MOVIES
Guy Ritchie has apparently chosen actor Jared Harris (Mad Men) for the role of Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes 2. This follows the recent announcement that Stephen Fry will be playing Sherlock's brother, Mycroft.
Universal Pictures announced it has acquired the rights to the Richard Aleas crime novel Little Girl Lost. The plot centers on John Blake, an NYU dropout and P.I. who learns the girlfriend he thought went to medical school actually became a stripper—and has been murdered. Aleas is the pen name of Charles Ardai, founder of Hard Case Crime.
Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast for the new movie Rampart, a crime drama about a fictional police veteran (Woody Harrelson) caught up with corruption in the LAPD who attempts to find redemption.
Marcus Sakey announced the film adaptation of his novel Good People now has a star (Tobey Maguire), a script (Kelly Masterson, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead), and a director (Niels Arden Oplev, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). (Hat tip to Crimespree Cinema.)
Leslie S Klinger tweeted that he's consulting on the Sherlock Homes sequel. Klinger is the editor of the three-volume set The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which won the Edgar Award the for "Best Critical/Biographical" work in 2005.
Emma Thompson is apparently in negotiations to join the cast of Men In Black 3D as Agent OH, who is monitoring an alien prison breakout. She joins returning cast member Tommy Lee Jones and new additions Jemaine Clement (as the villain Yaz) and Josh Brolin as a younger version of Jones' character, Agent Kay (due a time travel sequence).
TV
USA just announced new seasons for White Collar, Royal Pains and Psych, which makes their 2011 original programming slate identical to this year's lineup. The cable channel had already renewed Law & Order: Criminal Intent for its final year, as well as Burn Notice, In Plain Sight and new spy drama Covert Affairs.
Sam Raimi sold three television pilots including Lancaster, from writer Andrew Lipsitz (CSI, CSI:NY), which follows a Scotland yard detective who joins the LAPD.
Human Target is being moved again, and will now premiere on November 17, a move that changes the show from Friday nights to Wednesday nights and also bumps the show back over a month from its original air date of October 1.
Collider has interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars in the title role of the new updated Sherlock Holmes TV series, first shown on the BBC and soon to air on PBS, and Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson, co-stars of the BBC America crime drama Luther, premiering October 17th.
Wonder Woman fans can rejoice: David E. Kelly (Boston Legal, The Practice) is bringing the character back to TV for Warner Brothers. It will soon be shopped around to the various networks, although there wasn't any word on a possible star.
PODCASTS/RADIO
Elizabeth Foxwell over at the Bunburyist poins out that Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op story "The Creeping Siamese" (1926) is featured on Selected Shorts, read by actor John Shea.
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