Doctor Who

Kevin Kline joins Last Vegas
Robin Williams to play Eisenhower in The Butler, star in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Jessica Biel leaves Wolverine
Amy Adams joins American Bullshit
CSI:Miami‘s Adam Rodriguez and The Hangover‘s Rachael Harris join Lovesick

Canadian TV

BBC Kids acquires K9
Linda Hamilton to guest on Lost Girl
CBC orders pilot of Leilah and Jen
Local TV subsidy to end

French TV

Jean Reno’s Le Grand renamed Jo

UK TV

Tuesday ratings: Line of Duty up to 3.24m
Hulu to co-produce The Thick of It

US TV

Desperate Housewives‘ Richard Burgi to guest on Blue Bloods
SyFy acquires K9
Heroes‘/Merlin‘s Santiago Cabrera to recur on Dexter
Hulu acquires The Thick of It, will stream it uncensored
Paget Brewster to guest on Law & Order: SVU
Unforgettable to purge supporting cast

Trailers

Teaser for season 2 of Homeland
Teaser for season 5 of Castle

Matt Smith and Nathan Fillion having a chat

Tuesday’s “Now TV launches, Michael Bay TV show gets greenlit and a trailer for the US Inbetweeners” news

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Doctor Who

Episode titles revealed [minor spoilers]

Film

Johnny Depp to star in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

UK TV

BBC Worldwide posts £155m in profits
Lord Sugar signs up for two more series of The Apprentice
BBC drama down by 150 hours last year [subscription required]
Alibi acquires The Glades [subscription required]
ITV to adapt Frances Hodgson Burnett‘s The Making of a Marchioness
Sky launches Now TV streaming movies service
BBC sells Television Centre for £200m

US TV

Mark Consuelos joins American Horror Story
Sunday ratings: Political Animals starts with 2.6m viewers…
…Breaking Bad returns to 2.9m viewers…
…while Longmire gets 4.5m viewers and The Glades gets 3.4m viewers

New US TV shows

Michael Bay’s The Last Ship greenlit to pilot by TNT
Trailer for the US remake of The Inbetweeners

The Doctor Who cast sing Bohemian Rhapsody

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