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What time, TMINE? Including Avlu (The Yard)

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Quite a lot of acquisitions this week, but few of them have premiere dates. We did get one other acquisition this week, but the premiere date is today.

Acquisitions

E4 has acquired for 2020 two shows from the US: NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and CBS’s Man With A Plan
The BBC – maybe BBC Two, maybe BBC Four, maybe BBC Alba – has acquired NRK (Norway)’s Twin
Walter Presents has got his mitts on France 2’s Philharmonia

Premiere dates

Avlu (The Yard) (Turkey: Star TV; UK: Netflix)

Premiere date: Today

Adaptation of Australian favourite Wentworth, relocated to a women’s prison in Istanbul.

Aidan Turner is Leonardo da Vinci; BBC2 finds a Witchfinder; Jim Jefferies is Jim Jefferies; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Atypical
Natalie Morales to recur on Netflix’s Dead to Me
Sonya Walger and Krys Marshall promoted to regulars on Apple TV+’s For All Mankind
Patton Oswalt joins Amazon’s The Boys
Maxim Baldry to star in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings

Australian TV

Seven and Prime to merge

Italian TV

Sky green lights: adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna

Israeli TV

Yes developing: WeWork-style office comedy Shared Spaces

International TV

Aidan Turner to star in The Alliance (Europe)’s Leonardo
Digiturk (Turkey) green lights: unfairly dismissed professor drama The Choice, with Halit Ergenç, Ozan Güven, Aslı Enver et al
MediaPro (Spain)/Vice Studios (US) developing: crime thriller El Acantilado (The Cliff)

UK TV

BBC Two green lights: self-explanatory comedy The Witchfinder, with Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper

US TV show casting

Trailer for season 3 of USA’s The Sinner
Cara Santana to recur on Starz’s Vida

New US TV shows

Teaser for HBO’s The Outsider
NBC green lights: pilot of Jim Jefferies comedy
CBS developing: Cher-less mystery adaptation of Clueless

New US TV show casting

Greg Kinnear joins CBS All Access’ The Stand
Karrueche Tran to recur on Fox’s Deputy
Elizabeth Grullon to recur on Freeform’s Party of Five
Ben Miles, Joe Tippett, John Douglas Thompson et al join HBO’s Mare of Easttown

Pandora, Why Women Kill, Merz v Merz renewed; Spanish Cleaning Lady remake; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season four of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s Folk med ångest (Anxious People)

Fasten Films (Spain) developing: adaptation of Cine.ar Play (Argentina)’s La chica que limpia (The Cleaning Lady)
ZDF (Germany) renews: Merz gegen Merz (Merz v Merz)

US TV

CBS All Access renews: Why Women Kill
The CW renews: Pandora

US TV show casting

Jane Kaczmarek to guest on CBS’s Carol’s Second Act

New US TV shows

CBS developing: adult sibling comedy The Three of Us
Fox developing: conspiracy theory drama The Service
Showtime developing: limited series adaptation of Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

New US TV show casting

Derek Cecil and Max Beesley to recur on HBO’s The Outsider
Kyle Howard, Julian Sands, Natalie Hall et al join Hulu’s Into the Dark

Man With A Plan, Zoey’s Playlist, Avlu acquired; Sunnyside cancelled; The Outpost, Apple TV+ shows renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix acquires: Star TV (Turkey)’s Avlu…
…developing: adaptation of Rachel Cohn’s and David Levithan’s Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
Apple TV+ renews: For All Mankind, Dickinson, Little America and Home Before Dark
Zahra Bentham and Mouna Traoré to recur on Netflix’s Madam CJ Walker

International TV

Applause (India) renews: Hostages
Reel One (Canada), Element 8 (US) and La Sabotière France developing: anthology adaptation of Mary Higgins Clark’s books

Australian TV

Trailer for 9GO!’s Metro Sexual

German TV

Joyn green lights: adaptation of ABC (Australia)’s Diary of an Uber Driver, with Kostja Ullmann

Scandinavian TV

Josefin Asplund, Alexej Manvelov, Gustav Lindh et al to star in C More’s Top Dog

UK TV

E4 acquires: NBC (US)’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and CBS’s Man With A Plan
ITV green lights: dead husband had secrets drama Finding Alice, with Keeley Hawes

US TV

Trailer for final season of NBC’s Will & Grace
NBC extends and cancels: Sunnyside
The CW renews: The Outpost

US TV show casting

Renée Elise Goldsberry joins CBS’s Evil

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: pilot of eSports comedy
HBO Max green lights: series of Grease spin-off Grease: Rydell High
HBO developing: adaptation of Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had
Sony TV developing: adaptation of Jodi Picoult’s A Spark of Light, with Joey King

New US TV show casting

Heather Graham joins CBS All Access’ The Stand

Twin acquired; All the Sins, Honour, Man Like Mobeen renewed; George Smiley adaptations; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Apple green lights: American football meets English football comedy Ted Lasso, with Jason Sudeikis

European TV

Pathé/Vendôme/Moonriver developing: Notre-Dame fire mini-series

Scandinavian TV

Elisa Viihde (Finland) renews: All the Sins
Viaplay renews: Honour

UK TV

BBC Three renews: Man Like Mobeen
BBC acquires: NRK (Norway)’s Twin
Lyndsey Marshal to star as Agatha Christie in Channel 5’s Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Russell Tovey to star in ITV’s Because The Night
The Ink Factory developing: adaptations of John Le Carré’s George Smiley books

US TV show casting

Tom Everett Scott and William Sadler to guest on CBS’s God Friended Me
Austin Abrams to recur on NBC’s This is Us

New US TV shows

Starz green lights: pilot of world-dominating Harlem friends comedy Run the World, with Amber Stevens West and Bresha Webb
Fox developing: cutthroat realtor drama The Two Dolls
NBC developing: CIA drama The Translator’s Daughter

New US TV show casting

Justin Kirk to recur on HBO’s Perry Mason

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