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After last week’s deafening silence when it came to acquisitions, it’s all go this week, and we’ve got a flood of premiere dates, too, you’ll be glad to hear. Indeed, the only new acquisition that hasn’t already been given a premiere date is The Orville (US: Fox: UK: Fox UK), which I reviewed earlier this week. I’ll let you know when it’s revealed. I’m assuming it’s not going to be kept a secret, anyway.

After the jump, pop-pickers, I’ll be giving you the rundown of all the new acquisitions and their matching premiere dates. See you in a mo…

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Amazon’s The Boys; History acquires X Company; Jane Seymour’s aerobics; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon developing: adaptation of Garth Ennis’ The Boys

UK TV

History UK acquires: CBC (Canada)’s X Company

US TV

Teaser for season 3 of The CW’s Supergirl

US TV show casting

Brittany Allen to recur on USA’s Falling Water

New US TV shows

AMC developing: Black Lives Matter drama based on Welsey Lowery’s They Can’t Kill Us All
CBS developing: medical/spiritual drama based on Harley Rotbart’s Miracles We Have Seen: America’s Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can’t Forget…
…and multi-camera progress family/conservative neighbour comedy Mr Frederick

New US TV show casting

Luka Sabbat to recur on Freeform’s Grown-ish
Garret Dillahunt to recur on Fox’s The Gifted
Jane Seymour to co-star in Pop TV’s Let’s Get Physical
Kimberley Crossman to recur on Showtime’s SMILF

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

I’m Dying Up Here renewed; The Last Tycoon cancelled; BBC Daytime PIs; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: apocalypse anthology comedy series The Green Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse
Amazon cancels: The Last Tycoon…
…developing: Fred Armisen/Maya Rudolph comedy

International TV

Trailer for CBC (Canada)/Netflix’s Alias Grace

New UK TV shows

BBC Daytime green lights: series of PI drama Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private Investigators, with Mark Benton and Jo Joyner

US TV

Showtime renews: I’m Dying Up Here
New trailer for season 9 of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm
Thursday ratings
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Nick Blood returning to ABC’s Agents of SHIELD
Bonnie Bedelia to recur on ABC’s Designated Survivor
Meegan Warner to guest on ABC’s Once Upon A Time
Tina Majorino to recur on CBS’s Scorpion

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Indian-American female reboot of The Greatest American Hero…
…green lights: fake-psychic is real-psychic drama Spirited with Laverne Cox
Syfy red lights: The Machine

New US TV show casting

Sherilyn Fenn to recur on CBS’s SWAT

Killjoys renewed; Dark Matter cancelled; The CW’s female-centric horror; + more

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International TV

Syfy (US)/Space (Canada) renew and cancel: Killjoys

New UK TV shows

BBC One green lights: family drama Come Home, with Christopher Eccleston and Paula Malcomson

US TV

Syfy cancels: Dark Matter
Trailer for the final season of Hulu’s The Mindy Project
Thursday ratings

New US TV shows

The CW developing: female-centric horror show Black Rose Anthology

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