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UK TV

Gwendoline Christie joins Top of the Lake

US TV

Flash/Supergirl crossover trailer
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

Freeform developing: transgender family drama New People based on Becoming Nicole

New US TV show casting

Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths et al join ABC’s When We Rise
Lorraine Toussaint to play Law & Order character on NBC’s Chicago Justice
Beth Malone to recur on CBS’s BrainDead
Lucas Till to play young MacGyver in CBS’s MacGyver, Joshua Boone joins
Susannah Fielding joins CBS’s The Great Indoors
Esai Morales to co-star in Fox’s HR
Paul Adelstein to return…
…Inbar Lavi, Marina Benedict and Kunal Sharma to recur on Fox’s Prison Break
Will Patton to recur on Fox’s Shots Fired
Franka Potente joins FX/BBC’s Taboo
Jennifer Marsala to recur on NBC’s Taken

News: Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet; Heartland renewed; Carl Weathers’ justice; Maniac US; + more

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Internet TV

Teaser trailer for Netflix’s Luke Cage
Netflix green lights: rom com Santa Clarita Diet, with Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant

Canadian TV

Teaser for Wyonna Earp
CBC renews: Heartland

New UK TV show casting

Tim Roth and Samantha Morton to star in BBC One’s Rillington Place

US TV

Trailer for season three of Silicon Valley
Trailer for season five of Veep
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Andrea Savage to recur on Veep and iZombie
Aasif Mandvi to recur on Mr Robot

New US TV shows

Paramount developing: adaptation of Norway’s Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill

New US TV shows

Joshua Carlon, Steele Stebbins, Amberia Allen to be regulars on Fox’s mixed-marriage comedy
Veronica Osorio and Lateefah Holder to star in Fox’s HR
Carla Jimenez, Thomas Barbusca and Jack Stanton join Fox’s The Mick
Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss and Stephen Moyer to star in Fox’s Shots Fired
Ben Rappaport joins Fox’s Zoobiquity
Carl Weathers joins NBC’s Chicago Justice
Gavin Stenhouse to star in NBC’s Me & Mean Margaret

News: Of Kings And Prophets cancelled; Vikings renewed; T-Bag returns; Virgin Media acquires Kingdom; Iron Fist cast; + more

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Film trailers

New trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
Six new clips from Batman v Superman
New trailer for The Legend of Tarzan

Internet TV

Finn Jones to star in Netflix’s Marvel’s Iron Fist
Ashley Hinshaw joins Crackle’s Start Up

Canadian TV

History renews: Vikings, Jonathan Rhys Meyers joins

UK TV

Virgin Media acquires: Audience’s Kingdom

US TV

ABC cancels: Of Kings And Prophets

US TV show casting

Logan Paul Jones to recur on Stitchers
Lauren Stamile to recur on Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for NBC’s Game of Silence
Universal developing: Gideon Raff adaptation of David Ignatius’s The Increment
ABC Signature developing: adaptation of Audrey Carlan’s Calendar Girl series
New York Cosmos football team series in development

New US TV show casting

Tommy Savas joins ABC’s The Fluffy Shop
JD Pardo to be a regular on ABC’s The Jury
Punam Patel to be a regular on ABC’s Toast
Daniel Bonjour joins The CW’s Frequency
Keesha Sharp replaces Golden Brooks on Fox’s Lethal Weapon, Johnathan Fernandez joins
Yassir Lester joins Fox’s Making History
Robert Knepper and Rockmond Dunbar to return for Fox’s Prison Break
Jose Pablo Cantillo to be a regular on NBC’s Taken
Rainn Wilson and Christopher Backus to recur on Showtime’s Roadies
Emily Brown joins Starz’s American Gods

News: Heathers anthology series; Person of Interest cancelled; Gotham renewed; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Ben Hur

Books

Michael Mann launches book line, including Heat prequel

Internet TV

Britt Robertson to recur on Hulu’s Casual
Michael Rapaport, Becky Ann Baker, Lewis Black et al join Amazon’s Woody Allen series

Canadian TV

CBC green lights: small-town global conspiracy drama The Council

New UK TV shows

Sky Atlantic green lights: Canadian mountains crime drama [subscription required]

US TV

CBS cancels: Person of Interest
Fox renews: Gotham
Teaser for Supergirl/Flash crossover
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Judd Hirsch to guest on The Big Bang Theory
Andrea Parker promoted to regular on Pretty Little Liars
Annabeth Gish joins Halt and Catch Fire
Richard Brake to recur on Ray Donovan

New US TV shows

Trailer for OWN’s Greenleaf
HBO developing: celebrity architecture drama High Rise
TV Land developing: anthology comedy adaptation of Heathers

New US TV show casting

Minnie Driver to star in ABC’s Speechless
Michael Weatherly to star in CBS’s Bull
Julie White joins CBS’s Real Good People
Sofia Pernas replaces Amrita Acharia on The CW’s Transylvania
Bill Bellamy to star in Fox’s interracial family comedy
Amin El Gamal joins Fox’s Prison Break
Melissa Tang joins Fox’s Zoobiquity

News: more Indiana Jones; Sky acquires JLo show; Better Call Saul renewed; Stephen Fry’s US pilot; + more

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Film

Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg to return for Indiana Jones 5

Internet TV

Amazon developing: present-day civil war drama
Netflix green lights: Chicago comedy series

UK TV

Sky Living acquires: NBC’s Shades of Blue

US TV

AMC renews: Better Call Saul
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Matthew Perry to play Ted Kennedy in The Kennedys – After Camelot
Sam Witwer to recur on Once Upon A Time

New US TV show casting

Betty Gilpin joins ABC’s Dream Team
Kevin Zegers joins ABC’s Notorious
Medalion Rahimi to be a regular on ABC’s Still Star-Crossed
Jerrika Hinton to star in ABC’s Toast
Carrie Preston to star in ABC’s When We Rise
Stephen Fry to co-star in CBS’s The Great Indoors
Sarayu Blue joins The CW’s No Tomorrow
Ernie Hudson joins Fox’s APB
Amaury Nolasco to return for Fox’s Prison Break
Wesam Keesh joins Fox’s Zoobiquity
Jennifer Beals to star in NBC’s Taken
Sakina Jaffrey to be a regular on NBC’s Time

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