpose, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried
The CW renews Life Unexpected and One Tree Hill, picks up Nikita and Hellcats…
…cancels Melrose Place
ABC’s Fall schedule
AMC orders historical western
Southland faces budget and cast cuts

My ADSL router has just given up on life, so unfortunately, there’ll be no news update tomorrow and possibly Thursday. There should be other blog content though later in the day and plenty of continuing news updates on Twitter.

PS Gods bless the iPhone, I say.

UPDATE: Maybe there will be. Router has just resurrected itself after clinical death for 50 minutes. Must be all the Touching Evil love going around/invoking of the gods wot done it.

Tuesday’s Ness and Stacey everywhere news

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Doctor Who

Joanna Page to play long-lost relative of the Doctor?? [spoilers??]

Film

Warp Films picks up rights to Blood Oath
Armando Iannucci to make Out The Window with BBC Films
Ewan McGregor joins The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Dustin Hoffman joins Nightwork
Pics from the Immortals (aka War of the Gods)

British TV

Ruth Jones and Mark Heap to star in The Great Outdoors for BBC4…
…and Ruth Jones to play Hattie Jacques for BBC4 as well
S4C gives out £7m in contracts for kids’ TV [subscription required]
HBO programmes to be available on mobile network 3
25% of Brits now have HD TV

US TV

USA Network greenlights pilots for A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
CBS picks up Criminal Minds spin-off…
…as well as Hawaii Five-O remake, Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck and Defenders with Jim Belushi
Heroes‘ Greg Grunberg to be series regular on Love Bites…
…but isn’t sure about whether Heroes movie would happen
Linda Hamilton joins Weeds
Joely Richardson leaves The Whole Truth
Mark Verheiden joins Steven Spielberg’s TNT show
Why Law & Order was cancelled…
…and why it might be back

Monday’s colossal NBC news

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who: the arena tour

Film

SHIELD movie to follow The Avengers
Bruce Willis joins Looper
300 producers working on Caesar trilogy
Warshawskis working on gay sci-fi war movie
Diane Kruger to join Special Forces
Keanu Reeves joins Passengers
Two 20,000 Leagues movies in the works
Christopher Walken to join Wild Oats?
Ralph Fiennes and Olga Kurylenko in Coronet
Bill Bailey to star in Chalet Girl

US TV

NBC goes on spending spree, unveils its fall schedule…
…after cancelling Heroes…
…bar a possible two-hour movie…
…cancelling Mercy and Trauma…
…picking up Friends with Benefits and The Cape…
…and Paul Reiser’s Next…
…cancelling Law & Order while renewing SVU and picking up L&O:LA…
…even though they don’t even have a script for it…
…picking up Harry’s Law and Outlaw…
…after ditching Ben Chaplin from Harry’s Law
CBS to pick up Bleep My Father Says after ditching lead…
…and Chuck Lorre‘s Mike and Molly…
…but likely to kill Cold Case and Miami Medical
ABC gives two pilots another chance…
…but definitely kills Romantically Challenged
Emmanuelle Vaugier to guest on Two and a Half Men
TNT picks up Franklin & Bash

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