Welsh TV

News

Film

Kaley Cuoco joins I Hop
Anna Faris to star in Private Benjamin remake
Stephen Dorff joins War of the Gods
Navy SEALs go to Atlantis

Theater

Patrick Stewart to star in A Life in the Theater

British TV

ITV to replace The Bill with medical drama ‘as intense as House‘
MPs attack BBC over pay and cast of BBC3
S4C to launch HD channel [subscription required]
UK TV advertising set to recover

US TV

Robert Popper to write for South Park [subscription required]
Pilot casting including Ryan Hansen on Friends with Benefits and Orlando Jones on Tax Man
Castle gets a third season…
…while getting a series high in the ratings
Spartacus sets a new ratings record
Matt Damon to guest star on 30 Rock

Thursday’s J Lo HIMYM news

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Film

Nicholas Hoult joins the new Mad Max movie
Mel Gibson and Shane Black to reunite on Cold Warrior?
Zac Efron to star in adaptation of graphic novel Fire
Warner Bros to buy Leavesden studios

British TV

Shameless gets 3.4m viewers
BBC3’s Lunch Monkeys gets a second series
S4C viewers get to name HD channel

US TV

More pilot pick-ups
J Lo to guest on HIMYM
Ron Howard’s IRS series gets a green light
Huge and Pretty Little Liars get 10 episodes each
ABC cancels Ugly Betty
The CW commissions a new version of La Femme Nikita and a family drama from the Gilmore Girls creators
Someone’s leaving NCIS: LA [spoilers]
David Fincher and Charlize Theron working on Mind Hunter for HBO
Robert Englund to guest on Bones
Conan sells another pilot to NBC

Wednesday’s “hello to Jason Isaacs” news

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Film

Guy Ritchie pulling out of Lobo for Sherlock Holmes 2?

British TV

BBC4 to have a maps season
S4C to launch digital children’s service

US TV

ABC greenlights crime drama
The top names of the TV pilot season: Julianne Moore, Maria Bello, Christina Applegate, Matt Dillon and Jason Isaacs
CBS picks up dramas and comedy from HIMYM creators and Brett Ratner
Castle gets all-time high, Heroes picks up, 24 continues to drop in the ratings…
…and Damages starts badly for season 3
Who’s coming and going at Brothers and Sisters? [spoilers]
House spin-off still on?
Supernatural to have a Ghostfacers web series spin-off
Conan O’Brien’s production company sells a pilot to NBC
Vampire Diaries-Gossip Girl crossover?
Apple trying to cut iTunes prices for SD episodes to $0.99
Caprica starts poorly in the ratings

Friday’s Mamma Mia! BBC3 news

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Doctor Who

Matt Smith’s Doctor to be ‘less tolerant’

Films

Maggie Grace joins Faster
Trailer for Repo Men with Jude Law and Liev Schreiber
An Avatar sequel?
Green Lantern to begin production in March

British TV

Sky Arts to create a Play for Today successor
BBC3 winter/spring season details including…
…a second season of pilots to find next Being Human [registration required]…
…Simon Brodkin’s new show…
…a drama from the writer of Mamma Mia!, Catherine Johnson
Above Suspicion finishes on 6.85m
S4C should be shut down?
S4C’s football show Sgorio gets zero viewers

US TV

Laura Linney’s The Big C gets a greenlight
The Middle hits a series high in the ratings
TBS orders Uncle Nigel pilot from Monk creator

Rhod Gilbert defends his adverts for Wales

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It is true that it does occasionally rain in Cardiff.

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