Doctor Who

Doctor Who

• Guess who else has turned up for filming [spoilers]

Film

• Chris Hemsworth to play Thor?
• Sam Riley and Carey Mulligan to star in Brighton Rock
• Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine join Richard Ayoade’s Submarine
• William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave join Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus
• Jim Caviezel to play William Tell
• Film based on Battleships planned

British TV

• Leslie Ash joins Holby City
• 100 complaints about new Muslim head of religion about Beeb
• Skins‘ Jack O’Connell to star in Dive
• Lie to Me starts well
• Spike Jonze to star in C4 comedy
• ITV and C4 worried over Freeview HD funding
• Primeval spin-off in the works?

US TV

• ABC renews Scrubs, Castle and Better Off Ted, picks up V and other new shows
• Dollhouse picked up for 13 episodes
• Fox picks up Brothers
• Ricky Gervais to do animated version of his podcast for HBO
• Medium leaving NBC for CBS?
• Sarah Connor, The Unusuals cancelled; Cold Case renewed
• Chuck back – with cuts
• Bones renewed for two seasons

Doctor Who

• Mark Gatiss’s Nightshade to be turned into Matt Smith episode?

Film

• CBS Films picks up rights to Station
• Keanu Reeves to play Dr Jekyll
• Family Guy movie under way
• Four-minute Terminator trailer
• Brett Ratner off Conan

British TV

• Paula Milne writing drama about therapist accused of murder
• Dawn French to star in married life comedy for BBC2

US TV

• Lost writers making it up as they’re going along
• ABC picks up Modern Family
• Casting on 24 and Heroes, plus Monk gets webisodes [spoilers]
• Fox unlikely to pick up RDM’s Virtuality