Banshee

Doctor Who

• The Power of Three gets 5.49m viewers
• A Town Called Mercy ends up with 8.42m viewers

Film

• Matt Bomer, Lucy Griffiths and Eva Marie Saint join Winter’s Tale
• Allen Hughes to direct remake of A Bittersweet Life

Trailers

• TV spot for Cloud Atlas
• International trailer for Life of Pi
• Trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land with Matt Damon
• Trailer for Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, with Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver
• Trailer for The Details with Tobey Maguire
• Trailer for Winnie with Jennifer Hudson
• Trailer for Tai Chi Zero

Theatre

• Helen Mirren to play the Queen again in The Audience
• Scarlett Johansson to play Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

UK TV

• Hugh Bonneville to star in Mr Stink
• Channel 4 lines up sequel to The Devil’s Whore

US TV

• Treme to finish with abbreviated fourth season
• Army Wives gets a seventh season

US TV casting

• Giancarlo Esposito to return to Community
• Anthony Michael Hall to guest on Psych
• Matthew Broderick to guest on Modern Family
• Dean Norris to guest on Whitney

New US TV shows

• CBS buys Friends With Better Lives
• Alfonso Cuarón and JJ Abrams team up for NBC superpowers drama
• Zooey Deschanel to produce Fox comedy Must Be Nice
• Ben Stiller sells two comedies to ABC
• The CW buys District 9-like alien drama
• Ted trio sell dad comedy to Fox
• CBS buys Intelligence
• ABC greenlights Super Fun Night
• Ronald D Moore adapting A Knight’s Tale
• Guillermo del Toro working on HBO drama based on Nutshell Studies

New US TV show casting

• No Lizzy Caplan for SHIELD series
• Anastasia Griffith joins Banshee
• JoBeth Williams joins Mistresses