Film
- Doug Liman to direct film about Attica uprising
- Al Pacino to replace Robert De Niro on Son of No One
- BBC making a movie about Seb Coe and Steve Ovett
- Jeffrey Wright joins Duncan Jones’ Source Code
- Gwyneth Paltrow joins Contagion
Theatre
- Joanna Lumley, David Hyde Pierece and Mark Rylance to star in La Bête
British TV
- BBC to launch mobile phone apps
- Merlin gets an iPhone app…
- …as does Freeview
- One-stop video on demand service SeeSaw launches with BBC, C4 and Five content
US TV
- Pilot casting, including Scrubs’ Donald Faison on The Odds
- Steven Spielberg’s Nine Lives moves from SyFy to NBC after four years in limbo
- History Channel to make its own version of Top Gear?
- Better Off Ted‘s Jay Harrington joins Nathan vs Nurture
- Courtney Thorne-Smith to recur on Two and a Half Men
- The CW goes action with Nomads from Numb3rs producer Ken Sanzel
- NBC picks up Friends… with Benefits
- More pilot casting, including Primeval‘s James Murray on Chaos
- Eugene Levy joins Hitched
- Poppy Montgomery and Marc Blucas join True Blood
- Taryn Manning joins Hawaii Five-O
- Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and Supernatural get renewed
- Lost ratings down to 9.8m
- 24 hits series low
- Paul Blackthorne to recur on CSI: Miami
- Elisabetta Canalis to recur on Leverage