Film
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt replaces James McAvoy on cancer comedy
- Justin Timberlake joins Bad Teacher
- Warners to adapt Gilligan’s Island
- Tim Burton to adapt Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Mickey Rourke to play the Titan Hyperion in War of the Gods
- Trailer for After.Life
British TV
- Hallmark to air ABC’s Copper
- David Morrissey to produce crime dramas for Sky1 based on Mark Billingham books
- BBC4 acquires second season of Swedish Wallander
- BBC2 to get £25m more for “strongly authored drama”
- Sky to add more live channels to Sky Player, including Sky1 and Sky Movies Premiere
- Married, Single, Other drops 2.2m viewers
US TV
- The Sopranos/Life on Mars‘ Michael Imperioli joins 187 Detroit
- Lindsay Price, Scrubs’ Eliza Coupe and Missy Pyle among actors cast on pilots
- Stephen Mangan and Claire Forlani joins Matt LeBlanc’s Showtime/BBC2 comedy Episodes
- Jason Isaacs to star in pilot based on Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty
- Jason George joins Shonda Rhimes’ new medical drama
- HBO greenlights Game of Thrones
- The Forgotten cut short
- Comedy Central orders Workaholics
- Lee Daniels to adapt Amy Bloom books for HBO
- Comedy Central quits Hulu
- Dollhouse‘s Fran Kranz ends up on Friends with Benefits
- Starz acquires Pillars of the Earth
