Theatre

Doctor Who

• Surprise return by someone for final special (spoiler alert)
• Invent aliens and film them for John Barrowman’s talent show

Film

• Alex Proyas talks about The Tripods
• Coen brothers to remake True Grit
• The IT Crowd‘s Chris O’Dowd to be villain in Gulliver’s Travels
• No, it’s not a time paradox: Warren Beatty sued over Dick Tracy
• Terminator Salvation ending completely changed after plot leaks
• Giovanni Ribisi joins The Rum Diary

Theatre

• Judi Dench pulls out of Madame de Sade

British TV

• ITV1 goes mental with Primeval Web 2.0 promos
• Red Riding ends with 1.7m viewers
• SciFi acquires Knight Rider and Dollhouse
• Gordon Ramsay to travel round India, become vegetarian for Gordon’s Great Escape
• BBC to increase web spending

US TV

• Lost‘s Elizabeth Mitchell signs up for V
• Heroes‘ Bryan Fuller wants to remake Star Trek
• BSG‘s Mary McDonnell guesting on The Closer
• Clip from SciFi’s forthcoming Warehouse 13
• United States of Tara showrunner leaves
• Julia Ormond and Jeffrey Tambor among pilot castings…
• …as are Holt McCallany…
• …Christine Baranski and Chris Noth
• BSG ends with 2.4m viewers
• Roseanne Barr returning to primetime?
• Lost ratings dropping
• SciFi orders three mini-series, including updates of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom, as well as an adaptation of the Riverworld series
• Hilary Duff to appear on Law and Order: SVU