Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
News: Murdoch Mysteries renewed, John Barrowman’s Heavy Metal, Ray Winstone back in the Bible, the final Ultron trailer + more
Film
- Ridley Scott to adapt George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman books
Film casting
- Billy Zane, Jack Thompson and Jake Ryan to star in Blue World Order
- Dan Stevens to play the Beast in live action Beauty and the Beast
- Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth and Jessie Usher join Independence Day 2
Trailers
- Final trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Trailer for Self/Less with Sir Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds
- Teaser trailer for Mr Holmes, with Sir Ian McKellen
Theater
- Bruce Willis to make Broadway debut in Misery
Canadian TV
- CBC green lights/renews: The Romeo Section, Shoot The Messenger, Kim’s Convenience, Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, X Company and Schitt’s Creek
Internet TV
- Lance Bass to guest, Jon Tenney to recur on Amazon’s Hand of God
New UK TV shows
- Trailer for BBC One’s Ordinary Lies
New UK TV show casting
- Kerry Howard to star in BBC Three’s Witless
- Ben Miller to star in BBC One’s I Want My Wife Back
US TV
US TV show casting
- Zachary Quinto to recur on Hannibal
- Arielle Goldman to recur on The Knick
New US TV shows
- John Barrowman to develop and star in adaptation of The 49th Key
New US TV show casting
- Priyanka Chopra to co-star in ABC’s Quantico
- Adam Rothenberg and Holley Fain join ABC’s LA Crime
- Ray Winstone to star in ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets
- Damon Dayoub to recur on ABC’s The Catch, Andy Mientus to recur on CBS’s LFE
- Jon Dore to star in CBS’s The Half of It
- Giovanni Ribisi to star in CBS’s Sneaky Pete
- Carl Lumbly joins CBS’s Zoo
- Raza Jaffrey to co-star on CBS’s Code Black
- Kris Lemche to star in The CW’s Tales from the Darkside
- Jeanine Mason joins Fox’s Studio City, Hanna Mangan Lawrence joins The CW’s Cordon
- Lina Esco joins Fox’s Lucifer