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Film

Pierce Brosnan joins The Coup

Theatre

Lloyd Owen and Heather Headley to star in The Bodyguard

Canadian TV

Flashpoint to end with fifth season

UK TV

The Kumars to return on Sky 1
Piers Wenger appointed C4 head of drama

US TV

LA Noir picks up two Walking Dead actors
Two and a Half Men showrunner stands down
Cold Case‘s John Finn to guest on Suits
Sunday ratings: Veep down 17%

US TV pilots

HBO passes on The Corrections
NBC fast tracks The New Normal and Save Me

Thursday’s “LA Complex flops, Counter Culture shelved, and Mike McShane on Who” news

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Doctor Who

Whose Line Is It Anyway?‘s Mike McShane to guest on Doctor Who (minor spoilers)

Film

Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss to star in Compulsion
Rooney Mara joins Spike Jonze’s next film
Andrea Riseborough joins Alexander Skarsgard in Hidden

Theatre

Cranford‘s Lisa Dillon joins Stephen Mangan for Birthday

UK TV

The Syndicate finishes with 5.4m viewers

US TV

Tuesday ratings: LA Complex gets lowest ever ratings for a drama debut
Five actors joins the Sundance Channel’s first scripted series Rectify

US TV pilots

Counter Culture shelved

Tuesday’s “Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza united, The Bridge gets 1m viewers and more Defiance recruits” news

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Theatre

Abigail’s Party transferring to the West End

Canadian TV

CBC’s passes on Wish List pilot

UK TV

The Bridge gets 1m viewers

US TV

Sunday ratings
Lie to Me‘s Brendan Hines to guest on Covert Affairs

US TV pilots

24/The L Word‘s Mia Kirshner and Lost‘s Fionnula Flanagan join Defiance
Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza working on ABC comedy

Friday’s “Hugh Dancy is Hannibal’s Will Graham, Bent broken and a second season for Smash” news

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Film

Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Danny Huston and Michael Stuhlbarg join Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho
NSFW teaser for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson
Usher to play Sugar Ray Leonard
Trailer for The Host
The Wire‘s Michael K Williams to play Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Theatre

New boss for the RSC

Canadian TV

A second season for The LA Complex

UK TV

Maryam D’Abo, Geraldine James and Gemma Jones to star in ITV adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s Thirteen Steps Down
Luther to become a movie after third series
UKTV to come to BT Vision
ITV appoints Little Britain producer commissioner for comedy
Eragon‘s Ed Speleers joins Downton Abbey

US TV

Seinfeld‘s Jason Alexander to guest on Two and a Half Men
Nick At Nite picks up Scott Baio comedy Daddy’s Home
Lost‘s Rebecca Mader to guest on Fringe
A returning Burn Notice character [minor spoilers]
Smash gets a second season, loses its showrunner
Ciaran Hinds joins Political Animals
Wednesday ratings: Bent starts terribly
Netflix to save The River?

US TV pilots

Waterloo Road‘s Lucien Laviscount joins Midnight Sun
Jennifer Beals joins Widow Detective
Alyssa Milano joins Mistresses, Amanda Walsh replaces Aly Michalka on Rebounding
Hugh Dancy to play Will Graham in Hannibal

Friday’s “Nathan Fillion is Hermes, trailer for Dark Shadows, E4 acquires Revenge and Idris Elba is Imhotep” news

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Film

Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana to star in Swindle
Nathan Fillion to play Hermes in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Clive Owen, Mila Kunis and Billy Crudup to star in Blood Ties
Hugh Jackman to star in Prisoners
Trailer and poster for Dark Shadows
Anthony Michael Hall, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke to star in Dead in Tombstone

Theatre

Tim McInnery, Samantha Bond and Georgia Moffet join Omid Djalili in What The Butler Saw
David Strathairn to star in The Heiress with Jessica Chastain

UK TV

E4 acquires Revenge
Idris Elba to play Imhotep in Warren Ellis’ Ascension
Sky and STV plan YouView launches [subscription required]

US TV

Gossip Girl‘s Sebastian Stan joins Political Animals
The Karate Kid‘s Ralph Macchio to guest on Happily Divorced
I Hate My Teenage Daughter shelved

US TV pilots

Upstairs Downstairs‘ Neil Jackson to star in Notorious…
…along with Damages Tate Donovan; Lights Out‘s Holt McCallany joins Golden Boy
John Corbett to star in Widow Detective
Scott Bakula to star in Table for Three (aka Daddy’s Girls), Rick Schroder to star in Fox spy drama, The New Adventures of Old Christine‘s Hamish Linklater joins The Asset, Nurse Jackie‘s Zak Orth joins Revolution

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Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

Wednesday’s “No Corrections, Flashpoint to end, and The Kumars are back – on Sky” news

Thursday’s “LA Complex flops, Counter Culture shelved, and Mike McShane on Who” news

Tuesday’s “Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza united, The Bridge gets 1m viewers and more Defiance recruits” news

Friday’s “Hugh Dancy is Hannibal’s Will Graham, Bent broken and a second season for Smash” news

Friday’s “Nathan Fillion is Hermes, trailer for Dark Shadows, E4 acquires Revenge and Idris Elba is Imhotep” news

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