Theatre

Comedy Central orders retired special ops soldier pilot
FX cancels Lights Out
Xzibit joins Weekends at Bellevue
Fringe gets a fourth season
Knight Rider‘s Justin Bruening to play Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman + more pilot casting
Natasha Henstridge to guest on CSI: Miami
AMC developing first-contact drama
Smith Cho to star in Lovelives
DB Sweeney to guest on Castle
Kaitlin Doubleday replaces Leven Rambin on Hung
Michael Trucco to recur on How I Met Your Mother
Showtime adapting comic Chew

Thursday’s “Titans really will clash” news

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Doctor Who

Torchwood to premiere in US on July 8
Teasers for the new series

Film

Trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger (with Richard Armitage!)
Bill Nighy to play Hephaestus in Clash of the Titans sequel (which will feature actual Titans this time)
Teaser for Mr Popper’s Penguins (which will feature actual penguins)

Theatre

Lenny Henry to star in The Comedy of Errors

British TV

The cost of BBC soap operas, including £10.1m for Pobol y Cwm

US TV

Anthony Head to reprise role in remake of Free Agents
Eliza Dushku joins Damon Wayans in CBS comedy
Zach Galifianakis signs HBO first-look deal
Outsourced‘s Ben Rappaport gets a new job
Tea Leoni‘s Spring/Fall gets the green light from HBO
Chris Vance to recur on Rizzoli & Isles
Futurama gets a seventh season
First look at SyFy’s Alphas

Wednesday’s “250 CSI episodes” news

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Film

Alan Rickman joins Gambit
Dune rights expire

Radio

Radio 3’s Wuthering Heights to feature swearing

Theatre

Natalie Casey replaces Denise Van Outen on Legally Blonde
Christopher Eccleston and Tamsin Greig to star in In The Beginning at Westminster Abbey

Books

New Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books to be written

British TV

Overnight BBC programmes to be cut?
Spartacus gets 482,000 viewers
Monday night ratings

US TV

S Epatha Merkerson joins pilot
TNT passes on Bird Dog and The Rabbit Factory
Southland gets a fourth season, Perception is picked up
Judd Hirsch joins Damages
No more Mad Men until 2012 at the earliest?
Perfect Couples pulled, replaced with The Paul Reiser Show

Wednesday’s “inappropriately high bid” news

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The Daily News will return on Monday

Film

David Spade to direct Daredevil sequel
Alec Baldwin drops out of Men in Black III
Christina Hendricks joins Seconds of Pleasure
Sundance Festival expands to London
Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Deborah Kara Unger return for Silent Hill sequel
Michael Ealy joins Underworld: New Dawn
Trailer for Bridesmaids
Drew Barrymore to direct How To Be Single

Theatre

Richard Schiff joins Tom Conti in SMASH!

British TV

Jed Mercurio to make BBC2 police drama
BBC Daytime commissions legal drama The Case

US TV

Netflix outbids HBO to get 26 episodes of House of Cards
Starz developing The Brink with Gore Verbinski
Frances Conroy joins Bad Mom
Sandman TV series continuing without Eric Kripke
Madeleine Stowe, David James Elliott and Robert Knepper join pilots + other casting
Trailer for season 2 of Treme

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