News

Awards

• The results of the National Television Awards

Film

• Sony picks up movie rights to sci-fi novels by Jeff Somers
• Trailer for Ryan Reynolds in Buried
• Clive Owen to replace Paul Walker on Protection
• Peter Dinklage joins The Knights of Badassdom
• Andy Serkis replaces David Tennant on Burke and Hare

Theatre

• Young Sherlock Holmes‘ Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox to reunite on stage

British TV

• BBC head of drama in Northern Ireland steps down
• Online viewing continues to rise [subscription required]
• BBC2 and BBC4 avoid merger, but more sport on BBC3?

US TV

• Mädchen Amick joins CSI: NY as a recurring character
• Carter MacIntyre joins Undercovers
• NBC asks for even more episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Trauma, Community, and Parks & Recreation to fill Leno-shaped hole in schedules
• ABC picks up Cutthroat, Generation Y and The Whole Truth
• AMC picks up Walking Dead and The Killing
• Michael McKean to return to Smallville [spoilers]
• Grey’s Anatomy flashback to feature Sarah Paulson and J August Richards
• Gene Roddenberry’s The Questor Tapes to be remade
• CNN to expand into entertainment programming