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British TV

More4 to only show global edition of The Daily Show from next month
The Apprentice final watched by 8.3m viewers
Product placement to start in February
STV Player joins PlayStation 3

US TV

Tracy Morgan to miss several episodes of 30 Rock
Ira Steven Behr to run Alphas
Teaser for Off the Map

Monday’s Chinese crimefighter news

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Film

Trailer for Paul with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn and Seth Meyers join adaptation of I Don’t Know How She Does It

Theatre

Susan McFadden to replace Sheridan Smith on Legally Blonde

British TV

Misfits gets a third series [subscription required]
Press pack for Episodes
Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain to write Fresh Meat

US TV

Brian Austin Green and Harold Perrineau joins TBS’s Wedding Band, The InBetweeners gets a female lead
ABC greenlights Shonda Rhimes pilot about crisis management
Casting and series promotions
John Corbett joins Parenthood
Matt Dillon to guest on Modern Family
Illeana Douglas joins The Cape
Will Smith working on Chinese crimefighter series
Rita Wilson and F Murray Abraham to guest on The Good Wife

Friday’s “America’s Erica” news

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who iPhone game released

Film

Teri Polo and Dermot Mulroney join Beyond
Proper trailer for Limitless
George Clooney joins Gravity
17 minutes of cut 2001 footage found
Alex Cox is back with Repo Chick

British TV

ITV relocating from Manchester to Salford [subscription required]
ITV2’s Zai Bennett to head up BBC3
Two more series for Peep Show?

US TV

Stargate Universe cancelled
Dexter to get a new showrunner
Jack Huston to be a regular on Boardwalk Empire
Casting on Eden and Locke & Key
ABC to remake Being Erica, Erin Karpluk reacts
Leven Rambin joins CSI: Miami
No second season for Good Guys

Christian Bale sings the Power Puff Girls theme song

16 December 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg are out promoting The Fighter at the moment, so are doing lots of interviews. Here, though, one intrepid interviewer manages to get Christian Bale to sing a song of his choosing.

I’m not sure what’s more surprising: that he chose to sing the theme tune to The Power Puff Girls or that that dodgy accent he uses in The Prestige is actually his real accent.

Thursday’s “Sexy Evil Genius” news

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Doctor Who

Four clips from the Christmas special
Bill Pullman (!) joins Torchwood

Film

Trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
Trailer for Water for Elephants with Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz
Katee Sackhoff to play Sexy Evil Genius
Trailer for Take Me Home Tonight with Topher Grace
Syfy Films launched
Sarah Jessica Parker joins New Year’s Eve

Books

Gene Hunt books to reveal what happens between Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes

British TV

ITV1+1 to launch in January [subscription required]
ITV plans Primeval webisodes
Pompeii doc gets 3m viewers

US TV

AMC picks up Hell on Wheels
Marc Cherry working on Hallelujah
CBS and Jessica Alba to turn Twitter feed into half-hour sitcom The Mother of All Something

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