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Doctor Who

Matt Smith’s Doctor to be ‘less tolerant’

Films

Maggie Grace joins Faster
Trailer for Repo Men with Jude Law and Liev Schreiber
An Avatar sequel?
Green Lantern to begin production in March

British TV

Sky Arts to create a Play for Today successor
BBC3 winter/spring season details including…
…a second season of pilots to find next Being Human [registration required]…
…Simon Brodkin’s new show…
…a drama from the writer of Mamma Mia!, Catherine Johnson
Above Suspicion finishes on 6.85m
S4C should be shut down?
S4C’s football show Sgorio gets zero viewers

US TV

Laura Linney’s The Big C gets a greenlight
The Middle hits a series high in the ratings
TBS orders Uncle Nigel pilot from Monk creator

Thursday’s covert mini news

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Doctor Who

Anti-ginger protests
That mini-skirt? Karen Gillan’s idea…

British TV

Misleading Sky+ ad banned
Channel 4 boosts its drama-commissioning team [registration required]
ITV chairman promises radical changes
BBC Trust to investigate science coverage [registration required]
E4 reaches more young people than Five [registration required]
TV manufacturers back Sky 3D

US TV

Lost producers admit to sh*t episodes
ABC orders more episodes of Cougar Town
USA greenlights 11 episodes of Covert Affairs
An interview with Alan Ball, who’s signed for another two seasons of True Blood
A clip from Sunday’s Chuck premiere

Wednesday’s Stone the crows news

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Doctor Who

End of Time – Part 2 is a ratings record for BBC America
Abba duo nearly did Torchwood: The Musical

Film

Luke Goss to star in prequel to Death Race?
Sam Mendes to direct next Bond pic?
Steven Soderbergh shooting a secret movie?

British TV

Being Human series two pictures
Above Suspicion wins Monday night ratings battle

US TV

Sharon Stone to appear in four episodes of Law & Order: SVU…
…and Mischa Barton to guest as a hooker
Fox greenlights Shawn Ryan’s Ridealong, CBS picks up True Love
David Milch and Michael Mann to work on horse-racing drama for HBO

Tuesday’s illegal immigrant bear news

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Film

Pierre Morel to direct Dune
Rosemarie DeWitt joins Earthbound
Sandra Bullock becomes biggest female star
Gossip Girl‘s Sebastian Stan joins Apparition
Noel Fielding to star in Paddington Bear
Denzel joining Will Smith in Uptown Saturday Night remake?

British TV

Being Human gets a third series
ITV to remake The Crystal Maze with Amanda Holden?

US TV

New promo for 24 – day 8 [video, US only]
TV One acquires Martin Lawrence’s sitcom Love That Girl
NBC orders Adam Carolla sitcom pilot
The Wire‘s Pablo Schreiber joins FX’s Lights Out
ABC picks up crime drama pilot 187 Detroit
James Van Der Beek joins Mercy as a recurring
Heroes most pirated show of 2009
NBC has 18 pilots in the works

Monday’s New Year news

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Happy New Year everyone!

Doctor Who

End of Time – Part 2 most loved by women and older men
Murray Gold to write series five music and theme
10.4m people watch End of Time – Part 2

Film

English language trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception
Trailer for Shrek: How To Train Your Dragon
James McAvoy to play Ian Fleming?
The Thing prequel to begin shooting in March
Trailer for Rhys Ifans’s Howard Marks biopic, Mr Nice
Pics from The Eagle of the Ninth

Theatre

Life on Mars (US)’s Jason O’Mara to star in Serenading Louie at the Donmar

British TV

Jam and Jerusalem cancelled
Top Gear most watched programme on the iPlayer
Day of the Triffids gets 5.6m viewers
New Year’s Eve ratings
STV to start showing ITV1 dramas again
BBC claims to generate £7.6bn for Britain
Beeb in talks to bring back Gavin & Stacey next Christmas…
…after 8.7m viewers watch the finale
Hamlet only gets 896,000 viewers

US TV

Julie Benz to join Desperate Housewives for at least three episodes [spoilers for Dexter]
Year-end ratings for the cable networks: USA grows audience 15%
Law & Order gets a 21st season
Kevin Alejandro joins True Blood
Casting on Retired at 35
Catherine McCormack and Stacy Keach to co-star on FX’s Lights Out
Luke Wilson and Diane Ladd to co-star in Laura Dern’s Enlightened
Kim Raver joins Grey’s Anatomy full-time

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