News and reviews of Australian and New Zealand TV
News: A Walking Dead spin-off, Elizabeth Warren’s Alpha House cameo, Good Omens for radio + more
Radio
- Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Josie Lawrence et al to star in adaptation of Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens
Australian TV
- Australia Network to shut this month [subscription required]
- ABC cancels: The Time of Our Lives [subscription required]
Internet TV
- Elizabeth Warren to cameo on Alpha House
New UK TV show casting
- George MacKay to star in BBC1’s adaptation of Sadie Jones’ The Outcast
- Hermione Norris, Robert Bathurst, Mathew Horne et al join Sky 1’s Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis to star in ITV’s Home Fires
US TV
- Twelve more episodes for The Exes
US TV show casting
- Lev Gorn promoted to regular on The Americans, to recur on NCIS
- Rebecca Mader to guest on Blue Bloods
- Mary Mouser to replace Madeline Carroll on Scandal
- Peter Gallagher to recur on Law & Order: SVU
- Austin Butler to recur on Arrow
New US TV shows
- AMC greenlights: Walking Dead spin-off
New US TV show casting
- Emmett Scanlan to play Jim Corrigan on NBC’s Constantine
- Rob Brydon and Michelle Gomez to recur on HBO’s The Brink
- Clarke Peters joins HBO’s Show Me A Hero
- Alexander Dreymon to star in BBC America/BBC2’s The Last Kingdom
