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News

Film

Tom Cruise to play US president in Phillip Noyce’s 28th Amendment?
Michael Fassbender to play Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
George Clooney to stare at goats

Commercials

Rob Lowe latest star of Orange cinema ads

British TV

ITV buys Scandi indie Silverback for £14m
Julie Walters playing Mary Whitehouse for BBC2
Peep Show gets sixth series
Kangaroo/SeeSaw planning Autumn roll-out

US TV

Fox shows to benefit from fewer ads
Kelly Preston joins Suburban Shootout, Adam Goldberg joins The Unusuals
Robert Carlyle to play Jack Bauer’s mentor in Africa in 24 prequel
Six Feet Under stalker to play House private eye?
Mutant X alum to replace Jorja Fox on CSI
New interns for Scrubs
Green Arrow back on Smallville?

Thursday’s “not Greek, not fat, but maybe a wedding” news

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Doctor Who

Former producer Philip Hinchcliffe compares old Who with nu-Who

Film

Not a joke after all: Corden and Horne to star in Lesbian Vampire Killers
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett reteam for I Hate Valentine’s Day
Tommy Lee Jones to write, direct, produce and star in Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream
15 minutes of behind the scenes footage from Indiana Jones
Jonah Hill to star in 21 Jump Street adaptation?
New Hulk trailer
Leonardo DiCaprio to play Ian Fleming?
Daniel Day Lewis to do musical based on 8½

Art

Bacon’s “Triptych, 1976” sets record for post-war art sale

British TV

Kelly Brook to replace Jennifer Ellison on Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life
Gordon Brown to do PM Apprentice show?
Johnny Vegas to star in BBC3 record label comedy

US TV

Allison Mack staying on Smallville
TNT orders series from George Clooney, Joel Surnow et al
Kelsey Grammer lobbying CBS execs to rescue Back To You
Heroes webisodes to start mid-July
Scrubs boss airs some grievances

Wednesday’s woolly monster news

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Doctor Who

Knit your own Adipose scheme falls foul of lawyers
Burn Gorman to play Bill Sikes in Oliver!?

Film

Michael Moore‘s making a Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel
Point Break sequel planned, too
Scott Glenn to play Donald Rumsfeld in Oliver Stone’s W
Nicolas Cage to star in Bad Lieutenant remake
David Cronenberg to remake Timecrimes?

British TV/Technology

Kangaroo to become SeeSaw

US TV

Donnie Wahlberg in TNT drama
Venture capitalists to rescue Moonlight for The CW?
Shark cancelled
Boston Legal‘s fifth season to be its last

Tuesday’s “morituri te salutant” news

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Film

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

British TV

Vampire lesbian movie for James Corden?? Probably not
Gladiators gets 1.8 million viewers

US TV

CBS orders six new series including remakes of Eleventh Hour and Worst Week
Michael Rapaport joins Prison Break as a regular
Fox ready to remake Secret Millionaire
Saffron Burrows to co-star in Christian Slater’s My Own Worst Enemy
Megan Mullally to be Alicia Silverstone’s mother
Reaper renewed for a second season
How I Met Your Mother and The Unit renewed
HBO shows coming to iTunes with different pricing
October Road and Moonlight likely to be cancelled
Miss Guided cancelled
Back to You was ‘on the wrong network‘

Tuesday’s “morituri te salutant” news

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Film

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

British TV

Vampire lesbian movie for James Corden?? Probably not
Gladiators gets 1.8 million viewers

US TV

CBS orders six new series including remakes of Eleventh Hour and Worst Week
Michael Rapaport joins Prison Break as a regular
Fox ready to remake Secret Millionaire
Saffron Burrows to co-star in Christian Slater’s My Own Worst Enemy
Megan Mullally to be Alicia Silverstone’s mother
Reaper renewed for a second season
How I Met Your Mother and The Unit renewed
HBO shows coming to iTunes with different pricing
October Road and Moonlight likely to be cancelled
Miss Guided cancelled
Back to You was ‘on the wrong network‘

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