Doctor Who

• Eighth Doctor to meet granddaughter Susan in Big Finish play

British TV

• ITV Player coming to Virgin Media

US TV

• What Mark Verheiden's doing to change Heroes, and one of the cast wants out
• Casting on True Blood, Eleventh Hour, Numb3rs and NCIS [spoilers]
• Some of the differences between new Prisoner and old

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Film

• Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke to play the baddies in Iron Man 2?
• But what will the story theme be?
• Darko acquires rights to Fade
• New Regency acquiring rights to Beat the Reaper for diCaprio
• Teresa Palmer to play female lead in The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Lena Headey to direct Kill Drug
• DJ Caruso to direct Jack the Giant Killer

British TV

• 3.4m watch Oz and James
• Series four of Robin Hood to be complete revamp, better than series three [spoilers]?

US TV

• The first 90s of BSG's fifth season
• Weeds creator developing Ronna and Beverly for Showtime
• TNT picks up Time Heals and The Line for 10 episodes each
• Season 9 of Smallville could still happen
• Balthazar Getty leaving Brothers and Sisters early

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Doctor Who

• More companion rumour-mongering
• What Doctor Who toys to expect this year. Spoilers?

Film

• Tr2n now just Tron, to star Garrett Hedlund…
• …while Olivia Wilde spills a few other secrets
• Japanese Watchmen trailer with extra footage
• McG to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Chris Morris suicide bomber movie gets the greenlight
• Shazam! not happening

Music

• Kraftwerk co-founder quits

Theatre

• Jimmy Osmond to star in Chicago UK tour

US TV

• Laurence Fishburne to visit CSI: Miami?
• More Dr Horrible promised
• Kelsey Grammer to star in ABC sitcom pilot
• Scrubs' Neil Flynn to star in The Middle
• NBC ready to make John Wells' Police
• AMC starts streaming original Prisoner
• Sarah Connor to return to serialised story-telling
• A&E going ahead with Paranormal Cops
• NBC gives go-ahead to "music in head" drama Soundtrack
• Christine Lahti and Johnny Sneed join Operating Instructions
• Robert Buckley to join Privileged

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Film

• Jimmy Hayward to direct Jonah Hex

Music

• Spandau Ballet to make a comeback?

French TV

• Primetime ads banned on state TV

British TV

• Above Suspicion gets 6.7m viewers

US TV

• John Wells to work up US version of Shameless for HBO
• USA Network picks up Royal Pains starring Mark Feuerstein
• (Almost) all the latest BSG webisodes
• In Treatment series two details
• Watch the premiere episode of Kyle XY season three
• Trailer for The Beast, starring Patrick Swayze

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Doctor Who

• The Next Doctor gets 11.7m viewers
• Michelle Ryan favourite to play the next companion?

Film

• Trailer for James Corden/Matt Horne's Lesbian Vampire Killers
• Watchmen featurette
• Bruce Boxleitner to return for Tr2n
• John Curran to direct Keira Knightley period piece The Beautiful and the Damned
• James Corden to appear in Gulliver's Travels?
• How Thor and The Avengers will work

Theatre

• Brace yourself for The Thorn Birds - the musical

British TV

• BBC1 to show season two of Damages
• Fewer stunts for Top Gear thanks to cutbacks
• Rachel Stevens to appear in next series of Merlin?
• Trailer for series three of Skins

US TV

• Watch the first episode of United States of Tara for free
• Michael Pitt to star opposite Steve Buscemi in Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire
• Flight of the Conchords season two premiere does well on internet
• Michael Cassidy leaving Privileged
• Clip of Salma Hayek in 30 Rock
• Sense and Sensibility's Charity Wakefield to star in David Kelley's Legally Mad

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Doctor Who

• DT votes for DM as the next Doctor - while simultaneously giving away the plot of The Next Doctor [spoilers]
• Behind the scenes of The Next Doctor [video, probably not available in the US]
• A clip and big spoilers for The Next Doctor
• DT wants to be a Bond villain

Film

• Clive Owen joins Cartagena

British TV

• Charlie Brooker to host TV comedy series for Channel 4

US TV

• Damon Herriman joins Lost & Found
• Casting on Cold Case, Numb3rs, Burn Notice and True Blood
• A clip from Flight of the Conchords [yes it will work outside the US]
• Top Gear US will appear - just not on NBC
• A Lebron James sitcom

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Doctor Who

• More Torchwood series three details
• It's not that big, says DT

Film

• New Judge Dredd film greenlit
• Feature version of Arcana's Paradox to be me made
• Details of the Forbidden Planet trilogy

British TV

• Yes! There will be a third series of Gavin & Stacey, with pay rises all round
• Survivors gets a second series
• Picture of Derren Brown in Crooked House

US TV

• Another Lost season five promo
• More info about the BBC/Comedy Central co-prod Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire
• Surely not! 16 new reality TV shows for MTV
• Fox producing Bitches - four female friends in New York who are werewolves
• A clip from Dollhouse
• Billy Zane to replace Timothy Olyphant on Samantha Who?
• Maria Bello to develop and star in a series for HBO

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Doctor Who

• Rusty 4 Catherine Zeta
• David Walliams
• Cameos in Christmas special [spoilers]
• DT wants a musical version of the show

Film

• Trailer for Obsessed, starring Ali Larter, Idris Elba, Beyonce and Ali Larter. Did I mention Ali Larter's in it?
• Jack Ryan franchise reboots
• Stephen Chow no longer directing The Green Hornet
• Baz Luhrmann acquires rights to The Great Gatsby
• Frank Miller to make Buck Rogers
• Mmm. Ali Larter

Theater

• Jeremy Piven leaves Speed the Plow over 'high mercury count'

British TV

• ITV axes Passage to India remake
• ITV to screen Jean Charles de Menezes drama
• Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss writing a pilot for a modern-day Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
• Desktop download version of iPlayer for Mac and Linux in beta

US TV

• Kristin Chenoweth joins Legally Mad
• Office workers moonlighting to create new shows
• Casts for pilots
• Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay to exec Cocaine Cowboys for HBO
• HBO picks up two new comedies as well
• Michael Chiklis working on series for FX about financial fraud
• Comedy Central picks up Secret Girlfriend
• Oh Ali. When will you be mine? Oh. Did I say that out loud?

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Doctor Who

• No. Not Matthew Horne. A woman. Or even an 'ethnic doctor' (instead of an 'ethnic actor' presumably). Oh the shock. I think I'm going to have a touch of the vapours
• Although Dervla Kirwan (who'd know of course) reckons there's a shortlist of six actors for the part including Martin Clunes

Film

• Barry Sonnenfeld to direct The How-To Guide For Saving The World
• Tr2n to be shot entirely in 3D
• Anna Friel to star in The Wedding
• Which goodies (and baddies) are going to be in Iron Man 2 (allegedly)
• Bourne 4 filming to begin in summer
• UA to adapt Conjure Wife

Theatre

• Lucy Davies is the new producer of the National Theatre of Wales

British TV

• Sky makes advances in 3D television
• James Corden's new show censored?
• Gavin and Stacey Christmas photos

US TV

• Trailer for future Smallville episodes
• Watch The Flight of the Conchords season two premiere [US only, because only the US counts of course. Screw New Zealand who'd have no interest]
• 24's James Badge Dale to star in AMC's new political thriller
• ABC greenlights An American Family
• HBO greenlights Hung. What a surprise
• Life on Mars, 24 and Dollhouse production budgets being cut

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Doctor Who

• Interview with the next Doctor's companion
• Rusty praises Beeb's wisdom at recommissioning his show
• Interview with Torchwood's producer [spoilers]

Film

• Harrison Ford to team with JJ Abrams for Morning Glory
• Third Tony Blair film to focus on relationship with Bill Clinton
• 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan to produce and star in Freshman Roommates
• Gore Verbinski acquires Wall Street Journal article about online role-playing
• Trailer for Ryan Reynolds' and Sandra Bullock's The Proposal

British TV

• Channel 4/Five merger a possibility again
• Pics of Mackenzie Crook as a vampire from ITV1's Demons
• No Heroics moving to ITV1
• Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer to star as detectives in Hunter

US TV

• Dexter finale ratings best ever for Showtime
• David Eick leaves The Philanthropist for Caprica, is replaced by the guy he replaced
• Casting on True Blood
• Jessica Alba to guest on The Office

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