Thursday’s “HBO’s Borgen, CBS renews 9 shows, and Pixie Lott joins George Gently” news

The Daily News will be back on Tuesday – have a nice Easter weekend!

Doctor Who

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US TV

  • CBS renews (deep breath): Elementary, The Good Wife, 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, NCIS: LA, Person of Interest, The Mentalist, Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods
  • ReelzChannel acquires Cracked
  • Tuesday ratings: NCIS: LA hits low, Go On and New Normal surge

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • Bravo red lights The Joneses, puts Witch Hunt into development
  • NBC working on Chicago Fire spin-off
  • Netflix orders 10 episodes of Sense8
  • HBO developing adaptation of Borgen [subscription required]
  • Trailer for How To Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)

New US TV show casting

  • Paul Adelstein to star in CBS’s show formerly known as (SFKA – new jargon, guys) Mother’s Day
  • Regina King to co-star in ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story
  • Rob Huebel joins CBS’s Jacked Up, Griffin Newman to star in untitled NBC comedy pilot

Wednesday’s “Juliet Stevenson joins Atlantis, Mark Rylance joins Wolf Hall and more Pretty Little Liars” news

Doctor Who

Film casting

Trailers

  • Trailer for Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, with Mark Wahlberg and The Rock
  • Teaser for The Wolverine

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New US TV shows

Tuesday’s “More Cougar Town, Seth Green is a dad and Debra Messing is a mother” news

Trailers

Canadian TV

UK TV

  • BBC1 orders Matt Lucas silent comedy
  • BBC2 adapting The 13th Tale
  • BBC Wales and S4C working on multi platform drama PYC
  • Sunday ratings: Foyle’s War beats Our Girl

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • Showtime’s Penny Dreadful to shoot in the UK [subscription required]
  • US rights to Canal+’s Hard acquired [in French]

New US TV show casting

  • Rhys Darby to co-star on ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On, Rhys Wakefield to be a regular on Bravo’s Rita
  • Nelson Franklin to replace Robert Buckley on NBC’s Holding Patterns
  • Kenneth Choi joins NBC’s Ironside remake, Tzi Ma joins NBC’s Bloodline, Erin Pineda joins Fox’s Dads
  • …as does Seth Green
  • Debra Messing to star in CBS’s Mother’s Day
  • Xosha Roquemore to recur on TV Land’s Kirstie’s New Show

Monday’s “Jamie Bamber in The Smoke, Zeljko Ivanek on Banshee and Robert Redford in Captain America 2?” news

Film

  • Ryan Reynolds not interested in Justice League or more Green Lantern at the moment

Film casting

Trailers

  • Trailer for Hummingbird with Jason Statham

Canadian TV

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New US TV show casting

Friday’s “Mary Tyler Moore reunion, F Murray Abraham: hitman & Karen Gillan heads to the US” news

Doctor Who

  • Peter Jackson willing to direct Doctor Who for 1 Dalek
  • Matt Smith leaving after Christmas??

Comics

  • Neil Gaiman returns to Marvel, bringing Angela from Spawn along

Film

  • Seth Rogen to direct, produce and star in The Interview by Seth Rogen

Film casting

  • Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt, Rebecca Ferguson and Askel Hennie join Hercules
  • Gary Oldman joins Child 44
  • Maximiliano Hernandez to return for Captain America 2, Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde to star in Endless Love

Trailers

UK TV

  • Sky green lights: Mr Sloane, with Nick Frost, and Yonderland
  • …confirms third series for Moone Boy
  • S4C to develop more digital content
  • Only one in ten TV drama series directors are women
  • Clip from Life Too Short special

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting