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News: BBC1’s Anansi Boys, Paul Bettany is a Vision and Psych and Michael J Fox cancelled +more
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Film
- Paul Bettany to play the Vision in The Avengers 2
Film casting
- Jason Lee, Katee Sackhoff, Milo Ventimiglia et al to star in Tell
- Hannah Ware to star in Agent 47
- Tom Hiddleston joins Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise
New UK TV shows
- BBC1 adapting: Anansi Boys
US TV
- USA cancels: Psych
- NBC cancels: The Michael J Fox Show
- Another Hannibal trailer
- Tuesday ratings
- Wednesday ratings
US TV casting
- Hank Azaria and Sherilyn Fenn join Ray Donovan
- Lance Reddick to guest on The Blacklist
- Zachary Knighton to recur on Parenthood
- Andy Richter to guest on The Millers
New US TV shows
- CBS developing: remake of Yes’s The Ran Quadruplets and John Cusack Wall Street drama
- Amazon green lights: Cocked pilot
- ABC green lights: 10 episodes of Astronaut Wives Club
- Starz green lights: comedy Survivor’s Remorse
- SyFy developing: adaptation of DMZ
- Lifetime green lights: 10 episodes of Marti Noxon’s Un-Real
New US TV show casting
- Jay Baruchel to star in FX’s Man Seeking Woman
- Peter Facinelli to star in NBC’s Odyssey
- Natalie Martinez joins ABC’s Secrets & Lies
- Sissy Spacek joins Netflix thriller
- Will Sasso to guest on NBC’s About A Boy
- Zachary Knighton to star in Fox’s Weird Loners
Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical
Film casting
- Jesse Eisenberg to play Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons to play Alfred in Superman v Batman
- Liam Neeson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
- Kyle Chandler joins Carol
- Zachary Quinto joins Agent 47
Trailers
- Superbowl trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Superbowl trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Superbowl trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Superbowl teaser for Pompeii
Theatre
- Back To The Future: The Musical
UK TV
- Sky Arts acquires: DR1’s The Legacy/Arvingerne
- 5USA acquires: Hallmark’s Cedar Grove
New UK TV shows
- BBC4 green lights: Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and The Walshes co-written by Graham Linehan and Diet of Worms
US TV
- Chicago PD gets an extra two episodes
- New Hannibal promo
- Trailer for 24: Live Another Day
- Thursday ratings: Rake drops
- Friday ratings: Blue Bloods gets highest ratings since it started
US TV casting
- Lucy Hale to guest on Baby Daddy
- Michael Pitt to recur on Hannibal
- Dianne Wiest to guest on The Blacklist
- Toni Trucks joins Franklin & Bash
New US TV show casting
- David Schwimmer to star in ABC’s remake of Israel’s Bilti Hafich, Irreversible
- Grace Gummer joins CBS’s Extant
- Christina Cole and Carole Bouquet joins NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
- Tony Hale to guest on NBC’s About A Boy adaptation
- Matt McGorry joins ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, Mike Colter joins TNT’s Agent X
- Penny Marshall and Lorraine Bracco to guest on Fox’s Mulaney
ITV to launch a pay TV channel, more Inside No 9, and a Supernatural spin-off
Film
- Thor 3 gets some writers
Film casting
- Daniel Craig to star in The Whole Truth
UK TV
- ITV to launch pay TV drama channel on Sky
- iPlayer requests up by a third in 2013
- BBC2 renews: Inside No 9
- ITV cancels: Breathless
- UKTV adds Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi to Sky’s On Demand
New UK TV shows
- BBC Scotland green lights: pilot of comedy Mountain Men
US TV
- Fox renews: Bones
US TV show casting
- Lori Petty to guest on Orange is the New Black
- Gene Simmons to guest on CSI
- Jeremy Davies and Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Hannibal
New US TV shows
- Amazon developing: pilots from Whit Stillman and Shaun Cassidy
- CBS greenlights: comedy More Time With Family
- The CW green lights: Supernatural spin-off, iZombie and Flash pilots…
- …as well as pilots for Identity and Jane the Virgin
- ABC green lights: The Winklers pilot, with Henry Winkler
New US TV show casting
- Tea Leoni to star in CBS’s Madam Secretary
- Goran Visnjic to recur on CBS’s Extant
- Jennifer Carpenter to star in ABC’s Sea of Fire, Patrick Murney joins TNT’s Public Morals
A Money Pit remake, Stephen Fry is the Prime Minister and Sharon Stone is the Vice President
UK TV
- BBC dominates 2013’s terrestrial TV
New UK TV shows
- London Live green lights: Brothers With No Game and The T-Boy Show
- BBC4 green lights: In And Out of the Kitchen remake
US TV
- New trailer for season 2 of Hannibal
- Thursday ratings
- Friday ratings
US TV casting
- Kathryn Prescott to recur on Reign
- Stephen Fry to recur on 24: Live Another Day, plus a returning president [minor spoilers]
- Rose McGowan to return to Once Upon A Time
New US TV shows
- ABC green lights: Astronaut Wives Club, Warriors, Agatha and rival socialites drama
- NBC green lights: The Money Pit remake and Fifth Wheel
- Fox green lights: Lee Daniels’ Empire
- FX green lights: Married with Judy Greer and You’re The Worst
- USA green lights: Benched with Eliza Coupe
New US TV show casting
- Mira Sorvino and James Frain join BBC America’s Intruders
- Margaret Cho joins Fox’s Cabot College
- Sharon Stone to star in TNT’s Agent X
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins NBC’s Odyssey, Kara Killmer joins NBC’s Tin Man…
- …as do Kathleen York and Kristen Connolly
- Sarah Hay to star in Starz’s Flesh and Bone
- Rick Cosnett and Danielle Panabaker to co-star in The CW’s The Flash