News

Curtis Armstrong to recur on Major Crimes
Eva Longoria to guest on Devious Maids, James Denton to recur; Dillon Casey joins Turn
Danny Glover to guest on Criminal Minds
Ted Danson leaves CSI: Cyber

New US TV shows

Pop green lights: talk show comedy Traci From Nightcap with Ali Wentworth
Televisa USA developing: adaptation of The Luck of Huemac as Aztecs
ABC developing: Brooklyn gentrification comedy
Fox developing: Courteney Cox charity comedy
Jonah Hex to appear on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Showtime green lights: 70s stand-up comedy comedy I’m Dying Up Here

New US TV show casting

Ted Danson and Kristen Bell join NBC’s Good Place

News: Supergirl to recur on Supergirl, One Day At A Time Netflix reboot, Supernatural returns + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: reboot of One Day At A Time

New UK TV show casting

Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin to star in BBC One’s adaptation of Apple Tree Yard
Katherine Kelly to star in ITV’s domestic horror series HIM

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of The 100
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Branson to recur on Supergirl
Jim Beaver and Steven Williams to return to Supernatural [minor spoilers]
Aaron Douglas to guest on The Flash

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilots of cancer mum comedy Pearl and special needs kid comedy Speechless
HBO green lights: pilot of Bill Hader hitman comedy Barry
Fox green lights: pilot of untitled time travel comedy

News: Rectify cancelled, US Dirk Gently, Puppy Love, SHIELD spin-off pilot, Laura Dern, Sherilyn Fenn in Twin Peaks + more

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Internet TV

Jeffrey Donovan to star in Hulu’s Shut Eye

New UK TV show casting

Sheridan Smith to star in BBC One’s The Moorside Project

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Better Call Saul
Trailer for season 3 of Black Sails
Featurette for season 2 of Outlander
SundanceTV cancels: Rectify
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Wes Brown to guest on Once Upon A Time [spoilers]

New US TV shows

Starz developing: Maleficio, based on a Mexican telenovela; adaptation of Richard Villegas Jr’s Pour Vida; and supernatural Cuban series Santeria
BBC America green lights: new Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency adaptation
TNT red lights: Home
Freeform (ABC Family) developing: friendship and fashion comedy Made in LA
ABC green lights: pilot of Agents of SHIELD spin-off Marvel’s Most Wanted
US version of BBC Four’s Puppy Love in development

New US TV show casting

Laura Dern and Sherilyn Fenn join Showtime’s Twin Peaks

News: Rizzoli & Isles cancelled, Tales From The Crypt returns, young Will Shakespeare cast + more

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Internet TV

New teaser for season 2 of Daredevil

US TV

TNT cancels: Rizzoli & Isles
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Gerard McRaney to recur, Summer Glau to guest on Castle
Matthew Morrison to recur on The Good Wife

New US TV shows

AMC green lights: series of period oil drama The Son
TNT green lights: M Night Shyamalan reboot of Tales From The Crypt…
…red lights: Teen Titans adaptation Titans…
…and Home and Robbers
Trailers and a green light for TNT’s Good Behavior and Animal Kingdom
TBS green lights: series of alien abductees support group comedy People of Earth, with Wyatt Cenac, Ana Gasteyer et al
ABC green lights: pilot of murder trial drama The Jury
NBC green lights: pilots of Marlon Wayans comedy biopic Marlon, superhero office comedy Powerless, and an untitled interracial marriage comedy

New US TV show casting

Michael Huisman to star in Discovery’s Harley and the Davidsons
Laurie Davidson to star in TNT’s Will
Antony Starr to star in CBS’s American Gothic
Jewel Staite to guest on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

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