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Film

Ridley Scott to direct The Cartel

Film casting

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard returning for Jurassic World 2

Film trailers

Trailer for the final Hunger Games

Canadian TV

Jason Priestley and Molly Ringwald to star in Family Channel’s The Wonderful Wayneys

Internet TV

Billy Bob Thornton to star in Amazon’s David E Kelley series The Trial
Netflix green lights: series of Ingobernable, starring Kate del Castillo
Netflix (UK) acquires: ABC Australia’s Utopia (as Dreamland)

UK TV

EU opens anti-trust case against Sky and US film studios
Sky Atlantic acquires: NBC’s Aquarius
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman to star in Gold’s antiques sitcom Bull

US TV

TNT renews: Rizzoli & Isles
Starz cancels: Da Vinci’s Demons
FX cancels: The Comedians
New teaser for The X-Files
New teaser for season 2 of Gotham
Heroes: Reborn prequel mini-series available on iOS
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Jeri Ryan and JR Bourne to guest on Arrow

New US TV shows

USA green lights: pilot of thriller Poor Richard’s Almanack
New trailer for Fox’s The Grinder

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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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