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Film

Harlan Ellison volunteers for Star Trek 2
Office duo writing The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie

Australian TV

Underbelly 4 to star Eric Bana?

British TV

FlashForward down to 2m viewers

US TV

NBC developing Tommy Supreme based on real Supreme Court lawyer
Cold Case gets two season pick-up in syndication
Heroes ratings up 9%
Lie To Me to reunite most of the cast of The Shield
Lauren Graham in promo for Parenthood
James Remar and Kelly Hu to guest on Vampire Diaries

Tuesday’s cancellations and remakes news

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Doctor Who

Fourth series of Torchwood to be 13 episodes

Film

John Madden to direct My Fair Lady remake?
I Spit on Your Grave to be remade?
Paul Greengrass quits Bourne 4
Tron: Legacy team to remake Black Hole?

Theater

Kelsey Grammer to star in Broadway version of La Cage aux Folles

Books

Jonathan Littell wins the Bad Sex in Fiction award

British TV

Casting on BBC1’s Five Daughters

Canadian TV

Canada looking for more sitcoms
Molly Parker joins Shattered

German TV

ProSievenSat. 1 to sell N24 news channel?

US TV

Barry Sonnenfeld to direct pilot for ABC’s Funny in Farsi
SyFy to make a series based (loosely) on Stephen King’s Colorado Kid
Nicole Richie getting a comedy on ABC
Raising the Bar and Three Rivers cancelled
Heroes‘ Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jane Curtin join Rex is Not Your Lawyer
Prison Break‘s Marshall Allman to join True Blood

Monday’s cartoon McConaughey news

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Doctor Who

The End of Time to air on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

Books

Borders and Books Etc to close all branches after going into administration

Film

Another remake of The Amityville Horror?
Jim Sheridan talks about I, Claudius and Dreamhouse
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to appear in Woody Allen’s next movie

British TV

Christopher Eccleston to play John Lennon in BBC4 drama
Sky to launch 3D TV channel next spring? (subscription required)
Gavin & Stacey gets 5.63m viewers
BBC looking to cut US shows
Joanna Lumley joins Mistresses

Canadian TV

Callum Keith Rennie to star as MPD cop in Showcase’s Shattered

US TV

The life of Matthew McConaughey’s brother to become a Fox cartoon
Ryan Devlin to recur on Cougar Town
Aunjanue Ellis joins The Mentalist [spoilers]
Lucas Black and Cary Elwes join Epix

Friday’s black news

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Doctor Who

Casting for Richard Curtis’s episode [spoilers]

Film

Blair Witch remake?

Theatre

Micky Dolenz joins Hairspray
Matthew Kelly joins Waiting for Godot
Julie Andrews returns to the West End

British TV

BBC to switch off some digital services once analog turned off
Spooks ratings picking up

US TV

Adam Godley to recur on Dollhouse
Promos for season three of Breaking Bad

Thursday’s “Happy Thanksgiving” news

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Happy Thanksgiving to US readers, who probably aren’t going to read this because they’re eating turkey

Doctor Who

Michael Moorcock talks about writing a Who novel
Karen Gillan’s cousin gets cast

Film

Trailer for new Universal Soldier movie with Dolph and Jean Claude
Dirk Benedict to cameo in The A-Team

Theatre

Touring version of When Harry Met Sally

British TV

ITV Player coming to Freesat
Paradox gets 4.1m viewers

US TV

Ratings on FlashForward at new low, production suspended
Curb Your Enthusiasm finale best rated for five seasons
Lie to Me picked up for a full season
Psych gets a fifth season
Burn Notice gets a fourth season
V ratings stabilise

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