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Trailers

Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Noah
Trailer for Randall Wallace’s Heaven Is Real

Canadian TV

NBC and Global TV developing: Working The Engels

UK TV

Fox acquires: Endgame…
…Mob City and more Braquo

UK TV casting

Stephen Fry, Rob Brydon, Olvia Colman et al to guest on This is Jinsy

US TV

John Oliver leaving The Daily Show for HBO
AMC renews: Hell on Wheels
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

JoAnna Garcia Swisher to guest on The Mindy Project

New US TV shows

FX developing: Rasputin limited series…
…and adaptation of Spain’s The Red Band Society
The CW developing: Star Crazy with George Lopez
Promo for TNT’s Mob City
Full trailer for Fox’s Almost Human

New US TV show casting

Jack Black and Tim Robbins to star in HBO’s The Brink
La La Anthony joins Starz’s Power
Stuart Wilson to guest on NBC’s Crossbones

Netflix’s 4 superhero shows, ITV goes to Grantchester, and Spooks movie casting

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Film casting

Reese Witherspoon and Robert de Niro join The Intern
Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane join Somnia
Kit Harington and Jennifer Ehle join Spooks movie

Trailers

Trailer for Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
New Robocop trailer

Canadian TV

CTV renews: Saving Hope

UK TV

ITV greenlights: clerical detective drama Grantchester

New UK TV show casting

Casting on BBC1’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and ITV’s Undeniable

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Martin Starr to guest on The Goldbergs
Kelly Rutherford to guest on Bones

New US TV shows

NBC developing: Anne Heche comedy
ABC developing: American Monster with Kristen Schaal
The CW adapting: iZombie with Rob Thomas
Netflix greenlights: four Marvel superhero shows
Eva Longoria sells comedy to NBC, drama to Lifetime

New US TV show casting

Ashley Scott joins Lifetime’s Unreal

Jason Isaacs PI, How I Met Your Father and a new Hand Rocks The Cradle

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The Daily News will return on Wednesday

Film

Mark Walhberg to produce Julius Caesar biopic The Roman
Universal adapting It Takes A Thief
Vince Vaughn Rockford Files gets a new writer

Film casting

Aaron Taylor-Johnson to play Quicksilver in The Avengers 2
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Susanne Bier’s A Second Chance
Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Alfred Molina to star in Boychoir

Canadian TV

Bomb Girls – The Movie

UK TV

BBC2 renews: The Wrong Mans

US TV

DirectTV acquires Channel 4’s Black Mirror and Secret State
Tuesday’s ratings

US TV casting

Carrie Fisher to guest on Legit
Alexa Vega to guest on The Tomorrow People
Missi Pyle and Kurt Fuller to guest on The Crazy Ones
Paulo Costanzo to guest on Criminal Minds

New US TV shows

A&E developing: Jerry Bruckheimer body trade drama
ABC developing Entrapment, The CW developing Badlands
Mark Gordon and Jason Isaacs developing private eye drama for ABC
The CW developing: Fred Durst’s The Noise
Fox developing: Street Soldier
CBS developing: How I Met Your Father
ABC developing: adaptation of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Ed Burns to write, direct and star in TNT’s Public Morals

The Swede, Almost Human, Veronica Mars and Diane Keaton’s Last Tango in Halifax

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Film

Trailer for Veronica Mars

Film casting

Noomi Rapace to star six times in What Happened to Monday?
Eliza Dushku to star in Jane Wants A Boyfriend

Trailers

Trailer for Justice League: War

Canadian TV

CTV cancels: Satisfaction
Benjamin Arthur and Azura Skye join Working The Engels

UK TV

Friday ratings: SHIELD ratings halved
Sunday ratings

UK TV casting

Matthew Lewis joins Bluestone 42

US TV

Cinemax renews: Strike Back for final season
Promo for the final season of Nikita
Sunday night ratings

US TV casting

Max Minghella to guest on The Mindy Project

New US TV shows

20th Century Fox developing: The Swede
CBS and NBC developing: Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green comedies
NBC developing: Law Man…
…Ellen DeGeneres lesbian comedy
The first eight minutes of Fox’s Almost Human [US only]
HBO developing: reamke of BBC1’s Last Tango in Halifax
Trailer for HBO’s True Detective
Promo for Fox’s Rake

New US TV show casting

Janet Montgomery and Xander Berkeley to star in WGN America’s Salem
Hayes MacArthur and Josh Peck to co-star in The Rebels

Full season and a returning agent for SHIELD, and Richard Belzer leaves L&O:SVU

11 October 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will return on Wednesday. Or Thursday. It depends how tired I am

Doctor Who

Nine missing episodes recovered, now available on iTunes

Film casting

Kristin Chenoweth and Katrina Bowden joins Hard Sell
Sophie Turner joins Barely Lethal
Elizabeth Peña joins David Mamet’s Blackbird

Trailers

Trailer for Ambushed with Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture

Canadian TV

Sci-fi show Echoes in development
Trailer for Bitten

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC2’s autumn/winter dramas

US TV

Agents of SHIELD gets a full season
The Originals, The Tomorrow People and Reign gets orders for more scripts
Wednesday ratings: Super Fun Night and Ironside drop, The Tomorrow People starts okay
Wednesday cable ratings

US TV casting

Richard Belzer leaving Law & Order: SVU
Lots more guest stars for Community
Titus Welliver to reprise Agent Blake for Agents of SHIELD
Chris Elliott to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

NBC acquires: time travel dramas Lighthouse and Timeless…
…is developing: Justin Long comedy and Bert Kreischer comedy
ABC developing: Bright Young Things
CBS acquires: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s More Time With Family
A&E red lights Occult, Comedy Central red lights Schlub Life and Bad Advice
Fox adapting: Turkish drama The End

New US TV show casting

Natalie Zea to star in Amazon’s Outlaws, Peter Jacobson to recur on Lifetime’s HR
Ray Liotta and Mamie Gummer join HBO’s The Money

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