2017 – Page 83 – The Medium is Not Enough

News

Every Friday, I let you know the latest announcements about when new, imported TV shows will finally be arriving on UK screens – assuming anyone’s bought anything, of course.

We have news of three shows’ premiere dates this week. Two are definitely not worth watching, mind.

Detroiters (US: Comedy Central; UK: Comedy Central UK)
Monday, April 3rd, 11pm
Episode reviews: 1

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (Netflix)
Friday, April 14th

Wicked City (US: ABC; UK: Sky On Demand)
Monday, May 1st
Episode reviews: 1

News: CBS renews 13 more shows; The Knick cancelled; Wicked City acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Laura Dern, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph et al to guest on Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Netflix developing: present-day Jesus drama Messiah

UK TV

Sky Box Sets acquires: ABC (US)’s Wicked City

UK TV show casting

Adrien Brody joins BBC Two’s Peaky Blinders

US TV

CBS renews: Life in Pieces, Mom, Kevin Can Wait, Man With A Plan, Superior Donuts, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, Scorpion, Madam Secretary, Bull and MacGyver
Showtime cancels: The Knick
Fox contracts and expands: Lucifer
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Talulah Riley promoted to regular on HBO’s Westworld
Raney Branch to recur on BET’s Being Mary Jane
Eliza Dushku joins CBS’s Bull

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for Hulu’s Dimension 404
New trailer for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

New US TV show casting

Bret Harrison joins CBS’s Real Life
Bobby Moynihan joins Syfy’s Happy!
Falk Hentschel to recur on TNT’s The Alienist

New Zealand’s Anika Moa has a unique interviewing approach

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These days, every chatshow host seems to have a gimmick for interviewing guests. Graham Norton’s red chair is probably the tamest, since he doesn’t actually consign the guests to their doom, but it’s there. I’ll mention it. James Corden, of course, not only has Carpool Karaoke for interviewing singers, he gets his film star guests to act out their entire careers.

But Anika Moa has probably the oddest approach of all. A singer and chatshow host on New Zealand’s Maori Television, she gets guests to answer questions… while they’re wearing a dental retainer. Here’s Lucy Lawless giving it a whirl, for example.

No, I don’t know if it’s the same one each time or whether they sterilise it afterwards.

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Love Actually 2 has a trailer

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And given the US now has Red Nose Day as well, Americans will get to watch it at the same time as us Brits. No Joanna Page, though? Pfft.

News: David Boreanaz – Navy SEAL; key presidential anthology series; Nazi hunters; + more

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Film trailers

The first four minutes of Ghost In the Shell

Internet TV

Adam Busch to recur on Netflix’s Altered Carbon

International TV

Paramount (US)/Telefe (Argentina) developing: Nazi hunter drama Cazadores (Hunters)

Canadian TV

CBS renews: Heartland

New UK TV show casting

Carey Mulligan to star in BBC One’s Collateral
Timothy Spall et al join Channel 4’s The Commuter

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of The CW’s iZombie
Trailer for season 3 of FX’s Fargo
Monday ratings
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Katie McGrath promoted to regular on The CW’s Supergirl
Ashley Judd joins Epix’s Berlin Station
John Cho joins Hulu’s Difficult People

New US TV shows

History developing: key presidential moments anthology show The Commanders

New US TV show casting

Beau Garrett joins ABC’s The Good Doctor
Shalim Ortiz joins ABC’s Las Reinas
Berto Colon joins ABC’s The Trustee
Chris Sacca to guest on ABC’s Start Up
Amy Brenneman to star in CBS’s The Get
Kyle Howard to star in CBS’s Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices
David Boreanaz to replace Jim Caviezel on CBS’s Navy SEAL drama
Ricardo Chavira to replace Nestor Serrano on CBS’s Mission Control
Jaleel White joins CBS’s Me, Myself and I
Kristen Johnson joins CBS’s Real Life
Brianna Brown to guest on The CW’s Dynasty
Sawyer Barth joins Fox’s Amy’s Brother
Valerie Cruz joins Fox’s The Resident
JJ Feild and Latarsha Rose join NBC’s extreme event medical series
Rodney To joins NBC’s Redliners
Jahking Guillory to recur on Showtime’s The Chi
Luke James, Aisha Hinds and Letoya Luckett joiun USA’s Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac

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Year: 2017

When’s that show you mentioned starting again, TMINE? Including Wicked City, MST3K and Detroiters

News: CBS renews 13 more shows; The Knick cancelled; Wicked City acquired; + more

New Zealand’s Anika Moa has a unique interviewing approach

Love Actually 2 has a trailer

News: David Boreanaz – Navy SEAL; key presidential anthology series; Nazi hunters; + 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