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US Wrong Mans; Doctor Blake without Doctor Blake; Netflix’s vampire wars; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: series adaptation of IDW’s vampire drama V-Wars, with Ian Somerhalder

Australian TV

Seven green lights: Doctor Blake Mysteries TV movie… without Craig McLachlan

International TV

Federation (France) and Drama Team (Israel) green light: series of cheating death mystery drama The Grave

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Mark Hamill and Kathy Bates to guest on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: Goldbergs spin-off series with AJ Michalka, Tim Meadows and Bryan Callen
Pop green lights: pilot of best friends’ marriage of convenience comedy Arranged
Showtime green lights: pilot of adaptation of BBC One’s The Wrong Mans, with Ben Schwartz

L’art du crime, One Day at a Time renewed; familiar Captain Marvel faces; Condor teaser; + more

27 March 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Clark Gregg, Lee Pace and Djimon Hounsou join Captain Marvel

Internet TV

Netflix renews: One Day at a Time
Amazon green lights: Cortes v Aztecs mini-series Cortes, with Javier Bardem

France 2 renews: L’art du crime (The Art of the Crime)

UK TV

Lee Mack to guest on BBC One’s Doctor Who

US TV

Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for AT&T’s Condor
Starz green lights: series of coming-of-age disaster comedy Now Apocalypse

New US TV show casting

Connie Britton to star in Bravo’s Dirty John
Zach McGowan joins NBC’s Bad Boys spin-off

Runaways, Siren, Stitchers acquired; Victor Hugo: Enemy of the State; John Constantine joins the Legends; + more

20 March 2018 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

French TV

France 2 green lights: Victor Hugo biopic Victor Hugo, ennemi d’État (Victor Hugo: Enemy of the State), with Yannick Choirat and Isabelle Carré [French]

UK TV

Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson join Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl
Syfy acquires: Hulu (US)’s Marvel’s Runways, and Freeform (US)’s Siren and Stitchers

US TV

Nora Zehetner to recur on ABC’s Designated Survivor
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Matt Ryan promoted to regular on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

New US TV show casting

Justina Adorno joins ABC’s Grand Hotel
Ving Rhames joins CBS’s Cagney and Lacey
Mira Sorvino to star in CBS’s The Code
Karimah Westbrook joins The CW’s Beverly Hills high school football drama
Curran Walters joins The CW’s Playing Dead
Mike O’Gorman joins Fox’s playboy dad comedy
Jenna Dewan Tatum joins Fox’s Mixtape
Juliette Lewis, Janicza Bravo, Arturo Del Puerto et al join, Bridget Everett to recur on HBO’s Camping

J’ai 10 Ans; The Magicians renewed; Picasso is a Genius; + more

1 March 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

John Magaro joins Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy

French TV

France 2 green lights: modern family comedy J’ai 10 Ans (I am 10 Years Old)

US TV

Syfy renews: The Magicians
Trailer for season 2 of National Geographic’s Genius
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Gina Rodriguez to guest on Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Rhyon Nicole Brown and Porscha Coleman to recur on Fox’s Empire
Dawn Olivieri to recur on Fox’s SEAL Team
Iain Armitage, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling to return to HBO’s Big Little Lies
Sarah Shahi to recur on NBC’s Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for Paramount’s Yellowstone

New US TV show casting

Chris Warren joins ABC’s Grand Hotel
Alexander Sokovikov joins ABC’s Staties
James Roday and Christina Moses to star in ABC’s A Million Little Things
Michael Trucco joins CBS’s Chiefs
Leonard Roberts and Andrea Demetriades to star in CBS’s Murder
Rupert Evans joins The CW’s Charmed
Joey King and Freddie Stroma to star in The CW’s Dead Inside
Matt Barr to star in The CW’s Skinny Dip
Janina Gavankar to star in Fox’s playboy dad comedy
Jennifer Carpenter and Morris Chestnut to star in NBC’s The Enemy Within
Lorraine Toussaint and Dominic Chianese to star in NBC’s The Village

What have you been watching? Including Corporate, Counterpart and Baron Noir

21 February 2018 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching this week

The Winter Olympics continues to have its chilling effect on TV programming, with an almost glacial release of new shows and plenty of old shows frozen in their tracks. Elsewhere, I’ve reviewed Stargate Origins (Stargate Command) and Here and Now (US: HBO). But that’s been the lot, more or less, in the past week. That does mean, though, that I’ve been able to christen a new movie feature on TMINE this week, Movie Monday, to take in film reviews, which means WHYBW can now focus on tele.

Black Lightning‘s on holiday this week, so that just leaves us with the remaining usual regulars: Corporate, Counterpart, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, High Maintenance and The Magicians, as well as the season finale of Baron Noir. Two of them are getting a promotion – can you guess which ones?

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What have you been watching? Including Corporate, Counterpart and Baron Noir

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching this week

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