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Film

Naomi Watts joins J Edgar

Theatre

Smack the Pony trio reunite on stage

British TV

Sky 3 to become Pick TV [subscription required]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood to get an ending in BBC adaptation
An Outcasts press pack

US TV

Fox orders Council of Dads and Family Album
Ratings: Being Human up, Skins down, Cape down a lot, Harry’s Law stable
NBC picks up Stephen Gaghan‘s SILA
ABC picks up Edgar Allan Poe detective series and Pan Am soap…
…as well as two comedies, Work It and Lost and Found
Oh FFS. McG to direct Wonder Woman pilot?

Tuesday’s lesbian rom-com news

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Film

Bon Jovi, Seth Meyers and Til Schweiger join New Year’s Eve

Theatre

Donna Air to star in The Watcher

British TV

New Being Human gets 1.3m

US TV

Fox picks up another comedy pilot
NBC picks up lesbian rom-com
CBS picks up The Doctor and Hail Mary
Spartacus prequel gives Starz record ratings
More pilot casting
Leonard Nimoy returning to Fringe?

Monday’s “YA Aaron Sorkin TV TV show” news

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Awards

The Producers Guild awards
The British Comedy awards

Film

Jeff Daniels and Piper Perabo join Looper
Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin join I Don’t Know How She Does It
‘War Machine’ Iron Man spin-off in development

Theatre

Sienna Miller to star in Terrence Rattigan’s Flare Path

British TV

Hattie gets 1.7m viewers
Lark Rise to Candleford gets the axe

US TV

Fox picks up CIA pilot with Ethan Hawke…
…as well as two comedies, Iceland and Tagged
NBC picks up Wonder Woman pilot, two weeks after passing on it…
…as well as a Steven Spielberg musical and a rom-com
Fairly Legal starts okay…
…while White Collar is down
Fringe fine on Friday
TNT looking at ways to extend The Closer
Aaron Sorkin‘s news show drama picked up by HBO
CBS picks up comedy Vince Uncensored…
…and ensemble cop show from Richard Price
Harry’s Law‘s Brittany Snow to play Sarah Chalke’s sister on Mad Love
Nathan Lane to return to Modern Family
My Name is Earl‘s Eddie Steeples to guest on Raising Hope
Vanessa Minnillo to guest on 30 Rock

Friday’s up in the sky news

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Film

New Scream 4 trailer
Clint Eastwood to direct remake of A Star is Born
24 movie to shoot this year

Theatre

Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon to star in The Painkiller

British TV

New Red Dwarf next year
Sky to double the amount it spends on original shows [subscription required]

US TV

AMC developing Man with the Golden Ears
Dawn Olivieri to star with Don Cheadle in House of Lies
General Hospital’s Annie Ilonzeh first of the new Charlie’s Angels
ABC picks up Canadian-UK-US co-production Combat Hospital
NBC gives Angela Bromstad the boot
Hot in Cleveland starts okay

Thursday’s “even remakes can become a Lethal Weapon” news

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Film

Robert Downey Jr leaves Oz
Warner Bros plans Lethal Weapon and Westworld remakes
Anne Hathaway to play Catwoman, Tom Hardy to play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises
Mike White drops out of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
New Red Riding Hood trailer

British TV

Jeremy Hunt plans national television channel
Civilisation to be remastered in HD

US TV

ABC orders pilot for The Last Days of Man
USA picks up A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
CBS wins Tuesday night ratings
NBC picks up Ronald D Moore’s ‘Harry Potter for adults’
Ricky Gervais to guest on next week’s Office as David Brent
Michael Clarke Duncan cast in Bones spin-off
Eric Balfour to guest on No Ordinary Family
Jonathan Banks to play Ed O’Neill’s brother on Modern Family
Sheila Kelley replaces Illeana Douglas on Gossip Girl

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