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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

Ólafur Darri Ólaffson in RÚV (Iceland)'s Trapped

Penny Dreadful sequel; Tender is the Night, Takeover adaptations; Ólafur Darri Ólafsson is The Minister; + more

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Molly Ringwald joins Netflix’s Tales of the City

European TV

Revolver Amsterdam developing: adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Takeover

Scandinavian TV

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson to star in RÚV (Iceland)’s Ráðherranum (The Minister)

UK TV

Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry to star in BBC One’s Click & Collect

US TV show casting

Draya Michele joins Fox’s Star

New US TV shows

Showtime green lights: Penny Dreadful spiritual descendant Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Hulu developing: adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
NBC developing: 30-something Mexican-American woman comedy All Fancy, with Anjelah Johnson

New US TV show casting

Virginia Madsen joins DC Universe’s Swamp Thing
Candice Coke to recur on Fox’s Proven Innocent

Einstein, Quadras, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King adaptations; The Ranch renewed; BBC acquires all FX shows; + more

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Netflix renews: The Ranch
Emma Roberts leaves Netflix’s Spinning Out

Australian TV

Ten rebrands as 10, green lights: dark drama The Secrets She Keeps, Lucy Lawless investigator My Life is Murder and comedy Mr Black with Stephen Curry and Nadine Garner

European TV

Entertainment One developing: period 1950s Rome drama Dolce Vita

UK TV

BBC agrees exclusive content partnership with FX (US), acquires: Pose, Mayans MC, Devs, What We Do in the Shadows, Better Things and Mrs America
Eleventh Hour/Sony developing: anthology UFO drama series Rendlesham, with Laurence Fishburne

US TV show casting

Quvenzhané Wallis to recur on ABC’s black-ish

New US TV shows

BBC America green lights: series adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Watch
ABC developing: Kelly Ripa/Ryan Seacrest-inspired comedy Work Wife…
…non-traditional Indian family comedy…
…and gifted therapist drama Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Fox developing: adaptation of M6 (France)’s Quadras as Let’s Spend the Night Together
Freeform developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s Joyland
NBC developing: adaptation of Sat 1 (Germany)’s Einstein

New US TV show casting

Leslie Odom Jr to star in ABC pastors comedy
Austin Abrams join HBO’s Euphoria, Algee Smith replaces Brian “Astro” Bradley
Josh Whitehouse to star in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel

Falcon/Winter Soldier mini-series; real-life Lady Macbeth; Brooklyn Nine-Nine teaser; + more

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David Sakurai, Carter MacIntyre and Bruce Locke to recur on Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle
Elena Tovar to recur on Netflix’s Designated Survivor
Megyn Price and Coy Stewart to recur on Netflix’s Mr Iglesias

Australian TV

ABC/Sky (UK) green light: returning Australian comedy Frayed

UK TV

BBC Studios developing: Lady Macbeth, based on life of Gruoch Ingen Boite
Dave green lights: pizza delivery comedy Sliced, with Samson Kayo and Theo Barklem-Biggs

US TV

Teaser for season 6 of NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine

US TV show casting

Jaime Murray to join Fox’s Gotham
Ashleigh LaThrop joins Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale
Ryan Hansen returns for Hulu’s Veronica Mars
Jordan Belfi to recur on NBC’s Chicago Fire
Lauren Stamile to recur on NBC’s Good Girls

New US TV shows

ABC red lights: False Profits
Fox developing: adaptation of Dean Koontz’s Strangers
IFC developing: Almost Asian, Annika Erotica, Art Thieves, Beth and The Middle Passage
Marvel developing: Falcon/Winter Soldier mini-series
NBC developing: treasure-hunt drama Goldbug…
…and LAPD community policing drama

New US TV show casting

Jason Flemyng joins Epix’s Pennyworth
Cate Blanchett to star in FX’s Mrs America
Naomi Watts to star in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel
Kristine Forseth and Charlie Plummer to star in Hulu’s Looking for Alaska

Bella Heathcote, Jack Reynor and Rupert Friend in Strange Angel

Strange Angel renewed; Vanessa Hudgens in live Rent; YouTube’s The Edge of Seventeen; + more

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Amy Forsyth, Jessica Sula, Max Willems et al join Amazon’s College
YouTube green lights: pilot of The Edge of Seventeen adaptation

UK TV

Trailer for Sky1’s Curfew
Callum Turner and Holliday Grainger to star in BBC One’s The Capture

US TV

CBS All Access renews: Strange Angel

US TV show casting

Miles Gaston Villanueva to recur on Fox’s The Resident

New US TV shows

ABC developing: shared accommodation comedy Common Areas
CBS developing: family comedy Our House and unlikely couple comedy The Story of Us
Fox developing: multigenerational murder comedy Next Door
NBC developing: ensemble musical comedy

New US TV show casting

Raphael Acloque to co-star in CBS’s Surveillance
Brandon Victor Dixon, Vanessa Hudgens, Jordan Fisher et al join Fox’s Rent
Yasha Jackson joins TNT’s Constance

American Vandal cancelled; The Conners, A Million Little Things extended; Ms Fisher casting; + more

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Nestor Carbonell and Mark Duplass join Apple’s morning show drama
Peyton List joins YouTube Premium’s Cobra Kai
Teaser for season 2 of Netflix’s Friends From College
Netflix cancels: American Vandal
Victor Garber to recur on Netflix’s Tales of the City
Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne et al join Netflix’s Lost Girls

Australian TV

James Mason, Toby Truslove, Louisa Mignone et al join Seven’s Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

UK TV

Nadine Coyle joins BBC NI’s Soft Border Patrol

US TV

ABC extends: The Conners and A Million Little Things

US TV show casting

Aleyse Shannon to recur on The CW’s Charmed
Nishi Munshi to recur on Fox’s Lethal Weapon

New US TV shows

ABC developing: single mom new career comedy
CBS developing: new money/old money comedy The Emperor of Malibu
NBC developing: university dance drama Major

New US TV show casting

Jeryl Prescott joins DC Universe’s Swamp Thing
Jessica Williams to star in, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds join Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral
Adam Scott to guest on CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone

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