German TV

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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

News: Walter Presents Réttur & Hellfjord; Mistresses, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll cancelled; German death-by-beer drama; + more

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Internet TV

Hulu green lights: series of alien invasion comedy Future Man
Richard Madden to star in Aamazon’s The Book of Strange New Things
Walter Presents acquires: Channel 2 Iceland’s Réttur (Case) and NRK1 Norway’s Hellfjord

Australian TV

Seven developing: Shane Warne biopic
Trailer for SBS’s Deep Water

European TV

Germany’s Das Erste developing: crime drama about foreign student murdered in beer Bierleichen [subscription required]

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Trailer for season 4 of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
ABC cancels: Mistresses
FX cancels: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

US TV show casting

Kara Royster to guest on Supernatural
Betty Buckley to guest on Chicago Med
Brian Dennehy to recur on Hap & Leonard

New US TV shows

NBC developing: sports medicine and psychology drama…
…and Kourtney Kang family comedy
CBS developing: interracial family comedy The Mix Up
New promo for FX’s Legion [US only]
HBO developing: Jim Jones series Raven

New US TV show casting

Jacob Ming-Trent joins Showtime’s White Famous
Tobias Menzies to star in AMC’s The Terror

News: Hap & Leonard, Baby Daddy renewed; Fortitude teaser; + more

28 June 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Megan Mullally and Constance Wu join Hulu’s Dimension 404

European TV

German’s ZDF green lights: Ku’damm 56 sequel Ku’damm 59

UK TV

Teaser trailer for series 2 of Fortitude

US TV

SundanceTV renews: Hap & Leonard
Freeform renews: Baby Daddy
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Jules Knight to recur on The Royals

New US TV shows

USA Network green lights: pilot of 1930s period drama Damnation

New US TV show casting

Matthew Goode to star in WGN America’s Roadside Picnic
Jason Lewis rejoins NBC’s Midnight Texas

News: Cicero series; Das Boot sequel series; new Vixen; + more

24 June 2016 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

We don’t deserve nice things

Internet TV

Hulu renews: Casual
Trailer for season 2 of Difficult People
YouTube green lights: series based on Step Up

European TV

Sky Germany green lights: sequel series to Das Boot

New UK TV shows

Kudos developing: adaptation of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy [subscription required]

US TV

Two more episodes for Mr Robot
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Sherilyn Fenn and Missi Pyle guest on Major Crimes
James Carpinello to recur on Gotham
Taylor Lautner to star in Scream Queens
Kristen Gutoskie joins The Vampire Diaries, Christina Moses joins The Originals
Aimee Garcia joins Lucifer
Maisie Richardson-Sellers joins DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as Vixen

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s Insecure

New US TV show casting

Tom Everett Scott joins truTV’s I’m Sorry
Rell Battle promoted to regular on CBS’s Superior Donuts
Frances Conroy joins Spike’s The Mist

News: Ash’s dad is bionic; Nasim Pedrad is an American boy; Aaron Sorkin to Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway; + more

11 February 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Theater

Aaron Sorkin to adapt To Kill A Mockingbird for Broadway

Internet TV

Milo Ventimiglia joins Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival
Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve to guest on Netflix’s Black Mirror
Hulu green lights: sci-fi anthology series Dimension 404
Trailer for season 4 of House of Cards
Amazon green lights: German hack attack drama Wanted with Matthias Schweighöfer

European TV

Vokler Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries to star in Sky Deutschland’s Babylon Berlin

UK TV

TLC acquires: NBC’s Heartbeat

New UK TV shows

Mainstreet and Hammer developing period drama [subscription required]
Channel 5 developing: border agent mockumentary Borderline

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Broad City
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Ted Levine, Ismael Cruz Cordova and Gabriel Mann to recur on Ray Donovan
Paget Brewster to guest on Criminal Minds
Sam Huntington to recur on Rosewood
Lee Majors and Ted Raimi join Ash vs Evil Dead

New US TV shows

HBO developing: adaptation of Lawrence In Arabia
USA green lights: series of Shooter adaptation with Ryan Phillippe
Fox green lights: pilot of Middle Eastern family comedy Chad: An American Boy, with Nasim Pedrad

New US TV show casting

Elliot Knight joins CBS’s American Gothic
Steven Boyer joins NBC’s The Trail
Candice Bergen to star in ABC’s Pearl
Hayley Atwell to star in ABC’s Conviction

News: Jekyll and Hyde, Girls cancelled, The Royals renewed, Netflix’s Trollhunters, RTL goes international + more

6 January 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Netflix green lights: series of psychological thriller Gypsy
Netflix green lights: Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters

European TV

Germany’s RTL to launch RTL International

UK TV

ITV cancels: Jekyll and Hyde

US TV

E! renews: The Royals
HBO renews and cancels: Girls
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Paul Sorvino to play John Stamos’ father on Grandfathered
Jenna Fischer to recur on The Mysteries of Laura
Michael Weatherly leaving NCIS

New US TV shows

New promo for The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Trailer for FX’s Baskets
Fox developing: action-packed car theft cop drama Boost Unit
Syco Entertainment developing: adaptation of sex club memoir Behind The Mask

New US TV show casting

Alexander Skarsgard, Shailene Woodley, James Tupper et al join HBO’s Big Little Lies
Rachel Keller to star in FX’s Legion

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News: Walter Presents Réttur & Hellfjord; Mistresses, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll cancelled; German death-by-beer drama; + more

News: Hap & Leonard, Baby Daddy renewed; Fortitude teaser; + more

News: Cicero series; Das Boot sequel series; new Vixen; + more

News: Ash’s dad is bionic; Nasim Pedrad is an American boy; Aaron Sorkin to Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway; + more

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