Streaming TV

News

Internet TV

Trailer for season 4 of Amazon’s Transparent

Scandinavian TV

Greg Wise and Billy Campbell join C More (Sweden)’s Modus

UK TV

Netflix acquires: USA (US)’s Queen of the South

US TV

Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

USA green lights: pilot of high school cat burglar comedy Olive Forever
FX developing: corporate espionage drama Honey

New US TV show casting

Alison Wright and Benjamin Haigh join TNT’s Snowpiercer

News: Viceland acquires Son of Zorn; Ten enters administration; Black Mirror books; + more

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Books

Netflix’s Black Mirror to become a book series

Internet TV

New trailer for Netflix’s Friends from College
Jason O’Mara joins Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle

Australian TV

Ten enters voluntary administration

European TV

Reanimator rebooted as web series, TV series and movie

UK TV

Viceland UK acquires: Fox (US)’s Son of Zorn

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Insecure
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Zachary Levi joins USA’s Psych reunion movie
Kirsten Vangsness and AJ Cook to return to CBS’s Criminal Minds
Billy Zane to guest on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Yasmine Al Massri leaves ABC’s Quantico

New US TV show casting

Vincent Piazza joins Fox’s The Passage
Annalise Basso and Sasha Frolova join TNT’s Snowpiercer

News: Kimmy Schmidt renewed; Paradise Lost TV series; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix renews: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Morris Chestnut joins Amazon’s Goliath
Michiel Huisman to star in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House

International TV

Andy Mientus joins NBC (US)/RTL (Germany)/TF1 (France)’s Gone
Dancing Ledge developing: adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Lauren Weedman and Matt Long join Epix’s Graves
James Martinez to recur on TNT’s Major Crimes

New US TV show casting

Sam Morgan to recur on Paramount’s American Woman
Sandra Oh to star in BBC America’s Killing Eve

News: 24: Legacy cancelled; Loosely Exactly Nicole, Insatiable rescued; + more

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Film trailers

Teaser trailer for Black Panther

Internet TV

Facebook green lights: season 2 of MTV (US)’s Loosely Exactly Nicole
Tiffani Thiessen joins Netflix’s Alexa & Kate
New trailer for Netflix’s Gypsy
Netflix green lights: series of dark comedic beauty pageant drama Insatiable

International TV

Annalise Basso, Maura Tierney, Essie Davis et al join Channel 4 (UK)/Amazon’s Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams

UK TV

BBC Two acquires: FX (US)’s Feud: Bette and Joan
BBC One renews: Luther
BBC One Scotland renews: Scot Squad

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: jewellry heist drama Hatton Garden, with Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham and Brian F O’Byrne
BBC green lights: new Alan Partridge show
Sky Arts green lights: summer short comedies season
Sky green lights: pilot of David O’Doherty Antarctic sitcom Stuck
Sky 1 renews: Sick Note, Lindsay Lohan joins

New UK TV show casting

Indira Varma, Luke Treadaway and Neil Maskell to star in Channel 4’s The Truth

US TV

US TV show casting

Anna Chlumsky joins AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire
Damon Gupton leaves CBS’s Criminal Minds
Jennifer Esposito leaves CBS’s NCIS
Geena Davis, Alan Ruck, Hannah Kasulka and Brinna Howey leave Fox’s The Exorcist

New US TV shows

New trailer for TNT’s Will
Cinemax green lights: series of Bruce Lee period martial arts organised crime drama Warrior
Fox red lights: The Beast

New US TV show casting

Jennifer Connelly and Mickey Sumner join TNT’s Snowpiercer

When’s that show you mentioned starting again, TMINE? Including Dirty Dancing, The Last Tycoon and Midnight, Texas

2 June 2017 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Every Friday, I let you know the latest announcements about when new, imported TV shows will finally be arriving on UK screens – assuming anyone’s bought anything, of course.

First, a request. UK TV networks – please buy things.

Second, some premiere dates. Although if UK TV networks have stopped buying things, we’re going to run out of those, sooner or later.

Dirty Dancing (US: ABC; UK: Channel 5)
Sunday, June 11, 6.25pm

Midnight, Texas (US: NBC; UK: Syfy)
Thursday, July 27, 9pm

The Last Tycoon (Amazon)
Friday, July 28
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News: Greg Wise and Billy Campbell join Modus; Netflix acquires Queen of the South; + more

News: Viceland acquires Son of Zorn; Ten enters administration; Black Mirror books; + more

News: Kimmy Schmidt renewed; Paradise Lost TV series; + more

News: 24: Legacy cancelled; Loosely Exactly Nicole, Insatiable rescued; + more

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