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Emilia Clarke joins Han Solo solo movie

Doctor Who

Clip from the Christmas special

Internet TV

Brett Gelman joins Netflix’s Stranger Things
Sherry Cola joins Amazon’s I Love Dick
Justin Bartha joins CBS All Access’ The Good Fight

US TV

US TV show casting

Sibylla Deen to recur on The Last Ship

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Boston working class biology comedy

News: Berlin Station, Graves, The Night Shift renewed; Baby Cow’s Swing Time; BBC4’s Bucket; + more

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Internet TV

Russell Hornsby, Raul Castillo and Zackary Momoh join Netflix’s Seven Seconds

New UK TV shows

ITV Encore green lights: returning crime drama Bancroft
Baby Cow developing: adaptation of Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
BBC Four green lights: series of bucket list road trip comedy Bucket, with Miriam Margolyes and Frog Stone

US TV

Epix renews: Berlin Station and Graves
NBC renews: The Night Shift
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Marlee Matlin to guest on Code Black
Greg Grunberg to recur on The Flash
Danny Strong to recur on Billions
Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Hawaii Five-0…
…Masi Oka to leave
Natasha Rothwell promoted to regular on Insecure

New US TV shows

Fox developing: two live, one die medical drama The Beast…
…and shipwrecked spoilt girl comedy Missing American Woman

New US TV show casting

Hina Abdullah and Punam Patel to star in Freeform’s Brown Girls
Courtney B Vance joins ABC’s Libby & Malcolm
Holly Hunter to star in HBO’s Alan Ball family drama
Maureen McCormick to guest on TBS’s The Guest Book

News: Neil Gaiman’s new Sliders; Fox UK acquires Bull; Dr Mirage adaptation; + more

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Doctor Who

Writers and cast updates for the new season

UK TV

Fox UK acquires: Bull

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Billions
Teaser for season 2 of Channel Zero
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Rumer Willis to recur on Empire
William Russ, Keiko Agena and Paolo Andino to recur on Colony

New US TV shows

Fox developing: ex-con legal investigator drama Hawk…
…Manhattan School of Dance drama The Cut…
…and Neil Gaiman’s reality-leaping skyscraper series The Building
The CW developing: adaptation of Dr Mirage

New US TV show casting

Adam Beach, Jim True-Frost, Alicia Sixtos et al join TNT’s Monsters of God
Tyler Hilton, Kurt Fuller, Molly McCook et al join CMT’s His Wives and Daughters

News: Stranger in a Strange Land, Killing Eve adaptations; Brooke Shields – Scream Queen; + more

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Internet TV

Kristin Lehman to co-star in Netflix’s Altered Carbon

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 green lights: series of pub landlord comedy Back with David Mitchell and Robert Webb

New UK TV show casting

David Strathairn, Juliet Rylance, Faye Marsay et al join BBC One’s McMafia

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Elizabeth Perkins to guest on This is Us
Brooke Shields to guest on Scream Queens
Jaime Murray to guest on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

BBC America green lights: adaptation of Luke Jennings’ Killing Eve
NBC developing: action adventure history mystery Treasure…
…and guiding wife comedy
Syfy developing: adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land
Endemol et al adapting: Chris Perez’s To Selena With Love

News: Westworld, Divorce, Insecure renewed; The Great Indoors, Code Black, Man With A Plan extended; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon renews: One Mississippi

Australian TV

Foxtel green lights: returning soldiers drama Fighting Season
Monkey remake and The Easybeats drama Friday on My Mind in development

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky1’s Delicious, with Dawn French, Iain Glen, Emilia Fox et al

US TV

CBS extends: Man With A Plan, Code Black and The Great Indoors
HBO renews: Westworld, Divorce and Insecure
New Arrow-verse crossover trailer
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Nick Wechsler to recur on Chicago PD

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of adaptation of Justin Cronin’s The Passage…
…developing: immigrant father comedy
ABC green lights: series of Marvel’s The Inhumans
CBS developing: single mum student dean comedy

New US TV show casting

Chris Meloni to star in Syfy’s Happy!
Morena Baccarin to star in NBC cop law firm drama

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News: Doctor Who Christmas clip; Emilia Clarke joins Han Solo; + more

News: Berlin Station, Graves, The Night Shift renewed; Baby Cow’s Swing Time; BBC4’s Bucket; + more

News: Neil Gaiman’s new Sliders; Fox UK acquires Bull; Dr Mirage adaptation; + more

News: Stranger in a Strange Land, Killing Eve adaptations; Brooke Shields – Scream Queen; + more

News: Westworld, Divorce, Insecure renewed; The Great Indoors, Code Black, Man With A Plan extended; + more

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