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Film

Paul Giamatti joins Romeo & Juliet

Theatre

Legally Blonde to close in the West End

British TV

Channel 5 acquires Once Upon A Time
Julia Davis to write and star in Hunderby for Sky Atlantic
ITV commissions dramas about soldiers’ wives and girlfriends

US TV

Fox orders John Wells comedy Prodigy Bully
Wednesday ratings: Touch starts well
CBS orders comedy pilot from Rebel Wilson…
…and three drama pilots, including Mommy Track Mysteries, Quean and a 60s Las Vegas sheriff show from Nicholas Pileggi
Bebe Neuwirth to recur on The Good Wife
Alias‘s Kevin Weisman to recur on Awake
(Nearly year-old news) BBC America remaking Engrenages/Spiral

Tuesday’s “Young Leonardo Da Vinci’s Demons, US Friday Night Dinner, RTD’s Aliens Vs Wizards and more Call The Midwife” news

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Theatre

Russell Grant to replace Michael Crawford in The Wizard of Oz

British TV

Call The Midwife gets a second series
Russell T Davies and Phil Ford writing Aliens Vs Wizards for CBBC

US TV

Lost in Austen‘s Tom Riley cast as young Leonardo in Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons
Kristin Chenoweth to visit Hot in Cleveland
CBS greenlights Greg Berlanti’s cop show Golden Boy
Ben Stiller to star in and direct HBO’s All Talk by Jonathan Safran
NBC picks up eight comedy pilots, including Friday Night Dinner…
…Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire and Jason Katims’ County, starring Jason Ritter

Monday’s “666 Park Ave., Chuck up and a Grimm newbie” news

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Film

Trailer for Jeff, Who Lives At Home, with Judy Greer, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon
Vera Farmiga and Patrick WIlson to star in The Conjuring
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Diane Kruger joins The Host

Theatre

Jodie Prenger and Primeval‘s Hannah Spearitt join One Man, Two Guvnors

British TV

No more Sherlock for 2012

Canadian TV

Transporter series needs new showrunners… again

US TV

Bree Turner to recur on Grimm
TV Land buys comedy format based on Israel’s Zanzuri
Steve Buscemi to return to 30 Rock
Victor Garber to guest on The Big C
Boy Meets World‘s Alex Désert joins NBC’s Isabel
Friday ratings: Chuck hits season high, Grimm leaps 27%
ABC orders 666 Park Ave.
James Purefoy to recur on Revenge

Thursday’s “US Braquo remake, Shatner’s World and new BBC dramas” news

12 January 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Theater

Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It comes to Broadway

British TV

Tuesday ratings: Body of Proof starts with 1.7m viewers on Channel 5
61% of BBC shows are repeats
Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid to star in rom-com Antony and Cleopatra
Dennis Lawson joins New Tricks
Sean Bean to star in The Accused
BBC announces five new dramas including The Moonstone, Truckers, War of the Roses, Room on the Broom and The Secret of Crickley Hall, casts Hayley Atwell in Restless, renews Death in Paradise for a second series
Victoria Wood to write another 90-minute film for BBC1 [subscription required]
Channel 4 to launch a repeats channel? [subscription required]
BSkyB axes Current TV

US TV

The Kennedys producers to remake Canal+’s Braquo
Tuesday ratings: Work It drops 20%

Wednesday’s “Saving Thor 2, more Psych and Paul Bettany unmasters sex” news

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Film

Saving Private Ryan‘s Robert Rodat to rewrite Thor 2
The first five minutes of Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire

Theatre

Torchwood‘s Eve Myles to star with Scrubs‘ Zach Braff in All New People

British TV

The Royal Bodyguard drops to 2.9m viewers

Canada

Bravo acquires Dallas and Perception
NCIS‘s Lauren Holly to guest on Lost Girl

US TV

Emma Stone to cameo on 30 Rock
Paul Bettany leaves Master of Sex
AMC developing Goodfellas TV series
Psych gets a seventh season
Sunday ratings: Downton Abbey starts well
Monday ratings
Showtime launches streaming video iPad app

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Tuesday’s “Young Leonardo Da Vinci’s Demons, US Friday Night Dinner, RTD’s Aliens Vs Wizards and more Call The Midwife” news

Monday’s “666 Park Ave., Chuck up and a Grimm newbie” news

Thursday’s “US Braquo remake, Shatner’s World and new BBC dramas” news

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