News

iPlayer to allow binge watching [subscription required]
Watch and Alibi acquire: Code Black, Quantico, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

Gold green lights: Comic Strip Presents… The Red Top, with Maxine Peake

News: Fox acquires Jack Irish, a new Doctor WHo trailer, Arrow, Empire promos + more

7 September 2015 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

New trailer for The Magician’s Apprentice

Films/Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation, with Idris Elba

French TV

D8, D17 and iTélé to become C8, C17 and CNews

UK TV

Fox UK acquires: ABC Australia’s Jack Irish
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV

Trailer for season 4 of Arrow
Trailer for season 3 of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
Trailer for season 2 of Empire
Thursday ratings

US TV show casting

Madeline Brewer to guest on Grimm
Freddie Stroma joins Game of Thrones [minor spoilers]
Ever Carradine to recur on Shameless

New US TV shows

NBC developing: comedy By The Book

New US TV show casting

Scott Porter joins Cinemax’s Outcast
RJ Cyler to star in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here
Anabelle Acosta promoted to regular on ABC’s Quantico

News: Narcos renewed, The Lobster, An Inspector Calls trailers, YourTV to launch + more

4 September 2015 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film trailers

Trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, with Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman et al

Internet TV

Netflix renews: Narcos
Andrea Riseborough joins Bloodline
Stephen Rider joins Daredevil
Colm Feore to recur on House of Cards
Simone Missick and Mahershala Ali join Netflix’s Luke Cage

UK TV

Fox International to launch YourTV in October
Wednesday ratings

UK TV show casting

Paul Nicholls, Emma Rigby and Heida Reed to guest on Death in Paradise

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC One’s An Inspector Calls

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of The Blacklist
Trailer for season 6 of Hawaii Five-O
Wednesday ratings
Wednesday USA ratings

New US TV shows

NBC developing: untitled interracial comedy…
…and thriller The Watcher
Showtime developing: The Life and Times of Teddy Roosevelt
HBO developing: dark smuggling comedy The Loop
Fox developing: untitled gang comedy

New US TV show casting

Ally Walker to recur on USA’s Colony
Keith David to star in OWN’s Greenleaf

News: Sneaky Pete series, River Song returns, more Survivor’s Remorse + more

3 September 2015 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

Alex Kingston to return for Christmas special

Internet TV

Sarah Silverman, Jenny Slate, Mira Sorvino, Patton Oswalt, Jon Cryer, Brandon Routh, Adam Pally et al to guest on Netflix’s Lady Dynamite
Amazon green lights: series of Sneaky Pete, more scripts for Casanova
Rosario Dawson to appear in Netflix’s Luke Cage, Theo Rossi to recur

UK TV

Universal acquires: Battle Creek
Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC One’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

New UK TV show casting

Faye Marsay, Jason Watkins, Helena Bonham Carter join BBC One’s Love, Nina
Michael Socha and Michaela Coel to star in E4’s Aliens

US TV

Starz renews: Survivor’s Remorse
Trailer for season 2 of iZombie
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Echo Kellum to recur on You’re The Worst
Pilou Asbæk joins Game of Thrones

New US TV shows

Melville to be adapted as a TV series
Ocatvia E Butler’s Dawn to be adapted as a TV series
NBC green lights: ensemble birthday dramedy
New trailer for Fox’s Lookinglass

New US TV show casting

Skylar Astin, Chris Lowell, Angelica Maria join EPIX’s Graves
Glenn Morshower to play General Sam Lane on CBS’s Supergirl

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