News

News

Film

DreamWorks close to leaving Paramount
Sienna Miller to play Maid Marian in Ridley Scott’s Nottingham

British TV

20th Century Fox and ITV create joint development fund to create original series and remake older shows: first up, British Versions of Dharma & Greg and Southern Comfort
Suranne Jones to star in ITV’s ex-con drama Unforgiven

US TV

BSG‘s Sam Witwer to play Doomsday on Smallville
Matthew Perry to play sweary talk show host on Showtime’s The End of Steve
Wilmer Valderrama to star in The Emancipation of Ernesto pilot
The Riches execs joining Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas
Mary Tyler Moore joining Lipstick Jungle as Brooke Shields’ mum
Weeds creator wants a spin-off
Men in Trees‘ James Tupper joins Samantha Who?

Wednesday’s pretend news

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Doctor Who

K9 spin-off to start filming… soon. Honest

Film

Spike Lee to direct Time Traveler
JJ Abrams to produce Mystery based on NY Times article
Universal to adapt The Last Call graphic novel

Theatre/Theater

Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty to move to Broadway
Dickens Unplugged to close after less than a month in West End
Jai Rodriguez to play Desi Arnaz in Dance With Me

British TV

Japanese silent comedians Gamarjobat get BBC3 pilot

US TV

Jon Harmon Feldman to replace Daniel Cerone as showrunner on Dirty Sexy Money
Secret Diary of a Call Girl gets record ratings on Showtime
Top Gear hosts free to say what they want about cars
Barry Sonnenfeld to adapt Argentina’s The Pretenders
BSG finale gets 1.8m viewers

Tuesday’s “unforgiving Catholic church” news

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Film

Rome churches shut to Angels and Demons
Kevin Spacey heads up cast of Shrink

Commercials

Emma Watson replaces Keira Knightley as new face of Chanel

Theatre

John Cleese planning a stage version of A Fish Called Wanda

British TV

ITV Productions developing detective drama set in Brighton based on ‘Roy Grace’ novels [free registration required]
Matthew Horne says a third series of Gavin & Stacey is probable

US TV

Michael Shanks filming episodes of Burn Notice [via Kaballa, no link]
DB Sweeney and others join cast of Crash
First Bones episode to shoot in the UK
Full US Top Gear line-up announced
Marla Sokoloff to star in YA NBC mini-series
Wizard’s First Rule gets a showrunner
Four new cast members for ER
William Hurt joining cast of Damages
Casting on Knight Rider, Terminator: TSCC and Numb3rs
Fox helping to develop Canadian cartoon

Monday’s “RTD OBE” news

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Doctor Who/Torchwood

It’s RTD OBE now
Which evil genius might that be (spoiler alert)
Russell T to write one of the new Torchwood episodes
John Barrowman to be a judge on Canada’s How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Gareth David-Lloyd trying to crack Hollywood

Awards

Winners of the Monte Carlo TV festival [free registration required]
John Pilger’s War on Democracy wins Best Documentary at One World Media awards [free registration required]

Theatre

Kevin Spacey to teach theatre at Oxford

Film

Eva Mendes to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant
The first seven minutes of Wanted
Aaron Ashmore joins Val Kilmer in The Thaw

British TV

Maggie Thatcher drama gets BBC4 third highest ever ratings [free registration required]
Noel Edmonds to ‘mend broken Britain’ for Sky One
BBC preparing to launch integrated next generation iPlayer [free registration required]
Chris Morris goes to CERN
New DVD label for stand-up comics launches, with Stewart Lee as first disk

US TV

AMC adds more dramas, include adaptation of Carter Beats The Devil, to roster
Janel Moloney and Patrick Breen to star in Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas
Life on Mars makes the move to New York
Jason Bateman makes first-look deal with Fox
NBC picks up John Wells’ LAPD pilot
More BSG next season plus TV movie prequel

Friday’s “bearded west country zone” news

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Doctor Who

Penultimate episode title and synopsis revealed [spoilers + thanks to Stu_N]
Christopher Eccleston joins Hilary Swank in Amelia

Film

Amanda Peet to star in 2012
Leonardo DiCaprio for Captain America?
Punisher: War Zone trailer

Art

U2 selling a Basquiat
Picassos stolen in Brazil

Books

Russell Brand signs $3m publishing deal

British TV

Adrian Lester returning for fifth series of Hustle
BBC1 to screen Peter Moffat’s Criminal Justice over five nights
Kelly Reilly to star in possible Lynda La Plante franchise for ITV1
Rob Brydon launches his own indie [free registration required]
Final episode of The Apprentice got more than 10 million viewers
UKTV to launch new channel, rebrand old [free registration required]
Justin Lee Collins to front Crystal Maze successor [free registration required]
Into The Labyrinth coming to DVD

US TV

Details of the The Office spin-off
Jon Voight to be evil mastermind in 24
Jean-Christophe Novelli getting a series on Bravo
Jericho fans buy a TV ad
Will McCormack and Eric Christian Olsen to recur on Brothers & Sisters

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