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Film

Work begins on Zoolander 2
David Goyer to write next Superman movie?
Yes, there is a sequel to Showgirls and here’s the trailer…
Warners planning movie about Emily Post and etiquette

British TV

Big Top axed
ITV1 to start making authored documentaries again [subscription required]
Sanjeev Bhaskar to star in 60s drama about immigrant doctor in Wales [subscription required]
STV working on mobile apps for news, streaming programmes

US TV

Pilot casting, including The Deep End‘s Ben Lawson on Freshmen
The Daily Show‘s (Canadian) correspondent Jason Jones to star in How To Be A Better American
Prime Suspect remake shelved over casting problems
A&E picks up Sugerloaf
Tom Blake Nelson joins Chaos
Les Moonves to stay with CBS until 2015 at least
Lost ratings back up
No sequel TV series to 2012 after all

Wednesday’s yet more Greek gods news

24 February 2010 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Film

Neighbours/Scrubs‘ Nicky Whelan joins Hall Pass
Scrubs‘ Donald Faison and 24/Buffy‘s Eric Balfour join Skyline
Andy Fickman to direct adaptation of The Undomestic Goddess?
Freida Pinto to play Phaedra, Henry Cavill to play Theseus in YA Greek myth movie, War of the Gods
Another trailer for The Karate Kid
Anna Faris and Jennifer Garner to star in The Batchelorette Party
Hailee Steinfeld joins the Coen Brothers’ True Grit

British TV

Bravo and Living join the Sky Player [subscription required]
Lost ratings drop to 559k
Married, Single, Other gets 6.22m

US TV

A Blues Brothers TV series?
ABC picks up Southern Discomfort
Pilots for Kurtwood Smith, Swoosie Kurtz, 24‘s Carlos Bernard and Past Life‘s Kelli Giddish
Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol to debut on The Secret Life of The American Teenager
Heroes/Alias/24‘s David Anders joins Vampire Diaries [spoilers]
Trailer for the next lot of Chuck episodes
Len Wiseman to direct Hawaii Five-O pilot?
Women deserting Lifetime

Tuesday’s wonderous boycott news

23 February 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Ian McShane to play the villain in Pirates 4?
Odeon boycotts Alice in Wonderland because of DVD window
Isla Fisher to star in Kiss & Tell
Stephen Chow to star with Jack Black and Anne Hathaway in Way of the Dragon remake?
Kevin James joins Vince Vaughn in Your Cheating Heart
David Tennant, Jason Isaacs and Thandie Newton to star in Retreat

British TV

iPlayer gets 120m views in January
Eurosport offers live iPhone streaming [subscription required]

US TV

Mucho, mucho pilot casting including Adam Arkin in Who Gets the Parents?, Leah Remini in It Takes a Village and Zeljko Ivanek in The Event
Archer gets a second season
Jim Belushi to star in Defenders
T:TSCC‘s Leven Rambin joins Scoundrels
Gil Bellows to guest on Smallville

The new Doctor Who trailer

22 February 2010 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Doesn’t have an air of “intended to be shown in 3D in cinemas” at all, does it?

Monday’s Shat says news

22 February 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

James Corden to guest star

Awards

Results of the Writers’ Guild Awards
Results of the Berlin Film Festival awards
Results of the BAFTAs

Film

Stephen Merchant joins Hall Pass

Theatre

Derek Jacobi to play Lear at the Donmar

British TV

Erica Jonge’s Fear of Flying to be adapted by ITV

US TV

Men in Trees‘ Jenny Bicks to showrun The Big C
Katee Sackhoff to star in ABC crime drama
Rachael Leigh Cook, Jere Burns and Lea Thompson all land pilots
Ugly Betty‘s Becki Newton to star in Love Bites
William Shatner to star in Shit My Dad Says
Bill Pullman joins Nathan vs Nurture
Greek gets a fourth season
Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid gets shelved
Past Life gets cancelled
Kristin Kreuk and Jack Carpenter to star in Hitched
Adam Rodriguez returning full-time to CSI: Miami
Will Arnett pilot close to getting a green light

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