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News

The Daily News will return on Tuesday. Have a nice Bank Holiday weekend!

Internet TV

Netflix developing: The Crown, based on The Audience

Canadian TV

Space renews: Bitten

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Rectify
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Christian Borle joins Masters of Sex

New US TV shows

WE tv green lights: Eli Roth exorcist horror series South of Hell
ABC red lights: An American Education

New US TV show casting

Mark Pellegrino to star in A&E’s Les Revenants adaptation, The Returned

News: Eve Myles joins Broadchurch, Benedict Cumberbatch joins Black Mass, the Dawn of Justice (League) + more

22 May 2014 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Films

Batman V Superman retitled Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

Film casting

Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Scott join Black Mass

Trailers

Trailer for Life of Crime with Jennifer Aniston

Theater

Annette Bening joins King Lear in New York’s Shakespeare in the Park

Internet TV

James McDaniel joins Amazon’s Hysteria

Australian TV

ABC developing: a dead people come back to life drama [subscription required]

UK TV

Y Gwyll/Hinterland to be released on two different DVD sets, one Welsh, one English/Welsh

UK TV casting

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James D’Arcy and Eve Myles join Broadchurch

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Azita Ghanizada and Andrew Daly to guest on Major Crimes
Neil Jackson promoted to regular on Sleepy Hollow
Neal McDonough to recur on Suits
Gillian Jacobs to recur on Girls

New US TV shows

Bill Hader to create and star in HBO series

New US TV show casting

Željko Ivanek promoted to regular on CBS’s Madam Secretary

News: Corner Gas movie, Steven Berkoff is a witch, Molly Ringwald joins Jem and the Holograms+ more

21 May 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Juliette Lewis and Molly Ringwald join Jem and the Holograms

Trailers

International trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending
Trailer for Kingsman: The Secret Service

Internet TV

Chloe Sevigny, Steven Pasquale join Netflix drama

Canadian TV

Corner Gas to get a movie spin-off

US TV

US TV casting

Amir Arison promoted to regular on The Blacklist
Courtney B Vance and Rene Auberjonois to guest on Masters of Sex
Steven Berkoff to recur on Witches of East End

New US TV shows

Showtime developing: Control Alt Delete
TNT developing: Major Crimes spin-off
AMC releases first episode of Halt and Catch Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for El Rey’s Matador
Teaser for FX’s The Strain

New US TV show casting

NBC’s Bad Judge and The CW’s iZombie recasting roles
Athena Karkanis joins The Lifetime’s Lottery

News: John Barrowman’s new job, ITV2’s Cockroaches, Showtime’s Heimsendir adaptation + more

16 May 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Trailers

Trailer for Monsters: Dark Continent

Film casting

Edgar Ramirez replaces Gerard Butler on Point Break remake

Internet TV

TR Knight joins Amazon’s Hysteria, Adrienne C Moore promoted to regular on Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black

New UK TV shows

ITV2 green lights: post-apocalyptic rom-com Cockroaches

US TV

SundanceTV acquires: Channel 4’s Babylon
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

John Barrowman to be a regular on Arrow

New US TV shows

Jonathan Ames to adapt Iceland’s World’s End/Heimsendir for Showtime

News: ABC, NBC, USA and The CW’s cancellations, renewals and pick-ups, Damian Lewis is Henry VIII + more

9 May 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Ray Winstone joins, Gerard Butler leaves Point Break remake

Trailers

Trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Trailer for Snowpiercer with Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt et al

Internet TV

Amazon Prime UK acquires NBCUniversal shows

UK TV

Channel 4 renews: Drifters
Fox UK acquires: Wayward Pines

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC1’s From There To Here

New UK TV show casting

Damian Lewis to play Henry VIII, Mark Rylance to play Thomas Cromwell + other casting in BBC’s Wolf Hall adaptation
Selina Borji, Simon Fisher-Becker and Aron Julius join BBC4’s Puppy Love

US TV

ABC renews: Agents of SHIELD, Resurrection, The Goldbergs, Once Upon A Time, Castle, Revenge, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, The Middle and Modern Family
The CW renews: The 100, Hart of Dixie and Beauty and the Beast…
…cancels The Carrie Diaries, The Tomorrow People and Star-Crossed
Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: series of Agent Carter, How To Get Away With Murder, American Crime, The Whispers, Forever, Blackish, Galavant, Manhattan Love Story and Selfie
NBC green lights: series of The Mysteries of Laura, Constantine…
…and A to Z
The CW green lights: series of iZombie, The Flash, Jane The Virgin and The Messengers
USA green lights: series of Stanistan…
…developing: Colony, Boom, Brand, The Farm, Control, Mr Robot, Difficult People, Moguls, Royal, Love the One You’re With and Majordomo

New US TV show casting

Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn and Michael Mando join AMC’s Better Call Saul

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News: Netflix’s adaptation of The Audience, Bitten renewed, Eli Roth goes South of Hell + more

News: Eve Myles joins Broadchurch, Benedict Cumberbatch joins Black Mass, the Dawn of Justice (League) + more

News: Corner Gas movie, Steven Berkoff is a witch, Molly Ringwald joins Jem and the Holograms+ more

News: John Barrowman’s new job, ITV2’s Cockroaches, Showtime’s Heimsendir adaptation + more

News: ABC, NBC, USA and The CW’s cancellations, renewals and pick-ups, Damian Lewis is Henry VIII + more

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