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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Film

• Danny Boyle to direct 28 Months Later?

Music

• Ultravox planning UK tour

Canadian TV

• Current TV arrives
• Colm Feore joins The Listener

British TV

• Sky launching online service

US TV

• ABC messes with its schedules, returns Lost to Wednesdays
• Former Prison Break regular to return
• Former Dirty Sexy Money regular to return
• Tracy Pollan joining Medium for three-episode arc
• Rita Rocks gets full season

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Film

• Dark Knight hits $500m domestic sales before Titanic
• A clip from W
• Brett Ratner wants a 'Guitar Hero' movie??

Theatre

• Wicked run extended

British TV

• Top Gear presenters switch on Blackpool lights
• Thunderbirds to come back as CGI?

US TV

• Prison Break star glad show is jumping the shark [spoilers]
• Jennifer Aniston to guest on 30 Rock
• Clips of Little Britain USA
• Conchords to quit TV show?
• NBC anchors love Aaron Sorkin
• Life will work hard to get an audience
• Daily Show popularity makes it harder for writers

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Film

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

British TV

• Vampire lesbian movie for James Corden?? Probably not
• Gladiators gets 1.8 million viewers

US TV

• CBS orders six new series including remakes of Eleventh Hour and Worst Week
• Michael Rapaport joins Prison Break as a regular
• Fox ready to remake Secret Millionaire
• Saffron Burrows to co-star in Christian Slater's My Own Worst Enemy
• Megan Mullally to be Alicia Silverstone's mother
• Reaper renewed for a second season
• How I Met Your Mother and The Unit renewed
• HBO shows coming to iTunes with different pricing
• October Road and Moonlight likely to be cancelled
• Miss Guided cancelled
• Back to You was 'on the wrong network'

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Doctor Who

• Rusty's not happy with his new slot
• David Tennant pictures from tonight's Friday Night Project

Film

• Dolph Lundgren to star in “Die Hard at a rock concert”
• Malice in Sunderland now to be filmed on Wearside
• Will Arnett to join Kristen Bell in When in Rome
• Kevin Kline has his first French-speaking role
• C Thomas Howell to star as George W Bush-alike in Commander and Chief
• Disney working on live-action remake of The Lone Ranger

Radio

• New season of comedy for Radio 4 on Mondays

British TV

• Friends writer creates sci-fi sitcom for BBC3
• Ashes to Ashes gets a second series
• The Apprentice gets its highest rated opening episode
• Two more series of My Family ordered
• Discovery to get a third Sky entertainment channel slot
• 87% of homes now have digital TV
• Armstrong and Miller form their own production company

US TV

• CSI: Miami writer Sunil Nayor gets two-year deal with CBS
• Samaire Armstrong no longer a regular on Dirty Sexy Money
• Sarah Wayne Callies to return to Prison Break as a regular. Hang on...
• Jason Bateman to direct the pilot for The Inn
• Lots of pilot casting, including Sara Rue in Spaced

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Doctor Who

• Tom Baker would do cameo if 'asked nicely'
• Trailers for the fourth series
• RTD defends Catherine Tate

Film

• Tin Tin to be played by Thomas Sangster?
• Supernatural's Jared Padalecki to star in Friday the 13th remake?
• Stan Winston to work on Terminator 4
• James Gandolfini joins cast of The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 remake
• Shekhar Kapur to complete Anthony Minghella's last movie
• Hugh Jackman and Eli Stone creator collaborate on comic, movie
• Fans may not like Indy 4
• Quantum of Solace featurette

Technology

• iPlayer to use Blinkx to search for video

British TV

• ITV abandons latest Ant and Dec project
• Famous Five to return, but animated
• Planning for a Tucker movie?
• Five Life rebranding as Fiver

US TV

• Highlights of the Buffy-fest
• Kelly Preston to guest-star on Medium for four episodes
• Bones going overseas
• Joss Whedon considering Buffy alumni for Dollhouse
• Prison Break gets a fourth season
• CBS picks up two new comedy pilots
• David Cross to star in his own co-written HBO pilot
• Fox cancels The Return of Jezebel James after three episodes
• CBS cancels Jericho - again - while Canterbury's Law gets a scheduling downgrade
• Jerry O'Connell to appear in Samantha Who?
• Michael Cassidy cast in How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls
• Smith's Amy Smart cast as lead in Glenn Gordon Caron's Meant to Be, while The Wonder Years' Fred Savage is to play a Single White Millionaire
• 90210's Jennie Garth to play My Best Friend's Girl
• HBO orders pilots for Suburban Shootout remake and Darren Star's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl
• Will Sasso and Frederico Dordei join Fox's Spaced remake
• David Eick working on pilot based on PD James' Chldren Of Men
• Jane Seymour to play a TV host who solves mysteries for Hallmark pilot
• Sarah Connor viral marketing for a second season?

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Doctor Who

• Torchwood sold to Belgium and the Netherlands [free registration required]

Film

• Max Von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley join Scorsese's Shutter Island
• Terminator 4 to open May 2009
• Transporter 3 on the starting line

British TV

• Alan Whicker to revisit Whicker's World
• Virgin to challenge BSkyB ruling
• Chris Ryan to shadow cops

US TV

• More Babylon 5 DVD movies to come
• Prison Break filming moving to LA following storyline rethink?
• An interview with Michael K Williams (Omar) from The Wire [big season five spoilers]
• Fox's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em remake ready for casting

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Doctor Who

• Freema not bothered by Catherine Tate replacement
• Catherine Tate to interview David Tennant for Radio 4's Chain Reaction
• John Barrowman in discussions to play Barnum on stage

Film

• Jonny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell to replace Heath Ledger on The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
• Greg Dyke to chair the BFI
• Common to play Green Lantern?
• Melissa George to star in Triangle?

British TV

• Frost Report returning for one-off special on BBC4
• Terry Wogan to get Channel 4 teatime show?
• Ashes to Ashes to get a third series
?

US TV

• William Fichtner praises Prison Break writers
• Will and Grace creators' pilot picked up by ABC

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Doctor Who

• RTD picks fight with parents

Film

• Guy Ritchie to direct Dirty Dozen remake
• Anthony Hopkins to appear in The Wolfman
• Michael Mann to reteam with Robert De Niro
• John Rambo trailer
• Rupert Evans as JLA Superman?
• Angels and Demons being rushed through

British TV

• Cheers' George Wendt and June Whitfield to appear in Green, Green Grass
• Timothy Spall to play vengeful father for ITV1 drama
• Disney to sponsor 4oD downloads of ABC shows
• Dave a hit
• Neil Gaiman wants to work with the Beeb again
• BBC Natural History Unit to lose a third of its staff
• RTD wants to do fortysomething gay drama

US TV

• Britney Spears to appear on Sesame Street?
• The CW's ratings are down
• Carrie-Anne Moss to co-star in FX's transgender pilot
• Steven Weber to star in another sitcom
• David Duchovny bewildered by sanitising syndication reshoots of Californication
• Moonlight gets four more scripts
• Viva Laughlin cancelled
• Carpoolers gets three more scripts while Samantha Who? gets six more
• And the awful Back To You gets a full season
• Fox to make female prison spin-off of Prison Break
• Kurtwood Smith and Frankie Faison join Barry Sonnenfeld drama
• Timothy Olyphant joining Samantha Who?
• SciFi greenlights Warehouse 13
• Stargate Atlantis renewed for fifth season
• Pushing Daisies gets complete first season

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Film

• Warner Bros decrees: no more female leads?
• Jake Gyllenhaal flying to the moon with Doug Liman
• Paz Vega and Jaime King get into The Spirit
• Kevin McKidd to play Loki instead of Thor?
• Michael C Hall joins Game
• Pixar plans three John Carter of Mars movies
• Neil Gaiman wants Terry Gilliam to direct Sandman

Audio plays

• Andy Serkis and David Warner to appear in adaptation of The Brightonomicon

Web TV

• ITN launches a movie show on Joost

British TV

• ITV1 doing pushy mums comedy, May Contain Nuts
• BBC2 picks up terrestrial rights to Kyle XY
• Robin Hood opens with 5.9m viewers
• But Top Gear returns with 6m viewers

US TV

• Popular/Dirt's Carly Pope to appear on 24
• CSI: NY's Gary Sinise gets a payrise until 2011
• Moonlight has surprisingly good ratings
• Explanations and cast reactions to a certain recent Prison Break event [spoilers!]
• Disappearing product placements in Heroes explained
• Heroes' Sendhil Ramamurthy nearly quit acting for business school
• Damages to get a second season

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