Streaming TV

News

Film casting

Joe Thomas to star in eco-rom-com Scottish Mussel

Internet TV

Kim Dickens joins House of Cards

UK TV shows

Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

BBC1 developing: Last of the Summer Wine spin-off

New UK TV show casting

Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling join BBC2’s London Spy

US TV

CBS launches digital subscription service
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Frank Langella to recur on The Americans
Dean Stockwell to guest on NCIS: New Orleans
Beverly D’Angelo and Colin Hanks to guest on Mom
Victor Garber to guest on Blue Bloods

New US TV shows

NBC developing: Bill Lawrence’s second go at adapting Channel 4’s The IT Crowd…
…and David Goyer adaptation of Shadowland
ABC developing: family comedy Raising Adults…
…and Josefina Lopez’s The Fabulous Fernandez Sisters
Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst adapting The Hot Zone
CBS developing: RJ Cutler police drama

News: Scarlett Johansson TV series, Twin Peaks returns + more

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Film

A Lego Batman spin-off movie

Film casting

Donald Glover joins Ridley Scott’s The Martian
Casting on Dad’s Army
Jennifer Jason Leigh to star in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

Internet TV

Casting on Netflix’s Daredevil
Trailer for PlayStation’s Powers
Malin Akerman et al to star in Yahoo’s Sin City Saints
Amazon renews: Transparent
Lori Petty to return to Orange Is the New Black

New Zealand TV

Antonia Prebble to star in Outrageous Fortune prequel Westside Story
Neil Cross to produce Bay of Plenty

International TV

James Cosmo to star in spy thriller Magnum Opus

UK TV

Viva channel to be replaced by Spike TV
Channel 4 cancels: Utopia

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: cold case crime drama The Forgotten…
…developing: Magnum drama about photography agency
Trailer for BBC2’s spy drama The Game

US TV

Starz renews: Black Sails and Survivor’s Remorse
CBS cancels: Unforgettable and Reckless…
…renews: Under the Dome and Extant
ABC orders full series of How To Get Away With Murder and blackish
Wednesday ratings
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Andy Mientus and Victor Garber join The Flash
Troian Bellisario to guest on Suits
Jane Seymour to guest on Forever
Angela Kinsey to guest on Bad Judge
Michael Park to recur on Chicago PD
Charisma Carpenter to guest on Sons of Anarchy

New US TV shows

Resident Evil and Mortal Instruments franchises to continue as TV series
Showtime green lights: Twin Peaks sequel
The CW developing: vigilante drama The Phoenix Project
NBC developing: Krysten Rittter comedy Back on The Farm…
…supernatural anthology series
CBS green lights: pilot of adaptation of James Patterson’s The Thomas Berryman Number…
…Patricia Cornwell crime series
Legendary developing Lost in Space reboot…
…and Myst TV series
ABC developing: legal drama Pariahs
Animal Planet developing: The Other Dead zombie comic adaptation
Teaser trailer for TNT’s The Librarians

New US TV show casting

Kyle Bornheimer joins ABC’s Agent Carter
Scott Foley and Greg Grunberg to star in ABC Shondaland comedy
Scarlett Johansson to star in The Custom of the Country
Cynthia Stevenson joins TBS’s Your Family Or Mine
Thomas Sadoski joins NBC’s The Slap remake

News: Big and Rush Hour series, Taken 3 and Fortitude trailers, You’re The Worst renewed + more

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Trailers

Trailer for Taken 3 with Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace et al [spoilers]

Internet TV

Amazon green lights series of Hand of God, red lights Hysteria and Really
Yvette Nicole Brown leaves Community

UK TV

One more series for Lewis
ITV2 acquires: Scorpion

UK TV show casting

Hugh Dennis joins Not Going Out

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude

New UK TV show casting

Harry Hill to star in BBC1 adaptation of Professor Branestawm books

US TV

FX renews: Married and You’re The Worst, moves You’re The Worst to FXX
ABC renews: Mistresses
Trailer for season 4 of American Horror Story
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Jennifer Lewis to recur on black-ish

New US TV shows

NBC acquires: adaptation of US government survival plans book Raven Rock
ABC acquires: 1970s female cop drama Broad Squad
Warner Bros developing: series of Rush Hour
Fox developing: Big mini-series
Trailer for Syfy’s Ascension

New US TV show casting

Yvonne Strahovski joins ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club
Dominic Cooper to be a regular on ABC’s Agent Carter
Casting on Showtime’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

News: Sky Atlantic and Canal+ go tri-lingual, Netflix to make a movie, Sweden’s Nurse Jackie + more

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Film

Netflix to make Crouching Tiger sequel

Film casting

Matt Bomer joins The Nice Guys

Trailers

Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice with Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson et al

French TV

TF1 closes lifestyle channel [subscription required]

Scandinavian TV

Sweden to remake Nurse Jackie [subscription required]

UK TV

Sunday ratings

UK TV show casting

Jon Hamm to guest on Black Mirror

UK TV

Syfy acquires (oh FFS): Dominion

New UK TV shows

Sky Atlantic and Canal+ green light: tri-lingual heist drama The Last Panthers

New UK TV show casting

Vanessa Redgrave and Jim Broadbent join BBC1’s The Go-Between
John Simm and David Threlfall to star in ITV’s Code of a Killer

US TV

L&O:SVU, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD to crossover
ABC Family cancels: Mystery Girls
Friday ratings
Sunday ratings
Sunday Showtime ratings

US TV show casting

Demetri Martin to recur on House of Lies
Christian Camargo to guest on Elementary
Kid Cudl and Method Man to guest on Scorpion

New US TV shows

ABC Family green lights: Stitchers and Young & Hungry
ABC developing: Cindy Chupack female friends comedy Dish…
…Fred Goss comedy Funhouse

News: Rutger Hauer Galavants, Josh Holloway joins USA’s Colony, Devious Maids renewed + more

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Canadian TV

Trailer for CBC’s Strange Empire

Internet TV

Ernie Hudson to recur on Netflix’s Grace and Frankie

New Zealand TV

Prime’s Brokenwood Mysteries starts well

UK TV

Saturday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Arsher Ali to star in ITV’s Arthur & George

US TV

US TV show casting

Molly Shannon to guest on The Millers
Ernie Hudson to guest on Hot In Cleveland
Ksenia Solo joins Turn [spoilers]

New US TV shows

Another trailer for Fox’s Gracepoint
ABC developing: political thriller from Jenna Bans
USA developing: adaptation of Blake Crouch’s Abandon
NBC developing: supernatural media drama Maidenhead

New US TV show casting

Josh Holloway to star in Carlton Cuse’s USA pilot Colony
Rutger Hauer to recur on ABC’s Galavant
John Ratzenberger to recur on CBS’s The McCarthys
Angela Kinsey to recur on TBS’s Your Family Or Mine

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