Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
News
Living the Dream renewed; Going Forward cancelled; Cuéntame Un Cuento (US); + more
Internet TV
- Netflix acquires: Youku Tudou (China)’s Day and Night…
- … (officially) renews: Mindhunter
- Robert Sheehan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper et al join Netflix’s Umbrella Academy
- Bobby Cannavale to star in Amazon’s Homecoming
International TV
- HBO Asia green lights: multi-country horror anthology Folklore, Japanese gender-switched Sherlock Holmes Miss Sherlock and Dutch East Indies period drama Grisse
Israeli TV
- Keshet developing: thriller Sleeping Bears [subscription required]
Scandinavian TV
- Discovery (Sweden) green lights: series of psychological drama Det Som Göms i Snö (The Truth Will Out) [subscription required]
UK TV
- BBC Four cancels: Going Forward
- Sky1 renews: Living the Dream
- Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg join BBC One’s A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
US TV
New US TV shows
- New trailer for TNT’s The Alienist
- New trailer for Crackle’s The Oath [US only]
- CBS green lights: series of action-adventure antiques drama Blood and Treasure
- CBS All Access green lights: adaptation of Antena tres (Spain)’s dark fairy tales series Cuéntame Un Cuento (Tell Me A Story)
- NBC developing: pastor/federal special agent drama Spirit of the Law
- USA developing: Ronald Reagan limited series
New US TV show casting
- Ken Jeong and David Alan Grier join Fox’s A Christmas Story Live!
- Josh Lucas to recur on Paramount’s Yellowstone
