Theatre

Doctor Who

• Producer Piers Wenger joins Film4

Film

• Zach Braff joins Oz: The Great & Powerful
• Trailer for I Don’t Know How She Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker
• Kiefer Sutherland’s web series The Confession to become a movie
• John Cho, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel join Total Recall

Theatre

• The Wire‘s Clarke Peters and Dominic West reunite for Othello

British TV

• BBC scraps multiplatform commissioners [subscription required]
• BBC4 budget at risk [subscription required]
• BBC1 commissions May Day, Anthony and Cleopatra, Savage, Inside Men and Restless
• BBC3 commissions Life Stories from Sharon Horgan, a second series of White Van Man, Eggbox and IED, acquires FX’s Wilfred

US TV

• Better With You‘s producers to develop My Formerly Hot Life
• Trailer for SyFy’s Alphas
• Trailer for VH1’s first scripted series, dramedy Single Ladies

Doctor Who/Theatre

• Arthur Darvill to play Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus at the Globe
• Clips from The Doctor’s Wife

Film

• Justified‘s Walter Goggins joins Officer Down
• Aaron Eckhart reunites with Neil LaBute for The Geography of Hope
• Catherine Hardwicke to direct The Bitch Posse
• Brendan Fraser to star in William Tell

British TV

• Peter Kosminsky making drama about Nelson Mandela’s early life
• Christopher Eccleston to star in The Fuse
• The Shadow Line gets 3m viewers

Canadian TV

• Endgame, XIII and King all getting disappointing ratings

US TV

• Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly to play murder suspect on Rizzoli & Isles
• William & Kate‘s Camilla Luddington to recur on Californication
• Charles S Dutton to star in Powers
• Nick at Nite working on Scott Baio sitcom
• CSI hits an all-time low in the ratings