Torchwood

Doctor Who

• Alex Havins joins Torchwood cast, Dichen Lachman to guest in premiere

Film

• Robert Pattinson to star in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
• Sam Rockwell joins Cogan’s Trade
• Sienna Miller joins New Year’s Eve

British TV

• The Sky Atlantic 2011 highlights…
• …including newly acquired The Borgias and Blue Bloods

US TV

• NBC orders 1960s Playboy drama pilot
• ABC picks up another Canadian drama
• Tuesday night ratings
• Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Chuck
• HBO working on bodybuilding drama  

Doctor Who

• Four clips from the Christmas special
• Bill Pullman (!) joins Torchwood

Film

• Trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
• Trailer for Water for Elephants with Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz
• Katee Sackhoff to play Sexy Evil Genius
• Trailer for Take Me Home Tonight with Topher Grace
• Syfy Films launched
• Sarah Jessica Parker joins New Year’s Eve

Books

• Gene Hunt books to reveal what happens between Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes

British TV

• ITV1+1 to launch in January [subscription required]
• ITV plans Primeval webisodes
• Pompeii doc gets 3m viewers

US TV

• AMC picks up Hell on Wheels
• Marc Cherry working on Hallelujah
• CBS and Jessica Alba to turn Twitter feed into half-hour sitcom The Mother of All Something

The Daily News will return on Wednesday 8th December 2010

Doctor Who

• Torchwood gets a whole load of producers, including Buffy‘s Kelly Manners

Film

• Michael Douglas to play Liberace
• Ray Wise joins X-Men: First Class
• Liam Neeson to play war criminal in An Ordinary Man
• Halle Berry to star in the Wachowskis’ adaptation of Cloud Atlas
• Joss Whedon turned down Buffy remake?

British TV

• US firm acquires Foyle’s War rights [subscription required]
• Press pack for Just William

US TV

• The Walking Dead to fire all its writers?
• Sons of Anarchy‘s Sarah Jones to star in Alcatraz
• Teaser trailer for The Cape
• Star’s sister, AJ Michalka, to recur on Hellcats