Streaming TV

News

Film

Toho to produce new Godzilla movie

Film casting

Gina Carano joins Kickboxer

Canadian TV

Showcase renews: Continuum for one more season

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon Prime’s Mozart In The Jungle

UK TV

Channel 4 renews: Toast
BBC One Christmas trailer
Call the Midwife Christmas trailer
Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

John Henshaw and Mark Benton to star in Channel 4 spoof Educating Bitchfield

US TV

USA renews: Playing House
FXX renews: The League for one more season
Sunday ratings
Sunday TNT ratings

US TV show casting

Melina Kanakaredes to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Mark Hamill to play The Trickster on The Flash. Again

New US TV shows

TruTV green lights: school comedy Those Who Can’t
Syfy developing: Superman’s granddad prequel Krypton

New US TV show casting

Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Keisha Castle-Hiughes, Rafe Spall and Peter Cambor join Showtime’s Roadies
Austin Butler to star in MTV’s Shannara
Maggie Siff joins Showtime’s Billions
Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis join Fox’s Scream Queens

News: Krysten Ritter is Jessica Jones, Bond 24 is SPECTRE, Bradley James is the son of the devil + more

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Film

Bond 24 is SPECTRE

Trailers

Trailer for Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Teaser for Terminator Genisys

Internet TV

Krysten Ritter to star in Netflix’s Jessica Jones

UK TV

BBC Two cancels: Ambassadors
Trailer for Christmas Black Mirror
S4C added to iPlayer
Thursday ratings

New UK TV shows

Casting on BBC One’s A Song For Jenny

US TV

US TV show casting

Casting on True Detective…
…including CS Lee
Annie Wersching to return to Castle
Jeffrey Donovan joins Fargo
Supporting cast dumped on Leftovers

New US TV shows

The CW developing: John Wells hip hop drama based on Kenny Wormald’s life
Remake of Route 66 being developed
AMC green lights: pilot of Preacher adaptation

New US TV show casting

Wynn Everett to star in TNT’s Lumen
Timm Sharp to co-star in Starz’s Blunt Talk
Bradley James to star in Lifetime’s Omen remake Damien
Peri Gilpin replaces Jean Smart on NBC’s Mr Robinson
Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall join HBO’s Codes of Conduct
Cliff Jones to star in AMC’s Walking Dead spin-off

News: Will Smith, Tom Hardy join the Suicide Squad, Walking Dead spin-off casting, Lauren Graham’s on later + more

3 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Monday

Film

Source Code 2 planned

Film casting

Nazanin Boniadi to star in Ben-Hur remake
Jared Leto, WIll Smith, Tom Hardy et al to star in Suicide Squad adaptation

Trailers

Trailer for Wild Card with Jason Statham

Internet TV

Manhattan Love Story moves to Hulu

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Manu Bennett returning to Arrow
Chris Elliott to guest on Nurse Jackie

New US TV shows

Fox developing: criminal family comedy Frauds
HBO green lights: series of Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger 1970s rock drama

New US TV show casting

Natalie Zea to star in TBS’s Jason Jones/Samantha Bee vacation comedy
Brandon T Jackson to co-star in NBC’s Mr Robinson
Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam join AMC’s Walking Dead spin-off
Steven Weber to guest on The CW’s iZombie
Lauren Graham to star in NBC’s Kate on Later

News: Larry Lamb joins New Tricks, teaser for House of Cards, Jean Claude kickboxes again + more

2 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Jean-Claude Van Damme replaces Tony Jaa on Kickboxer remake

Internet TV

Teaser for season 3 of House of Cards

UK TV

Sunday ratings

UK TV show casting

Larry Lamb to replace Dennis Waterman on New Tricks

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky1’s Agatha Raisin and The Quiche of Death

US TV

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s Togetherness
ABC developing: female FBI show Ascension
Starz developing: jazz origins drama Storyville

New US TV show casting

January Jones and Kristen Schaal join Fox’s Last Man on Earth

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

28 November 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Radio

John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Manville to star in 10 hour New Year’s Day War and Peace

Theatre

Phoenix Nights to return as a stage show

Canadian TV

CBC unveils Winter season
Trailer for CBC’s The Book of Negroes
Trailer for CBC’s Schitt’s Creek

Internet TV

Bittorrent green lights: Children of the Machine

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

A returning Arrow character [spoilers]

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Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

News: Superman’s granddad, Mark Hamill’s the Trickster again, Toast and Continuum renewed + more

News: Krysten Ritter is Jessica Jones, Bond 24 is SPECTRE, Bradley James is the son of the devil + more

News: Will Smith, Tom Hardy join the Suicide Squad, Walking Dead spin-off casting, Lauren Graham’s on later + more

News: Larry Lamb joins New Tricks, teaser for House of Cards, Jean Claude kickboxes again + more

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

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