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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

Rig 45, Teenage Psychic, American Gods renewed; La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off; + more

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

Apologies for the delay in today’s news – apparently there was a power cut at the data centre… for eight hours.

Internet TV

Ernie Hudson to return to Netflix’s Grace and Frankie
Netflix/Amazon developing: Jean-Luc Azoulay series [in French]

TF1 developing: La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off Olivia, with Laetitia Milot [in French]
France 2 developing: Astrid et Raphaëlla [in French]

International TV

HBO Asia green lights: series of human consciousness thriller Dream Raider, food anthology series Food Lore, mass shooting drama The World Between Us…
…renews: Teenage Psychic

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay renews: Rig 45

UK TV

Audio to missing Callan episode discovered

US TV

Starz renews: American Gods

US TV show casting

Azie Tesfai promoted to regular on The CW’s Supergirl

New US TV shows

Trailer for Starz’s The Rook
Waterman Entertainment developing: adaptation of Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone books

New US TV show casting

Ben Lawson replaces Josh Cooke on ABC’s Nana
Bryce Charles and Tate Moore join ABC’s Woman Up
Joseph Lyle Taylor and David Fierro join CBS’s Tommy (formerly Nancy)
Hunter Parrish to star in The CW’s Jane the Novela
Freddie Prinze Jr to star in The CW’s Nancy Drew
Michael Mosley joins Fox’s neXT
Jonathan Sadowski joins Fox’s Patty’s Auto
Zabryna Guevara joins NBC’s Emergence
Joe Tippett and Alex Neustaedter join NBC’s Prism

Arrow to end; The Sinner, Rebecka Martinsson, Les rivières pourpres renewed; Mad About You revived; + more

7 March 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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Internet TV

Apple green lights: series adaptation of Amaryllis Fox’s Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, with Brie Larson
Netflix developing: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jonathan Van Ness to guest on Netflix’s Spinning Out
Anthony Stewart Head and Jennifer Saunders join Netflix’s The Stranger

French TV

France 2 renews: Les rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) [in French]
Arte green lights: series of collapsing society thriller Moloch, with Olivier Gourmet and Marine Vacth [in French]

Scandinavian TV

TV4 renews: Rebecka Martinsson, Sascha Zacharias to replace Ido Engvoll

UK TV

Full trailer for BBC2/Amazon’s Good Omens

US TV

The CW cuts and ends: Arrow
USA renews: The Sinner

US TV show casting

Alexa Nisenson promoted to regular on AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead
Ernie Hudson to guest on The CW’s Arrow
Jon Beavers and Grant Harvey to recur on TNT’s Animal Kingdom
Matt Bomer joins USA’s The Sinner

New US TV shows

Trailer for Epix’s Perpetual Grace, LTD
HBO green lights: series of quit your life comedy Run, with Merritt Wever, Domhnall Gleeson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Spectrum green lights: Mad About You revival, with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt

New US TV show casting

Nicholas Pinnock to star in ABC’s prisoner-cum-lawyer drama
Victor Rasuk to star in ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty
Jane Seymour joins ABC’s The Hypnotist’s Love Story
Pauley Perrette to star in CBS’s Broke
Kyle MacLachlan joins CBS’s Carol’s Second Act
Briga Heelan and Michael Angarano to star in CBS’s To Whom It May Concern
Marcia Cross to co-star in The CW’s Jane the Novela
Rio Mangini and Del Zamora join The CW’s The Lost Boys
Gerald McRaney joins, Steve Harris and Melia Kreiling to co-star in Fox’s Filthy Rich
French Stewart and Mike Lane join NBC’s Like Magic
Peter Gallagher and John Clarence Stewart join NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Call The Midwife, Agatha Raisin, Man Like Mobeen, Endeavour renewed; Charlotte Rampling’s DNA; + more

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Internet TV

Teaser for Netflix’s When They See Us
Josh Radnor joins Amazon’s The Hunt
Rebecca Hall to star in Amazon’s Tales From The Loop

French TV

France Ô green lights: South Pacific police drama OPJ, Pacifique Sud, with Yaëlle Trules, Antoine Stip, Nathan Dellemme et al [in French]
Mother Production developing: 90s lesbian nightclub drama Purple

Scandinavian TV

RÚV (Iceland) green lights: series of divorce comedy Pabbahelgar (Happily Never After)
Zik Zak (Iceland) developing: international sports gender prejudice drama Backfire
Charlotte Rampling, Anders W Berthelsen, Zofia Wichlacz et al to star in TV2 (Denmark)’s DNA

UK TV

BBC One renews: Call the Midwife
BBC Three renews: Man Like Mobeen
ITV renews: Endeavour
BBC One green lights: new Alan Partridge series
ITV green lights: series of local radio comedy Glass Houses, with Dawn French, Mark Heap, Julie Hesmondhalgh et al

US TV

Acorn renews: Agatha Raisin

US TV show casting

Chrissy Metz to guest on NBC’s Superstore
Sohvi Rodriguez promoted to regular on TNT’s Animal Kingdom

New US TV shows

MGM developing: adaptation TC Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain

New US TV show casting

EJ Bonilla to star in ABC’s Until the Wedding
Michael Emerson joins CBS’s Evil
Seth Rogen to guest on CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
Cheyenne Haynes and Haley Tju join The CW’s The Lost Boys
Fernanda Andrade and Aaron Moten join Fox’s neXt
Freddie Stroma and Hayley Magnus joins NBC’s Like Magic
Chloe Wepper, David Alpay and Brooke Smith join NBC’s Prism
Justin Bartha and Geoffrey Owens join Syfy’s (Future) Cult Classic

Death in Paradise renewed; Turn Up Charlie, Osmosis, Pure, The Bay, Arrested Development, Fosse/Verdon trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Turn Up Charlie
Trailer for Netflix’s Osmosis
Trailer for season 5b of Netflix’s Arrested Development
Erin Darke to star in YouTube’s It’s a Man’s World
Netflix green lights: series adaptation of Ann M Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club books
Amazon developing: adaptation of Jo Piazza’s Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, with Julia Roberts

Canadian TV

Teaser for season 2 of Super Channel’s Pure

French TV

France 2 green lights: triple couple comedy drama Une belle histoire (A Beautiful Story), with Sébastien Chassagne, Tiphaine Davot, Louise Monot et al

German TV

Dreamtool Entertainment developing: adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s Der Überläufer (The Turncoat) [subscription required]

UK TV

Trailer for ITV’s The Bay
Amanda Payton joins Sky’s Code 404
BBC One renews: Death in Paradise, Aude Legastelois promoted to regular
BBC Three green lights: semi-autobiographical sitcom Ladhood with Liam Williams

US TV show casting

Tyson Ritter promoted to regular on AMC’s Preacher

New US TV shows

Trailer for FX’s Fosse/Verdon
Syfy green lights: series adaptation of Dark Horse’s Resident Alien, with Alan Tudyk
AMC developing: new The Walking Dead spin-off
Oakhurst development: drama adaptation of Lois Beachy Underhill’s The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

New US TV show casting

Carlos Gomez, Lisa Vidal and Dan Bucatinsky joins ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty
Olivia Thirlby to star in ABC’s Until the Wedding
Adelaide Clemens to co-star in, Russell G Jones and Olivia Lucy Phillip join CBS’s Tommy
Sarah Hay, Cheyenne Haynes and Haley Tju join The CW’s The Lost Boys
Eve Harlow joins Fox’s neXt
Kyla Pratt joins Fox’s Patty’s Auto
Timothy Hutton joins Fox’s Sisters adaptation
Barry Sloane and Michael Luwoye to co-star in NBC’s Bluff City Law

The Haunting of Hill House renewed; M6’s Agatha Christie adaptation; a Magnum, P.I. guest on Magnum P.I.; + more

22 February 2019 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

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Internet TV

Netflix renews: The Haunting of Hill House as anthology series
Trailer for Netflix’s The Order
Svetlana Efremova and Charlie Hewson join Netflix’s Spinning Out
Carmela Zumbado joins Netflix’s You

Canadian TV

Thunderbird Entertainment developing: adaptation of Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

French TV

M6 green lights: adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians as Ils étaient 10 (They were 10), with Samuel Le Bihan, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Marianne Denicourt, et al

International TV

Ubisoft developing: live action adaptation of Skull & Bones

UK TV

BBC Two green lights: young Premiere League footballers comedy Afternoons

US TV show casting

Bruce Dern to guest on Audience’s Mr Mercedes
Stella Maeve to guest on CBS’s God Friended Me
Roger E Mosley to guest on CBS’s Magnum P.I.
Caity Lotz to guest on The CW’s Arrow
Ryan Devlin joins Hulu’s Veronica Mars

New US TV shows

Trailer for CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
Starz developing: multi-generational female family drama Kin

New US TV show casting

Brooke Shields and Jade Payton join The CW’s Glamorous
Jonny Beauchamp and Julia Chan to star in The CW’s Katy Keene
Tunji Kasim to star in The CW’s Nancy Drew
Cameron Gellman joins DC Universe’s Stargirl
Carra Patterson, Sarah Levy, Paola Lázaro and Joanna Adler to star in Fox’s Patty’s Auto
Andie MacDowell and Kathleen Turner to star in Fox’s Quadras adaptation
Josh Gad to star in HBO’s Avenue 5
Skylar Astin and Alex Newell join NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Adam Pally and Abby Elliott to star in NBC’s Uninsured
Adrian Grenier to star, Sydney Morton joins Syfy’s Cipher

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