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New InBetweeners movie out next year

Film casting

Bradley Cooper off Jane Got A Gun
Kelsey Grammer to star in Transformers 4
Daniel Radcliffe to star in Tokyo Vice
Lily Collins to star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Trailers

Trailer for Eli Roth’s Aftershock [NSFW]
Trailer for The Wolverine

UK TV

More cuts to S4C budget
Jim Broadbent to star in BBC Great Train Robbery dramas
Channel 4 green lights: pilot of Raised by Wolves, by Caitlin Moran

US TV

HBO renews: Veep
Sundance renews: Rectify
Hulu acquires Moone Boy [subscription required]
Tuesday ratings

New US TV show casting

Catherine Bell to recur on King & Maxwell

Wednesday’s “More Perception, Dallas and Major Crimes, less Great Night Out” news

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Doctor Who

Brian Minchin to be new exec producer

Film casting

Lily James to play Cinderella in Ken Branagh movie
Allison Williams to star in Rosaline
Andy Garcia and Ray Romano join Rob The Mob
Natalie Portman to play Lady Macbeth
Kevin Costner to star in Black and White
Jessica Chastain to star in The Zookeeper’s Wife

Trailers

Trailer for Violet & Daisy, with Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Beldel

UK TV

BBC developing UN drama The 38th Floor
ITV cancels: Great Night Out
Sharon Rooney to guest on Sherlock
Trailer for BBC2’s The Fall
Monday ratings: Vicious and Job Lot get nearly 6m viewers

US TV

Major Crimes gets four more episodes, Perception gets one
TNT renews: Dallas
Monday ratings: Revolution hits season low
Sunday cable ratings: The Vikings ends with 3.6m viewers…
…Game of Thrones and Veep hit new highs

US TV casting

Danny Pudi, Clair Coffee to guest, Stephen Spinella to recur on Royal Pains

New US TV shows

Roland Emmerich developing Lawrence of Arabia mini-series
Yahoo! unveils original series, including Tiny Commando

New US TV show casting

Tyler Blackburn joins Pretty Little Liars spin-off Ravenswood

Tuesday’s “Lots of BBC3 comedies and Spike dramas, Jo Nesbø’s Occupied adapted + Red Widow hits low again” news

30 April 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film casting

Michael Fassbender to star in Macbeth
Chris O’Dowd to star in The Coward
Jeremy Irvine and Phoebe Fox to star in The Woman in Black 2
Olga Kurylenko to star in Vampire Academy

Trailers

Extended trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim

French/International TV

Arte France and NRK to adapt Jo Nesbø’s Occupied

Canadian TV

Netflix acquires Sundance’s Rectify

UK TV

Trailer for ITV’s Life of Crime, with Hayley Atwell
BBC3 renews: a final series for Him and Her
BBC3 green lights: a lot of comedies
BBC1 green lights: The 7.39, with David Morrissey, Sheridan Smith, Olivia Colman and Sean Maguire
Channel 5 acquires: Wentworth

US TV

Defiance producer leaves
Sunday ratings: Red Widow hits ABC drama season low

New US TV shows

Spike developing more scripted dramas, including Hit Men and The Lamp

Friday’s “Scarlett Johansson: drugs mule, Max Beesley: man in a suit, and a Scream TV series” news

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Film casting

Ryan Reynolds to star in Tarsem Singh’s Selfless
Scarlett Johansson to star in Luc Besson’s Lucy
Jude Law to star in Kevin Macdonald’s Black Sea
Hugo Weaving to star in The Mule

UK TV

Gina McKee, Andrew Lee Potts, Elliot Knight, Warren Brown, et al to star in BBC1’s By Any Means
Polly Walker, Aidan McArdle and Cal Macaninch join Mr Selfridge
TLC acquires Devious Maids and Mistresses remake

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Guest stars for the finale of The Office
Max Beesley joins Suits

New US TV shows

MTV green lights: Scream adaptation

New US TV show casting

Corey Stoll to star in FX’s The Strain
Erika Alexander to recur on AMC’s Low Winter Sun

Thursday’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Monster, Arte’s Odysseus and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing” news

25 April 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Film casting

Armie Hammer to star with Tom Cruise in The Man From UNCLE
Aasif Mandvi joins Million Dollar Arm

Trailers

Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

Canadian TV

Continuum premiere down with 375,000 viewers

French TV

Trailer for Arte’s Odysseus

UK TV

BBC Wales launches Swansea season

US TV

Netflix to launch up to 20 original shows in the next two years [subscription required]
Tuesday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: Game of Thrones sets another record

New US TV shows

Guillermo del Toro and HBO developing adaptation of Monster
ABC Family green lights: Terminales as Chasing Life

New US TV show casting

Nat Faxon to star in Andrew Gurland’s comedy pilot

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Thursday’s “Caitlin Moran’s Raised by Wolves, more S4C cuts, Veep and Rectify news

Wednesday’s “More Perception, Dallas and Major Crimes, less Great Night Out” news

Tuesday’s “Lots of BBC3 comedies and Spike dramas, Jo Nesbø’s Occupied adapted + Red Widow hits low again” news

Friday’s “Scarlett Johansson: drugs mule, Max Beesley: man in a suit, and a Scream TV series” news

Thursday’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Monster, Arte’s Odysseus and Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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