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Film trailers

Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Trailer for Alice Through The Looking Glass
Trailer for London Has Fallen

European TV

Germany’s ARD green lights: Adidas and Puma mini-series Rivals Forever: The Sneaker Battle

New UK TV show casting

Anna Friel, Jamie Bamber, Harry Lloyd et al to star in ITV’s Marcella

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Annie Ilonzeh to recur on Empire
Tawny Cypress to guest on Supergirl

New US TV shows

ABC developing: weird vineyard town drama Crush…
…fortysomething female comedy
ABC Family green lights: Amanda Knox-esque London drama Guilt and Tim Kring supernatural powers conspiracy drama Beyond
AMC developing: adaptation of The Terror
NBC developing: working mum comedy Poog
FX developing: dark crime comedy Caper
CBS developing: secret agent princess drama Mi-Zero…
…and Sunny Hostin drama, medical drama Sensory and cop comedy Rubber Guns
TNT developing: event series The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
TBS renews: Angie Tribeca

New US TV show casting

Allison Tolman to star in ABC’s Downward Dog

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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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