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News

[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Vida renewed; live-action Aeon Flux remake; M6 developing 12 new shows; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage

Canadian TV

Michelle Nolden, Michael Xavier and Peter MacNeill join CBC’s Northern Rescue

French TV

M6 reorganises its scripted division, is developing six new dramas and six new comedies [in French]

US TV

Starz renews: Vida
Monday ratings

New US TV shows

Blumhouse developing: adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird, with Ethan Hawke
FX developing: adaptation of Victor LaValle’s The Changeling
MTV developing: live-action Aeon Flux remake
Pop green lights: series of poor small-town girls ensemble comedy Florida Girls

New US TV show casting

Dania Ramirez and James Wolk to co-star in CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Tara Lipinski to recur on Showtime’s Kidding

Taika Waititi and Scarlett Johansson in WW2 satire Jojo Rabbit

Succession renewed; Jack Ryan, GLOW, Suits trailers; Freeview boost; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s GLOW
Amazon green lights: series of romcom anthology Modern Love…
…red lights: Making Friends

German TV

RTL green lights: daytime drama Freundinnen – Jetzt Erst Recht (Girlfriends – Now More Than Ever) [subscription required]

UK TV

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to invest £125m in Freeview

US TV

Trailer for season 8 of USA’s Suits
HBO renews: Succession

New US TV shows

Freemantle developing: Brandon Sanderson alternate world tyrant fantasy drama Dark One
MRC developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider
Sunday ratings

New US TV show casting

Beth Behrs to replace Dreama Walker on CBS’s The Neighborhood
Paul Wesley joins CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Tommy Martinez, Zuri Adele, Sherry Cola and Rogert Bart to star, Emma Hunton and Ken Kirby to recur on Freeform’s Good Trouble

Game of Thrones prequel greenlit; Damned cancelled; People of Earth unrenewed; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Halloween

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s The Good Cop
Netflix green lights: series of comedic, contemporary Greek myth drama Kaos…
…and mission to Mars drama Away…
…developing: adaptation of Jessica Pressler’s How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People

Canadian TV

Trailer for season 2 of CBC’s Anne with an E

UK TV

James McAvoy, Clarke Peters and Ruth Wilson join BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Clerkenwell Films developing: Jamal Edwards biodrama
Paramount Network to launch in UK on July 4, with Fox’s The Mick
Channel 4 cancels: Damned

US TV

New US TV shows

HBO green lights: Jane Goldman Game of Thrones prequel

New US TV show casting

Allison Tolman to recur on Hulu’s Castle Rock

Cardinal, GameFace, Atlanta renewed; Legally Blonde 3; Matt Berry’s Victorian Sweeney; + more

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Film

MGM green lights: Legally Blonde 3, with Reese Witherspoon

Internet TV

Damián Alcázar and Tamara Vallarta to star, Claudette Maille, Rodrigo Abed, Tete Espinosa et al join Netflix’s Tijuana
Tony Goldwyn to star in Netflix’s Chambers
Lizzy Caplan to co-star in Apple’s Are You Sleeping
Apple green lights: series adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram

International TV

Makeready developing: adaptation of Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series

Canadian TV

CTV renews: Cardinal…
…green lights: series of fading singer-songwriter comedy Jann, with Jann Arden…
…rebrands all its channels

UK TV

Channel 4 green lights: series of Victorian Sweeney comedy Year of the Rabbit, with Matt Berry; and Syrian refugee in suburbia comedy Home, with Rufus Jones…
…renews: GameFace

US TV

FX renews: Atlanta
Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

Trailer for Showtime’s Kidding

13 Reasons Why renewed; W’s Women on the Verge; adaptations of La Niña, When Heroes Fly, the Rockton mysteries; + more

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Internet TV

Apple green lights: series of twentysomething self-discovery dramedy Little Voice, with Sara Bareilles
Netflix renews: 13 Reasons Why

Canadian TV

Temple Street developing: adaptation of Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton mystery novels

UK TV

Sarah Lancashire, Sinéad Cusack and Paul Ready join BBC Two’s MotherFatherSon
W green lights: series adaptation of Lorna Martin’s chaotic-lived thirtysomething women comedy drama Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown as Women on the Verge, with Kerry Condon, Nina Sosanya and Eileen Walsh

US TV

Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

FX developing: adaptation of Prime Franja (Colombia)’s cartel-escapee drama La Niña
Keshet Studios developing: adaptation of Keshet (Israel)’s When Heroes Fly

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