Burn Notice

Absolutely‘s Jack Docherty to parody cop shows in Scot Squad
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie working on a secret project together
Channel 4 commissions Utopia, Complicit, The Fear, My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary, Run, and Here and There, and second series of Fresh Meat and Top Boy…
…to spend £455m on UK commissions, despite £42.3m loss on main channel

US TV

Richard Burgi to guest on Burn Notice, Gloria Votsis to return to White Collar
Oh wait. Season seven will be the last for 30 Rock
Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker to recur on Glee
Sunday ratings: Desperate Housewives finishes with 11.1m

US TV pilots

NBC picks up Crossbones
1600 Penn and Ben and Kate land new showrunners
HBO developing 80s Wall Street comedy with Rob Riggle

Wednesday’s “Ray Stevenson joins Dexter, and Wild At Heart and Young James Herriot axed” news

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Doctor Who

John Simm won’t be returning

Film

Charlotte Gainsbourg joins Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Ben Kingsley and John Malkovich to star in Cut Bank
Owen Wilson to star in The Coup

Trailers

Trailer for Pixar’s Brave
Trailer for Lawless with Tom Hardy, Gary OIdman, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain

UK TV

Wild At Heart axed
Young James Herriot axed

US TV

The Lying Game gets a second season
Ray Stevenson joins Dexter
SyFy announces 28 projects, including adaptions of Charlaine Harris and Strephen King novels
Burn Notice – season 6 teaser trailer
Gossip Girl‘s Josh Safran to be Smash‘s new showrunner
Sunday HBO ratings: Veep gets 1.7m viewers, Girls and Game of Thrones steady
Monday ratings: House up

Tuesday’s “Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope renewed, a Frasier reunion and Community hits low” news

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Film

Another clip from The Avengers
Gemma Arterton to star in Wright Girls
X-Men: First Class sequel to shoot in January
Joseph Gordon-Levitt leaves Django Unchained
Community‘s Ken Jeong joins Pain and Gain
BSkyB to invest in British TV movies

Trailers

Trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg
Trailer for Oliver Stone’s Savages

UK TV

A fifth series for Horrible Histories
The Fades axed
Saturday ratings: The Voice up to 10m

US TV

Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope all renewed
ReelzChannel acquires XIII
Breaking Bad final season to be split in two
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd to guest on Happily Divorced
Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin to play Ted Danson’s wife on CSI
Jimmy Smits joins Sons of Anarchy
A returning Burn Notice character [minor spoilers]
Thursday ratings: Community down 24% to series low
Friday cable ratings: Magic City starts badly
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: everything’s steady

US TV pilots

Bent‘s David Walton joins Bryan Greenberg comedy
John Amos and My Name is Earl‘s Ethan Suplee join Martin Lawrence pilot

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