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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

News: Shane Black to reboot Predator, Kevin Kline is Errol Flynn, Brendan Coyle is Spotless + more

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Film

Shane Black to reboot Predator

Trailers

Trailer for The Last of Robin Hood with Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon and Dakota Fanning

French TV

Brendan Coyle, Miranda Raison and Denis Ménochet to star in Canal+’s Spotless

Internet TV

Carrie Brownstein joins Amazon’s Transparent
Craig Roberts to star in Amazon’s Red Oaks

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

MacKenzie Porter to replace Siobhan Williams on Hell on Wheels
Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard and Calista Flockhart to guest on Web Therapy, Billy Crystal to return

New US TV show casting

Alex Russell to star in AMC’s Galyntine

News: Turn to return, Showtime’s Girlfriends, an Intruders trailer + more

24 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Freddie Roman to co-star in Amazon’s Red Oaks

New UK TV shows

Sky 1 green lights: sitcom After Hours, with Jaime Winstone and Ardal O’Hanlon

US TV

US TV casting

Melinda Clarke to guest on Dallas

New US TV shows

Showtime green lights: The Girlfriend Experience anthology adaptation…
…and pilot of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
New clip from ABC’s Selfie
New trailer for BBC America’s Intruders with John Simm and Mira Sorvino

New US TV show casting

Carl Lumbly joins A&E’s The Returned remake
PJ Byrne joins HBO’s Martin Scorsese rock and roll pilot

News: Freema Agyeman is in Sense8, Joanna Page joins Knifeman, Rosario Dawson is a Daredevil + more

23 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors planned

Film

Two more Mrs Brown’s Boys movies?

Film casting

Michael Eklund and Brandon Sexton join Dark
Olga Kurylenko to star in Little Mizz Innocent

Trailers

Trailer for The Drop with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini
Trailer for Love is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina

Theatre

Tamsin Greig to star in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown adaptation

Australian TV

Martin Sacks joins Wonderland

Internet TV

Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah, Freema Agyeman et al join Netflix’s Sense8
Rosario Dawson joins Netflix’s Daredevil
Amazon announces full cast of Really, including Sarah Chalke,

UK TV

Trailer for series 2 of Utopia

New UK TV shows

BBC3 announces nine Comedy Feed pilots
Trailer for BBC1’s Common

US TV

First 5 minutes of season 4 of Falling Skies
Thursday ratings

US TV show casting

Cheynene Jackson to guest on Royal Pains

New US TV shows

NBC developing: Wasteland

New US TV show casting

Gethin Anthony, Grey Damon and Emma Dumont join NBC’s Aquarius
J August Richards joins Lifetime’s The Lottery
Joanna Page joins AMC’s Knifeman

News: ITV’s Good Wife, another Mrs Brown’s Boys movie, Jesus of Montreal joins the Vikings + more

19 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

A Mrs Brown’s Boys sequel

Internet TV

Martin Sheen joins Netflix’s Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin comedy
Manolo Cardona joins Netflix’s Narcos

New UK TV shows

ITV developing: Good Wife-type show

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Erin Cummings and Artemis Pebdani join Masters of Sex
Lothaire Bluteau, Kevin Durand, Morgane Polanski…
…and Jennie Jacques join The Vikings

New US TV shows

New teaser for Fox’s Gotham
Showtime green lights: Cameron Crowe’s Roadies

New US TV show casting

J August Richards and Julianna Guill join The Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce

News: Michael Rosenbaum isn’t a gay pastor, a The Flash clip, a The Knick trailer, more Guardians of the Galaxy + more

18 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Trailers

New Guardians of the Galaxy trailer
New trailer for The Expendables 3

Internet TV

Adan Canto to star in Amazon’s Hysteria

US TV

Monday ratings

New US TV shows

A clip from The CW’s The Flash
Trailer for Cinemax’s The Knick

New US TV show casting

Craig Frank promoted to regular on The CW’s The Messengers, Max Jenkins joins NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura
Michael Rosenbaum to star in TV Land’s Impastor

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News: Shane Black to reboot Predator, Kevin Kline is Errol Flynn, Brendan Coyle is Spotless + more

News: Turn to return, Showtime’s Girlfriends, an Intruders trailer + more

News: Freema Agyeman is in Sense8, Joanna Page joins Knifeman, Rosario Dawson is a Daredevil + more

News: ITV’s Good Wife, another Mrs Brown’s Boys movie, Jesus of Montreal joins the Vikings + more

News: Michael Rosenbaum isn’t a gay pastor, a The Flash clip, a The Knick trailer, more Guardians of the Galaxy + more

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