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News: Karen Gillan’s Selfie, a Prime Suspect prequel, another CSI, HBO and Showtime renewals + more

19 February 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Haley Joel Osment joins Entourage

Trailers

Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy
Trailer for Paddy Considine’s Honour

New UK TV shows

Lynda La Plante writing Prime Suspect prequel

US TV

Netflix acquires: ABC1 Australia’s Rake
HBO renews: Getting On
Showtime renews: House of Lies, Shameless
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Casting on The Vampire Diaries

New US TV shows

The first 12 minutes of SundanceTV’s The Red Road
CSI to get another spin-off
WGN developing Eliot Ness drama

New US TV show casting

Neve Campbell leaves TNT’s Guilt By Association
Deon Cole joins TBS’s Tribeca, plus casting on TNT’s Proof
Karen Gillan to star in ABC’s Selfie
Kal Penn to co-star in CBS’s Battle Creek
Paige Turco joins CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans
Jon Heder to star in Fox comedy
Jacinda Barrett joins Netflix thriller
Don Hany to star in ABC’s Warriors
Greta Lee to co-star in NBC’s Old Soul, Derek Webster to recur on ABC’s The Visitors

News: Channel 4 removed from Netflix and Lovefilm, Tom Hardy joins Peaky Blinders, Ravenswood cancelled + more

17 February 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Gal Gadot joins Triple Nine

Trailers

Trailer for Drive Hard with John Cusack and Thomas Jane

UK TV

Channel 4 shows being removed from Netflix and Lovefilm

UK TV casting

Tom Hardy joins Peaky Blinders
Richard E Grant and Anna Chancellor to guest on Downton Abbey, plus returning cast members [minor spoilers]

New UK TV shows

BBC2 green lights: Tom Rob Smith’s London Spy
ITV green lights: Cilla Black biopic with Sheridan Smith
ITV2 green lights: remake of ABC Australia’s Laid
London Live green lights: lots of comedies

New UK TV show casting

Nick Lee joins ITV’s Undeniable
Lewis Rainer joins BBC1’s The Driver

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Orange is the New Black
Trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones
ABC Family cancels: Ravenswood
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

New US TV shows

Trailer for Showtime’s Penny Dreadful

New US TV show casting

Jane Krakowski to star in Fox’s Dead Boss
David James Elliott to co-star in Fox’s Here’s Your Damn Family
Genevieve Angelson to replace Marnie Gummer in Fox’s Backstrom
Michael Imperioli to star in ABC’s Saint Francis
Neve Campbell and Elisabeth Rohm join TNT’s Guilt By Association
Alyson Hannigan joins CBS’s More Time With Family
Octavia Spencer to star in Fox’s Red Band Society
Meagan Good to co-star in NBC’s Babylon Fields remake, Rosa Salazar to recur on NBC’s The Pro
Jason Isaacs to star in USA’s Dig
Gavin Stenhouse to star in NBC’s The Gordin Cell remake Coercion
Echo Kellum to co-star in NBC’s Two To Go, Warren Kole joins NBC’s Salvation
Gerald McRaney joins TNT’s Agent X + casting on ABC’s American Crime

News: more Musketeers and Lewis, less Mob City, a young Transporter + more

11 February 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Ed Skrein to play young Jason Statham in Transporter prequel movies
Eliza Dushku and Bradley Whitford join Midnight Rider

Trailers

Trailer for Richard Ayoade’s The Double, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska

International TV

Maggie Q to star as pirate Ching Shih in Red Flag

UK TV

BBC1 renews: The Musketeers
ITV1 renews: Lewis
Sunday ratings

US TV

NBC to create web series for Chicago Fire, Parks & Rec, Grimm and Parenthood during the Olympics
CBS adds more shows to Hulu Plus
TNT cancels: Mob City
Teaser for season 3 of Veep
Sunday ratings: Walking Dead gets 15.8m viewers

US TV show casting

Roseanne Barr to guest on The Millers
Barry Watson to recur on Hart of Dixie
Nathalie Emmanuel promoted to regular on Game of Thrones
Vinessa Shaw to recur on Ray Donovan
Michael J Fox to return to The Good Wife

New US TV shows

HBO adapting: A Teacher
AMC developing: civil rights drama Bombingham
CBS green lights: comedy Cuz-Bros pilot
TBS green lights: adaptation of Israeli comedy Your Family or Mine
Teaser for HBO’s Silicon Valley

New US TV show casting

Tom Cavanagh joins The CW’s The Flash
Courtney B Vance and Eloise Mumford join ABC’s Warriors
Lucas Black joins CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans
Nick Zano to co-star on NBC’s One Big Happy
Laurence Fishburne joins ABC’s Black-ish
Kevin Alejandro to co-star on ABC’s Clementine
Ben McKenzie to play Jim Gordon in Fox’s Gotham
Rob Riggle joins NBC’s The Pro
Jamie McShane joins Netflix’s ZKZ
Rita Moreno joins NBC’s Old Soul

News: BBC1’s Anansi Boys, Paul Bettany is a Vision and Psych and Michael J Fox cancelled +more

7 February 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Film

Paul Bettany to play the Vision in The Avengers 2

Film casting

Jason Lee, Katee Sackhoff, Milo Ventimiglia et al to star in Tell
Hannah Ware to star in Agent 47
Tom Hiddleston joins Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise

New UK TV shows

BBC1 adapting: Anansi Boys

US TV

USA cancels: Psych
NBC cancels: The Michael J Fox Show
Another Hannibal trailer
Tuesday ratings
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Hank Azaria and Sherilyn Fenn join Ray Donovan
Lance Reddick to guest on The Blacklist
Zachary Knighton to recur on Parenthood
Andy Richter to guest on The Millers

New US TV shows

CBS developing: remake of Yes’s The Ran Quadruplets and John Cusack Wall Street drama
Amazon green lights: Cocked pilot
ABC green lights: 10 episodes of Astronaut Wives Club
Starz green lights: comedy Survivor’s Remorse
SyFy developing: adaptation of DMZ
Lifetime green lights: 10 episodes of Marti Noxon’s Un-Real

New US TV show casting

Jay Baruchel to star in FX’s Man Seeking Woman
Peter Facinelli to star in NBC’s Odyssey
Natalie Martinez joins ABC’s Secrets & Lies
Sissy Spacek joins Netflix thriller
Will Sasso to guest on NBC’s About A Boy
Zachary Knighton to star in Fox’s Weird Loners

News: Scrotal Recall, more House of Cards and Lex Luthor is Agent X’s president

5 February 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Matthew McConaughey to star in Gus Van Sant’s Sea of Trees

International TV

Michael Nyqvist and Dominic Monaghan to star in Swedish-set Merrick adaptation 100 Code

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 green lights: series of Raised by Wolves and Scrotal Recall

UK TV show casting

Ian Lavender, Michael Jibson and Dorothy Atkinson join BBC2’s Tubby & Enid

US TV

Netlfix renews: House of Cards (again)
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Alexandra Daddario to guest on New Girl
Eddie Cahill and Karla Crome join Under The Dome
Judy Davis out of 24: Live Another Day

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: geniuses drama Scorpion
The CW green lights: apocalyptic drama The Messengers

New US TV show casting

Franka Potente, Amaury Nolasco et al join Cinemax’s Blanco
Candide Patton joins The CW’s The Flash
Linda Cardellini joins Netflix thriller
Ryan Phillippe to star in ABC’s Secrets and Lies
Jake McDorman to star in ABC’s My Thoughts Exactly
David Strathairn to star in ABC’s Clementine
Mather Zickel joins NBC’s Bad Judge, Lilli Birdsell joins ABC’s Sea of Fire
John Shea joins TNT’s Agent X

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News: Karen Gillan’s Selfie, a Prime Suspect prequel, another CSI, HBO and Showtime renewals + more

News: Channel 4 removed from Netflix and Lovefilm, Tom Hardy joins Peaky Blinders, Ravenswood cancelled + more

News: more Musketeers and Lewis, less Mob City, a young Transporter + more

News: BBC1’s Anansi Boys, Paul Bettany is a Vision and Psych and Michael J Fox cancelled +more

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