Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Wednesday’s magical acting news
Doctor Who
- Catherine Tate to co-star in Liam Neeson movie, make US version of her TV show?
- Things you can learn from the fourth series DVD commentaries
Film
- David Cronenberg to team with Denzel Washington for adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Materese Circle?
- Forest Whitaker to play Louis Armstrong
- Tr2n to be 3D
- Ridley Scott still working on Brave New World
Theatre
- Girl With A Pearl Earring to close early
Art
- Charles Saatchi opens new gallery of modern Chinese art
British TV
- Dougray Scott to star in Irish thriller for ITV1
- Rescue Me to air exclusively on iTunes
- Sanctuary and The Story of Maths do well but tie in the ratings
- Derren Brown to make acting debut in Mark Gatiss’s Crooked House
US TV
- My Boys gets a third season
- FX cancels The Riches
- NBC Monday night ratings plummeting
- Spike ordering Irish mob pilot
- Jack Kenny to show-run Warehouse 13
- David E Kelley does another legal drama
- Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk to star in How To Make It In America
- Life on Mars radio spots, pictures, and article [via]