• If Captain America can get another kick at the can, why not Swampy? Warner Bros. is reportedly in talks with Vincenzo Natali to direct Swamp Thing, an adaptation of the DC Comics series that previously lurched onto the big screen in 1982 thanks to director Wes Craven. (It is not remembered fondly.) The comic, written in its heyday by Watchmen‘s Alan Moore, was also the basis for a series that ran for three seasons on USA Network in the early ’90s. Warner picked up Natali’s Splice earlier this year at Sundance. Natali is also said to be eyeing an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s sci-fi High-Rise.

• Mark your calendars. CBC has 30 days, from Wednesday, to rethink the shows it runs on Bold after the CRTC rejected its bid to rewrite the license. CBC had sought to tone down the rural aspect of the channel, which was originally known as Country Canada, but the regulator insists on a schedule that’s ‘reflective of the living realities of rural Canadians.’ Whoever owns the rights to The Beachcombers and Road to Avonlea should expect a phone call.

• Citytv and the U.K. crime channel Alibi have ordered a fourth season of Murdoch Mysteries from Shaftesbury Films.

• Tony Parsons has joined CBC — without leaving his current gig at CHEK. The veteran newsman will co-host the Ceeb’s supper-hour newscast in Vancouver with Gloria Macarenko, replacing Ian Hanomansing who is now with The National. Parsons anchored Global’s Vancouver news team for many years, but moved in December to the newly independent CHEK in Victoria. He will divide his time between CBC in Vancouver and CHEK, hosting for the former at 5 p.m. before jetting across the water for the 10 p.m. news from Victoria.