Theatre

Doctor Who

• Lawry Lewin gets role in Christmas specials

Film

• Jack Nicholson to play Paul Rudd’s dad instead of Bill Murray?
• Stretch Armstrong: the movie
• Kurt Wimmer to write Total Recall remake script
• Emile Hirsch to star in modern day version of Hamlet
• Paul Haggis to remake Pour Elle as The Next Three Days
• Robert Luketic to direct Barbarella remake?
• Brian Blessed joining cast of Thor?

Theatre

• Sanaa Lathan joins James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester in all-black cast of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

British TV

• jPod coming to Virgin Media
• BBC1 boss rules out US acquisitions
• Government to fund a food show
• Welsh language actors to get pay cut?
• BBC pissed with S4C after Ofcom submissions

Canadian TV

• CTV picks up Vampire Diaries
• CBC to be sold off?

US TV

• Tim Kring lets everyone know the set-up for Heroes next season [lots of minor spoilers]
• Californication‘s Madeline Zima joins Heroes
• Gregg Henry joins Hung, Courtney Ford joins Dexter
• USA to pick up pilot for spy thriller Covert Affairs?
• Hannah Montana gets a fourth season
• Images from Virtuality
• Important Things with Demitri Martin gets a second season
• Zac Efron cameos in Entourage