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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 acquires Valkyrien; 4-way superhero crossover, Magicians, Valerian, Expanse trailers; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Internet TV

Zach Grenier and Jerry Adler to guest on CBS All Access’ The Good Fight
Andrea Londo to recur on Narcos
Byron Mann to recur on Netflix’s Altered Carbon
Walter Presents acquires: Norway NRK’s Valkyrien
iPlayer developing: comedy drama Ill Behaviour

European TV

Symbolic Exchange et al developing: adaptation of Mary Gabriel’s Love and Capital

New UK TV shows

Sky Atlantic developing: biagmist comedy Bliss, with Stephen Mangan, Heather Graham and Jo Hartley

US TV

Teaser for Supergirl/The Flash/Arrow/Legends of Tomorrow crossover
Trailers for season 2 of The Magicians and The Expanse
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

She Ne Nielson to recur on The Fosters
Alexis Krause to recur on Pure Genius

New US TV shows

USA green lights: pilot of Bigge Smalls/Tupac Shakur police investigation drama Unsolved
NBC developing: adaptation of Blue Crush…
…and widower comedy
CBS developing: father-son comedy procedural Magnolia Springs
ABC developing: sharing economy house rental comedy

News: Guilt cancelled; Lee Child TV series; Enemy of the State sequel; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Logan

European TV

Arte green lights: immortality drama Ad Vitam

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s The Crown
Michael Stahl-David and Matt Whelan join Narcos

US TV

Freeform cancels: Guilt
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Yara Martinez to guest on Bull

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: series of approaching asteroid thriller Salvation
ABC green lights: pilots of sequel to Enemy of the State…
…and Carol Burnett house-share comedy
Astronauts Wanted developing: Aussie in LA comedy Aussie Girl, adaption of Danielle Mages Amato’s The Hidden Memory of Objects
NBC developing: Lee Child military police prodedural Last Hope
Fox developing: mercenary comedy B Team

New US TV show casting

Necar Zadegan and Cameron Gellman join TNT’s Let The Right One In

News: War of the Worlds, Rainmaker, Cazalet Chronicles, Alistair Maclean adaptations; racoon-wrangling; + more

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Internet TV

Joel David Moore to star in Amazon’s Budding Prospects
Delroy Lindo joins CBS All Access’ Good Wife spin-off

Canadian TV

CBC green lights: Racoon-wrangling family comedy Crawford

European TV

Sky Italia developing: football corruption, Arab Spring and financial crisis dramas [subscription required]

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: porn drama Veni Vidi Vici

New UK TV shows

Dancing Ledge Productions developing: adaptations of Alistair Maclean novels
ITV green lights: series of dramas Trauma, Girlfriends, White Dragon and Next of Kin
Sid Gentle Films developing: adaptation of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s The Cazalet Chronicles

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Leonard Roberts to recur on The Magicians, Beth Lacke to recur on Frequency

New US TV shows

MTV developing: adaptation of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds
CBS developing: adaptation of John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Fox developing: undercover cop family drama Kin

New US TV show casting

Thomas Kretschmann and Benjamin Wadsworth to star in TNT’s Let The Right One In

News: BBC4 acquires Roots; Halt & Catch Fire renewed and cancelled; Swedish Dicks renewed; + more

11 October 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle
Trailer for season 2 of Amazon’s Red Oaks

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay Sweden renews: Swedish Dicks

European TV

ZDF Germany green lights: Heaven and Hell – Martin Luther mini-series, with Maximilian Brückner

UK TV

BBC Four acquires: A&E’s Roots

New UK TV show casting

Jaime Winstone and Samantha Spiro to play Barbara Windsor in BBC One’s Babs

US TV

AMC renews and cancels: Halt & Catch Fire
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Michael Ealy joins Being Mary Jane
Tessa Ferrer returns to Grey’s Anatomy

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilots of gentrified Los Angeles comedy…
…and hip hop mayor comedy…
…developing: free spirit father-son music store comedy
Fox green lights: pilots of college rape investigative thriller Controversy…
…and PC v anti-PC workplace comedy

New US TV show casting

Raul Castillo to recur on The CW’s Riverdale
Ian McElhinney, Elliot Cowan, Ann Ogbomo et al join Syfy’s Krypton
Dave Annable to recur on Fox’s The Mick

News: American Horror Story renewed; AMC joins Lodge 49; the Birth of the SAS; + more

5 October 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Brooke Bloom and Kimberly Quinn join Netflix’s Gypsy

Australian TV

Foxtel to close Presto TV

European TV

ZDF Germany developing: adaptation of Belgium’s Professor T

UK TV

Lost Avengers episode recovered

New UK TV shows

Big Talk developing: adaptation of Gordon Stevens’ The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS

US TV

FX renews: American Horror Story
Trailer for season 2 of Outsiders
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Ray Wise promoted to regular on Fresh Off The Boat

New US TV shows

AMC green lights: series of modern fable Lodge 49
CBS developing: adaptation of Geoff Manaugh’s A Burglar’s Guide To The City
NBC developing: adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Redliners

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News: Walter acquires Valkyrien; 4-way superhero crossover, Magicians, Valerian, Expanse trailers; + more

News: Guilt cancelled; Lee Child TV series; Enemy of the State sequel; + more

News: War of the Worlds, Rainmaker, Cazalet Chronicles, Alistair Maclean adaptations; racoon-wrangling; + more

News: BBC4 acquires Roots; Halt & Catch Fire renewed and cancelled; Swedish Dicks renewed; + more

News: American Horror Story renewed; AMC joins Lodge 49; the Birth of the SAS; + more

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