News

Film

• Doug Liman to direct film about Attica uprising
• Al Pacino to replace Robert De Niro on Son of No One
• BBC making a movie about Seb Coe and Steve Ovett
• Jeffrey Wright joins Duncan Jones’ Source Code
• Gwyneth Paltrow joins Contagion

Theatre

• Joanna Lumley, David Hyde Pierece and Mark Rylance to star in La Bête

British TV

• BBC to launch mobile phone apps
• Merlin gets an iPhone app…
• …as does Freeview
• One-stop video on demand service SeeSaw launches with BBC, C4 and Five content

US TV

• Pilot casting, including Scrubs’ Donald Faison on The Odds
• Steven Spielberg’s Nine Lives moves from SyFy to NBC after four years in limbo
• History Channel to make its own version of Top Gear?
• Better Off Ted‘s Jay Harrington joins Nathan vs Nurture
• Courtney Thorne-Smith to recur on Two and a Half Men
• The CW goes action with Nomads from Numb3rs producer Ken Sanzel
• NBC picks up Friends… with Benefits
• More pilot casting, including Primeval‘s James Murray on Chaos
• Eugene Levy joins Hitched
• Poppy Montgomery and Marc Blucas join True Blood
• Taryn Manning joins Hawaii Five-O
• Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and Supernatural get renewed
• Lost ratings down to 9.8m
• 24 hits series low
• Paul Blackthorne to recur on CSI: Miami
• Elisabetta Canalis to recur on Leverage