Thursday’s “The Office spin-off, White Van Man’s green light, CBS’s Widow Detective and Alan Ball’s Banshee” news

Film

Radio

British TV

  • Netflix acquires Freemantle UK content
  • Channel 4 to invest £450m in local production, reduce US acquisitions again…
  • …reports first annual loss in over a decade

US TV

Wednesday’s “Beauty and the Beast pilot, A Very British Coup remake and a Homeland walkthrough” news

Film

British TV

  • Gabriel Byrne to star in Channel 4 remake of A Very British Coup

US TV

  • Season 7 of 30 Rock could be a mini-season
  • Tia Carrere to guest on In Plain Sight
  • Fox picks up Bill Lawrence’s Like Father
  • The CW picks up medical drama pilot First Cut
  • ABC orders pilot of Beauty and the Beast remake
  • Monday ratings: House stays on top, Alcatraz down just 9%
  • Alex Gansa walks us through the development of and first season of Homeland

Tuesday’s “Young Leonardo Da Vinci’s Demons, US Friday Night Dinner, RTD’s Aliens Vs Wizards and more Call The Midwife” news

Theatre

British TV

US TV

  • Lost in Austen‘s Tom Riley cast as young Leonardo in Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons
  • Kristin Chenoweth to visit Hot in Cleveland
  • CBS greenlights Greg Berlanti’s cop show Golden Boy
  • Ben Stiller to star in and direct HBO’s All Talk by Jonathan Safran
  • NBC picks up eight comedy pilots, including Friday Night Dinner
  • Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire and Jason Katims’ County, starring Jason Ritter

Monday’s “666 Park Ave., Chuck up and a Grimm newbie” news

Film

Theatre

  • Jodie Prenger and Primeval‘s Hannah Spearitt join One Man, Two Guvnors

British TV

Canadian TV

US TV