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[ 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: Superman’s granddad, Mark Hamill’s the Trickster again, Toast and Continuum renewed + more

9 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Toho to produce new Godzilla movie

Film casting

Gina Carano joins Kickboxer

Canadian TV

Showcase renews: Continuum for one more season

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon Prime’s Mozart In The Jungle

UK TV

Channel 4 renews: Toast
BBC One Christmas trailer
Call the Midwife Christmas trailer
Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

John Henshaw and Mark Benton to star in Channel 4 spoof Educating Bitchfield

US TV

USA renews: Playing House
FXX renews: The League for one more season
Sunday ratings
Sunday TNT ratings

US TV show casting

Melina Kanakaredes to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Mark Hamill to play The Trickster on The Flash. Again

New US TV shows

TruTV green lights: school comedy Those Who Can’t
Syfy developing: Superman’s granddad prequel Krypton

New US TV show casting

Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Keisha Castle-Hiughes, Rafe Spall and Peter Cambor join Showtime’s Roadies
Austin Butler to star in MTV’s Shannara
Maggie Siff joins Showtime’s Billions
Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis join Fox’s Scream Queens

News: a Star Wars teaser, Fox UK acquires Murder in the First, Matador cancelled, a Better Call Saul clip + more

1 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Trailers

Teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Canadian TV

Eric Roberts et al to guest on final season of Lost Girl
ReBoot sequel in development

European TV

Germany’s Das Erste adapting: Craig Russell’s Stigma as Brandmal

UK TV

Fox UK acquires: TNT’s Murder in the First
Thursday ratings

New UK TV shows

Arthur Mathews developing bailiffs sitcom for BBC One

New UK TV show casting

Timothy Spall joins BBC One adaptation of Cider With Rosie
Hilary MacLean, Timothy Watson and Morfydd Clark to co-star in ITV’s adaptation of Arthur & George

US TV

US TV show casting

William Baldwin to recur on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

Trailer for NBC’s A.D.
Clip from AMC’s Better Call Saul

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

28 November 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Radio

John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Manville to star in 10 hour New Year’s Day War and Peace

Theatre

Phoenix Nights to return as a stage show

Canadian TV

CBC unveils Winter season
Trailer for CBC’s The Book of Negroes
Trailer for CBC’s Schitt’s Creek

Internet TV

Bittorrent green lights: Children of the Machine

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

A returning Arrow character [spoilers]

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

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

News: Superman’s granddad, Mark Hamill’s the Trickster again, Toast and Continuum renewed + more

News: a Star Wars teaser, Fox UK acquires Murder in the First, Matador cancelled, a Better Call Saul clip + more

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

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

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