It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in June 2014. This month can best be summed up by two words: Dennis Potter. Here’s Pennies from Heaven: it’s not one of the plays showing in the season, but Bob Hoskins, you know?
Month: May 2014
News: NBC, Fox, TNT, TBS and BBC renewals, pick-ups and cancellations, Rebel Wilson: Private Benjamin + more
Film casting
- Rebel Wilson to star in Private Benjamin remake
- Laura Linney joins Ian McKellen Sherlock Holmes film A Slight Trick of the Mind
Scandinavian TV
- Finland’s YLE in original drama push [subscription required]
UK TV
- Concern over S4C ratings
- BBC renews: BBC4’s The Life of Rock With Brian Pern, moves it to BBC2
US TV
- NBC renews: Law & Order: SVU
- Fox cancels: Dads, Surviving Jack, Enlisted and…
- …Rake…
- …and adds more episodes to Sleepy Hollow
- Tuesday ratings
US TV casting
- Christian Cooke joins Witches of East End
New US TV shows
- Fox red lights: No Place Like Home and Dead Boss
- TNT green lights: Proof and Public Morals
- TBS green lights: Buzzy’s…
- …and Angie Tribeca
News: NBC and Fox’s first Fall shows, more Da Vinci’s Demons, a Quirke trailer + more
Film casting
- Ming-Na Wen joins 6 Miranda Drive
- Andy Buckley joins Jurassic World
- Lena Headey to star in Clive Barker adaptation Jacqueline Ess
- Michelle Forbes joins Hunger Games 4
Trailers
- Trailer for Coherence with Nicholas Brendon
- Trailer for Tammy with Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney et al
Internet TV
- Josh Stewart to star in Amazon’s Hysteria
UK TV
- Trailer for BBC1’s Quirke
UK TV casting
- Lily James leaving Downton Abbey [spoilers]
US TV
- Starz renews: Da Vinci’s Demons with new showrunner
- Monday ratings
- Sunday HBO ratings
US TV casting
- Timothy Busfield to recur as Benjamin Franklin on Sleepy Hollow
New US TV shows
- NBC green lights: series of Odyssey, State of Affairs, Allegiance and Marry Me
- Fox green lights: series of Empire and Red Band Society…
- …adds more Mulaney episodes
- Starz developing: Blackbirds
New US TV show casting
- Billy Eichner to co-star in USA’s Difficult People
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl: the 2001 version
Remember Electra Woman and Dyna Girl? No, of course you don’t, you liar. It was a 1970s superhero show that was part of The Krofft Supershow. Like you ever watched that.
Think Batman – think spoof of the already spoofy Batman. And here’s the first episode in case your imagination fails you.
You’d think that one series of that would be enough, but post-Buffy, all bets were off and networks were looking for superheroine shows. Trouble was, somehow the idea of superheroines is hard for (male) networks to understand for some reason, so the idea of a reboot of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl seemed like a viable idea. Except they wanted to spoof the spoof of a spoof and there’s only so much spoofing you can do before you lose track. And this was the result.
Kind of puts that David E Kelley Wonder Woman pilot into perspective, doesn’t it? Surprisingly enough, it was never picked up to series…
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News: A Gotham trailer, more Comeback and Salem, Starz got have She’s Gotta Have It + more
Film casting
- Rhys Ifans to play Dylan Thomas in Dominion
Internet TV
- The CW green lights: LA Rangers
- Dreama Walker joins Amazon’s Cocked
- Netflix renews: Orange is the New Black…
- …Nick Sandow and Selenis Leyva promoted to regulars
International TV
- Spain to close nine channels
UK TV
New UK TV show casting
- Julie Hesmondhaigh to star in Channel 4’s Cucumber
US TV
- HBO revives: The Comeback
- WGN America renews: Salem
- Trailer for season 2 of Rogue
- Sunday ratings
US TV show casting
- Damon Wayans Jr promoted to regular on New Girl
- Jocko Sims joins Masters of Sex
- John Heard joins Mistresses
- Seth Gillam joins The Walking Dead
- Will Yun Lee joins True Blood
New US TV shows
- Fox green lights: Gotham series…
- …puts out trailer
- Showtime developing: Spike Lee adaptation of She’s Gotta Have It
- Trailer for Fox’s Gang Related
- Trailer for Starz’s Outlander
New US TV show casting
- Alex Roe to star in ABC Family’s Unstrung
