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The Secrets She Keeps, The Last Wave acquired; Insatiable cancelled; Alan Partridge renewed; + more

17 February 2020 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Internet TV

Netflix cancels: Insatiable
Chanté Adams, Roberta Coldindrez and Melanie Field join Amazon’s A League of Their Own

UK TV

BBC One renews: This Time With Alan Partridge
BBC Four acquires: Ten (Australia)’s The Secrets She Keeps and France 2’s La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave)
Siobhan Finneran, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jayde Adams et al to star in BBC Two’s Alma’s Not Normal

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 3 of BBC America’s Killing Eve
Trailer for season 3 of TBS’s The Last OG

US TV show casting

Lance Gross joins CBS’s Hawaii Five-0

New US TV shows

Trailer for Syfy’s Vagrant Queen
Trailer for HBO’s Run
ABC developing: ex-Green Beret adopts Russian brother comedy Adopted

New US TV show casting

Topher Grace to star in ABC’s Home Economics
Patrick Fugit to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Emma Meisel, Lexi Simonsen, Kevin Rahm et al join HBO Max’s Vegas High
Riann Steele to star in NBC’s Debris
Jude Law to star in Showtime’s The Auteur
Omar Epps joins Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan

Godfather of Harlem, Mytho, Indian Criminal Justice, Brassic, Cobra, Intelligence renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Eric Balfour and Janet Varney join Netflix’s Country Comfort
Ida Engvoll and Björn Mosten to star in Netflix’s Kärlek & anarki (Love & Anarchy)

Christophe Lambert, Sylvie Testud, Steevy Boulay et al to guest on France 3’s Capitaine Marleau
Arte renews: Mytho

International TV

Hotstar (India) renews: Criminal Justice

UK TV

Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London
Sky unveils 80 original TV shows, including paramedics comedy Bloods, with Jane Horrocks and Samson Kayo, green lights adaptation of Kirstie Swain’s Sweetpea, renews Brassic, Intelligence and Cobra
BBC One/Stan (Australia) green light: Outback mystery The Tourist

US TV

Epix renews: Godfather of Harlem

US TV show casting

Karen Obilom joins DC Universe’s Doom Patrol
Dave Annable to guest on NBC’s This is Us

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of Goonies reenactment drama
Universal developing: dark serial killer comedy, with Krysten Ritter

New US TV show casting

John Carroll Lynch joins ABC’s The Big Sky
John Corbett to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Iola Evans, Adain Bradley and Leo Howard join The CW’s The 100 prequel
Lauren Graham to star in Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks
Swoosie Kurtz joins Fox’s Call Me Kat
Martin Freeman and Alex Karpovsky join Peacock’s Angelyne
Paul Adelstein, Medina Senghore and Gina Gallego join Showtime’s The President is Missing
Elizabeth Bowen to recur on Syfy’s Resident Alien

The Crown renewed and cancelled; a French Un Bore Mercher; Dispatches From Elsewhere acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix renews (and cancels): The Crown, Imelda Staunton joins
Jen Tullock and Zach Cherry join Apple TV+’s Severance

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of BBC Wales/S4C’s Un Bore Mercher (Keeping Faith)

UK TV

Trailer for Sky 1’s Intelligence
AMC UK acquires: AMC (US)’s Dispatches From Elsewhere

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend

US TV show casting

Paget Brewster to recur on CBS’s Blood & Treasure
Rachel Boston and Tim Chiou to recur on CBS’s SEAL Team

New US TV shows

Trailer for Disney+’s Loki, WandaVision, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The CW green lights: pilot of Lost Boys reboot and presidential family drama Maverick

New US TV show casting

Owen Wilson joins Disney+’s Loki
Linda Hamilton, Mandell Maughan and Alex Barima to recur on Syfy’s Resident Alien

What time, TMINE? Including The End, Work in Progress, Fenix, Juste un regard, Followers and Queen Sono

31 January 2020 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK

Not a lot of acquisitions this week – ie none – but we have quite a few dates for shows that have already been acquired, as well as the usual streaming service originals.

After the jump then, premiere dates for:

The End (Australia: Showcase; UK: Sky Atlantic)
Work in Progress (US: Showtime; UK: Sky Comedy)
Fenix (The Netherlands: KPN Presents; UK: Walter Presents)
Juste un regard (Just One Look) (France: TF1; UK: Walter Presents)
Followers (Netflix)
Queen Sono (Netflix)

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Perpetual Grace LTD cancelled; Åtta månader adaptation; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico
Sarah Shahi to star in Netflix’s Sex/Life
Apple TV+ green lights: series of magical town 1940s musical comedy, with Cecily Strong
Netflix/Canal+ green light: series of daring 40-something LA-set female comedy On the Verge, with Julie Delpy
Netflix green lights: series of country singer turned nanny comedy Country Comfort, with Katharine McPhee and Eddie Cibrian…
…seven original Spanish TV shows

Canadian TV

CTV green lights: series of parents’ lost lives comedy Children Ruin Everything

European TV

TV Joj (Slovakia)/Czech Television green light: Central European legends and folklore drama The Exorcist

Nordic TV

TV4/C More green lights: series adaptation of Magnus Montelius’s Åtta månader (Eight Months)

Spanish TV

Shine Iberia et al developing: adaptation of Miguel Bosé bioseries

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of NBC’s Good Girls
Epix extends and cancels: Perpetual Grace LTD

US TV show casting

Anthony Okungbowa and Bayo Akinfemi promoted to regulars on CBS’s Bob ♥ Abishola

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America
ABC green lights: series of procedural thriller The Big Sky…
…and pilot adaptation of Emily Bleeker’s Wreckage
Amblin developing: adaptation of The Washington Post’s At War with with the Truth
The CW green lights: pilots of Kung Fu reboot and independent town drama Republic of Sarah…
…red lights: The Game
Fox green lights: pilot remake of BBC Three’s This Country
Starz green lights: series of Harlem female friends comedy Run the World
HBO Max developing: coming-of-age drama Afro.Punks

New US TV show casting

Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel and Jack Gilpin join HBO’s The Gilded Age
David Krumholtz to star in USA’s Evel

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