News

Doctor Who

• Pipes’ return covered up by “bin girl”
• Catherine Tate to star in Under The Blue Sky
• The Doctor (and Chuck from Pushing Daisies) voted sexiest TV characters
• Church leaders watch Doctor Who for advice
• Big Finish: the companions in the Companion Chronicles, the Wirrn and Key To Time return, as do the Krotons

Film

• Steven Spielberg working on Lincoln biopic with Liam Neeson
• Bruce Willis as Hannibal in The A-Team and Brad Pitt as Thor?
• Donnie Darko sequel on the way
• Natalie Portman leaving Wuthering Heights
• Witchblade movie planned
• Buck Rogers rights picked up

Theatre

• Peter Kay to star in stage version of Porridge?
• Dirty Dancing nearly made Joanna Page give up acting

British TV

• BBC forgets to hand money over to charity
• Gordon Ramsay to quit Kitchen Nightmares?
• Red Dragon buying Tinopolis
• Gavin & Stacey boost Barry tourism
• Simon Nye making multicultural sitcom pilot

US TV

• David Eick to help The Philanthropist?
• Even more Britney for How I Met Your Mother?
• Back to You and New Amsterdam cancelled
• Eric Stoltz to invent cylons
• McSpaced not picked up by Fox but other shows are luckier, including Dollhouse
• Life on Mars remake to get pick-up