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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

Almost Family cancelled; Profilage trailer; Jason Isaacs joins Good Sam; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Elite
Amazon developing: adaptation of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Inheritance Games

International TV

NBCUniversal International/Buccaneer Media developing: California/Japan crime drama Moths

French TV

Trailer for season 10 of TF1’s Profilage (Profiling)

UK TV

Trailer for season 3 of ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Freeform’s Siren
Fox cancels: Almost Family

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for HBO’s I Know This Much is True
HBO developing: Ivy League alienation drama

New US TV show casting

Brian Geraghty to co-star in ABC’s The Big Sky
Gina Torres to star in ABC’s The Brides
Kyra Sedgwick to star in ABC’s My Village
Kendrick Sampson to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Sara Rue and Kether Donohue join CBS’s B Positive
Jason Isaacs to star in CBS’s Good Sam
Rochelle Aytes to star in The CW’s The Lost Boys
Luke Mitchell to star in The CW’s The Republic of Sarah
Emily Alyn Lind, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown et al to star in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl
Reid Scott to star in NBC’s Echo
Ashley Zukerman to star in NBC’s Langdon
Ian Gomez, Collette Wolfe, James Earl et al join NBC’s Night School
Grace Gummer and Molly Griggs join Peacock’s Dr Death

Hawaii Five-0 cancelled; Day of the Dead TV spin-off; + more

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Kim Bodnia joins Netflix’s The Witcher

French TV

Corinne Touzet to guest on TF1’s Joséphine Ange Gardien (Joséphine – Guardian Angel)

UK TV

BBC developing: adaptation of Imran Mahmood’s You Don’t Know Me

US TV

CBS cancels: Hawaii Five-0

US TV show casting

America Ferrera to leave NBC’s Superstore
Akili McDowell to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

Starz green lights: series of dark small town comedy Shining Vale, with Courteney Cox
Syfy green lights: spin-off from Day of the Dead and estate agents for haunted houses drama The Surrealtor

New US TV show casting

Brandon Scott Jones to star in CBS’s Ghosts
Sophia Bush to star in CBS’s Good Sam
Lorraine Toussaint joins CBS’s The Equalizer
Reina Hardesty to star in The CW’s Maverick
Coby Bell to co-star in The CW’s Walker
Ben Schnetzer to star in FX’s Y: The Last Man
Janina Gavankar to star in NBC’s Echo
Anthony LaPaglia to star in NBC’s Jefferies

Top Boy renewed; The Great acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Josh Brolin to star in Amazon’s Outer Range
Tramell Tillman to star in Apple’s Severance
Bella Heathcote to star in Netflix’s Pieces of Her
Netflix renews: Top Boy
Amazon developing: adaptation of Octavia E Butler’s Dawn

International TV

Cross Productions (Italy) developing: period German Italian-immigrant werewolf drama Wolfsburg
Legendary Global developing: adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

Nordic TV

SVT green lights: series adaptation of Kerstin Ekman’s Blackwater
Viaplay green lights: series adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm

UK TV

Channel 4/StarzPlay acquire: Hulu (US)’s The Great

US TV show casting

James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo et al join Epix’s Pennyworth
Macauley Culkin, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe et al join FX’s American Horror Story
Rick Hoffman to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of blue-collar private-school culture clash Valley Trash
Showtime red lights: How to Make Love to a Black Woman

New US TV show casting

Ryan Phillippe joins ABC’s The Big Sky
Rebecca Breeds to star in CBS’s Clarice
Olivia Liang to star in The CW’s Kung Fu
Branden Cook, Lincoln Younes and Ruby Cruz to star in The CW’s The Lost Boys
Lyndsy Fonseca and Carra Patterson to star in Disney+’s Turner & Hooch
Tony Hale to star in Hulu’s The Mysterious Benedict Society
Natalie Zea to star in NBC’s La Brea

The Adventures of Young Voltaire; Seven Australia pauses all dramas; + more

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Trailer for Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker

Australian TV

Seven yellow lights: all dramas

French TV

Lauréna Thellier joins TG1’s Une affaire française (A French Affair)
France 3 green lights: self-explanatory mini-series Les aventures du jeune Voltaire (The Adventures of Young Voltaire), with Valérie Bonneton et al

US TV show casting

Ryan Michelle Bathe to recur on CBS’s All Rise
Kelsey Grammer to recur on CBS’s Carol’s Second Act

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters
Peacock developing: freedom fighter and fan comedy Fan Girl

New US TV show casting

Liza Lapira joins CBS’s Equalizer
Amanda Warren joins CBS’s Ways and Means
Stella Baker to star in The CW’s Republic of Sarah
Coolio joins HBO Max’s Vegas High
Molly Shannon to co-star in Showtime’s Big Deal
Michael Rooker joins Showtime’s The President is Missing
Mekai Curtis to star in Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Sarah Gadon to co-star in USA’s Evel

Atypical, This Way Up renewed; Stateless acquired; + more

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Netflix renews (and cancels): Atypical…
…acquires: ABC (Australia)’s Stateless
Sebastian Chacon joins Amazon’s Daisy Jones & The Six
Krysta Rodriguez to star in Netflix’s Halston

German TV

ZDF green lights: series of Berlin music hall period drama Friedrichstadt-Palast (The Palace)
Leonine/Syrreal developing: modern adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo as Santiago

Nordic TV

Elisa Viihde (Finland) green lights: series of 1980s revenge thriller Munkkivuori (Summer of Sorrow)

UK TV

Disney+ begins offering discount subscriptions
Channel 4 renews: This Way Up
BBC green lights: adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, thriller Chloe, sex-work drama Superhoe…
…and cop drama The Responder, with Martin Freeman
BBC Scotland green lights: series of The Scotts
ITV green lights: series of sibling/missing child mystery thriller Hollington Drive

US TV show casting

Robert Wisdom to return to The CW’s Supernatural

New US TV show casting

Jazz Raycole to co-star in CBS’s The Lincoln Lawyer
Oliver Hudson and Malin Akerman to star in CBS’s The Three of Us
Matt Lucas, Teri Polo, Ser’Darius Blain et al join Fox’s The Big Leap
Seann William Scott to star in Fox’s This Country
Ana Gasteyer to star in NBC’s American Auto
Betsy Brandt, Darien Sills-Evans and Mike Lane join NBC’s Jefferies

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