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Doctor Who

David Tennant’s Hamlet coming to BBC2

Film

Paul Verhoeven to develop and direct The Surrogate
Chevy Chase joins Hot Tub Time Machine
Warner Bros picks up Trans Am
Alan Cumming to play the villain in Escape to Donegal
Bad Lieutenant trailer
Pandorum trailer

Theatre

Daniela Nardini and Gary Milner join A Streetcar Named Desire

British TV

Timothy Spall joins Caroline Aherne drama about an obese man
Sky Player coming to the Xbox 360
Cranford returns at Christmas
Apprentice final moved to Sunday 7 June

US TV

Mass pilot exodus: Rupert Penry-Jones and Reiko Aylesworth leave The Forgotten; Louise Lombard leaves NCIS: Los Angeles; Julia Ormond leaves Three Rivers; Richard Coyle leaves Miami Trauma; plus supporting cast changes on The Good Wife and 100 Questions
Stargate: Atlantis and BSG cast to guest on Warehouse 13

Thursday’s tortuous Freddy news

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Doctor Who

Specials to air on BBC America
BBC Films confirms work has started on a Who movie

Film

Alien to be remade?
Anchorman 2 close to happening
Granada America becoming ITV Studios
Seann William Scott and Adrian Brody join Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks
Clip from Steve Coogan’s What Goes Up
Tom Cruise to star as secret agent in Wichita?

British TV

More feasts for Heston
ITV looking for digital partner to help make Primeval
Press pack for BBC3’s PA drama Personal Affairs

US TV

Freddie Prinze Jr to be a regular on 24
BBC to launch a kids channel
John Lithgow joins Dexter
Summer Glau to appear in Dollhouse [spoilers]

Wednesday’s low-key news

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Theatre

Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams to star in Chicago

British TV

Reggie Perrin ratings on the rise
Alan Davies playing celebrity chef in BBC2 pilot
Sky Arts to broadcast live plays

US TV

Casting on 24
Fox passes on My Name is Earl

Tuesday’s Whedon-free Buffy news

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Doctor Who

Details of DT’s appearance in The Sarah Jane Adventures [minor spoilers]
New animated Who on the way, featuring DT and Georgia Moffett
Regeneration will be complicated [minor spoilers]

Film

Disney to remake Flight of the Navigator
Three clips from Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Buffy remake planned without Joss Whedon
Daredevil reboot planned?
Alan Partridge: the movie?

British TV

Five acquires Breaking Bad
Charles Dance and Adrian Lester among guest stars for season two of Merlin
Five goes poaching commissioners from Sky
Paul Darrow joins Emmerdale

Canadian TV

What Canadian networks have acquired at the upfronts

US TV

Fox wins the 18-49 demographic fifth season running
USA’s Lindsay Sloane takes over drama development at Fox

The CW shows coming in Fall 2009

22 May 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Last one of the upfronts, it’s The CW, natural home of entertainment for young adults, particularly young women, and spin-offs from old trashy TV shows of the 80s.

Coming after the jump, complete with vids, Melrose Place, The Vampire Diaries and The Beautiful Life.

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