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The Bold Type, Romper Stomper acquired; grown-ish renewed; + more

19 January 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s The Mechanism
Amazon acquires: Freeform (US)’s The Bold Type

UK TV

Andie MacDowell joins BBC Three’s Cuckoo
BBC Three acquires: Stan (Australia)’s Romper Stomper

US TV

Freeform renews: grown-ish
Trailer for season 3 of Freeform’s Shadowhunters
Trailer for season 3 of Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Nikohl Boosheri and Stephen Conrad Moore promoted to regulars on Freeform’s The Bold Type
Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Sara Rue, Mary McCormack and Robert Klein to guest on NBC’s Will & Grace
Katie Holmes to recur on Showtime’s Ray Donovan

New US TV shows

Trailer for Freeform’s Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger
Teaser for Freeform’s Siren
Trailer for Paramount’s Heathers [NSFW]
Freeform developing: Cleopatra historical and dystopian sci-fi romance Augs…
…green lights: pilot of Party of Five reboot
NBC green lights: pilot of Bad Boys spin-off with Gabrielle Union
Sony developing: paranormal investigators comedy Truth Seekers

The Tick renewed; I Love Dick, JCVJ, One Mississippi cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon cancels: I Love Dick, One Mississippi and Jean-Claude Van Johnson…
…renews: The Tick
Anthony Starr, Chace Crawford, Dominique McElligott et al join Amazon’s The Boys
Apple green lights: adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s You Think It, I’ll Say It, with Kristen Wiig
Netflix acquires: Endemol’s Nicky Jam: El Ganador

International TV

Telemundo green lights: prison drama El Recluso (The Inmate)
MarVista developing: adaptation of Sarah Tarkoff’s Sinless

Italian TV

Sebastian Koch, James Cosmo, Richard Sammel et al join Rai’s The Name of the Rose

UK TV

Channel 4 developing: Peter Kosminsky cyberwar drama The Undeclared War

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Vandit Bhatt to recur on ABC’s Quantico
Lena Waithe to guest on NBC’s This is Us
Nicole Ari Parker and Stefania LaVie Owen to recur on Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here

New US TV shows

AMC developing: Southern family dramedy Aim High
Endeavor Content developing: adaptation of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury

New US TV show casting

Rupert Friend joins CBS All Access’ Strange Angel
Seamus Dever joins DC’s Titans
Hector Elizondo and Holland Taylor to star in NBC’s Guess Who Died
Jimmie Saito to recur on Starz’s Sweetbitter

The Shannara Chronicles cancelled; 9-1-1 renewed; + more

17 January 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Internet TV

Facebook Watch green lights: series adaptation of Stephanie Oakes’ The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly as Sacred Lies
Netflix developing: supernatural drama Catrina: La Santa Muerte, with Blanca Soto
New trailer for Amazon’s Breathe

German TV

TNT Comedy green lights: series of comedy noir Arthur’s Gesetz (Arthur’s Law) [subscription required]

UK TV

Syfy acquires: lone survivor with magical powers drama The Outpost

US TV

Spike cancels: The Shannara Chronicles
Fox renews: 9-1-1
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Skye Marshall to recur on The CW’s Black Lightning
Scott McNairy joins HBO’s True Detective

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of web series Mi Hermanastro
TNT developing: period criminal nun drama The Black Veil
JJ Abrams developing: drama about the world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force

New US TV show casting

Idara Victor, Tyrone Brown, Kadeem Hardison et al join OWN’s Love Is____

Dark seems to be a hit for Netflix

16 January 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Since I do loves me a chart, I thought I’d flag up this exciting bit of news. Dark, which is Netflix’s first German-language show and has already been renewed for a second season, seems to be Netflix’s biggest European hit so far:

The quick demise of Marseille isn’t a big surprise, particularly to anyone who tried watching it, since it wasn’t much cop, but the fact Dark is doing so well is surprising, albeit less so when you think that genre shows tend to get a certain level of built-in popularity.

More surprising is that Dark was more popular than cartoon Castlevania. That’s the kind of thing you expect to do well, don’t you think?

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Clique, Liar, Chewing Gum, The Walking Dead, Stan Against Evil renewed; Lady Dynamite cancelled; + more

15 January 2018 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Internet TV

Andy Allo to star in Amazon’s Upload
Mira Sorvino to guest on Crackle’s StartUp
Netflix cancels: Lady Dynamite

UK TV

BBC Three renews: Clique
Channel 4 developing: adaptation of Monsters
E4 renews: Chewing Gum
ITV/Sundance (US) renew: Liar

US TV

AMC renews: The Walking Dead
IFC renews: Stan Against Evil
Trailer for season two of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez join AT&T’s Mr Mercedes
JR Cacia to recur on The CW’s Dynasty
Marisa Tomei to guest on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

New US TV series

Trailer for HBO’s Here and Now
Trailer for Hulu’s The Looming Tower
3AD developing: adaptation of Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay’s Buddhist detective books as First Rule of Ten
Hulu green lights: George Clooney’s Catch-22 adaptation
NBC green lights: pilots of Bellevue Hospital drama and clairvoyant police drama In Between Lives
Shane Black and Fred Dekker developing: reboot of ITV’s The Avengers
Starz green lights: John Wick TV series The Continental, with Keanu Reeves

New US TV show casting

Jeffrey Self, Chrissie Fit, H Jon Benjamin et al to star in Pop’s The Demons of Dorian Gunn

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Dark seems to be a hit for Netflix

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