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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

Female Kung Fu, Nice Guys reboots; Marlon renewed; six minutes of Gifted; + more

29 September 2017 Rob Buckley 23 Comments

Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s Red Oaks
Amazon developing: adaptations of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, Greg Rucka’s Lazarus and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash

US TV

NBC renews: Marlon
The first six minutes of Fox’s Gifted
Trailer for season 2 of Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience [US only]
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Dean Norris joins ABC’s Scandal
Wil Traval to guest on NBC’s Chicago PD
Max Greenfield to guest on NBC’s Will & Grace
Dylan Baker joins Showtime’s Homeland

New US TV shows

CBS developing: Eric Holder-inspired DoJ legal drama Main Justice
Fox developing: female, 1950s-set Kung Fu reboot…
…female Nice Guys reboot…
…and Diablo Cody squirrel-loving female ex-cop drama FBI drama Two Nights

New US TV show casting

Yadira Guevara-Prip joins The CW’s Wayward Sisters

Scanners TV series; The Mist cancelled; Party of Five reboot; + more

28 September 2017 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

International TV

Media Res/Bron Studios developing: Scanners TV series
Natascha McElhone joins Hulu (US)/Channel 4’s The First

Canadian TV

Ger Ryan, Sylvia Ross, Stephen Oates et al join CBC’s Little Dog

UK TV show casting

Bill Bailey to guest on ITV’s Midsomer Murders

New UK TV shows

BBC One green lights: adaptation of Tana French’s The Dublin Murders

US TV

Spike cancels: The Mist
CBS orders full season of Young Sheldon
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Teyonah Parris to recur on Fox’s Empire
Elijah Kelley to recur on Fox’s Star

New US TV shows

ABC developing: ex-girl band soapy drama Broken Record…
…Latin American reboot of Party of Five
Syfy developing: adaptation of Deadly Class

Waco trailer; new Tina Brown and Stephen King adaptations; + more

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Internet TV

Matthew Del Negro to recur on Amazon’s Goliath

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Sherman Augustus, Babou Ceesay and Ella-Rae Smith join AMC’s Into The Badlands, Dean-Charles Chapman and Lewis Tan to recur
Terrell Carter promoted to regular on Fox’s Empire
Courtney Grosbeck to recur on Showtime’s Homeland

New US TV shows

Made Up Stories developing: adaptation of Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries
Free Association developing: adaptation of Zack McDermott’s Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love
Gaumont developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s N as 8
Hulu developing: best friends comedy This Is Heaven, with Kate Berlant and John Early
Trailer for Paramount’s Waco

New US TV show casting

Nicole Kang to recur on Lifetime’s You
Kyanna Simone Simpson to recur on The CW’s Black Lightning
Merin Dungey joins Fox’s The Resident
Necar Zadegan to recur on HBO’s Alan Ball drama
Toks Olagundoye joins Syfy’s Tremors

E4 acquires Young Sheldon; Amazon acquires 4 Blocks; iPlayer’s ‘From the Archive’; + more

26 September 2017 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Internet TV

Amazon acquires: TNT Serie (Germany)’s 4 Blocks
iPlayer adds ‘From The Archive’ category

International TV

Suranne Jones and Michael Palin join ITV/Amazon’s Vanity Fair

German TV

Tom Wlaschiha, Vincent Kartheiser, James D’Arcy et al join Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot

UK TV

E4 acquires: CBS (US)’s Young Sheldon

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Louis Gossett Jr, Corbin Bernsen and Andrew Dice Clay to recur on SundanceTV’s Hap & Leonard
Archie Panjabi to guest on CBS’s Bull
Amy Jackson to play Saturn Girl on The CW’s Supergirl
Sanaa Lathan joins Showtime’s The Affair

New US TV shows

Freeform green lights: pilot of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
NBC green lights: pilot of medical drama Bellevue
HBO green lights: pilot of Armando Iannucci space comedy Avenue 5
Len Wiseman developing: Underworld TV series
Trailer for History’s Knightfall

New US TV show casting

Harry Hamlin to recur on NBC’s Law & Order True Crime

Russell Tovey joins the Arrowverse; The President is Missing; Germanized; + more

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Internet TV

David Gyasi, Indira Varma, Tamzin Merchant et al join Amazon’s Carnival Row
Trailer for YouTube Red’s Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

International TV

Mark Bonnar joins Channel 4/AMC (US)’s Humans
Daniel Mays and Sian Brooke join BBC Two/Amazon’s Good Omens

Australian TV

Trailer for Ten’s Sisters

German TV

Deutsche Telekom green lights: light-hearted culture clash comedy Germanized

US TV

Thursday ratings

US TV show casting

Karin Konoval returns to Fox’s The X-Files
Russell Tovey joins The CW’s Arrow-verse

New US TV shows

The CW developing: high school football drama and period reincarnation love epic Hold Fast
Fox developing: Lee Daniels culture-clash family comedy based on Israel’s Nevsu: A Young Multicultural Couple…
…and drama adaptation of Lawrence Otis Graham’s Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Showtime developing: adaptation of Bill Clinton/James Patterson’s The President is Missing

New US TV show casting

Tamlyn Tomita promoted to regular on ABC’s The Good Doctor
Debi Mazar and Michael Maize to recur on Syfy’s Happy!

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