Wednesday’s “Rufus Sewell projects, Shameless ends, Hulu acquires Braquo and more Great Expectations” news

Film

  • Ralph Fiennes to star in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone and Rufus Sewell to star in The Sea
  • Film4 launches iPad app

Theatre

UK TV

US TV

  • ABC Family cancels Secret Life of the American Teenager
  • PBS acquires The Paradise and The Lady Vanishes
  • Hulu acquires Braquo
  • Monday ratings: Revolution down slightly, Mob Doctor goes even lower, Gossip Girl down 43% on last year

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • ABC buys Great Expectations soap
  • Fox acquires comedy Adulting from JJ Abrams…
  • …and Rachael Harris and Angela Kinsey comedy Dirty Blondes

New US TV show casting

  • Clarke Peters joins AMC legal thriller, Thomas Wright joins The Bridge, Lauren Bittner joins The Secret Lives of Wives
  • Five joins Michael Bay’s The Last Ship
  • Madchen Amick joins Witches of East End

Author

  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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