European TV

News

Film trailers

A Batman v Superman Lex Luthor interview

French TV

Canal+ renews: Versailles

Internet TV

Juan Pablo di Pace to recur on Netflix’s Fuller House
Tricia Helfer joins Powers
Walter Presents acquires: The Neighbours, The Prey, Bellicher Cel, Ten, Match Day, Queen of Hearts and Lancaster

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

ABC Family to rebrand as Freeform
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Wanda Sykes to recur on Black-ish
Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Blindspot

New US TV shows

CBS developing: female vampire period drama Bathory…
…young Miss Marple drama
ABC developing: metaphysical love story Deja Vu and dark soap The Invaders
John Woo developing: neo-noir crime thriller series Cognition

New US TV show casting

Amanda Brooks joins Showtime’s Chicago drama
Stephen Graham to star in USA’s Brooklyn Animal Control adaptation
Sanaa Latham to star in Fox police shooting event series
Lusia Strus and Terry Kinney join TNT’s Good Behavior
Peter Sarsgaard to recur on Showtime’s Twin Peaks

News: The War Doctor returns, Nancy Drew grows up, Sky Living acquires Limitless, The Catch + more

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Doctor Who

John Hurt to play the War Doctor in Big Finish audio range

Internet TV

Greg Wise joins Netflix’s The Crown
Netflix/RAI green light: Suburra

International TV

Sundance/RTÉ developing: Irish history drama Rebellion

UK TV

Sky Living acquires: CBS’s Limitless and ABC’s The Catch
Sunday ratings

US TV

US TV show casting

Ben Geurens joins Reign
Wanda Sykes and Ken Marino to guest on House of Lies
Adrian Pasdar to guest on Rosewood
More episodes for iZombie

New US TV shows

EuropaCorp producing: Luc Besson sci-fi TV series, adaptation of Austria’s Janus for ABC, and lighthearted psychic procedural Hunch
Trailer for TNT’s Agent X
Trailer for HBO’s Vinyl
NBC developing: comedy The Day I Turned Uncool
More episodes for The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
ABC developing: Nicholas Sparks comedy The Next Chapter…
…green lights: put pilot of legal drama Conviction
Fox developing: sexy Hawaii soap The 808…
…and sports comedy The Pack
NBC developing: comedy Letters to Beyonce
CBS developing: Nancy Drew adaptation

New US TV show casting

Jordana Spiro to star in USA’s The Wilding
Callie Hernandez join and Rogert Bart join Epix’s Graves, Tosin Cole and Kiki Kayne join Showtime’s Chicago drama
Kevin Rankin joins Fox’s Lucifer
Tembi Locke to recur on USA’s Shooter

News: MacGyver and Lethal Weapon TV shows, Zoo renewed, a Russian Killing + more

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Film

A Strike Back movie?

International TV

A Russian version of The Killing
Beta Films developing: fantasy series The Perished Land

UK TV

UK TV show casting

Paddy Considine et al join Peaky Blinders

US TV

US TV show casting

AJ Buckley to guest on Blue Bloods

New US TV shows

CBS developing: new Tina Fey/Jack Burditt comedy…
…MacGyver remake
Fox developing: Lethal Weapon TV series…
…apocalyptic drama These Final Hours
ABC developing: adaptation of Marvel’s Damage Control…
…green lights: put pilot of legal drama Notorious

New US TV show casting

Grant Show joins ABC’s The Family

News: David Schwimmer’s Channel 4 mornings, Sky1’s Hotten & The Lady, Robert Knepper joins Twin Peaks + more

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Film casting

Jessica McNamee joins CHiPs

Film trailers

Trailer for The Forest with Natalie Dormer

European TV

Trailer for ZDF’s adaptation of Ken Follett’s A Dangerous Fortune

Internet TV

Michael Madsen joins, Enrico Colantoni to recur on Powers
New teaser for Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Netflix UK acquires: The CW’s Reign

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Sky1 green lights: action adventure Hotten & The Lady, with Michael Landes and Ophelia Lovibond
Trailer for BBC One’s River

New UK TV show casting

Kate Bosworth joins the BBC’s SS-GB
David Schwimmer joins Channel 4’s Morning Has Broken

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Adam Rodriguez to recur on Jane The Virgin
Sherri Saum to guest on How To Get Away With Murder
Charlotte Ross to recur on Arrow
Bob Saget to guest on Grandfathered
Dave Anders to return to Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Empire spin-off
CBS green lights: put pilot of Michael Crichton’s medical drama Genes
NBC red lights: The 1970s

New US TV show casting

Peter Gadiot joins USA’s Queen of the South
Bethany Joy Lenz, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Muñoz et al join TNT’s Home
Andrea Bogart joins FX’s Snowfall
Robert Knepper joins Showtime’s Twin Peaks

News: new X-Files trailers, Sky Arts is Occupied, extra Blindspot + more

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Australian TV

Miriam Margolyes, John Waters and Rachael Blake join Rake

New Zealand TV

Maori Television launches mobile app

Internet TV

Minka Kelly joins Hulu’s The Path

UK TV

Sky Arts acquires: TV2/Arte’s Occupied
Sunday ratings

US TV

Trailers for new X-Files series
NBC orders nine more Blindspot scripts
Friday ratings
Saturday ratings
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Scout Taylor-Compton joins Nashville
Joel Thomas Hynes joins Orphan Black
Amber Rose to guest on Black-ish

New US TV shows

NBC developing: men’s group comedy Manhood
ABC developing: car dealership comedy Wheeler Dealer

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