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Doctor Who

Torchwood to premiere in UK on July 14th

Film

New trailer for The Immortals
Carey Mulligan to star in Outback
Scarlett Johansson to star in – and sing in – Can A Song Save Your Life?
Tobey Maguire out of The Paperboy, Nicole Kidman in?
Xerxes becomes 300: Battle of Artemisia

Theatre

Alistair McGowan to replace Rupert Everett in Pygmalion
Sharon Gless to star in A Round-heeled Woman

Canadian TV

Ed Asner to recur on Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays

US TV

Michelle Trachtenberg to guest on Weeds
Ed Begley Jr to guest on Rizzoli & Isles
HBO to make pilot based on The Big Girls
Tom Sizemore to recur on Hawaii Five-0
Trailer for season 2 of Boardwalk Empire
Falling Skies ratings drop 29% for episode 2

Thursday’s “wrong Gogh” news

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Film

Kate Nash joining Syrup?
Emma Stone to star in Pride and Prejudice and and Zombies
Alex Tse to write The Crow reinvention for Bradley Cooper
Idris Elba joins Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Max Landis to write Frankenstein
Warren Beatty to play Howard Hughes
Jean-Claude Van Damme to star in Six Bullets
No Hellboy 3

Art

Van Gogh self-portrait actually of his brother

Theater

Angela Bassett to star opposite Samuel L Jackson in The Mountaintop

British TV

Stephen Poliakoff to write and direct BBC2 drama
BBC2 summer and autumn season showreel and press pack
iPlayer added to BT Vision
Armando Iannucci joins Baby Cow
S4C cuts 29 jobs
Lewis gets a sixth series
Taggart producer adapting The Poison Tree for ITV1 [subscription required]

US TV

HBO acquires BBC2’s Life’s Too Short

Tuesday’s “censorious mormons” news

14 June 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Brotherhood/The Chicago Code‘s Jason Clarke joins The Great Gatsby
The Killing‘s Joel Kinnaman, Debra Winger and Bill Pullman join Lola Versus

Theatre

Meera Syal joins The Killing of Sister George

British TV

BBC TV Centre up for sale
Channel 5 lifts Northern & Shell profits

Canadian TV

Fans determined to save Endgame

US TV

Cheech Marin joins Rob Schneider comedy
AMC renews The Killing for a second season
Utah NBC affiliate refuses to show The Playboy Club
Trailer for MTV’s Awkward
Hulu acquires Misfits, Whites and The Booth At The End

Monday’s I, Claudius, You, Claudius, We, Claudius news

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Doctor Who

Punchdrunk to make The Crash of the Elysium theatre show

Film

James Badge Dale joins World War Z

Theatre and Books

David Mamet accuses British writers of antisemitism
Marc Warren to star in Cool Hand Luke

British TV

Adam Curtis to make Wire-inspired documentary series
Sky Anywhere renamed Sky Go [subscription required]
BBC2 and HBO to make I, Claudius mini-series

US TV

HBO to make six season American Gods
CSI franchise most watched series in world again
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in Touch
Julie Benz to play lesbian farmer in Royal Pains
Jeri Ryan, Kate Mulgrew, Rene Auberjonois, Lindsay Wagner and Alessandra Torresani all to guest on Warehouse 13
Community launches an Emmy site

Monday’s I, Claudius, You, Claudius, We, Claudius news

13 June 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Punchdrunk to make The Crash of the Elysium theatre show

Film

James Badge Dale joins World War Z

Theatre and Books

David Mamet accuses British writers of antisemitism
Marc Warren to star in Cool Hand Luke

British TV

Adam Curtis to make Wire-inspired documentary series
Sky Anywhere renamed Sky Go [subscription required]
BBC2 and HBO to make I, Claudius mini-series

US TV

HBO to make six season American Gods
CSI franchise most watched series in world again
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in Touch
Julie Benz to play lesbian farmer in Royal Pains
Jeri Ryan, Kate Mulgrew, Rene Auberjonois, Lindsay Wagner and Alessandra Torresani all to guest on Warehouse 13
Community launches an Emmy site

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