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Internet TV

Hulu renews: Casual
Trailer for season 2 of Difficult People
YouTube green lights: series based on Step Up

European TV

Sky Germany green lights: sequel series to Das Boot

New UK TV shows

Kudos developing: adaptation of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy [subscription required]

US TV

Two more episodes for Mr Robot
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Sherilyn Fenn and Missi Pyle guest on Major Crimes
James Carpinello to recur on Gotham
Taylor Lautner to star in Scream Queens
Kristen Gutoskie joins The Vampire Diaries, Christina Moses joins The Originals
Aimee Garcia joins Lucifer
Maisie Richardson-Sellers joins DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as Vixen

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s Insecure

New US TV show casting

Tom Everett Scott joins truTV’s I’m Sorry
Rell Battle promoted to regular on CBS’s Superior Donuts
Frances Conroy joins Spike’s The Mist

News: Vinyl cancelled; Scot Squad renewed; more Major Crimes; Poison Ivy recast; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Jack Reacher 2
Trailer for Keeping Up With The Joneses, with Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot

Internet TV

Johnny Simmons to star in Netflix’s Girlboss
Rob Morgan to recur on Netflix’s Godless

UK TV

BBC Scotland renews: Scot Squad

New UK TV shows

ITV Encore green lights: vigilante paedophile killings drama [subscription required]

US TV

Eight more episodes for Major Crimes
HBO cancels: Vinyl
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Maggie Geha replaces Clare Foley on Gotham
Archie Panjabi to recur on Blindspot
Brian Austin Green joins Rosewood
Vanessa Ferlito joins NCIS: New Orleans
Will Chase and Aubrey Peeples leave Nashville

New US TV shows

HBO developing: comedy adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep
Trailer for HBO’s Divorce
A24 developing: fake 80s Romanian cop show Iron Fisting
NBC green lights: pilot of organised crime family comedy The Baby, with Seann William Scott

New US TV show casting

Nicole Ari Parker to replace Regina Taylor on ABC’s Time After Time
Dustin Ingram to recur on CMT’s Million Dollar Quartet

News: Tricia Helfer is Lucifer’s mum; Frankenstein Chronicles renewed; Mark Hamill et al join Man Down; + more

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Internet TV

Patton Oswalt joins Hulu’s Dimension 404
Merritt Patterson joins The Art of More
Seriously.TV green lights: driving satire Uberification

Canadian TV

CBC/Netflix green light: adaptation of Margaret Attwood’s Alias Grace

UK TV

ITV Encore renews: The Frankenstein Chronicles

UK TV show casting

Mark Hamill, Steven Berkoff and Isy Suttie join Man Down

New UK TV show casting

Babou Ceesay and Wunmi Mosaku to star in BBC One’s Our Loved Boy

US TV

Trailer for Looking: The Movie
Teaser for season 6 of Suits
The first three minutes of season 2 of Killjoys
Trailer for season 3 of The Strain
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Jamie Chung to recur on Gotham
Tricia Helfer to play Lucifer’s mum on Lucifer
Madison McLaughlin to return as Artemis, Chad Coleman to recur on Arrow

New US TV show casting

Eliza Coupe to guest on TNT’s Civil
Danielle Savre et al to star, Heather Locklear et al to guest on TLC’s Too Close To Home
Chris Bauer and Gbenga Akinnagbe join HBO’s The Deuce
Daniel DiTomasso exits ABC’s Conviction

News: Penny Dreadful cancelled; Cheers: the stage show; Regina King returns to American Crime; + more

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Internet TV

Whitney Able and Samantha Soule join Netflix’s Godless

Theater

Cheers to get a stage adaptation

UK TV

Sky Atlantic ends/cancels: Penny Dreadful [spoilers]

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Peter Mackenzie promoted to regular on black-ish
Regina King returns for season 3 of American Crime

New US TV show casting

Paul Schneider and Fiona Shaw to star in Syfy’s Channel Zero: Candle Cove

News: Maigret, Mum renewed; Common – Black Samurai; Westworld trailer; + more

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Internet TV

S4C to remain on iPlayer for another five years

UK TV

ITV renews: Maigret
BBC Two renews: Mum

New UK TV shows

Sky Atlantic developing: war journalist love story Her Love
BBC One developing: adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution

US TV

Thursday ratings

US TV show casting

Margaret Colin replaces Lolita Davidovich on Shades of Blue
Alysia Reiner, Jeremy Strong and Ashley Zukerman join Masters of Sex

New US TV shows

Common to star in adaptation of Black Samurai
A&E red lights: The Infamous
Trailer for HBO’s Westworld

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News: Cicero series; Das Boot sequel series; new Vixen; + more

News: Vinyl cancelled; Scot Squad renewed; more Major Crimes; Poison Ivy recast; + more

News: Tricia Helfer is Lucifer’s mum; Frankenstein Chronicles renewed; Mark Hamill et al join Man Down; + more

News: Penny Dreadful cancelled; Cheers: the stage show; Regina King returns to American Crime; + more

News: Maigret, Mum renewed; Common – Black Samurai; Westworld trailer; + more

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