An archive of blog entries about international TV programmes and production, including co-productions and shows from countries other than usual
News: Phantom reunion; BBC Four acquires Deep Water; Alan Cumming is Dr Death; SWAT remake + more
Theatre
- Original cast members returning for Phantom of the Opera‘s 30th anniversary
Internet TV
- New trailer for Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
- Netflix acquires: Ukraine’s Servant of the People
- Amazon green lights: pot comedy Budding Prospects, with Will Sasso
Australian TV
- Ten green lights: pilot of family relationship revelation drama Sisters
Canadian TV
- Shomi to close
- CBC developing: under-21s football academy drama 21 Thunder
International TV
- Ants Multimedia South Africa developing: adaptation of Kenneth Bhengu’s Unyambose Nozinith
UK TV
- iPlayer to require login from 2017
- BBC Four acquires: SBS Australia’s Deep Water
US TV
New US TV shows
- NBC developing: former sibling singing group comedy and vengeful philosophy professor comedy AP Bio
- TNT green lights: pilot of mixed-race middle-class suburbia dramedy Hinges
- Bainframe developing: adaptation of Allen Steel’s Coyote books
- CBS developing: adaptation of James Patterson’s Dr Death, with Alan Cumming…
- …remake of S.W.A.T.
- MTV developing: supernatural social media drama KRawl
- Trailer for Audience’s Ice
New US TV show casting
- Ian Verdun joins Freeform’s The Deep
- Bill Pullman to star in USA’s The Sinner