Film

• Greg Mottola to direct Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul
• Chris Cooper and Reeve Carney join The Tempest

Art

• Newly found Caravaggios go on display in Scotland

Comics

• Mike Mignola developing Hellboy spin-off

British TV

• Primeval fourth series already being worked on
• Five's Dawn Airey poaches Richard Woolfe from Sky

US TV

• NBC axes My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle
• Sanctuary renewed for second season
• Prison Break close to cancellation
• Showtime and Stan Lee working on gay superhero project
• The CW orders five more episodes of Privileged
• Sasha Alexander to star in The Karenskys

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Doctor Who

• James Nesbitt says no…
• …as BBC bosses say "Colin Salmon - yes, please"?
• Rusty explains how to write

Film

• Steve Carell to star in The Beaver
• Justin Long, Josh Charles join Neeson/Ricci's After.Life
  
• Full theatrical trailer for Jim Carrey's Yes Man
• Behind-the-scenes featurette about Watchmen

Theatre

• Extensions for Jersey Boys, Joseph and Fat Pig

British TV

• Stanley Baxter returns to ITV for Christmas special
• British television exports soar 23%
• Virgin paying Sky £38m for channels
• Scottish Borders switch to digital only
• The Armstrong & Miller Show gets a second series
• Sarah Harding to appear in Freefall
• Andrew-Lee Potts dishes Primeval spoilers

US TV

• ABC mandates 2% production cuts
• The CW abandons plans for Batman prequel The Graysons
• Dylan McDermott to be the lead TNT's The Line
• Reiko Aylesworth joins Lost, Amy Price-Francis joins 24
• Emilio Estevez visits Two and a Half Man
• Pushing Daisies on brink of cancellation…
• …in which case Bryan Fuller would move back to Heroes
• Everwood's Justin Baldoni to appear in Heroes
• Fox's mid-season schedule spells bad news for Dollhouse
• Knight Rider ratings plummet

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Doctor Who

• Rusty was right: Who ratings jump in 7pm timeslot

Film

• John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012
• Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Australia
• DreamWorks to do Blackbeard movie
• St Trinian's sequel planned

British TV

• ITV3 to run a Primeval weekend in June, complete with behind-the-scenes documentary written and directed by Andrew Lee Potts [free registration required]
• E4 to be the focus of Channel 4's US acquisitions

US TV

• Angel writer Jeffrey Bell to be showrunner for the forthcoming Harper's Island
• Katee Sackhoff joins Nip/Tuck, Saul Rubinek joins Warehouse 13
• Kings gets a series order from NBC

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Time to announce the winner of the Primeval competition. After much consideration, I've decided to award the prize of a copy of Primeval - Shadow of the Jaguar to…

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Film

• Two minutes of Iron Man on YouTube
• Gisele Bundchen to be female lead of new Austin Powers movie?

Music

• ITN to do music news on YouTube

British TV

• Primeval's third series to have new cast members, including Jason Flemyng, and 10 episodes [spoilers]
• Charlie Brooker to write zombie show for E4
• BBC News 24 and BBC World to be renamed
• iPlayer supremo Ashley Highfield to head up joint BBC/ITV/C4 VoD development
• ITV skipping second episode of Pushing Daisies despite strong start

US TV

• Albert Brooks to appear in Weeds
• Gary Dourdan to leave CSI
• Rob Thomas quits 90210 spin-off

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Pay close attention, gentle reader. At the end of this, there's going to be a competition – a first for this 'ere blog – in which you're going to be able to win an actual real thing that you can own and that will arrive through the post, rather than through a Superpoke on Facebook.

But first, a question. Who do you think a novel based on Primeval would be aimed at? I ask this because I have a copy of the first in Titan's new range of Primeval novels and I'm slightly curious as to the thinking process behind it.

Primeval is something of a family show, going out on Saturdays, nice 'n' early in the evening. Yet, Shadow of the Jaguar is definitely not something you should be giving to the kiddies.

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I guess at some point in time the producers of Primeval had a choice about what to do with their series finale. Either they could have an intellectually satisfying piece of drama that answered a whole bucket-load of questions. Or they could have lots and lots of dinosaurs in a fight.

Guess which they went for.

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Doctor Who

• BBC4 to air Verity Lambert tribute night

Film

• Who won which Oscars
• Odeon bans Rambo
• X-Files 2 talk from cast and crew
• There will be a Bourne 4
• Tom Cruise cameo for Star Trek?
• Iron Man to link up with The Avengers

Comics

• Mr T to feature in a graphic novel

British TV

• Moving Wallpaper spared from cancellation
• Longest ever commission for Taggart, just as Rebus is cancelled

US TV

• Rufus Sewell to take Patrick Stewart's role in Jerry Buckheimer remake of Eleventh Hour
• BBC America buys Primeval [free registration required]
• Six more episodes for Lipstick Jungle
• Three more episodes for Women's Murder Club
• Previews of the next Lost
• Jericho producers looking for a new home for the show

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Remember Crimson Tide? No, probably not.

It was this submarine movie starring Gene Hackman. Thing was, they had Quentin Tarantino as script advisor.

You'd have never known for most of us. It chugged along like a regular movie. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there's this bizarre scene where they all discuss which version of the Silver Surfer was their favourite. Stood out like a bodybuilder at a vegetarians convention.

I mention this purely because tonight, I seemed to wander into a completely different show from the Primeval I've been watching for the last few weeks. No surprise there though: it was written by Paul Cornell.

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That's a bit more like it. After treading water, sometimes literally, for the last couple of weeks, we're heading towards the end of the series and so the plot developments are getting piled on.

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