'Sunshine' in London forecast

GriffithsDeVito A new production of Neil Simon comedy "The Sunshine Boys," toplined by Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, has locked in a 12-week run on the West End beginning in April.Thea Sharrock ("Equus") will helm the production from London-based Sonia Friedman Prods. and American producer Richard Willis ("Priscilla Queen of the Desert," "Next Fall"). Given the frequent trans-Atlantic transfers with which Friedman is involved, the show seems likely to be considered for a potential shift to Broadway.Production, which had previously been rumored for a West End slot (Variety, Jan. 30-Feb. 5), moves into the Savoy Theater, the venue soon to be vacated by Friedman's production of "Legally Blonde."DeVito makes his West End debut in "Sunshine" opposite Griffiths, the Brit thesp last on Broadway in Sharrock's production of "Equus."Storyline of Simon's 1972 play centers on an estranged vaudeville duo who are convinced by CBS to reunite for one last show. Title also spawned a 1975 movie incarnation that starred George Burns and Walter Matthau, as well as a TV version toplined by Woody Allen and Peter Falk.Show begins previews April 17 ahead of a May 17 opening at the Savoy Theater, where the production will play through July 28. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

New poster and image for The Hunger Games

[brightcove]1275910811001[/brightcove]Ever since her hard-as-nails turn in Winter's Bone, we've known that Jennifer Lawrence is not a woman to be trifled with. And from the looks of the new poster for The Hunger Games, the same can probably be said for Katniss Everdeen.With the film's release just over two months away now, the new poster shows Katniss staring down the camera, her bow drawn and ready for action. "The world will be watching," squawks the tagline, and indeed it will, as the film is already one of the most hotly anticipated of 2012.Check it out:Meanwhile, a new image has emerged showing Katniss and her fellow Tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) preparing for the games' opening ceremony in a pair of fetching black jumpsuits. Lenny Kravitz's stylist Cinna stands by with an open flame, ready to set the pair ablaze as a final flourish."What Cinna was trying to do was create something that came out of District 12, out of a coal mining world, with a fresh, bold look to it," explains director Gary Ross. "So Judianna went to this wonderful black reflective material that glistened like coal or graphite and would obviously work well in the Tribute parade where Katniss becomes the Girl on Fire."They look pretty badass to us as they are, let alone when they're set alight! Expect the opening ceremony of The Hunger Games to have the Olympics licked when the film opens on 23 March 2012.

'Hanna,' 'Hugo' Nominated for Cinema Audio Society Awards

The sound mixing teams behind "Hanna," "Hugo," "Moneyball," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "Super 8" have been nominated for Cinema Audio Society Awards in the motion picture category.In series television, teams in the competition mixed episodes of "Boardwalk Empire," "Breaking Bad," "Dexter," "Game of Thrones" and "The Walking Dead." "Boardwalk Empire" won this category a year ago.At the 48th Annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing, winners will additionally be named in categories for television movies or miniseries; nonfiction, variety, or music television; and technical achievement.During the ceremony, Feb. 18 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, the CAS Career Achievement Award will be presented to re-recording mixer Scott Millan and the CAS Filmmaker Award will be accepted by director Rob Marshall. The Hollywood Reporter

The Honey Badger May Be Getting Its Own TV Series

Honey Badger The Honey Badger doesn't care about anything, but it may get a kick out of this: A comedy series about the fearless, cobra-eating animal is being pitched to networks this month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Internet meme sensation - which has drawn more than 33 million hits on YouTube and spun off into a Wonderful Pistachios commercial, a book and two iPhone apps - is being turned into a hybrid animation/live-action series title Honey Badger U. The series will feature the video's original narrator Randall as a professor of live sciences at a dysfunctional university. VIDEO: The Honey Badger gets its own pistachio commercial Charles Bishop and Kirk Schenck are attached as executive producers, along with Harland Williams, Bradford Bricken, Danny Sherman, Joel Kesselman and Christopher Gordon, who created the original video. Canadian production company Six Eleven was already developing "a university-based animated comedy following a professor who thinks he knows more than he really does, and his students, who know even less," Schenck said in a statement. "When Randall's Honey Badger videos took off last year garnering tens of millions of avid followers around the world, it seemed natural to merge the two concepts." Check out the original Honey Badger clip below: [Warning: The video contains profane language.]

Bachelorette's Kasey Kahl Arrested

Kasey Kahl Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad alum Kasey Kahl was billed with drunk and topsy-turvy conduct.Kahl is at an accidents Sunday morning inside a club in Fresno, Calif., TMZ reviews, but it's unclear precisely what happened.Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl break upAccording to Kahl's booking report, he was arrested and reserved about 3 a.m. and was released five . 5 several hours later.Kahl, 29, recently wrapped VH1's Relationship Rehab with ex-girlfriend Vienna Girardi, with whom he played on Bachelor Pad.

New Picture Within The Hobbit

Bilbo, Sting and several spidery actionNow that Sherlock's finished, you may be wondering in which the next hit of MartinFreeman will probably be coming initially from from.But don't worry, Freeman addicts!TheHeroComplex features a new picture within the Hobbit online, supplying you with something to keep people withdrawal signs and signs and symptoms away.That certain shows Bilbo along with his sword, Sting. Technically, it's really a extended knife, created by elves in Gondolin along with Gandalf's sword, Glamdring, and Thorin's sword, Orcrist.There follow, we suppose, minor spoilers for people who haven't see the book and weren't needing to give consideration through the prior trilogy. Bilbo acquired this edge within the troll hoard he, Gandalf and company liberate in this particular story, even if you have observed the right trolls inside the extended edition in the Master In The Rings:The FellowshipOfThe Ring.This looks to become picture within the scene through which Bilbo names his sword, deep in Mirkwood following an encounter having a couple of arachnid beasties that bear a distant family link to Rings's Shelob. You will see traces of spider-web throughout, as well as the sword isn't glowing, which signifies there is not any orcs around. Possible spoilers finish.Yes, it's the same edge that Frodo used with the Master In The Rings, fact fans. Another awesome factor relevant for this image could it be shows an even more adventuresome side of Bilbo, who frequently appears a bit more bumbling than his world-saving youthful cousin.The Hobbit:An Unforeseen Journey hits on December 14 this year, with There And Again following on December 13, 2013. '!And so they say December 13 is unlucky!

Watch a Live Q&A With Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill Today at 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 EST

Watch a Live Q&A With Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill Today at 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 EST January 15, 2012 Photo by Sony Pictures Please join Back Stage and the SAG Foundation for a special live Q&A with "Moneyball's" Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill on Monday, January 16 at 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 EST. Both actors scored SAG Award and Golden Globe nominations for their work in the film."Moneyball," starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Bennett Miller, is the true story of Oakland A's manager Billy Beane. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The story is written by Stan Chervin, and the film is based on the book by Michael Lewis. The producers are Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt. Watch a Live Q&A With Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill Today at 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 EST January 15, 2012 PHOTO CREDIT Sony Pictures Please join Back Stage and the SAG Foundation for a special live Q&A with "Moneyball's" Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill on Monday, January 16 at 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 EST. Both actors scored SAG Award and Golden Globe nominations for their work in the film."Moneyball," starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Bennett Miller, is the true story of Oakland A's manager Billy Beane. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The story is written by Stan Chervin, and the film is based on the book by Michael Lewis. The producers are Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt.

APA encourages Lindsay Howard

APA television literary agent Lindsay Howard remains promoted to V . p .. Lee Dinstman, mind of Television Literary at APA, made the announcement. Howard grew to become part of APA in 2003 and was promoted to agent in 2005. Clients include Michael Karnow (Syfy's "Alphas") author-director-producer Sean McNamara ("Soul Surfer") Vijal Patel, who may serve as supervisory producer on ABC's "The CenterInch professional producer Ted Mann ("The Hatfields & the McCoys") and actress-comedian-author-producer Sarah Colonna, whose approaching book "Existence after i Screw It UpInch recently provided to NBC for development just like a single-camera comedy series. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

The Vampire Journals Casts Smallville's Cassidy Freeman

Cassidy Freeman Cassidy Freeman is coming back towards the CW. The Smallville alum has reserved a guest-just right The Vampire Journals, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Freeman, who described sometimes villain Tess Mercer around the lately ended super series, will have Vampire Diaries' Sage, a personality observed in 20's flashbacks. Her allure is gone through by both Salvatore siblings and also the Original family. Vampire Journals Postmortem: The way Klaus get back? A Klaus-Caroline pairing? Freeman next seems inside a&E's new series Longmire. She'll make her Vampire Journals debut in Episode 16, and she or he has got the possibility to recur. TVLine.com first reported this news. The Vampire Journals airs Thursdays at 8/7c around the CW.

Clear Channel Radio gets name change

Clear Channel Radio, the nation's largest radio broadcaster, is rebranding itself and yanking the "radio" from its name -- a word that for many years has relegated companies to the status of poor relations amid the broader showbiz landscape. The new Clear Channel Media and Entertainment said the name change better reflects the evolution of its business, although the core will remain its approximately 850 stations. Bob Pittman, CEO of parent company Clear Channel, said the radio group has been expanding into new areas. It delivers music, news, talk, sports and other content to auds across multiple platforms that include: broadcast stations; online, HD digital radio channels; satellite; smartphones; iPads and other tablets; in-vehicle entertainment and navigation systems; and via live events. ''Over the last few years, I've watched as Clear Channel Radio has pushed beyond the traditional boundaries of radio to reach more Americans every month than any other media company," said Pittman. ''We are taking our brands and content wherever our listeners expect to find it." But "radio is both our history and the foundation upon which we will grow our company moving forward. That will not change," said John Hogan, CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. Clear Channel said it has 238 million monthly users in the U.S. and Canada. Its Premiere Radio Networks creates and distributes content to 5,000 stations. Katz Media Group is one of the nation's leading media sales rep firm in the U.S. for radio and TV stations. Its new iHeartRadio service offers access to more than 800 live broadcast and digital-only radio stations, and user-created custom stations. Other businesses include Total Traffic Network, and RCS, which provides scheduling and broadcast software for radio, Internet and television station. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Youku pacts with Fox

SHANGHAI -- China's biggest online video streaming site, Youku.com, has pacted with 20th Century Fox to license 250 pics. The deal gives Youku the right to offer Fox's new release and library titles on its Premium plaform. Film franchises have performed well on Youku Premium, with new theatrical releases driving online interest in previous installments in the franchises, and the new deal includes online rights to Fox franchises such as "Planet of the Apes," "Ice Age," "X-Men" and "Alien." The films will begin appearing on Youku Premium this month, ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday in late January. The number of pay-per-view transactions on Youku Premium more than tripled between Q2 and Q3 of 2011, the company said in a statement. As of November, a growing percentage -- 13.5% -- of Youku Premium users paid more than once per month to view premium content. "We have been working closely with Hollywood studios in providing quality content to millions of Chinese Internet users while effectively protecting intellectual properties," said Zhu Huilong, veep of movie operations and corporate development. "We are encouraged by the growth of the Youku Premium platform, and our new licensing agreement with Fox will make Youku Premium more compelling for our users," said Zhu. Youku Premium has processed more than one million orders since launching in beta a year ago. In August, Youku struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation for online distribution of the "Kung Fu Panda" film franchise. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Start Searching: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sauce Pans? No Problem for No Kitchen Needed

No Kitchen Needed Survivor meets Top Chef with the Amazing Race in BBC America's brand-new (and quite honestly, awesome-sounding) series, No Kitchen Needed, premiering Tuesday, March 20 at 10/9c. The Ten-episode series takes three chefs - NY eatery maven Michael Psilakis, New Zealand's Kayne Raymond, and Chopped Grand Champion's Madison Cowan - and drops them into wild, around-the-world locales without nearly the same as a pepper mill, to compete against one another by collecting, catching or just plain killing indigenous elements and planning for a dish being judged with the residents. One sector searching for the initial season are spots in Thailand, Fiji, the Louisiana Bayou and Belize. We could already hear Gordon Ramsay raging at not thinking about this idea first. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

TVGuide.com Clients Are Most Excited for your Finder, Chelsea Handler Sitcom

The Finder Which midseason shows are TVGuide.com's clients most anticipating?That recognition visits Fox's Bones spin-in the Finder, which was most likely probably the most-added new midseason show on TVGuide.com's Watchlist. Next: NBC's Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea? ABC's Missing and Fox's Alcatraz.Convey more scoop inside your favorite shows inside our Winter TV previewThe relaxation in the top are: The Firm (NBC), The Stream (ABC), Smash (NBC), Lost Girl (Syfy), House of Lies (Showtime) and GCB (ABC).Inside the fall, our Watchlist clients correctly predicted this season's hits: Eight in the 10 most-added new shows were acquired for full seasons. Would they go 10-for-10 using this slate?Possibly you've created your Watchlist yet? It is simple! First, register to TVGuide.com. Already signed in? Go to the Watchlist! Then reveal your faves and never miss them again.See the top below.1.The Finder (Fox)2.Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea? (NBC)3.Missing (ABC)4.Alcatraz (Fox)5.The Firm (NBC)6.The Stream (ABC)7.Smash (NBC)8.Lost Girl (Syfy)9.House of Lies (Showtime)10.GCB (ABC)

Dermot Mulroney to Romance Jess on New Girl

Dermot Mulroney New Girl will get a completely new guy around. TVLine reviews Dermot Mulroney is joining the Fox sitcom just like a smart, wealthy and handsome love interest for Jess (Zooey Deschanel) - who's really the dad of just one of her students. Despite the fact that two don't begin round the right ft, eventually their chemistry gets control. Keck's Exclusives: New Girl's new Valentine Mulroney, 48, is known for his films My Best Friend's Wedding, Lovely & Amazing, The Wedding Date as well as the Family Stone, and may star inside the approaching NBC remake in the Rockford Files. His New Girl arc is positioned to air in March or April.