Gavin and Stacey

Doctor Who

• Joanna Page to play long-lost relative of the Doctor?? [spoilers??]

Film

• Warp Films picks up rights to Blood Oath
• Armando Iannucci to make Out The Window with BBC Films
• Ewan McGregor joins The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
• Dustin Hoffman joins Nightwork
• Pics from the Immortals (aka War of the Gods)

British TV

• Ruth Jones and Mark Heap to star in The Great Outdoors for BBC4…
• …and Ruth Jones to play Hattie Jacques for BBC4 as well
• S4C gives out £7m in contracts for kids’ TV [subscription required]
• HBO programmes to be available on mobile network 3
• 25% of Brits now have HD TV

US TV

• USA Network greenlights pilots for A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
• CBS picks up Criminal Minds spin-off…
• …as well as Hawaii Five-O remake, Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck and Defenders with Jim Belushi
• Heroes‘ Greg Grunberg to be series regular on Love Bites…
• …but isn’t sure about whether Heroes movie would happen
• Linda Hamilton joins Weeds
• Joely Richardson leaves The Whole Truth
• Mark Verheiden joins Steven Spielberg’s TNT show
• Why Law & Order was cancelled…
• …and why it might be back