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Doctor Who

Mark Gatiss’s Nightshade to be turned into Matt Smith episode?

Film

CBS Films picks up rights to Station
Keanu Reeves to play Dr Jekyll
Family Guy movie under way
Four-minute Terminator trailer
Brett Ratner off Conan

British TV

Paula Milne writing drama about therapist accused of murder
Dawn French to star in married life comedy for BBC2

US TV

Lost writers making it up as they’re going along
ABC picks up Modern Family
Casting on 24 and Heroes, plus Monk gets webisodes [spoilers]
Fox unlikely to pick up RDM’s Virtuality

Thursday’s South Banked news

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Doctor Who

David Tennant to appear in an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures?
John Barrowman taught kung fu kata for Tonight’s The Night

Film

James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks and Anna Friel to star in The Details
Robert De Niro and Edward Norton to star in Stone
Alex Holmes to direct The Interpretation of Murder adaptation
Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer to star in The Irishman
Steve Coogan to play Hades, Rosario Dawson to play Persephone in Percy Jackson
Barbarella remake cancelled

British TV

Melvyn Bragg leaving ITV, ending The South Bank Show
Channel 4 may cut programming budget 10% and cut down on US imports
Dominic West to star in BBC4’s Breaking the Mould
Charlie Brooker working on Gameswipe?
Rock Profiles returns on Funny or Die
Heroes ratings drop 64.5%

US TV

Peter Dinklage to star in Game of Thrones
Old characters return for Prison Break finale [+spoilers]

Wednesday’s busy Hugh Jackman news

6 May 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Rusty off to America?

Film

Deadpool spin-off from Wolverine planned
Rachel Weisz to star in The Whistleblower
Hugh Jackman working on Wolverine sequel, Personal Security, Drive and remake of Carousel
Ben Stiller to make Little Britain film?
Bradley Cooper to play Green Lantern?

Radio

Unfinished Dirk Gently novel to be adapted by Kim Fuller

British TV

Second series of Wallander confirmed
Reggie Perrin ratings drop 800,000
Gary Glitter character to get The Death Penalty
Poor ratings for Endgame
Virgin loses money but gains subscribers
Improved S4C could lead to cuts at BBC Wales

US TV

HBO orders series of David Simon’s Treme
John Oliver to star in NBC’s Community
Another Heroes producer gets the chop

Tuesday’s Life ends news

5 May 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

David Harewood to appear in Doctor Who specials

Film

Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon to star in Used Guys?
Ben Stiller to direct spam-based Help Me With Goodness
Hayden Panettiere to star in Footloose?
Hugh Jackman to star in Ghostopolis
Ken Watanabe and Tom Hardy join Chris Nolan’s Inception
Two Sutherlands, Sarah Roemer and Rebecca Romijn star in Love Child

British TV

Mutual Friends cancelled

US TV

Life cancelled, no word on Chuck but it probably won’t be on Mondays any more
New and returning NBC shows
Jared Harris joins Mad Men
Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick to appear in Californication
Fringe renewed for a second season
Family Guy spin-off Cleveland gets second season before first airs
Casting on Ben Hur
Promo for season two of True Blood
The CW gives up on Sundays

Friday’s “the French are upset” news

1 May 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

The Daily News will return on Tuesday 5th May

Doctor Who

Set shots from the finale including the return of… [spoilers]

Film

International trailer for GI Joe
Lizzy Caplan and Crispin Glover join Hot Tub Time Machine
Peter Dinklage joins Yvonne Strahovski in I Love You Too
Set pics from Clash of the Titans
Bruce Willis appearing in up to three action movies

British TV

BSkyB gaining more subscribers despite downturn
BBC trying to reconnect with former Grange Hill viewers
Alex Kingston to star in ex-con family drama Hope Springs
BBC2 to position dramas as major events of the week

US TV

Disney/ABC join Hulu
Canada added to piracy hotlist
Mark Burnett to create international versions of Starz’s Head Cases
Heroes and Prison Break most pirated shows

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