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News

Internet TV

Crackle green lights: series of criminal tech incubator Start Up, with Adam Brody and Martin Freeman

New UK TV shows

Sky 1 developing: fantasy drama based on Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragonslayer [subscription required]

US TV

Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of reinvestigation legal drama Conviction…
…and pilot of soapy fashion period drama Model Woman

New US TV show casting

Virginia Madsen to co-star in CBS’s American Gothic
Miranda Otto to star in 24: Legacy

News: Billions, Comedy Playhouse renewed; Delroy Lindo is Marvel’s Most Wanted; + more

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UK TV

BBC One renews: Comedy Playhouse

US TV

Showtime renews: Billions
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Allison Paige to play Trajectory on The Flash

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of adaptation of light medical procedural Zoobiquity
ABC green lights: pilot of soccer comedy Dream Team

New US TV show casting

Delroy Lindo to play Dominic Fortune on Marvel’s Most Wanted
Alexie Gilmore to recur on TV Land’s Lopez

News: the new Jack Bauer; Woody Allen’s new twerking muse; FOX acquires 11/22/63; Watergate mini-series; + more

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Film trailers

New trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Internet TV

Hulu green lights: pilots of gritty supernatural vigilante drama Citizen and 80s thriller When the Street Lights Go On
Miley Cyrus joins Amazon’s Woody Allen series
Promo for season four of House of Cards
BBC Three’s new online shows

UK TV

FOX acquires: Hulu’s 11/22/63 [subscription required]

US TV

Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilots of logical help comedy Square Roots and differently-parented neighbours comedy Chunk & Bean…
…developing: event series Watergate
Showtime developing: adaptation of future satire Super Sad True Love Story
Fox green lights: pilots of privatised police drama APB and undercover FBI agent drama Recon

New US TV show casting

Corey Hawkins to star in Fox’s 24: Legacy

News: Steven Moffat leaves Doctor Who; an Exorcist TV pilot; David Schwimmer’s new TV show; DC comics reboot; + more

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Doctor Who

Chris Chibnall to replace Steven Moffat as showrunner, only a Christmas special this year

Film

Reboot of Labyrinth planned

Film casting

Tom Cruise joins The Mummy remake

Film trailers

New trailer for Warcraft

Comics

DC to ‘recalibrate’ titles with movies, restart from #1 with Rebirth

Internet TV

Susan Misner and Emmanuelle Chriqui to co-star in Hulu’s Shut Eye
New iPlayer Valentine shorts

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC Two’s The Night Manager
Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough to star in Channel 4’s Yew Tree-esque National Treasure

US TV

New US TV shows

NBC green lights: pilots of adaptation of Charlaine Harris’s fantasy town trilogy Midnight Texas and idealistic lawyers drama Miranda’s Rights…
…Amy Poehler royal family comedy, procedural comedy The Trail and fortune teller comedy Good Fortune
Freeform developing: mum-on-the-run drama Hunted
CBS green lights: pilots of adaptation of doughnut shop comedy Superior Donuts and cutting-edge medicine drama Bunker Hill
Kevin Smith wraps: pot comedy Hollyweed
HBO red lights: Brothers in Atlanta
Fox green lights: pilot of The Exorcist adaptation

New US TV show casting

Mark Consuelos to recur on USA’s Queen of the South
David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess to star in AMC’s Feed The Beast

News: Romeo & Juliet sequel; Wong to play Wong; Sky gets Twin Beaks, Billions; + more

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Film casting

Benedict Wong to play Wong in Doctor Strange

Canadian TV

Josh Donaldson to guest on Vikings

Internet TV

Walter Presents gets 1m views [registration required]

UK TV

Sky Atlantic to be exclusive home of Showtime dramas, including Twin Peaks and Billions

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Amanda Brooks to recur as Sharon Tate on Aquarius
Debby Ryan to guest on The Mysteries of Laura
Marilyn Manson to guest on Salem
Jennifer Beals to recur on The Night Shift

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of imaginary friend family comedy…
…and Romeo and Juliet sequel Still Star-Crossed
NBC green lights: pilot of Eric Kripke/Shawn Ryan’s Legends-of-Tomorrow-alike Time
HBO green lights: series of house guest comedy Crashing
Trailer for Showtime’s The Girlfriend Experience
Showtime developing: fishmonger comedy Monger

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