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News

Film

Carey Mulligan to play Gordon Gecko‘s daughter?
Trailer for 2012

British TV

Sir Alan isn’t fired from The Apprentice

US TV

Linda Hunt joins NCIS:LA
Seth MacFarlane to recur on FlashForward
Greg Beeman gets a job on Melrose Place

Thursday’s reasonably-sized occupation news

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Film

Bride of Frankenstein being remade
Reese Witherspoon to star in Pharm Girl
Danielle Panabaker to co-star in John Carpenter’s The Ward
JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise to produce MI:4

Theatre

David Hare’s The Power of Yes to open at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton space

British TV

Occupation gets 4.4m viewers

US TV

Ratings for Hawthorne ‘okay’
Another Lost star returning?
Brian Austin Green to guest in Smallville

Wednesday’s top-slicing news

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Film

Indy 5 script cracked?
Casting on Red Dawn
Phillip Noyce to direct Mixed Blood
Sean Penn drops out of two movies
Casting on You Again
Female spy comedy Honey Pot script picked up
Natalie Portman to star in Black Swan
New trailer for Fame

British TV

Licence fee to be used to fund local news, broadband and children’s programmes
Living HD to launch later in the year
Five to allow whole shows to be embedded in blogs
Welsh language actors avoid pay cuts

US TV

BSG‘s Rick Worthy joins Heroes
Clayne Crawford joins 24
David O’Hara joins The Tudors
True Blood opener most watched HBO show since The Sopranos
USA doing well thanks to Royal Pains

Tuesday’s “dead as a dinosaur” news

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Doctor Who

Awe-inspiringly spoilery pictures from the finale

Film

Producers having difficulty with Birds remake

Comics

Captain America coming back

Music

The Nolans are reforming

British TV

Travel Channel’s Pat Younge to head up BBC Vision Productions
ITV drops Primeval
Reece Shearsmith talks about Psychoville
Digital Britain report to cut £130m from BBC’s share of licence fee
It’s the Torchwood press pack
BBC2 and BBC4 to run Modern Beauty season

US TV

Fox’s fall shows to start the same time as everyone else’s
Sendil Ramamurthy to guest on Psych
Steven Spielberg wants Noah Wyle to star in his alien invasion pilot for TNT

Monday’s disappearing husband news

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Doctor Who/Torchwood

Spoilers for series five?
Series four of Torchwood ready to go?
Extended trailer for Torchwood series three

Film

Prepare to snivel. Trailer for The Time Traveler’s Wife
Casting for John Carter of Mars
Frost/Nixon writer to write next Bond movie
Rare British comedies returned to BFI

Theater

Bonnie Langford to make her Broadway comeback
Evan Rachel Wood back on as Mary Jane in Spiderman musical

British TV

Kröd gets 1.8m viewers
Big Brother averages 2.7m viewers
BBC Scotland to make three new comedy series

US TV

50 Cent to cameo in Entourage?
Nurses angry with Nurse Jackie?
Clips from Melrose Place, The Beautiful People and Vampire Diaries
What’s planned for the new Futurama
House most popular show in the world?
Mad Men not selling well
Chuck could return early and with more episodes

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