Film

News

Film casting

Michael Douglas also to play Ant-Man

Trailers

Trailer for Almost Human

New UK TV dramas

Red Planet to produce Motown drama

US TV

HBO renews and cancels: The Newsroom
Netflix renews: Lilyhammer
Friday cable ratings: Helix starts soft
Sunday cable ratings: True Detective starts hard

US TV show casting

Joshua Gomez to guest on The Crazy Ones
Tania Raymonde to guest on The Big Bang Theory
Yvonne Strahovski joins 24: Live Another Day
Rose McGowan joins Chosen

New US TV shows

Fox to end pilot season
Gotham now to include Batman characters, including Batman
Trailer for El Rey’s From Dusk Til Dawn
NBC green lights: Constantine pilot, Mysteries of Laura adaptation

Girls renewed, Boardwalk Empire cancelled and Andy Richter to help Sean save the world

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Film

Pictures from Marvel’s Mandarin one-shot

Film casting

Rebel Wilson joins Night at the Museum 3
Jeff Goldblum and Oliver Platt join Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai

UK TV

Sherlock boosted to nearly 13m viewers [subscription required]

New UK TV shows

Reece Sheersmith, Sheridan Smith, Archie Panjabi to star in ITV’s The Widower

US TV

HBO renews: Girls…
…cancels Boardwalk Empire
IFC now called IFC
Hulu acquires: Bron/Broen/The Bridge
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Andy Richter to guest on Sean Saves The World
Molly Sims to guest on Men At Work

New US TV show casting

Camryn Manheim joins CBS’s Extant

Anna Friel’s Odyssey, Channel 4’s exodus, Backstrom’s reprieve and Denis Leary’s Sex&Drug&Rock&Roll

8 January 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Olivia Thirlby to star in The White Orchid

UK TV

Channel 4 removes all its shows from YouTube
History UK acquires Vikings [subscription required]

US TV show casting

Aisha Tyler to guest on Modern Family
Michael Huisman promoted to regular on Game of Thrones
Drea de Matteo promoted to regular on Sons of Anarchy
Keegan-Michael Key to guest on The Middle

US TV

Monday ratings

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: Backstrom
ABC green lights: Jeff Lowell romcom
FX green lights: Denis Leary’s Sex&Drug&Rock&Roll

New US TV show casting

Brandon Routh to recur on Fox’s Enlisted
Anna Friel to star in NBC’s Odyssey

HBO to remake Canal+’s Hard, NBC picks up Mr Robinson, and ABC reunites Garth and Spelling

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Trailers

New trailer for The Legend of Hercules

UK TV

Sunday ratings

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of House of Cards
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

HBO to remake Canal+’s Hard
NBC green lights: Mr Robinson
ABC green lights: Young and Hungry and Mystery Girls

Want to see Kermit the frog improvising some Muppet Movie dialogue?

6 January 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Here you go then.

[via Dave Hoskins]

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Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

Michael Douglas: Ant-Man, more Newsroom and Lilyhammer, plus Gotham gains Batman characters

Girls renewed, Boardwalk Empire cancelled and Andy Richter to help Sean save the world

Anna Friel’s Odyssey, Channel 4’s exodus, Backstrom’s reprieve and Denis Leary’s Sex&Drug&Rock&Roll

HBO to remake Canal+’s Hard, NBC picks up Mr Robinson, and ABC reunites Garth and Spelling

Want to see Kermit the frog improvising some Muppet Movie dialogue?

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