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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

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: The Boys, Sweet Magnolias, La Jauria renewed; Plex adds live TV; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Utopia
Trailer for Amazon’s Truth Seekers
Amazon renews: The Boys and La Jauria
Netflix renews: Sweet Magnolias
Amazon green lights: series adaptation of Brian K Vaughan/Cliff Chiang’s Paper Girls
Apple TV+ green lights: adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ Shining Girls, with Elisabeth Moss
Plex adds live TV, including 80 free channels

International TV

ZDF (Germany), Nucleus Media (US) and 3zero2 (Italy) green light: UK/Italian crime drama Body of Water

UK TV

Teaser for season 2 of BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Terence Stamp, Jade Anouka and Simone Kirby join BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Bad Wolf developing: adaptation of Terri White’s Coming Undone

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Empire spin-off with Taraji P Henson
Made Up Stories developing: adaptation of Greer Macallister’s Woman 99, with Nina Dobrev
STXtv developing: authentic LA family drama Once Upon a Time in Aztlan, with George Lopez

New US TV show casting

Shalim Ortiz to recur on Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Perry Mason renewed; Walter’s eight acquisitions; + more

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Yes. I’ve gone there. Double bulletpoints

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Biohackers

UK TV

Walter Presents acquires:
- Antena 3 (Spain)’s Bajo sospecha (Under Suspicion)
- Club Illico (Canada)’s La Faille (The Wall – Cover Your Tracks)
- Das Erste (Germany)’s Das Verschwinden (The Vanishing)
- Movistar (Spain)’s El día de mañana (What The Future Holds)
- Rai 1 (Italy)’s Imperial
- Rai 2 (Italy)’s Il Cacciatore (The Hunter) and Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders
- Viaplay (Sweden)’s Hassel
Britbox green lights: adaptations of
- Nicholas Blake’s The Beast Must Die, with Cush Jumbo, Jared Harris and Billy Howle
- Irvine Welsh’s Crime, with Dougray Scott

US TV

HBO renews: Perry Mason

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of Richard Vasquez’s Chicano
Bedrock Entertainment developing: adaptation of Barry Eisler’s John Rain books
Hulu developing: adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

New US TV show casting

Tiffany Boone to star in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers
Otmara Marrero to star in NBC’s Connecting
Sherri Saum joins Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Summertime renewed; Step Up rescued; Apple poaches Gal Gadot Hedy Lamarr biopic; + more

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Internet TV

Apple TV+ green lights: limited series biopic Hedy Lamarr, with Gal Gadot
Netflix renews: Summertime

Nordic TV

SVT (Sweden) green lights: series adaptation of Sandra Beijer’s Allt som blir kvar (Everything that Remains)

US TV

Starz rescues: YouTube’s Step Up

New US TV shows

Black Bear Television developing: adaptation of Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times
Blumhouse/UCP developing: series sequel to Upgrade (2018)

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: What We Do In The Shadows, Elite renewed; Bruny, The Man Who Died adaptations; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix renews: Elite

Australian TV

Film Art Media developing: adaptation of Heather Rose’s Bruny

Sky Studios developing: Milan multi-ethnic communities drama Blocco 181

Nordic TV

Elisa Viihde (Finland) green lights: adaptation of Antti Tuomainen’s The Man Who Died

UK TV

BBC One green lights: theatre lockdown comedy Staged, with David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Georgia Tennant et al

US TV

FX renews: What We Do In The Shadows

Room 104 cancelled; Katee Sackhoff joins The Mandalorian; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for the final season of Netflix’s Fuller House
Katee Sackhoff to guest on Disney+’s The Mandalorian
Apple TV+ developing: adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country
Netflix green lights: series adaptations of DC Comics’ Sweet Tooth, with James Brolin, Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie et al…
…and Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults

French TV

Paul Verhoeven developing: adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami

US TV

HBO cancels: Room 104

US TV show casting

Patton Oswalt to return to ABC’s Agents of SHIELD

New US TV shows

HBO Max green lights: pilot of Head of the Class reboot
The CW green lights: series of Kung Fu and Republic of Sarah
Sony developing: adaptation of Center Stage (2000)
Universal developing: adaptation of Peter Lefcourt’s The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story

New US TV show casting

Wolé Parks joins The CW’s Superman & Lois

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