US TV

Film

• Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston to star in Pretend Wife?
• Taylor Lautner to play Max Steel

British TV

• The Beeb hires its first iPlayer scheduler [subscription required]

US TV

• Tim Minear to be showrunner on Terriers
• V and FlashForward get their episode counts cut by one
• Emilie Ullerup and Allison Mack to guest on web series Riese
• Dark Blue gets a second season
• Sunday’s Dexter gets best ever ratings for Showtime in 10 years
• Orla Brady to play Peter’s mother on Fringe
• SyFy’s Alice does okay in the ratings

Film

• InBetweeners movie being worked on
• Harold Perrineau joins Nicolas Cage and January Jones in Hungry Rabbit Jumps
• Philip Seymour Hoffman to star as ‘L Ron Hubbard’ alike in The Master
• Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester to star in Love Don’t Let Me Down
• Martin Campbell off The Birds

British TV

• Room at the Top, The Rainbow and Women in Love to be adapted by BBC4
• BT Vision to offer NBC shows on-demand
• Stephen K Amos gets his own BBC2 show
• BBC1 commissions a new series of Merlin
• Victoria Wood Christmas press pack
• BBCW to expand

US TV

• Tuesday ratings messed up by Obama speech
• Teaser trailer for web Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• HBO working on thriller Honest
• Sons of Anarchy gets a third season
• Casting on True Blood