Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
News: Ripper Street, Young & Hungry cancelled; JK Simmons is Commissioner Gordon; Andie MacDowell – model woman; Geena Davis – exorcist; + more
Film casting
- JK Simmons to play Commissioner Gordon in Justice League
Internet TV
- Amazon cancels: Ripper Street
- Glenne Headly and Ed Begley Jr to star in Hulu’s Future Man
- Jonathan Groff to star in Netflix’s Mindhunter
UK TV
- Sony to launch true crime channel
New UK TV shows
- BBC green lights: King Lear, with Anthony Hopkins; adaptation of King Charles III; adaptation of Zadie Smith’s NW; and multigenerational family drama Wanderlust
US TV
- Freeform cancels: Young & Hungry
- Sunday ratings
US TV show casting
- Craig Robinson to recur on Mr Robot
- Michael Gaston joins Murder In The First
New US TV shows
- WGN America green lights: pilots of adaptations of DC Comics’ Scalped and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic
New US TV show casting
- Eddie Cahill to star in ABC’s Conviction
- Andie MacDowell to star in ABC’s Model Woman…
- …Nicole Ari Parker, Caitlin Carver and Madeline Blake join
- Ryan Guzman and Sepideh Moafi join ABC’s Notorious
- Eric Close to star in ABC’s The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez
- Kevin Rankin joins ABC’s The Jury
- Genesis Rodriguez to star in ABC’s Time After Time
- Jenna Fischer to star in CBS’s Matt LeBlanc comedy
- Ross Kimball joins CBS’s Real Good People
- Lex Scott Davis joins CBS’s Training Day
- Dougie Baldwin joins CBS’s What Goes Around Comes Around
- Devin Kelley to star in The CW’s Frequency
- Luke Allen-Gale to star in The CW’s Transylvania
- Kevin Rahm joins Fox’s Lethal Weapon
- Geena Davis joins Fox’s The Exorcist
- François Arnaud to star in NBC’s Midnight, Texas