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Film

MacGyver creator threatens to sue MacGruber
Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones to star in Dragon Fire
Hugh Jackman joins Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Asterix in Britain to be adapted

Theatre

Billy Bragg to star in a stage show

British TV

Getting On gets a second series
Scarlet TV goes into administration [subscription required]
Trevor Eve highest paid TV actor

US TV

Russell Mulcahy to direct Teen Wolf pilot
Zooey Deschanel to star in HBO pilot I’m With The Band
Entourage team developing political drama for HBO
Heroes ratings up a bit again
More pilot casting
Virginia Madsen to star in ABC’s Scoundrels
The CW picks up three pilots, including shows produced by Tom Welling and Hayden Panettierre

Friday’s “Cambridge-educated British special forces mercenary” news

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Theatre

Lee Mead joins Wicked
Hairspray to close at the Shaftesbury

British TV

Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier appointed ITV chief executive
Mad Men gets 370,000 viewers

US TV

TNT working on animated version of David Spade’s Joe Dirt
TBS picks up Glory Daze
Chuck‘s Tony Hale and Eli Stone‘s Matt Letscher join Danny Wallace’s Awkward Situations for Men, plus casting on Criminal Minds spin-off and 187 Detroit
Maria Bello teams up with Simon Beaufoy and Russell Crowe for HBO’s Emergency Sex
NBC picks up The Cape and Outsourced
Heroes‘ Leonard Roberts joins Castle [spoilers]
Worst pilot season in a decade for women
Steve Carell wants to be Del Boy in US Only Fools and Horses?

Friday’s Dragons’ Den/Hustle crossover news

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Film

Tom Wilkinson and Isla Fisher join Burke & Hare
Stargate Atlantis‘s Jason Momoa to play Conan, Mickey Rourke to play his dad
New trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine
Sam Jackson and Josh Duhamel sign up for Sympathy for the Devil
Robert Pattinson joins Reese Witherspoon in Water For Elephants

Theatre

Danny Boyle to direct Frankenstein at the National Theatre

British TV

All-star cast for second series of Moving On, including John Simm and Roy Marsden, with Dominic West directing an episode
BSkyB forced to sell most of its stake in ITV [subscription required]
BBC Wales tries to attract indies to its new drama hub [subscription required]
Fiver picks up Melrose Place, Archer and Burn Notice
What everyone’s been waiting for: the Dragons’ Den/Hustle crossover [spoilers]
The InBetweeners to end after series three?
More4 picks up The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
BBC to work on iPhone, Wii et al games for Top Gear and Doctor Who?

US TV

Someone’s leaving Brothers and Sisters [spoilers]
ABC picks up Matadors and True Blue
TNT picks up all three of its pilots
Robot Chicken gets two more seasons

Thursday’s pick up news

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Awards

The results of the National Television Awards

Film

Sony picks up movie rights to sci-fi novels by Jeff Somers
Trailer for Ryan Reynolds in Buried
Clive Owen to replace Paul Walker on Protection
Peter Dinklage joins The Knights of Badassdom
Andy Serkis replaces David Tennant on Burke and Hare

Theatre

Young Sherlock Holmes‘ Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox to reunite on stage

British TV

BBC head of drama in Northern Ireland steps down
Online viewing continues to rise [subscription required]
BBC2 and BBC4 avoid merger, but more sport on BBC3?

US TV

Mädchen Amick joins CSI: NY as a recurring character
Carter MacIntyre joins Undercovers
NBC asks for even more episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Trauma, Community, and Parks & Recreation to fill Leno-shaped hole in schedules
ABC picks up Cutthroat, Generation Y and The Whole Truth
AMC picks up Walking Dead and The Killing
Michael McKean to return to Smallville [spoilers]
Grey’s Anatomy flashback to feature Sarah Paulson and J August Richards
Gene Roddenberry’s The Questor Tapes to be remade
CNN to expand into entertainment programming

Monday’s NBC bomb drop news

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Film

The A-Team teaser trailer
Gossip Girl‘s Blake Lively to co-star in Green Lantern
Another trailer for Kick Ass
Trailer for From Paris With Love
Remakes of Robocop and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes shelved
John Malkovich joins Red

Theatre

Jeremy Irons returning to the RSC for The Gods Weep

US TV

Jeremy Irons to star in The Borgias
Maz Jobrani to star in Funny in Farsi
Day One cut back to a two-hour movie
NBC greenlights six drama pilots…
…considers Law and Order: Los Angeles…
…after moving Jay Leno from primetime…
…but what’s going to happen to Heroes, Chuck, Trauma, Mercy et al?
ABC greenlights Scoundrels based on NZ series Outrageous Fortune
CBS cancels Three Rivers
A sixth season for Supernatural?
…and a tenth for Smallville?
Someone’s coming back to Chuck [spoilers]
Dana Carvey to develop and star in new Fox comedy show
Alexis Denisof discusses his supernatural pilot for ABC/ABC Family
Moonlight to return?

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