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Film casting

Julia Stiles to play Frances Marion in The First
Jeremy Renner to star in Kill The Messenger
Mark Duplass joins Mercy and Parkland
Frank Langella joins Reykjavik

Trailers

Trailer for World War Z, with Brad Pitt
Trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, with Nick Offerman
Trailer for Superman Unbound

UK TV

SyFy acquires Defiance
S4C to adapt Theatr Genedlaethol dramas
Wednesday ratings: 1.4m watch Derek

US TV

Hulu acquires more Prisoners of War
Wednesday ratings: comedies hit series lows
Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans gets 3.22m viewers

US TV casting

Roseanne Barr to recur on The Office
Michaela McManus and David Cassidy to guest on CSI
Lily Rabe for American Horror Story – season 3

New US TV shows

Lifetime greenlights: Witches of East End
ABC greenlights: Syndicate adaptation Lucky 7
Teaser for A&E’s Bates Motel
Roseanne Barr developing Roseanne’s Nuts for NBC
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner developing All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go for HBO

New US TV casting

Ellen Muth to guest on Hannibal

New US TV show casting

John Goodman to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
Brenda Song to star in Fox’s Seth MacFarlane comedy

Thursday’s “Duncan Jones’ World of Warcraft, a final season for HIMYM and an ABC Sharon Horgan show” news

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Film

Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft

Film casting

Jessica Chastain joins Miss Julie
Tom Welling joins Parkland
Sam Worthington to star in Phillip Noyce’s For The Dogs

Trailers

Teaser for Iron Man 3 Superbowl trailer
Trailer for Alex Winter’s Downloaded

Theatre

National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations

UK TV

Two Christmas Mrs Brown’s Boys
S4C funding agreed

US TV

ABC acquires CTV’s Motive
A whole load of mini-series for ReelzChannel
How I Met Your Mother gets ninth, final season
Tuesday ratings: Fox up, NBC way down

US TV casting

Gerald McRaney to recur on Southland [minor spoilers]
Melinda Clarke to guest on Vegas [spoilers]
Kate Micucci to recur on The Big Bang Theory
Michael Urie to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

ABC greenlights: Middle Age Rage, Crazy Gene and Sharon Horgan’s Bad Management
Fox greenlights: Gang Related and Graham Yost’s Wild Blue

New US TV show casting

TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch cast in Silicon Valley
Merlin‘s Katie McGrath joins Dracula
Vincent Laresca to recur on Graceland

Wednesday’s “First Doctor Who cast, Entourage: the movie, The X-Files continues and more Banshee and Shameless” news

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Doctor Who

David Bradley to play William Hartnell in anniversary special

Film

Entourage movie gets the go-ahead

Film casting

Bradley Cooper to star in The Man From Primrose Lane
Eva Green and Julia Garner join Sin City 2

Trailers

Clip from The Dark Knight Returns – Part 2

Comics

The X-Files to continue in comics

Theater

Aaron Sorkin leaves Houdini musical

French TV

Canal+ acquires Hunted, Arte acquires The Hour, TF6 acquires Real Humans

International TV

Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to write Barbarella TV series

UK TV

Ripper Street gets a second series
Channel 4 making Irish ex-pat comedy London Irish
No more Mrs Brown’s Boys until 2014?

US TV

House of Lies, Shameless and Californication get renewed
Banshee gets a second season
Monday’s ratings: The Following up, Bones hits season high
Monday’s cable ratings: Dallas returns to series low

US TV casting

Scott Wolf joins Perception
Mark Hamill to guest on The Neighbors

New US TV shows

Fox greenlights: multiple time zone comedy Brenda Forever
ABC greenlights: thriller Reckless, Ryan Reynolds’ PI dramedy Murder In Manhattan, drama Gothica and Big Thunder, based on the rollercoaster ride
NBC greenlights: Alice in Wonderland sequel
Starz developing ballet drama

New US TV show casting

John Schneider cast in OWN’s The Haves and The Have Nots, plus casting on Love Thy Neighbor

Tuesday’s “Wonder Woman gets rolled, ITV acquires The Americans, and The Tomorrow People remake gets the green light” news

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Film

Pierre Morel to direct Sean Penn in Prone Gunman?

Trailers

Ad for Oz The Great and the Powerful

Theatre

Jennifer Ellison joins Singin’ In The Rain

French TV

France Télévisions puts the first episode of Tiger Lily online

UK TV

ITV acquires The Americans, Fox acquires Low Winter Sun
Casting on The Wrong Mans
Press pack for Channel 4’s Complicit
Friday’s ratings
Saturday’s ratings

US TV

One more episode for Chicago Fire
E! acquires Ben Stiller’s Burning Love, starring Ken Marino
Friday ratings: Spartacus returns strong
Sunday ratings

US TV casting

Elias Koteas to co-star in The Killing
Ben Falcone to guest on Go On
Annie Wersching joins Revolution

New US TV shows

Trailer for House of Cards
NBC greenlights: Hatfields & McCoys
CBS greenlights: The Surgeon General
The CW greenlights: The Tomorrow People and Blink
…and rolls back Amazon
Disney greenlights: Girl Meets World

New US TV show casting

Rob Corddry to star in Spy
Jeff Garlin to star in How The Hell Am I Normal
Allison Janney to star in Mom
Larry Wilmore joins Joe, Joe and Jane
More Under The Dome casting

Monday’s “Returning X-Men, Dr Strange is coming and loads more pilots” news

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Film

Marvel phase 3 to include Ant-Man and Dr Strange

Film casting

Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore returning for X-Man: Days of Future Past

Trailers

Trailer for Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, with Audrey Tautou
New trailer for Snitch with Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon et al [US only]

Theater

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to star in No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot

Canadian TV

Pamela Anderson to guest on Package Deal

UK TV

ITV greenlights Love and Marriage
Father Brown gets a second series
Trailer for season five of Being Human

US TV

Ben and Kate cancelled
Thursday ratings: 30 Rock hits season high
Friday ratings: Nikita hits season high

US TV casting

Sarah Chalke to guest on Grey’s Anatomy
John Pyper-Ferguson to recur on Once Upon a Time and Sendhil Ramamurthy to be a regular on Beauty and the Beast

New US TV shows

ABC greenlights: Influence from Kyle Killen and Killer Women from Sofia Vergara…
…a David Shore legal pilot, Doubt…
…Cullen brothers comedy with James Caan…
…an adaptation of Sky’s Spy
The CW greenlights: Reign, Oxygen and The Hundred
NBC greenlights: JJ Abrams drama Believe and Bill Lawrence’s comedy Undateable…
…and Lorne Michaels comedy
Fox greenlights: JJ Abrams futuristic cop drama…
…and assassins drama Boomerang from John Wells
A new promo for Vikings

New US TV show casting

Ana Nogueira joins Michael J Fox comedy
Britt Robertson joins Under The Dome

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