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BBC4 acquires Les Témoins; Sky Atlantic renews Tin Star; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon developing: James Gunn Starsky & Hutch reboot
Netflix green lights: Damien Chazelle/Jack Thorne musical French/English/Arabic drama The Eddy

International TV

Trailer for Channel 4/Amazon’s Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams

UK TV

BBC Four acquires: Les Témoins (Witnesses) season 2

New UK TV shows

Sky Atlantic renews: Tin Star

US TV

Sunday ratings

Friends’ sisters reunited; Old Man Samuel L Jackson; Chris Pine’s TV show; Animal Kingdom, Angie Tribeca, Harlots renewed; + more

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The Daily News will return on 4th September. Have a nice August!

Film trailers

New trailer for IT
Trailer for Rob Reiner’s LBJ, with Woody Harrelson

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Comrade Detective

Canal+ green lights: adaptation of Joann Sfar’s L’Eternel as Monsters’ Shrink

International TV

Trailer for AXN’s Absentia with Stana Katic
Hulu (US) – and maybe ITV Encore (UK) – renew: Harlots

US TV

TNT renews: Animal Kingdom
TBS renews: Angie Tribeca
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Desmond Harrington joins CBS’s Elementary
Mario Bello joins CBS’s NCIS
Garcelle Beauvais to recur on E!’s The Arrangement
Johnny Pemberton and Brendan Jennings to recur on FXX’s You’re The Worst
Chris Messina to recur on Hulu’s The Mindy Project
Bobby Cannavale joins TBS’s Angie Tribeca

New US TV shows

Van Jones/Macro developing: smart, sexy political drama Indivisible
Fox 21 developing: adaptation of Thomas Perry’s The Old Man as Old Man, with Samuel L Jackson
Media Res developing: morning TV show drama, with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon
Showtime developing: 90s Boston crime drama City on a Hill
TNT green lights: limited series of Fauna Hodel biopic One Day She’ll Darken, with Chris Pine

New US TV show casting

Keith David to recur on Freeform’s Marvel’s New Warriors
Elizabeth Lail to star in Lifetime’s You

News: Crazyhead cancelled; This Country renewed; Syfy’s book adaptations; young Meemaw found; + more

19 July 2017 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Internet TV

Carla Gugino joins Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House
Amazon developing: adaptation of Jardine Libaire’s White Fur
Trailer for Netflix’s Atypical
Teaser trailer for Netflix’s Suburra
BBC Three renews: This Country
Audrey Fleurot joins Netflix’s Safe

UK TV

E4 cancels: Crazyhead

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Starz’s Outlander [US only]
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Zoe McLellan joins ABC’s Designated Survivor
Nick Wechsler to recur on NBC’s Shades of Blue
Michelle Hurd joins Fox’s Lethal Weapon
Jake Weber, Linus Roache and Maury Sterling promoted to regulars on Showtime’s Homeland

New US TV shows

OWN developing: modern-day power couple light drama Love is ___
Syfy developing: adaptations of Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle, Hugh Howey’s Sand, Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Time and Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light

New US TV show casting

Annie Potts to play Meemaw on CBS’s Young Sheldon

News: Sean Bean takes The Oath; Tony Danza to star in The Good Cop; David Suchet on Capitaine Marleau; + more

20 June 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Clip from Netflix’s Atypical
Netflix green lights: series of father-son family-friendly cop drama The Good Cop, with Tony Danza

French TV

David Suchet to guest on France 3’s Capitaine Marleau

New UK TV show casting

Tommy Tiernan joins Channel 4’s Derry Girls

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Amirah Vann to recur on TNT’s Major Crimes
Kim Raver to recur on Showtime’s Ray Donovan

New US TV shows

USA red lights: The Tap

New US TV show casting

Sean Bean to star in Crackle’s The Oath
Jacki Weaver to co-star in TNT’s The Deep Mad Dark

Canal+’s campaign for season 3 of Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau) is a bit like watching paint drying

30 May 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I love Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau). It is almost certainly the best French-language TV show I’ve ever seen and that includes all of Engrenages (Spiral). Good news! Season 3 is just starting on Canal+ in France, which means that fingers crossed, it’ll be on Amazon in the UK within the next few months.

However, in its native land, it has to be said, the ad campaign to promote it isn’t exactly going all out to sell its virtues. True, it’s not the most action-packed of shows, despite being a spy drama, although it does have its moments. But all the same, Canal+ is very much preaching to the converted with its latest campaign…

To be fair, they do have one cool one. Spoilers ahoy, obviously…

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