Film

An archive of blog entries about films and film production.

Monday’s “Alan Partridge trailer, Stephen Fry’s a superhero’s butler and BBC4 acquires more foreign shows” news

18 March 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film casting

  • Josh Lawson and Greg Kinnear join Anchorman 2
  • Theo James to star in Divergent with Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller
  • Max Irons to star in Posh

Trailers

  • Trailer for Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa

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New US TV show casting

  • Stephen Fry joins CBS’s Super Clyde
  • Rainn Wilson to star in CBS’s Backstrom
  • Mike Castle to star in NBC’s Greg Daniels comedy
  • Amber Tamblyn to star CBS’s Anatomy of Violence
  • Tom Berenger off Fox’s Gang Related
  • Amanda Peet to star in HBO’s Togetherness
  • Alex Kapp Horner to star in Fox’s I Suck At Girls, Joshua Erenberg joins Rand Ravich drama…
  • …as do Michael Beach and James Lafferty, while Josh Zuckerman joins NBC’s I Am Victor
  • John Cho to guest on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow
  • Mike Colter joins CBS’s Surgeon General, James Earl and Rene Gube join TBS’s Ground Floor
  • Bruno Ganz to play the Pope in Showtime’s The Vatican

Friday’s “Damian Lewis in Vicar of Dibley, Veronica Mars movie gets go-ahead and Martin Clunes joins Strike Back” news

15 March 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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UK TV

  • Domino’s funding online football-themed sitcom [subscription required]
  • Damian Lewis to appear in Comic Relief Vicar of Dibley sketch
  • Martin Clunes, Robson Green, Dougray Scott and Milauna Jackson join Strike Back
  • Netflix acquires third season of The Killing (US)

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New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Sean Astin to co-star in CBS’s Surgeon General
  • Al Madrigal joins NBC’s About A Boy, Rossif Sutherland to play Nostradamus on The CW’s Reign, Brenda Koo joins Fox’s Delirium
  • Christopher Meloni joins Fox’s I Suck At Girls
  • Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs to star in TNT’s Murder In The First
  • Adam Rodriguez joins CBS’s Reckless…
  • …as does Gregory Harrison, plus casting on ABC’s Westside and NBC’s Undateable
  • Mandy Moore joins CBS’s The Advocates
  • Fox’s The List swaps roles, Hilarie Burton joins
  • Ginger Gonzaga replaces Mercedes Masohn on ABC’s Mixology
  • Casting on NBC’s The Blacklist and AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
  • Casting on Fox’s Boomerang, and The CW’s The Selection and Company Town

Thursday’s “An Avengers stage show, a Kick Ass 2 trailer, Kristin Davis returns to TV and other Doctor Who producer leaves” news

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Trailers

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New US TV shows

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New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Kristin Davis joins CBS’s Bad Teacher
  • Ewen Bremner joins Showtime’s The Vatican
  • Jane Kaczmarek to play Gavin’s mum in Fox’s Gavin & Stacey remake Friends & Family + other pilot casting
  • Adam Goldberg joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Diego Klattenhoff joins NBC’s The Blacklist + other pilot casting
  • Dermot Mulroney joins NBC spy drama
  • Majandro Delfino moves from ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On to CBS’s Friends With Better Lives, Nicky Whelan joins TBS’s Do It Yourself
  • Daija Owens joins NBC’s Brenda Forever
  • Casting on ABC’s Westside and Fox’s Two Wrongs
  • Casting on ABC’s Bad Management

Wednesday’s “Karl Urban goes back to TV, Alfred Molina goes back to comedy and Sherlock goes for a 4th season” news

13 March 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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  • Sony to adapt 70s sitcom Good Times

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New US TV shows

  • Sundance orders The Descendants [subscription required]
  • TBS developing Clipsters, Showtime working on servants comedy

New US TV show casting

  • James Spader to star in NBC’s The Blacklist
  • Karl Urban and Minka Kelly to star in Fox’s Human
  • Kristen Schaal to replace Mandy Moore on ABC’s Pulling remake
  • Louise Lombard to star in The CW’s The Selection
  • Tom Berenger to star in Fox’s Gang Related
  • Ann Cusack joins NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, John Billingsley joins CBS’s Intelligence
  • Alfred Molina to star in NBC’s Assistance
  • Kate Walsh to star in NBC’s Bad Judge?
  • Skeet Ulrich to star in CBS’s Anatomy of Violence
  • Kristoffer Polaha joins CBS’s Backstrom, Kelly Hu joins The CW’s The 100
  • Jason Jones joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Ryan Eggold joins NBC’s The Blacklist, Anna Wood joins CBS’s Reckless + other pilot casting
  • Stephen Lang to star in ABC’s Reckless (yes, there are two of them)
  • Christina Cole to star in CBS’s Second Sight, Kerry Bishe joins AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
  • Michael Huisman to star in NBC’s The Sixth Gun
  • Stella Maeve to star in The CW’s Company Town, Heather Lind to star in AMC’s Turn
  • Casting on NBC’s Holding Patterns, Believe and Rand Ravich drama
  • Casting on The CW’s Reign and The 100

Tuesday’s “Fox renews The Following, New Girl et al, Derek’s 2nd series and Harrison Ford joins Anchorman 2” news

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Film casting

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US TV

  • Fox renews The Following, New Girl, Raising Hope and The Mindy Project
  • Sunday ratings: The Bible gets 13.1m viewers, Vikings gets 6.2m…
  • …Red Widow starts low

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • NBC pushes Seed-alike Donor Party because it can’t find a lead
  • TNT adapting Claire DeWitt book series

New US TV show casting

  • Kyle MacLachlan joins NBC’s Believe
  • James Cromwell joins ABC’s Betrayal remake, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Cedric Sanders join ABC’s Influence, Rick Donald joins Friends With Better Lives
  • Naveen Andrews joins ABC’s Reckless, Alexis Carra joins ABC’s Mixology
  • Samaire Armstrong and Sam Hazeldine join ABC’s The Returned, Lenora Crichlow joins ABC’s Cullen brothers comedy
  • Ryan McPartlin joins TBS’s Do It Yourself, Scoot McNairy joins AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire
  • RZA to co-star in Fox’s Gang Related
  • Megan Dodds to star in NBC’s I Am Victor, Vinette Robinson joins NBC’s Assistance
  • Humphrey Ker joins NBC’s Holding Patterns
  • Emma Booth joins ABC’s Gothica
  • Lucien Laviscount joins The CW’s The Selection, Megan Follows joins Reign
  • Gloria Reuben, Enrico Colantoni and Marsha Mason to co-star in TNT’s Geena Davis pilot
  • Annie Ilonzeh joins NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys