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About Rob Buckley

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.

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Anna Faris exits Mom; Amazon’s Jack Reacher found; + more

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Internet TV

Alan Ritchson to star in Amazon’s Jack Reacher

Nordic TV

Nent Group green lights: right-wing extremism drama Furia, with Ine Marie Willmann, Pål Sverre Hagen, Trond Espen Seim et al

US TV show casting

Anna Faris exits CBS’s Mom

New US TV show casting

CBS developing: family funeral home drama Closure

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Netflix’s Ayrton Senna drama; Gina Torres’ 9-1-1 call; Sony’s Silk; + more

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Internet TV

Roland Møller to co-star in Amazon’s Citadel
Netflix green lights: Ayrton Senna drama mini-series
Amazon red lights: Cortes y Moctezuma

Spanish TV

RTVE green lights: released prisoner revenge killings drama Parot, with Blanca Portillo, Adriana Ugarte, Iván Massagué et al

US TV show casting

Gina Torres joins Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star
Andrew Leeds, Alice Lee, Michael Thomas Grant and Kapil Talwalkar promoted to regulars on NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of sink school comedy
ABC developing: adaptation of Wendy James’ The Golden Child
Fox developing: multi-generational competing farm drama The Farm
HBO Max developing: adaptation of Mo Welch’s Blair
Peacock developing: erased life reconstruction comedy Wiped Out
Sony developing: adaptation of Marvel’s Silk
UMC green lights: 20-something LA roommates comedy Millennials

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: 68 Whiskey cancelled; Criminal, Tehran, Family Business, Grand Army trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Apple TV+’s Tehran
Trailer for season two of Netflix’s Criminal
Trailer for season two of Netflix’s Family Business
Teaser trailer for Netflix’s Grand Army

UK TV

BlackBox/Night Train developing: adaptation of Jess Ryder psychological thriller

US TV

Paramount cancels: 68 Whiskey

US TV show casting

Blu Del Barrio and Ian Alexander join CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery

New US TV shows

Alloy Entertainment developing: Pretty Little Liars spin-off
CBS developing: San Francisco police drama The Bay
The CW developing: gaming industry drama GG
NBC developing: father-daughter murder mystery drama

New US TV show casting

Precious Way to star in UMC’s Partners in Rhyme

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: En Famille renewed; Cold Courage, Åreakuten acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Emily in Paris
Apple TV+ green lights: adaptation of Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem series…
…family sitcom Dad Stop Embarrassing Me, with Jamie Foxx, Corinne Foxx, David Alan Grier et al

European TV

Sony/Polsat green lights: adaptation of Igor Brejdygant’s Rysa (The Crack), with Julia Kijowska and Maciej Zakościelny

French TV

M6 renews: En Famille (With the Family)

UK TV

Britbox acquires: Viaplay (Scandinavia)’s Cold Courage
Walter Presents acquires: Viaplay’s Åreakuten (First Responders)

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of Carola Lovering’s Tell Me Lies

New US TV show casting

Stephanie Koenig to star in CBS’s The Big Bad Wolves (previously Raised by Wolves)

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: NOS4A2 cancelled; Biohackers renewed; France’s The Night Of…; Asia’s Miss Fisher; Arnie’s spy show; + more

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Happy September everyone! How was your August?

Internet TV

Netflix renews: Biohackers
Netflix cancels: The Big Show Show and Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love
Trailer for Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor
Nick Robinson joins Netflix’s Maid
Amazon developing: human rights lawyer drama…
…adaptation of Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of BBC One’s Criminal Justice/HBO (US)’s The Night Of… as Une Si Longue Nuit (Such a Long Night), with Mathilde Seigner and Sayyid el Alami

International TV

Trailer for HBO Asia’s Miss S

UK TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Grand River/The Bridge developing: adaptation of Bob Baldwin and Max Kinnings’ Wireless Operator

US TV

Eight teasers for season 3 of NBC’s Manifest
AMC cancels: NOS4A2

US TV show casting

Daniel Kyri promoted to regular on NBC’s Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s We Are Who We Are
Teaser for CBS All Access’s The Stand
Starz greenlights: Power spin-off Power Book IV: Force, with Joseph Sikora
The CW developing: witness protection drama The Pretenders
Skydance developing: spy adventure series, with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sony developing: undercover agent child sex trafficking drama

New US TV show casting

Gus Bierney and Dylan Gage join Starz’s Shining Vale

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