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News: Mom, Mike & Molly, Birds of a Feather renewed, Three Days of the Condor heads to TV, pilot casting + more

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Film casting

Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe to star in The Great Wall

Internet TV

Casting on Netflix’s Daredevil

UK TV

ITV renews: Birds of A Feather
Tuesday ratings

US TV

CBS renews: Mom and Mike & Molly
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Lauren Bowles to guest on Scandal
Danny Trejo joins From Dusk To Dawn: The Series
Dylan Walsh to recur on NCIS: New Orleans

New US TV shows

Skydance developing: adaptation of Three Days of the Condor

New US TV show casting

Chace Crawford to star in ABC’s Boom…
…Caitlin Carver and Yani Gellman to be regulars
Morgan Spector to star in ABC’s Broad Squad, Riley Smith joins Fox’s Studio City
Rose Rollins joins ABC’s The Catch
Gabriel Luna to star in ABC’s LA Crime
Kyle Bornheimer, Kevin Pollak to co-star in CBS’s Angel From Hell
Teddy Sears to co-star on CBS’s Doubt
Tyler Labine to star in CBS comedy
Shawn Hatosy to co-star in CBS’s For Justice, Deidrie Henry joins NBC’s Game of Silence
Melissa Leo joins CBS’s LFE
Jake McDorman to star in CBS’s Limitless
Dilshad Vadsaria joins Fox’s Frankenstein
Paget Brewster to star, Christina Milian joins Fox’s Grandpa

News: The Fall, Bannan renewed, Ascension cancelled, a full Daredevil trailer, Walking Dead spin-off green light + more

11 March 2015 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Tron 3 to star filming this autumn

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Daredevil

UK TV

BBC Two renews: The Fall, both stars to return
BBC Alba renews: Bannan [subscription required]
Monday ratings

UK TV show casting

Alex Jones and Matt Baker to guest on W1A

New UK TV shows

Euston Films to adapt Tana French books

US TV

Syfy cancels: Ascension
Trailer for season 2 of Turn
Monday A&E ratings

US TV show casting

Rachel Skarsten to play Queen Elizabeth in Reign

New US TV shows

NBC green lights: series of Jerrod Carmichael comedy…
…developing: California mini-series
AMC green lights: two seasons of Walking Dead spin-off
Teaser for BBC America’s Tatau [US only]

New US TV show casting

Tony Rock joins ABC’s Judah Miller pilot
Andrew McCarthy to be a regular on ABC’s Jenna Bans drama
Oliver Rix and Simone Kessell to star in ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets
Maggie Grace exits CBS’s Code Black
Trevor St John and George Young join The CW’s Cordon
Echo Kellum to co-star in The CW’s Dead People, Sharon Lawrence joins ABC’s Mix
Tim DeKay to co-star in Fox’s Frankenstein
Lauren German to co-star with Tom Ellis in Fox’s Lucifer
Nasim Pedrad to be a regular on Fox’s Scream Queens
Bret Harrison to replace Brian Austin Green on Fox’s The Perfect Stanleys
Claire van der Boom to be a regular on NBC’s Game of Silence, Shane Mcrae to be a regular on Sneaky Pete, Rizwan Manji to be a regular on NBC’s Aseem Batra pilot
Rachel DiPillo to star in NBC’s Cuckoo remake, Ashley Johnson to be a regular on NBC’s Blindspot
Don Hany to star in NBC’s Heart Matters, Callie Thorne joins TNT’s Breed
Tim Bagley promoted to regular on NBC’s Mr Robinson
Christine Taylor joins NBC’s Sharing, Jerry Minor to be a regular

News: A male Ghostbusters, Lucy Lawless joins Ash Vs Evil Dead, Michael K Williams’ two shows + more

10 March 2015 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Film casting

Stephanie Sigman joins Spectre
Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis, Kristen Stewart et al join Woody Allen’s Irrational Man
Channing Tatum to star in another Ghostbusters movie

Trailers

Trailer for Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie et al

European TV

HBO Europe to remake Norway’s Mammon

Internet TV

HBO Go launches on Apple TV in the US
Trailer for Netflix’s Between
Trailer for PlayStation’s Powers

UK TV

The Horror Channel joins Freeview
Sunday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Katherine Parkinson et al to star in BBC One’s The Kennedys
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve et al to star in ITV’s Unforgotten

US TV

Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

USA green lights: pilot of Shooter adaptation
Fox’s Luther remake pushed off-cycle

New US TV show casting

Don Johnson and Delroy Lindo to star in ABC’s Boom
Julie Ann Emery joins ABC’s Johnny Knoxville pilot
Britne Oldford, Sam Page and Joaquium de Almeida join ABC’s Mix
Talia Tabin and Kelly O’Sullivan join CBS comedies
Steven Weber to star in CBS’s Joe Time
Joe Spano joins Fox’s 48 Hours ‘Til Monday
Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Natalie Morales and William Devane join Fox’s Grinder
Shelley Conn joins NBC’s Heart Matters
Lucy Lawless joins Starz’s Ash Vs Evil Dead
Michael Kenneth Williams to star in Sundance’s Hap and Leonard and IFC’s The Spoils Before Dying
Chloe Sevigny, Ted Levine and John Hawkes to star in Dr Del

News: Allegiance cancelled, Melanie Griffith is a grandmother, Supergirl gets a villain and a costume, + more

9 March 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Hawkeye confirmed for Captain America 3
Benjamin Bratt joins The Infiltrator

Trailers

Trailer for The Forger, with John Travolta
Trailer for No Escape, with Owen Wilson

UK TV

New UK TV show casting

Anne-Marie Duff to star in BBC One’s From Darkness
Peter Kay joins BBC One’s Cradle To Grave

US TV

US TV show casting

Chris Chalk to play Lucius Fox on Gotham

New US TV shows

Trailer for Showtime’s Happyish with Steve Coogan

New US TV show casting

Job Bryant and Coby Bell join ABC’s The Advocate
Lauren Ambrose, et al join ABC’s Broad Squad
Melanie Griffith to co-star in ABC comedy
Maisie Richardson-Sellers to star in ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets, plus ABC comedy casting
David Witts and Lindsay Pearce join ABC Family’s Recovery Road
Aimee Garcia to co-star in CBS’s Rush Hour
Kelly O’Sullivan and Talia Tabin join CBS comedies
Faran Tahir joins CBS’s Supergirl
Alan Van Sprang, Abbie Cobb join The CW’s Cheerleader Death Squad
Alexandra Chando joins The CW’s Dead People
Jack Cutmore-Scott to star in Fox’s Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s
Jaina Lee Ortiz, Maggie Elizabeth Jones to star in Fox drama
Mark-Paul Gosselaar to star in NBC’s People Are Talking
Shelley Conn to be a regular on NBC’s Heart Matters, Carlease Burke joins NBC comedy
Anna Pacquin to star in HBO’s Madame X

News: HBO’s Israeli Wish, Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays is back, an Expendables TV show, Alec Baldwin’s the mayor of NYC + more

6 March 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Canadian TV

CBC resurrects: Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
CraveTV green lights: Jared Keeso comedy Letterkenny

Internet TV

James Franco, Danny DeVito, Fred Armisen et al to guest on Hulu’s Deadbeat
Netflix green lights: series of Brit Marling drama The OA…
…acquires: worldwide rights to A&E’s The Returned

UK TV show casting

Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki joins BBC One/AMC’s The Night Manager

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Jenny Slate demoted, Sarah Burns joins Married
Leslie Hope to recur on CBS’s Blue Bloods

New US TV shows

NBC green lights: mini-series of The Reaper
HBO developing: adaptation of Israel’s Beit Ha’Mishalot as Wish…
…green lights: Alec Baldwin New York mayor drama
New trailer for The CW’s The Messengers
An Expendables TV show in development

New US TV show casting

Aly Michalka and Maulik Pancholy join ABC’s Chevy Chase pilot
Martha Plimpton joins ABC’s Family of the Year
Parminder Nagra joins ABC’s The Kingmakers
Rutine Wesley to star in ABC’s Broad Squad, Lenny Platt joins The Adversaries, Elvy Yost to recur on The Catch
Charity Wakefield to star in NBC’s Endgame, Ben Hollingsworth joins CBS’s Code Black
Anika Noni Rose to star in CBS’s For Justice
Daniel Sharman to star in CBS’s LFE, Joe Spano to recur on Fox’s 48 Hours ’Til Monday
Florence Pugh to star in Fox’s Studio City, Kimberley Crossman joins Fantasy Life
Peter Gallagher, Olivia Thirlby to co-star in Fox’s DeTour
Christina Vidal to star, Daphne Rubin-Vega joins NBC’s The Curse of the Fuentes Women
Matthew Lillard to star in NBC’s Problem Child

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News: Mom, Mike & Molly, Birds of a Feather renewed, Three Days of the Condor heads to TV, pilot casting + more

News: The Fall, Bannan renewed, Ascension cancelled, a full Daredevil trailer, Walking Dead spin-off green light + more

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News: Allegiance cancelled, Melanie Griffith is a grandmother, Supergirl gets a villain and a costume, + more

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