Tuesday’s “Saw’s James Wan to direct MacGyver, new seasons for Redfern Now and Girls, & Matthew Lillard joins US The Bridge” news

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Film

Saw co-creator James Wan to direct MacGyver
Fox working on 10 new Marvel comic-book movies

Film casting

Ali Larter et al join You’re Not You
Anne Hathaway joins Robopocalypse
Sean Penn to star in Prone Gunman

International TV

Australia’s Redfern Now gets a second season

UK TV

Filming begins on S4C’s Mathias, starring Richard Harrington
Trailer for A Young Doctor’s Notebook with Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe
John Bishop to write and star in Panto!, with Sheridan Smith and Chesney Hawkes

US TV

A third season for Girls
A full season for Nashville
Malibu Country and Last Man Standing get more scripts
Hawaii Five-0 to remake Hawaii Five-O episode
Sunday ratings: Once Upon A Time down 23% to series low

US TV casting

Ernie Hudson to recur on The Last Resort
Lorraine Toussaint to recur on Body of Proof
The Partridge Family‘s Shirley Jones to guest on Cougar Town

New US TV shows

The CW working on Jane Whitefield, based on Vanishing Act books
One fewer episode for Do No Harm
Kesem Al Yam Kineret to be adapted as TV series

New US TV show casting

Mena Suvari and Henry Simmons joins Stalkers
Matthew Lillard joins The Bridge

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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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