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Populist: Items of interest this week

Key & Peele
Key & Peele. Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty

Meow-vie stars

Finally afforded the scale and budget denied them in their sketch series, comic duo Key And Peele have decided that their film debut will be about… a stolen cat called Keanu.

Channel hopping

Johnny Flynn’s campaign to appear on every channel on your EPG continues, with the folkie-turned-thesp signing up for Comedy Central series Brotherhood, about a pair of witless siblings.

A tall story

After Stephen Colbert threatened to sue Google over getting his height wrong in its search results, the tech overlord has relented and given him an extra half-inch. He’s now down as 5’ 10.5”, still a little short of his “true” stature of 5’ 11”.

Cranston’s tickle

Brian Cranston’s Twitter response to the Florida mother who has called for Toys R Us to ban Breaking Bad action figures is pretty much perfect: “I’m so mad, I’m burning my Florida Mom action figure in protest,” he quipped.

Dredd to ink

Top fan trolling from Dredd producer Adi Shankar, whose much-anticipated webseries follow-up to the cult hit has turned out to be a distinctly cheapo-looking cartoon called Judge Dredd: Superfiend.

Hungry like the wolf

In the biggest soundtrack news since Blade II paired Ice Cube with Paul Oakenfold, the Lorde-curated Hunger Games: Mockingay Part I soundtrack will see a team-up between her, Pusha T, Q-Tip and Haim as well as Charli XCX duetting with Simon Le Bon.

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