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News

[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

News: E4 acquires The Goldbergs, The Missing and Brokenwood Mysteries renewed, a Crims trailer + more

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Film casting

Viola Davis to play Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad

Trailers

Trailer for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
New trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella

Canadian TV

CBC green lights: Ava Lee crime thriller series

New Zealand TV

TV2 green lights family sci-fi drama The Cul De Sac, Prime renews The Brokenwood Mysteries

UK TV

E4 acquires: The Goldbergs
BBC One renews: The Missing
Trailer for series two of The Musketeers
Monday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC Three’s young offenders comedy Crims

US TV

US TV show casting

JoAnna Garcia Swisher to return to Once Upon A Time
David James Elliott to guest on Scorpion
Dax Shepard to return to About A Boy
Peyton List and Nicholas Gonzalez to guest on The Flash

New US TV shows

TBS green lights: pilot of Broken Lizard fatherhood comedy Quality Time
ABC Family green lights: adaptation of teen addiction novel Recovery Road

New US TV show casting

Neil Jackson joins TNT’s Lumen, Giacomo Gianniotti joins Lifetime’s Marilyn

News: The Code and Jack Irish renewed, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon tell Big Little Lies + more

26 November 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film casting

Matthew McConaughey to play Randall Flagg in Josh Boone’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand

Trailers

Trailer for Jurassic World
Teaser for Joe Wright’s Pan

Australian TV

ABC renews: Jack Irish and The Code

UK TV

Monday ratings

UK TV show casting

Alun Armstrong, Jane Lapotaire et al to guest on Downton Abbey

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV

Teaser for season two of Salem
Trailer for Flash/Arrow crossover
Sunday Showtime ratings
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

James Frain and Ksenia Solo join Orphan Black

New US TV shows

Deep State and The Rine to be adapted
ABC developing: legal drama Conviction

New US TV show casting

Regina King to star in FX’s Comedy, Daisy Betts joins Syfy’s Childhood’s End
Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon to star in David E Kelley adaptation of Big Little Lies
Jeffrey Dean Morgan to play Joe DiMaggio in Lifetime’s Marilyn
Parminder Nagra and Jessalyn Gilsig join CBS’s Evil Men
Matt Barr joins TNT’s Jerry Bruckheimer drugs drama

News: Constantine cut, Shatner to recur on Haven, a new Global Frequency, Tina Fey goes to Netflix + more

24 November 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Australian TV

Big cuts at ABC

Canadian TV

William Shatner to recur on Haven

Internet TV

Netflix green lights: two seasons of Tina Fey’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

UK TV

New UK TV shows

BBC Two green lights: The Lady In Red with Natalie Dormer, Shaun Evans and Aneurin Barnard

US TV

US TV show casting

Allison Mack to guest on The Following
Christian Campbell joins True Detective
Adam Pally out of The Mindy Project
Dan Bucatinsky promoted to regular on Marry Me
Victoria Clark to guest on Homeland [spoilers]

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of I Like You Just The Way I Am…
…red lights: Members Only
Fox developing: adaptations of Jump Start…
…and Global Frequency

New US TV show casting

Ellen Barkin to guest on Showtime’s Happyish
Paul Dano to co-star in Steve McQueen’s HBO pilot Codes of Conduct
Nora Arnezeder to co-star in CBS’s Zoo
Lenora Crichlow and Spencer Grammer joins NBC’s Mr Robinson

News: Steve McQueen’s Lynda La Plante’s Widows adaptation, Matt Smith and the zombies, East West 101 goes US + more

21 November 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Steve McQueen to adapt Lynda La Plante’s Widows

Film casting

Penelope Cruz joins Zoolander 2
Matt Smith joins Natalie Dormer in Patient Zero
Chris Pratt to star in adaptation of Cowboy Ninja Viking

Trailers

Trailer for Danny Collins, with Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner et al

Australian TV

SBS green lights: adaptation of Benjamin Law’s Family Law

US TV

TBS cancels: Sullivan & Son
Teaser for the Arrow/Flash crossover
Trailer for season 4 of Hart of Dixie
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Cindy Crawford to guest on Cougar Town
Rob Lowe, Rashida Jones and Jon Hamm to return to Parks & Rec

New US TV shows

US buys rights to remake Australia’s East West 101, Fat Cow Motel and Offspring

New US TV show casting

Osy Ikhile joins Syfy’s Childhood’s End

News: Hot In Cleveland cancelled, Westworld series a go, a From Hell TV series + more

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Doctor Who

Time-shifted average viewers for season 8

Film casting

Sam Huntington to star in Finding Sofia

Australian TV

Trailer for Winter with Rebecca Gibney

New UK TV shows

BBC Four green lights: Julian Assange-based comedy Asylum with Kayvan Novak
Comedy Central green lights: I Live With Models

US TV

US TV show casting

Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren to guest on Community

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of Braunschlag adaptation with Rob Riggle
FX developing: From Hell adaptation
HBO green lights: Jonathan Nolan Westworld adaptation

New US TV show casting

Katey Sagal joins FX’s The Bastard Executioner

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News: E4 acquires The Goldbergs, The Missing and Brokenwood Mysteries renewed, a Crims trailer + more

News: The Code and Jack Irish renewed, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon tell Big Little Lies + more

News: Constantine cut, Shatner to recur on Haven, a new Global Frequency, Tina Fey goes to Netflix + more

News: Steve McQueen’s Lynda La Plante’s Widows adaptation, Matt Smith and the zombies, East West 101 goes US + more

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