News

Film

• Liam Neeson joins The Next Three Days, wears stupid armour in Clash of the Titans
• Disney to downsize Miramax
• Five-minute clip from 2012

Theatre

• Sam Mendes working on a Willy Wonka musical
• Michael Gambon pulls out of Alan Bennett play
• Kelly McGillis to star in Frankie and Johnny?

British TV

• Casting on the Only Fools and Horses prequel

US TV

• BBC offers US TV remakes of Butterflies and Three Up, Two Down
• Mentalist and Fringe drop in the Thursday ratings while…
• …Friday night ratings a disaster, particularly for Smallville and Dollhouse
• Clips and a photo of Paris Hilton in Supernatural

Film

• Deborah Kara Unger and James Nesbitt join Martin Sheen in The Way
• Daniel Dae Kim and Michael Kelly join The Adjustment Bureau
• New trailer for John Woo’s The Red Cliff

British TV

• E4 acquires Accidentally on Purpose
• Living acquires Cougar Town
• CBS Reality, CBS Action and CBS Drama to launch on 16 November
• STV saves £4.5m by dropping ITV1 programming
• Bagpuss to make a comeback?

US TV

• Hank and The Middle do well for ABC on Wednesday
• Day One cut to just a three-episode mini-series
• Josh Lawson to replace Eric Christian Olsen in Alyssa Milano in Romantically Challenged
• Comedy Central orders adaptation of Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down
• Two pilots, including Ben Stiller’s The Station, kept alive
• Another attempt to turn Midnighters into a TV series
• Carol Leifer gets two writing projects
• HBO, BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corp to co-produce Angry Boys
• Nick Chinlund joins The Mentalist (spoiler alert)
• Megan Mullally to guest on Parks and Recreation