Welsh TV

BARB to measure online viewing [subscription required]
S4C loses nearly £7m in 2010 [subscription required]
Miranda Richardson, Cynthia Nixon, Peter Firth and Ben Chaplin to star in Pillars of the Earth sequel, World Without End
Campus cancelled

US TV

Matt Lauer to guest on Royal Pains
Better With You‘s Jennifer Finnigan to star in USA pilot Wild Card
True Blood‘s Joe Manganiello to guest on White Collar
Valerie Harper to guest on Drop Dead Diva
Felicia Day to guest on Eureka
BBC America acquires Channel 4’s Free Agents
Hulk TV show still going ahead
Slumdog Millionaire‘s Dev Patel joins Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series

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Film

Kate Nash joining Syrup?
Emma Stone to star in Pride and Prejudice and and Zombies
Alex Tse to write The Crow reinvention for Bradley Cooper
Idris Elba joins Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Max Landis to write Frankenstein
Warren Beatty to play Howard Hughes
Jean-Claude Van Damme to star in Six Bullets
No Hellboy 3

Art

Van Gogh self-portrait actually of his brother

Theater

Angela Bassett to star opposite Samuel L Jackson in The Mountaintop

British TV

Stephen Poliakoff to write and direct BBC2 drama
BBC2 summer and autumn season showreel and press pack
iPlayer added to BT Vision
Armando Iannucci joins Baby Cow
S4C cuts 29 jobs
Lewis gets a sixth series
Taggart producer adapting The Poison Tree for ITV1 [subscription required]

US TV

HBO acquires BBC2’s Life’s Too Short

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