News

Doctor Who

• The Sun continues its yearly tradition and spills the beans on who the next series baddie is and interviews the chief villain [spoilers]
• Billie’s coming back???

Film

• Steven Moffat‘s writing Tin Tin for Dreamworks
• Stopping Power‘s off again
• Remake of Cronenberg’s The Brood on the cards
• Christian Bale to try to kill Pablo Escobar
• Wesley Snipes replaced on Spike Lee flick
• Sequel to The Queen planned, looking at Tony Blair’s relationships with George Bush and Bill Clinton
• James Purefoy to play Solomon Kane
• Join the rest of us, Jackie: Jackie Chan doesn’t like the Rush Hour films
• Transformers re-writers brought in for Watchmen
• Writers found for Friday the 13th remake
• Rose McGowan as Barbarella?
• Featurettes and pictures from The Dark is Rising
• Ridley Scott talks long and hard about Blade Runner. And global warming

Books

• Roger Langley throws out a Patrick McGoohan biography

Commercials/Music

• As much as we can take: 3 to have 10-second ads featuring the Sugababes

British TV

• Sky to launch kiddies factual channel on pay-per-view Freeview
• Andrew Davies to adapt Sarah Waters’ Affinity for ITV1
• Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson planning fake celebrity travelogues

US TV

• Fox to make male version of Angela’s Eyes. Think of the children!
• Eddie Cibrian to guest on Samantha Who? and Dirty Sexy Money
• Recurring actors for The Cashmere Mafia and Chuck