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Karen Gillan has been cast as as a time-travelling Juliet in a new film to be directed by David Baddiel. Romeo And Brittney is about a high school teenager from New Jersey who finds herself travelling back in time to 13th-century Verona. Also cast is Gillian Anderson who will play the dual roles of Karen's mother and the Nurse, and Robert Sheehan plays Romeo in the comedy. Shooting begins in May.

John Barrowman is to appear in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special. The show is expected to go out on Christmas Day. Barrowman has also signed up for a cameo in Goodnight Burbank, a news satire webcomedy that stars Laura Silverman and Dominic Monaghan. Meanwhile Russell T Davies has let slip that Steven Moffat would like to see Captain Jack back in Doctor Who, opening up the way for Barrowman's possible return to the series.