News

Channel 4’s foreign language on demand service to be called Walter Presents, acquires Deutschland 83
New teaser trailer for Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones

UK TV

New UK TV show casting

Jennifer Saunders to guest on BBC Three’s Josh Widdicombe sitcom

US TV

ABC renews: Mistresses… without Jennifer Esposito
First episode of season 2 of The Affair now available to stream
Trailer for season 3 of Sleepy Hollow
Teaser for Banshee‘s final season
Trailer and featurette for season 6 of The Walking Dead
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Ken Marino to guest on Fresh Off The Boat
Raul Castillo to play Eduardo Flamingo on Gotham
Nate Torrence to guest on Supernatural

New US TV shows

Showtime developing: Alan Cumming’s dark restaurant comedy Florent
TNT greeen lights: pilot of drama Robbers
Fox green lights: put pilot of courthouse comedy…
…developing: Adam Pally spy comedy
Televisa USA green lights: English language adaptation of Spain’s Gran Hotel
MRC green lights: drug comedy series Ozark with Jason Bateman

New US TV show casting

Timothy Olyphant to play himself on Fox’s The Grinder
Leland Orser joins Epix’s Berlin Station, Renee Elise Goldsberry joins TV Land’s I Shudder
Tim Matheson and Camila Banus join FX’s Snowfall

News: a new A-Team, more Men in Black & Devious Maids, Proof cancelled, Oprah’s back acting + more

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Film

New Men In Black trilogy planned

European TV

Italy’s RAI green lights: Medici: Masters of Florence mini-series with Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden
Spain’s TVE green lights: adaptation of Leonardo Padura novels as Four Seasons

Internet TV

Amazon acquires: Mr Robot [no link – they just told me]

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

BBC Two green lights: Elizabeth and Mary Tudor factual drama

US TV

TNT cancels: Proof
Lifetime renews: Devious Maids
The first five minutes of season 3 of Agents of SHIELD
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Eric Roberts to guest on The Player

New US TV shows

New A-Team in development
NBC developing: comedy Bonita & Mechelle
HBO developing: Steven Soderbergh/Sharon Stone pick-your-own adventure project Mosaic
Fox developing: Miami drama series

New US TV show casting

Harold Perrineau and Sam Jaeger to star in USA’s Poor Richard’s Almanack
Maggie Gyllenhall and James Franco to star in HBO’s David Simon drama The Deuce
Oprah Winfrey to recur on OWN’s Greenleaf

News: Sky Living acquires Blindspot, E4 gets Scream Queens, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll renewed + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Momentum, with Olga Kurylenko and James Purefoy
Trailer for Truth, with Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett

Internet TV

Amazon reveals new pilot season: Edge, Good Girls Revolt, Highston, One Mississippi, Patriot and Z

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One programmes, including Sherlock and Luther
E4 acquires: Scream Queens
Sky Living acquires: Blindspot [subscription required]
ITV to replace ITV Player, ITV.com with ITV Hub
Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s The Last Panthers
BBC One green lights: adaptations of JK Rowling’s crime novels as The Cormoran Strike Mysteries…
…Ben Miller sitcom I Want My Wife Back…
…and A Midsummer Night’s Dream adaptation with Maxine Peake, Matt Lucas and Elaine Paige

US TV

FX renews: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
Trailer for season 2 of Z Nation
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: put pilot of comedy Straight Outta Calabasas
ABC developing: Iraq Grey’s Anatomy-esque medical drama

New US TV show casting

Stephanie Corneliussen to recur on The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow

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