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Canadian TV

Global green lights: series of The Code with Jason Priestley

Internet TV

Kal Penn joins Hulu’s Deadbeat

UK TV

BBC Two renews (more or less): W1A and Cradle to Grave
Monday ratings

US TV

Five more scripts for The Mysteries of Laura
Full second season for Fresh Off The Boat
Full season for Quantico
Syfy cancels: Dominion
The CW cancels: Beauty and the Beast
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Neal McDonough to guest on The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow

New US TV shows

ABC developing: sitcom about making a sitcom…
…adaptation of Sweden’s Small Town Love
HBO green lights: pilot of Lena Durham’s 1960s feminism comedy Max
CBS developing: flatshare comedy Married With Roommates
ABC Family green lights: pilot of adaptation of Famous In Love
Seth Rogen developing: adaptation of The Boys

News: Fantasy Island without the Island, Transporter fights Supergirl, US Braunschlag, new Daredevil trailer + more

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Film

Expendables 4 a go

Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Daredevil

UK TV

Sunday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Mark Addy and Anna Chancellor join BBC One’s New Blood

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Matt Lanter to guest on CSI: Cyber
Taye Diggs to recur on Rosewood, Erik Allan Kramer to recur on Mike & Molly
Huw Collins to recur on Pretty Little Liars

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Key & Peele undercover cop comedy with Andrew Vine
ABC developing: adaptation of Austria’s Braunschlag…
…female-led Fantasy Island reboot set in San Francisco…
…green lights: put pilot of dark fashion comedy House of Moore
CBS green lights: put pilot of workplace comedy Workplace

New US TV show casting

Dominic Fumusa, Antonio Jaramillo and Nadia Alexander join USA’s The Wilding
Adrien Brody, Lorraine Bracco to guest, Kevin Corrigan to be a regular on Showtime’s Dice
Chris Vance to play Non in CBS’s Supergirl

News: Extant cancelled, Minority Report cut, Blindspot extended + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, with George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes et al
Trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, with Lily James, Lena Headey, Matt Smith et al

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle
Carrie-Anne Moss joins Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones

UK TV

BBC Three renews: People Just Do Nothing
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings
Saturday ratings

US TV

CBS cancels: Extant
NBC green lights: Full season of Blindspot
Fox cuts three episodes of Minority Report
New trailer for season 4 of Banshee
New Flash and Arrow trailers
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings
Saturday ratings

US TV show casting

Bradley Cooper to return to Limitless
Paul Reubens to reprise role of Penguin’s father on Gotham

US TV show casting

Wynn Everett, Lotte Verbeek, Reggie Austin et al join Marvel’s Agent Carter
Francois Arnaud to recur on Blindspot

New US TV shows

CBS developing: Legalease…
…summer murder mystery American Gothic…
…and Kevin James sitcom
…green lights: put pilots of Quantum Leapy Out of Body and tech/old school police show
ABC developing: comedy The Romeos (retired old men eating out)
Trailer for MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles
Terry Gilliam developing: Time Bandits TV series
New trailer for Cinemax’s Outcast
Cinemax developing: adaptation of George RR Martin’s Skin Trade
New trailer for Syfy’s The Magicians

New US TV show casting

Jane Alexander and James Callis join USA’s Brooklyn Animal Control

News: Halt and Catch Fire, Tyrant, Boy Meets Girl renewed, Ant-Man and the Wasp a go + more

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Film

Marvel announces Ant-Man and the Wasp, as well as three mystery films

Film casting

Gugu Mbatha-Raw joins Star Wars: Episode VIII

Canadian TV

Trailer for season 9 of The Murdoch Mysteries, featuring William Shatner

Internet TV

New teasers for Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Trailer for season 3 of Hemlock Grove

UK TV

Trailer for season 2 of Prey
BBC Two renews: Boy Meets Girl
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Maeve Dermody joins BBC One’s SS-GB

US TV

AMC renews: Halt and Catch Fire
FX renews: Tyrant
Three more scripts for Rosewood
Trailer for season 2 of The Librarians
Preview of season 2 of 12 Monkeys
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Melanie Liburd joins Game of Thrones
Lyndsy Fonseca to recur on Grandfathered

New US TV shows

ABC developing: comedy legal drama Negotiations
NBC developing: Bruno Mars musical family comedy
Teaser trailer for ABC Family’s Shadowhunters

New US TV show casting

Ari Graynor joins Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here
Ernie Hudson joins Epix’s Graves
Michael Ontkean not returning for Showtime’s Twin Peaks

News: a Sherlock special trailer, Inside No. 9 renewed + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Master of None

UK TV

BBC Two renews: Inside No. 9
Trailer for Sherlock special

US TV

Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

E! green lights: adaptation of KissnTell
Syfy green lights: pilot of Haunted
NBC green lights: pilot of kung fu drama Middle Kingdom…
…developing: odd couple comedy
ABC developing: suburban Green Beret comedy The Homefront…
…interracial family comedy

New US TV show casting

Carl Lumbly to recur on NBC’s Chicago Med
Artin John to guest on The X-Files

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