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Character pics from Torchwood: Miracle Day

Film

Mary Lynn Rajskub joins Safety Not Guaranteed
Rob Lowe to star in Knife Fight
Robert de Niro, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried and Katherine Heigl sign up for Gently Down The Stream
Jack Black and Michael Winterbottom team up for Bailout

British TV

Taggart axed by ITV but might live on on STV

US TV

NBC picks up The Playboy Club, Awake (aka REM) and Grimm, turns down Wonder Woman, Mann’s World, 17th Precinct et al, renews Parenthood and Harry’s Law
Ashton Kutcher to replace Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men
The Chicago Code‘s Matt Lauria joins Burn Notice
SyFy prepping Warehouse 13 spin-off around Jaime Murray’s HG Wells
Breaking In might get un-cancelled
Aimee Garcia joins Dexter [spoilers]
Proper trailer for True Blood – season 4

Thursday’s “20 years in the remaking” news

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Doctor Who

Steven Moffat hates spoilers [vid]

Film

David Hasselhoff joins Piranha 3DD
Hugo Weaving and Ben Whishaw join Cloud Atlas
Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts and Christina Hendricks to star in boxing biopic
Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken join Seven Psychopaths

British TV

Channel 4 profits hit £40m
ITV product placement revenues “negligible” [subscription required]
Lynda La Plante developing pirates drama
ITV to develop ITV Player iPhone and Android app
Channel 4 picks up US remake of The Killing…
…Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror anthology series…
…and political drama Coup

US TV

NBC picks up Prime Suspect, Smash, Whitney and Up All Night
Mos Def joins Dexter
Shawn Ryan working on Nickel for FX
Hugh Grant nearly replaces Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men

The most frakking awesome Battlestar Galactica picture ever

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Starbuck with Starbuck in Starbucks.

Thanks to Consumerist and TV and Satellite Week

Wednesday’s “Fox upfronts” news

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Film

Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu join Sleight of Hand
Woody Harrelson joins Hunger Games
Ethan Hawke joins Total Recall
Rachel Weisz to join The Bourne Legacy?
Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean join detective fiction version of Peter Pan story
Hugo Weaving confirmed for The Hobbit
Hugh Jackman versus robots in a trailer for Real Steel

British TV

Sky1 HD picks up spy comedy series Spy starring Darren Boyd and Robert Lindsey
S4C launches bilingual iPhone catch-up app for Clic
A second (and possible third) series for Mad Dogs
Laurence Fox joins Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me

US TV

Fox picks up JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz, Bones spinoff The Finder, Zooey Deschanel’s The New Girl and Jaime Pressly’s I Hate My Teenage Daughter, cancels Breaking In, The Chicago Code, Traffic Light, Human Target and Lie To Me
Game of Thrones ratings still on the rise
House gets an eighth (and final?) season
Chuck and CBS shows hit lows in the ratings
David Hasselhoff working on Equalizer-esque show
Lance Reddick to guest on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Tuesday’s “After The Thin Man Return” news

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Film

Amber Heard to star in adaptation of Max Barry’s Syrup
Stanley Tucci joins The Hunger Games
Rob Marshall to direct, Johnny Depp to star in The Thin Man remake
Michael Cera to appear in Magic, Magic

British TV

Huw Jones preferred candidate for S4C chairmanship
Atlantis gets 5m viewers
Modern Family and The Middle do well for Sky
Joe Gilgun joins Misfits

US TV

Family Guy and The Cleveland Show renewed
The Finder to help Bones deal with pregnancy?
Taylor Momsen and Jessica Szohr not returning as Gossip Girl regulars
Nestor Carbonell to guest on Wilfred
Colin Hanks joins Dexter
Adrian Pasdar, Bryan Batt to guest on L&O:CI
Adam Arkin to guest on The Closer

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The most frakking awesome Battlestar Galactica picture ever

Wednesday’s “Fox upfronts” news

Tuesday’s “After The Thin Man Return” news

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