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Film casting

Julia Stiles to play Frances Marion in The First
Jeremy Renner to star in Kill The Messenger
Mark Duplass joins Mercy and Parkland
Frank Langella joins Reykjavik

Trailers

Trailer for World War Z, with Brad Pitt
Trailer for Somebody Up There Likes Me, with Nick Offerman
Trailer for Superman Unbound

UK TV

SyFy acquires Defiance
S4C to adapt Theatr Genedlaethol dramas
Wednesday ratings: 1.4m watch Derek

US TV

Hulu acquires more Prisoners of War
Wednesday ratings: comedies hit series lows
Wednesday cable ratings: The Americans gets 3.22m viewers

US TV casting

Roseanne Barr to recur on The Office
Michaela McManus and David Cassidy to guest on CSI
Lily Rabe for American Horror Story – season 3

New US TV shows

Lifetime greenlights: Witches of East End
ABC greenlights: Syndicate adaptation Lucky 7
Teaser for A&E’s Bates Motel
Roseanne Barr developing Roseanne’s Nuts for NBC
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner developing All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go for HBO

New US TV casting

Ellen Muth to guest on Hannibal

New US TV show casting

John Goodman to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
Brenda Song to star in Fox’s Seth MacFarlane comedy

Thursday’s “Duncan Jones’ World of Warcraft, a final season for HIMYM and an ABC Sharon Horgan show” news

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Film

Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft

Film casting

Jessica Chastain joins Miss Julie
Tom Welling joins Parkland
Sam Worthington to star in Phillip Noyce’s For The Dogs

Trailers

Teaser for Iron Man 3 Superbowl trailer
Trailer for Alex Winter’s Downloaded

Theatre

National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations

UK TV

Two Christmas Mrs Brown’s Boys
S4C funding agreed

US TV

ABC acquires CTV’s Motive
A whole load of mini-series for ReelzChannel
How I Met Your Mother gets ninth, final season
Tuesday ratings: Fox up, NBC way down

US TV casting

Gerald McRaney to recur on Southland [minor spoilers]
Melinda Clarke to guest on Vegas [spoilers]
Kate Micucci to recur on The Big Bang Theory
Michael Urie to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

ABC greenlights: Middle Age Rage, Crazy Gene and Sharon Horgan’s Bad Management
Fox greenlights: Gang Related and Graham Yost’s Wild Blue

New US TV show casting

TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch cast in Silicon Valley
Merlin‘s Katie McGrath joins Dracula
Vincent Laresca to recur on Graceland

Wednesday’s “More Arrested Development, Weird Desk shelved and three modern day period dramas” news

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Film

Salt 2 gets a new writer

Film casting

Ray Liotta joins Uwe Boll’s Suddenly
Michael Shannon and Samantha Morton to star in John McNaughton’s The Harvest
Gillian Jacobs joins Walk of Shame

Trailers

New trailer for The Lone Ranger
New trailer for Man of Steel
Trailer for Welcome To The Punch with James McAvoy and Mark Strong

UK TV

Some Girls gets a second series
Sky 1 acquires Revolution
Morph returns online
S4C budget for the next two years

US TV

More episodes for Arrested Development
Sunday cable ratings: Homeland and Dexter still growing
Monday ratings: CBS wins for the first time this fall

US TV casting

Teen Wolf‘s Colton Haynes to recur on Arrow

New US TV shows

ABC shelves Weird Desk
ABC Family developing two Romeo and Juliet dramas
Lifetime developing modern day Pride and Prejudice Darcy’s Town
CBS buys single mum comedy from Chuck Lorre
Bravo developing Moguls
Discovery working on first scripted series, Klondike
AMC developing period comedy We Hate Paul Revere

New US TV show casting

James Cromwell to guest on Do No Harm

Friday’s “MacGyver cameo, CBS’s Stephen King adaptation and more original iPlayer content” news

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Films

Nick Hornby to adapt Wild for Reese Witherspoon

Film casting

Hailee Steinfeld joins McG thriller

UK TV

BBC1 and BBC2 factual quota abolished
Netflix picks up Chuck, Fringe and more
Katherine Kelly joins Fields of Blood
Call the Midwife‘s Christmas special and second series
Welsh government demands Pobol Y Cwm badgers episode be pulled
Doug Naylor writing new Red Dwarfs
BBC to add more original content to the iPlayer

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Richard Dean Anderson to guest on Don’t Trust The B—-
Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldblum to return to The League
Regina King to guest on Big Bang Theory
Richard Karn to guest on Last Man Standing
Diane Farr to recur on Private Practice

New US TV shows

ABC to remake BBC2’s Vexed [subscription required]
Fox to adapt Rubí, developing Slaty Fork
Cinemax developing Kingpin
CBS orders adaptation of Stephen King’s Under The Dome from Steven Spielberg
Wonder Woman to be (codenamed?) Iris?

Monday’s “Last Resort, Partners, 666 Park Avenue cancelled, Web Therapy renewed and ITV1 becomes ITV again” news

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Doctor Who

Details of the Christmas special
David Tennant back for anniversary special?

Film

Vincent D’Onofrio and Anton Yelchin to star in Broken Horses

Trailers

Trailer for The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson et al
Trailer for Now You See Me with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson et al
Trailer for Admission with Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen et al

Canadian TV

Five more episodes for Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV in major rebranding exercise, including renaming of ITV1 back to ITV
S4C now available throughout the UK on Virgin
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue cancelled
Partners cancelled
Showtime renews Web Therapy for third season
Elementary gets two more episodes, Vegas cut by one
Guys With Kids gets four more episodes
Hot in Cleveland to have a live episode
Thursday ratings: The CW down, Elementary up
Friday ratings: Malibu Country down 41% on first episode

US TV casting

True Blood‘s Janina Gavankar to recur on Arrow
Mykelti Williamson to recur on Touch
Rebecca Mader to guest on 30 Rock

New US TV shows

MTV acquires Blackwood series of books
Lifetime developing Paranormal Housewives

New US TV show casting

Eddie Izzard to guest on Hannibal

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