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Film

Adam Goldberg, Sasha Grey and Harold Perrineau join Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story
Benedict Cumberbatch joins Star Trek 2
…as does Noel Clarke
Trailer for Bad Ass with Danny Trejo
Lost‘s Matthew Fox to star in Emperor

Comics

DC beats Marvel in 2011 sales figures

Theater

Hugh Jackman returns to Broadway for Aaron Sorkin’s Houdini

British TV

Sky Atlantic acquires Friday Night Lights

US TV

NBC acquires Married With Roommate
ABC acquires Roland Emmerich 2012 presidential race drama pilot
The CW orders pilot of Cult
Lee Majors to guest star on CSI: NY
Franka Potente and Tom Weston-Jones join BBC America’s Copper
Monday’s ratings: Pretty Little Liars down
Tuesday’s ratings: Work It starts badly

Thursday’s “Hitchhikers reunion” news

22 December 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Harrison Ford confirmed for Ender’s Game

Theatre

Misfits‘ Nathan Stewart-Jarrett to star in The Pitchfork Disney
Original radio Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cast to reunite for touring stage show version

British TV

Trailer for series 2 of Sherlock
Ricky Gervais moving to Channel 4 for Derek?
EastEnders‘ Lacey Turner joins second series of Bedlam

US TV

New trailer for Spartacus: Vengeance
Trailer for The Borgias, season two

Tuesday’s “movie Conchords?” news

29 November 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Flight of the Conchords: the movie?
Mad Men‘s Jared Harris joins Lincoln
Trailer for Young Adult with Charlize Theron

Theatre

Zach Braff to star in All New People at the Duke of York

French TV

Spiral‘s Audrey Fleurot to star in Tango

US TV

Trailer for Alcatraz
Hugh Laurie to quit acting after House?
NBC buys comedy from CSI‘s Liz Vassey
Louis CK to return to Parks and Recreation
Trailers for The Firm
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time dips

Thursday’s “no creatures, great or small” news

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Doctor Who

Children in Need minisode rushed into production

Film

A Woody Woodpecker movie?
Trailer for Aardman’s Pirates!
Trailer for Pixar’s Brave
Sharon Stone to play Linda Lovelace’s mother
Being Human‘s Lenora Crichlow, Lily James and Merlin‘s Bradley Adams to star in Fast Girls

Theatre

One Man, Two Guvnors with James Corden to move to Broadway
Death and the Maiden to close early

British TV

Top Boy gets a second series
The Apprentice‘s Nick Hewer to present Countdown
All Creatures Great and Small prequel to air at Christmas

US TV

AMC buys David Eick’s UFO-centric Thunderstruck
Bryan Fuller’s Munsters picked up to pilot
Grimm gets two more scripts
Three more seasons for South Park

Friday’s “mad piano” news

4 November 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film

Garrett Hedlund to star in Akira
Trailer for Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd
Trailer for Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds
Andy Serkis signs up for Rise of the Apes sequel
Bond 23 to be called Skyfall

Theatre

National Theatre of Scotland to stage The Wicker Man

British TV

Casting on Channel 4’s Hacks
More4 to switch to popular factual
Channel 4 Christmas press pack
Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss to star in Jane Campion/BBC2’s Top of the Lake
TCM acquires Hell on Wheels
Downton Abbey gets a third series
Channel 5+1 is coming

US TV

Full season orders for Once Upon A Time, Last Man Standing and Happy Endings; five more scripts for Pan Am
ABC Studios developing Nia Vardalos vehicle

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