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Australian TV

ABC green lights: estate-agent comedy Rosehaven, Luke Warm Sex and six pilots, renews Upper Middle Bogan

Internet TV

Netflix creating: Bollywood TV series from Gangs of Wasseypur

Theatre

John Cleese to oversee Australian stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers

UK TV

Sky1 acquires: The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
More S4C cuts

New UK TV shows

Sky Arts green lights: Sky Comedy Christmas Shorts

US TV

TNT renews: Major Crimes
Tuesdays ratings

News: Transporter cancelled, Tremors back with Kevin Bacon + more

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Internet TV

Sonia Braga joins Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage

UK TV

The BBC’s Christmas programmes

US TV

TNT et al cancel: Transporter
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Tom Amandes to guest on Arrow
Drake Bell to guest on Grandfathered
Casting on Quantico

New US TV shows

John Carpenter developing four TV shows
Universal developing: Tremors TV show with Kevin Bacon
NBC developing: college sex scandal drama Fated

New US TV show casting

Mark Valley et al join ABC Family’s Famous In Love

News: Fargo renewed, Crazy Ex- and iZombie extended, Agent Carter teaser + more

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Internet TV

Matt Bomer to star in Amazon’s The Last Tycoon

UK TV

Casting on BBC One’s Taboo with Tom Hardy

US TV

More episodes for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie
FX renews: Fargo
Trailer for season 2 of Marvel’s Agent Carter

New US TV shows

CBS developing: 70s black police squad drama
New trailer for The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Comedy Central green lights: pilot of satirical workplace comedy Corporate
Teaser for WGN America’s Underground
HBO developing: adaptation of Israel’s dark, comedic thriller Nevelot as Bastards

New US TV shows

Casting on Bravo’s True Fiction and My So Called Wife

News: Netflix is Lost in Space, Sky Arts’ HG Wells anthology, extra Code Black

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: Lost in Space remake

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: Paula Milne ‘domestic horror drama’ HIM
Sky Arts green lights: anthology adaptation series The Nightmare World of HG Wells, with Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon, et al

US TV

US TV show casting

Colton Haynes returning to Arrow

New US TV shows

The CW developing: fate-altering database drama adaptation of The Beautiful Bureaucrat…
…cryogenic immortality drama Cry

New US TV show casting

Lucas Neff to star in ABC’s Downward Dog

News: Irvine Welsh’s TBS Hype, German Martin Suter adaptations, 11.22.63 trailer, ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Extraction with Bruce Willis, Gina Carano and Kellan Lutz

Canadian TV

Bell Media and HBO sign content, development deal

European TV

German’s Das Erste green lights: adaptation Martin Suter novels

Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Transparent
Trailer for Hulu’s 11.22.63

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: Goa medical drama The Good Karma Hospital, domestic horror drama Him

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Briga Heelan to guest on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Andy Favreau to recur on Aquarius

New US TV shows

TBS developing: Irvine Welsh Miami art comedy Hype
Fox developing: haunted house horror series Haunted
Trailer for Showtime’s Billions
New trailer for Fox’s Second Chance

New US TV show casting

Alex Wolff joins HBO’s Divorce
April Grace joins Epix’s Berlin Station
Harry Hamlin to recur on Epix’s Graves

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News: Fawlty Towers on stage, Sky1 acquires Legends of Tomorrow, Major Crimes renewed + more

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News: Fargo renewed, Crazy Ex- and iZombie extended, Agent Carter teaser + more

News: Netflix is Lost in Space, Sky Arts’ HG Wells anthology, extra Code Black

News: Irvine Welsh’s TBS Hype, German Martin Suter adaptations, 11.22.63 trailer, ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital + more

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