Canadian TV

News

Doctor Who

Torchwood not cancelled, just in limbo

Film

Undercovers‘ Boris Kodjoe to star in Addicted

Trailers

Trailer for Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, with Maggie Smith et al

Canadian TV

Ratings for the week of October 15-21

UK TV

Hayley Atwell to star in ITV’s Life of Crime
Kenneth Cranham and Ricky Tomlinson join BBC3 zombie drama In The Flesh

US TV

Thursday’s ratings: The Last Resort down 24%, Elementary down 10%, Scandal up 5%
Friday’s ratings: Mockingbird Lane okay, Grimm up 27%

US TV casting

Kathleen Quinlan to recur on Chicago Fire
Seth Green to reunite with Alyson Hannigan on How I Met Your Mother
Jack Wagner to guest on Castle

New US TV shows

ABC developing My Korean Deli…
…compliKATEd with Ben Stiller and Bonnie Hunt…
…and buys City Hall
Fox working on All Grown Up with makers of BBC’s Misery Bear
FX buys military academy comedy from Jack Black
David Marshall working on comedy at HBO, dramas at CBS, CW

New US TV show casting

Bradley Whitford joins Trophy Wife
Joe Flanigan joins The Secret Lives of Wives
Eoin Macken joins After Hours
Mira Sorvino to star in TNT’s Trooper…
…Rebecca Romijn to star as Maxwell in King and Maxwell
Kyle Harris to recur on The Carrie Diaries

Wednesday’s “Elementary and Vegas full seasons, The CW’s teenage Mary Queen of Scots & more Guys With Kids” news

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Film

Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner and Julianne Moore to star in Imagine

Trailers

TV spot for The Hobbit
Trailer for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Canadian TV

Maria Doyle Kennedy et al join Orphan Black

UK TV

Bruce Greenwood, Brian Dennehy, Kevin McNally join Challenger disaster docudrama
ITV orders wartime crime drama Murder on the Home Front
Virgin gets record number of subscribers

US TV

Full seasons for Elementary and Vegas
NBC orders five more Guys With Kids
Monday ratings: NBC and ABC win

US TV casting

Barry Sloane to be a regular on Revenge
Rescue Me‘s Larenz Tate to recur on House of Lies
24‘s Annie Wesching to recur on Dallas

New US TV shows

HBO buys family mystery drama The Return of Daniel Shepherd
The CW developing teenage Mary Queen of Scots drama
ABC acquires Mixology
NBC picks up Jennifer Garner-produced comedy
CBS buys modern Sense and Sensibility, Fox buys Paradise Falls, from Margaret Nagle

New US TV show casting

The Ghost Whisperer‘s David Conrad to star in The Secret Lives of Wives
Casting on Christopher Guest’s Family Tree
Jane Fonda to star in ABC comedy Now What?
Kyle XY‘s Matt Dallas joins Baby Daddy
Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa joins Sirens remake

Tuesday’s “Homeland’s 3rd season, Arrow’s full season and Stephen Colbert’s Hobbit cameo” news

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Film

Hugh Grant to star in a romcom [is this news?]
Stephen Colbert to cameo on The Hobbit
Emmy Rossum joins You’re Not You

Trailers

Another Iron Man 3 trailer teaser

Canadian TV

Family Ties‘ Michael Gross to recur on Call Me Fitz

UK TV

Doc Martin back for eight episodes

US TV

Beauty and the Beast and Emily Owens, MD gets three more episodes
Homeland gets a third season after delivering most watched episode so far
New Girl and Raising Hope get two more episodes
Arrow gets a full season
Sunday ratings: 666 Park Avenue up 20%, The Good Wife up 12%, Once Upon A Time up 10%

US TV casting

Michael J Fox to return to The Good Wife
Mark-Paul Gosselaar to guest on Happy Endings
Kuno Becker joins Dallas
Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt to guest on Parenthood

New US TV shows

CBS developing comedy Smells Like Teen Spirit
Fox buys comedy The Commuters…
…and The B Team from New Girl‘s Jake Johnson
A clip from Mockingbird Lane

New US TV show casting

Mark Consuelos to star in half-hour ABC comedy
Bret Harrison to co-write and star in Married With Roommates for ABC
Adam Baldwin replaces Titus Welliver on Last Ship
Laurie Metcalf to recur on The Goodwin Games

Thursday’s “Made in Jersey cancelled, Hitchcock trailer, NBC ratings record, E4 acquires Nashville and Munsters for Halloween?” news

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Film

Fox News’s Sean Hannity to make film debut in Atlas Shrugged II
Julianne Moore joins Non-Stop
Uma Thurman joins Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Matt Damon joins Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
Looper director’s commentary available to download

Trailers

Trailer for Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren and James D’Arcy
Trailer for The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

Books

JRR Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur to be published

Canadian TV

Chuck‘s Vik Patel to star in Satisfaction

French TV

France 2 adapting Paris Burning?

UK TV

E4 acquires Nashville, someone acquires The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
Charles Dance, Johnny Vegas, Katy Brand and Jessica Hynes to star in Sky Atlantic’s Common People
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Made in Jersey cancelled
The first five minutes of season 2 of American Horror Story
Tuesday’s ratings: NBC wins three nights in a row for first time in nine years

US TV casting

Matt Bomer to guest on The New Normal
Christie Brinkley to guest on Parks and Recreation
Ian McShane to appear in American Horror Story
The Newsroom‘s Kelen Coleman to guest on The Mindy Project
White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason to guest on Men At Work
Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Arrested Development and Community
Hamish Linklater to recur on The Good Wife
Adam Goldberg to guest on Animal Practice

New US TV shows

Modern Family‘s Ty Burrell sells comedy Babble to ABC with his brother
Ed Brubaker sells Rising Sun to Fox with Kyle Killen, secret agent project to NBC
ABC buys drama based on James Patterson’s Michael Bennett
Hollywood Assistants blog to become CBS comedy
ABC to adapt Australia’s Strange Calls paranormal cop comedy
NBC to air failed Munsters reboot as a Halloween special?

New US TV show casting

Kim Raver to star in Lifetime’s The Secret Lives of Wives
Law & Order‘s Jesse L Martin and Revenge‘s James Tupper to star in NBC’s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
Miley Cyrus leaves Bonnie & Clyde mini-series
The Closer‘s Jon Tenney to star in TNT’s King and Maxwell
Eric Dane to star in TNT’s The Last Ship
Page Keller joins ABC Family’s Terminales
Molly Shannon to guest on Hannibal

Tuesday’s “Murder Bitches, cable up, network down ratings, and dead Munsters” news

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Doctor Who

The Angels Take Manhattan gets 5.9m viewers

Film

Longmire‘s Bailey Chase joins Ashley Scott and Cuba Gooding Jr in Summoned

Trailers

TV spot for Alex Cross, with Tyler Perry, Mathew Fox, Rachel Nichols and Jean Reno

Canadian TV

Adam Korson and Carrie-Lynn Neales to star in Seed
Ratings for week of Sept 17
Ratings for week of Sept 23

UK TV

Downton Abbey hits series high

US TV

Premiere week full ratings
Friday ratings: Made in Jersey starts low
Sunday ratings: 666 Park Avenue starts low
Sunday cable ratings: Homeland up 60% in season premiere, Dexter has most watched season opener

US TV casting

Gerald McRaney to guest on Mike & Molly

New US TV Shows

Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane ironically probably dead
ABC buys Dakota, CBS buys The Centurion
Ryan Murphy to produce drama Montauk for Fox, comedy for NBC
Shonda Rhimes sells I Hate LA Dudes and The Mix to ABC
CBS buys single-camera family comedy
The Mentalist producers sells Murder Bitches to CBS
Fox buys two couples comedies
The CW developing supernatural ‘fixer’ drama Abaddon’s Journal
The SHIELD characters [minor spoilers]

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