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ITV and Simon Cowell have confirmed Take That singer Gary Barlow will return as a judge for the 2012 series of the X Factor. Announcing Barlow’s return, show creator Cowell said: “It’s great to be able to confirm our first judge for this year’s show. Gary has earned his place and I’m excited to be…

Hollywood legend Morgan Fairchild cameos in a new gay rom-com which arrives on DVD on May 14th. In eCupid Houston Rhines plays Marshall, an over-worked ad exec who is suffering from a serious case of the seven-year-itch with his loving boyfriend. As Marshall’s 30th birthday nears he sets hell-bent on changing his life and comes…

Horror studio Hammer has announced that Mad Men and Fringe actor Jared Harris is to star in its latest film, The Quiet Ones. Harris will play Professor Joseph Coupland in the supernatural thriller/horror which is currently in pre-production and will start shooting in June 2012 in the UK.   The film is being directed by…

ITV has commissioned a new drama based on the Ian Rankin thriller Doors Open and produced by Sprout Pictures, the company founded by Stephen Fry and Gina Carter. Fry will co-star in the two-hour drama in which a self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker come together to undertake an audacious art heist. The…

Whitechapel star Phil Davis has joined the cast of independent British film Having You as Peter, the father of Jack, the film’s protagonist. The cast also includes Anna Friel, Romola Garai, Andy Buchan and Julie Deakin. Davis’ previous roles of note include critically and commercially successful films as Quadrophenia and Notes on a Scandal.  Latterly…