Short cuts: Breaking Bad star defends herself and the rest of week in pop culture

In this publicity image released by AMC, Anna Gunn is shown in a scene from "Breaking Bad." Gunn was nominated for an Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama series on, Thursday July 18, 201Show more

• The Breaking Bad star Anna Gunn raised concerns in a New York Times op-ed about the negative feedback towards her character Skyler White in the TV series. "I realise that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch," she wrote. "But as a human being, I'm concerned that so many people react with such venom."

• After a recent stint hosting Chelsea Lately, Lindsay Lohan will be back on TV: she's been cast on the HBO series Eastbound & Down, to play one of the show's character's daughters in 'a wedding scene set many years in the future', according to The Hollywood Reporter.

• The British pop star Charli XCX, who co-wrote Icona Pop's I Love It, is working on new music for Britney Spears. "Who knows how it will go," she told Digital Spy. "We've written one song and it's a great track and if she likes it then amazing."

• For many, Henry Winkler will always be The Fonz from Happy Days. But now, the 67-year-old actor is returning to TV with a new role in Parks and Recreation. He has been cast as Jean Ralphio's father in the hit NBC comedy series.

• The French-American actress and director Julie Delpy is in talks with HBO to write the movie Cancer Vixen, which will star Cate Blanchett as a New York cartoonist whose life shifts into a new gear after she's diagnosed with cancer.

• Bradley Cooper has signed on to produce and potentially star in Red Blooded American, one of the three Lance Armstrong movies in development. Jay Roach is attached to direct. Curiously, J J Abrams once approached Cooper to play Armstrong in his own project.