2015 – Page 102 – The Medium is Not Enough

News

Trailers

Clip from Mr Holmes with Sir Ian McKellen

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Daredevil

US TV

CBS cancels (almost): The McCarthys
Bravo renews: The Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Billy Baldwin, Lynn Whitfield, Andy Buckley et al join Hit The Floor
Derek Luke joins Rogue
Marcia Cross and Robert Vaughn to guest on L&O:SVU
Laverne Cox to guest on The Mindy Project
Mira Sorvino to recur on Stalker
Milo Ventimiglia to recur on Gotham

New US TV shows

Preview of ABC’s American Crime
HBO green lights: pilot of Issa Rae comedy Insecure
NBC developing: Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago Med
Promo for NBC’s The Slap

New US TV show casting

Finesse Mitchell to recur on HBO’s Brothers in Atlanta
Jenna Elfman to star in CBS’s Dana Klein comedy

Fancy watching the first episode of Fortitude but don’t have Sky Atlantic?

4 February 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Don’t worry – it’s available to view for free on YouTube. Review back here, of course.

News: A new Harper Lee novel, Rita Ora to guest on Empire, Cheerleader Death Squad a go + more

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Books

New Harper Lee Mockingbird book

Trailers

Trailer for Lazarus Effect with Olivia Wilde

Internet TV

Michaela Watkins to star in Hulu’s Jason Reitman comedy Casual

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Jennifer Hudson and Rita Ora to guest on Empire
Neve Campbell to recur on Welcome To Sweden
Naya Rivera joins Devious Maids
Rob Mayes joins Mistresses
Amanda Plummer to guest on The Blacklist

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of Lucifer adaptation
NBC green lights: Aseem Batra buddy comedy pilot
USA green lights: series of sci-fi drama Colony, with Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies
The CW green lights: pilot of Cheerleader Death Squad

New US TV show casting

Tone Bell to co-star in NBC’s People Are Talking
Malin Akerman joins Showtime’s Billions
Billie Lourd joins Fox’s Scream Queens

What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2015? Including The Wednesday Play: Culloden (1964)

3 February 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in March 2015. Surprisingly slim pickings this month, but there is a preview of Jimmy McGovern’s forthcoming Banished, complete with Q&A with McGovern, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Russell Tovey, a short season of Jenny Barraclough documentaries and a triple bill of Peter Watkins films, including The War Game and Culloden, a faux documentary about the Jacobean uprising. And as you can watch it below, it’s also this week’s The Wednesday Play… on a Tuesday.

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News: More Musketeers, 35 Diwrnod, US Cordon remake, James Cromwell to Halt and Catch Fire + more

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Film casting

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny to star in Whit Stilman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Love & Friendship

Internet TV

Richard Gunn joins Hemlock Grove
Vikings to get online spin-off Athelstan’s Journal
Carrie-Anne Moss joins Netflix’s AKA Jessica Jones

UK TV

BBC One renews: The Musketeers…
…and Last Tango In Halifax
S4C renews: 35 Diwrnod
E4 cancels: My Mad Fat Diary
Lifetime acquires: Blue

New UK TV show casting

Denise Welch, Rebecca Root and Harry Hepple to star in BBC Two’s Boy Meets Girl

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Sarah Carter joins Rogue
James Cromwell to recur on Halt and Catch Fire
Nathan Fillion to play himself on Big Bang Theory
Garret Dillahunt to guest on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Sandra Bernhard to guest on 2 Broke Girls
Lee Tergesen, Nichole Galicia and Conrad Coates join Defiance

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of comedy Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life
Weinstein Co developing The Reaper as mini-series
MTV developing: feminism comedy
The CW green lights: remakes of Tales From The Darkside and Belgium’s Cordon, plus supernatural drama Dead People
OWN developing: adaptation of Queen Sugar
Cinemax green lights: Quarry

New US TV show casting

Augustus Prew to star in HBO’s Mamma Dallas
Gillian Vigman, Alexie Gilmore and Jessica Meraz join TBS’s Quality Time

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Year: 2015

News: Milo Ventimiglia to recur on Gotham, a Slap promo, Jenna Elfman’s new comedy + more

Fancy watching the first episode of Fortitude but don’t have Sky Atlantic?

News: A new Harper Lee novel, Rita Ora to guest on Empire, Cheerleader Death Squad a go + more

What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2015? Including The Wednesday Play: Culloden (1964)

News: More Musketeers, 35 Diwrnod, US Cordon remake, James Cromwell to Halt and Catch Fire + more

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent