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Not a lot interesting has happened since Thursday! Better luck tomorrow

British TV

ITV1 and BBC1 suffer worst ever month of ratings
Idris Elba to star in BBC1 detective drama

US TV

Woo hoo! Angel/Law and Order‘s Elisabeth Rohm to appear on Heroes

Friday’s blobby news

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The Daily News will return on Monday 7th September

Film

Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite to star in adaptation of Brighton Rock
Rob Zombie to remake The Blog
Emile Hirsch to star in horror, college years version of Hamlet
Maggie Grace in talks for Tom Cruise’s Wichita project
Martin Freeman and Mandy Moore reunite for Swinging with the Finkels
Trailer for The Men Who Stare At Goats
Daniel Craig to star in Dream House

British TV

More4 acquires Hung
Frankie Boyle gets his own C4 pilot
Cheri Taylor takes over as head of comedy commissioning at the BBC
Julian Fellowes to write ITV period drama Downton Abbey
CBBC family drama The Lost Christmas to star Eddie Izzard

US TV

Brandon Routh to appear in multiple episodes of Chuck
TNT orders third season of Leverage and second season of Hawthorne; Saving Grace to end next summer
Christian Clemenson joins CSI: Miami for at least two episodes
Laura Linney in pilot for Showtime about cancer called The C Word
Michael Hogan and Alexis Denisof to guest on Dollhouse
Fox plans TV version of Heathers
Campbell Scott joins Damages as a regular
Rescue Me to end in 2011
A&E acquires Lifetime

Thursday’s companionable news

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Doctor Who

Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson and Sarah Sutton reunited for Big Finish plays
Frazer Hines to appear in Sixth Doctor stories for Big Finish

Film

Green Lantern could be cancelled because of currency issues
Hayden Christensen to star in Vanishing on Seventh Street
Smallville creators to write adaptation of I Am Number Four
Christina Hendricks to star with Katherine Heigl in Life as We Know It
Blake Lively joins Ben Affleck’s The Town

British TV

Channel 4 unveils its Autumn season
Sky1 acquires Modern Family
BBC4 wants to adapt more works of fiction
C4 to overhaul its output after Big Brother cancellation
Shane Meadows to make a drama for C4
Sky unveils its Autumn line-up

US TV

Gossip Girl and Chuck producers to create comedy series
Lennie James to play Tim Roth’s nemesis in Lie To Me. I might even watch it now
Melissa McCarthy joins Hank
V shuts down production for two weeks
Summer Glau joins Dollhouse

Wednesday’s foxy cat news

26 August 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film

Susan Sarandon to join Wall Street 2
Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong join The Eagle of the Ninth
Trailer for Zombieland
Simon Pegg to play William Hare in John Landis’ Burke and Hare
Megan Fox to play Catwoman in next Batman movie?
Todd McFarlane to make new Wizard of Oz ‘comparable to Alien‘
Scarlett Johansson to appear in The Avengers?

British TV

ITV set to join Hulu
Arqiva completes acquisition of Project Kangaroo VoD technology
Big Brother to be dropped after next year?

US TV

True Blood getting great ratings
Beau Bridges to guest star on The Closer

Tuesday’s Queen and Country news

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Film

Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Now that looks good
Hancock 2 finds writers
Elizabeth Banks to star in The Next Three Days
Writer found for adaptation of Queen and Country
Gus van Sant to direct Restless?
Robin Williams to play Susan Boyle??

British TV

Andrew Lincoln and Richard Armitage to star in Sky1’s adaptation of Chris Ryan’s Strike Back
Krod Mandoon could return if a co-funder is found

US TV

MTV to remake Skins
FX picks up Don Cheadle’s March To Madness
HBO considering Savage Love
Carlos Bernard guest starring on Burn Notice

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