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DC new 49 reboot coming

Internet TV

Netflix developing: Legend of Zelda series
Teaser for Netflix’s The Get Down

UK TV

New UK TV shows

Teaser for ITV’s Thunderbirds Are Go!

US TV

A&E renews: Unforgettable
Trailer for season 2 of Silicon Valley
Trailer for season 2 of Salem
Saturday ratings

New US TV show casting

Megalyn Echikunwoke joins Lifetime’s Damien, Aisha Hinds joins TNT’s Breed
Thomas Hayden Church, Molly Shannon, Talia Balsam et al join HBO’s Divorce
Colin Hanks to star in CBS’s Life In Pieces
Amy Smart and David Koechner to guest on TBS’s Angie Tribeca

News: Sky Atlantic acquires 1992, NBC, ITV and BET renewals, Netflix to Get Down + more

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Trailers

Teaser and trailer for Poltergeist remake

Internet TV

Netflix green lights: series of Baz Lurhmann/Shawn Ryan musical The Get Down

Australian TV

Trailer for Seven’s Catching Milat
Krew Boylan joins Seven’s Molly

New Zealand TV

Dean O’Gorman, Andrew Munro, Amy Usherwood et al to star in TV One’s Hillary

UK TV

Sky Atlantic acquires: Sky Italia’s 1992
ITV renews: Benidorm

US TV

NBC renews: The Blacklist, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Grimm and L&O:SVU
BET renews: Being Mary Jane
Thursday ratings

US TV show casting

Damon Wayans Jr leaves New Girl again
Luke Mitchell joins Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD

New US TV show casting

Boris Kodjoe joins Fox’s Last Man on Earth
Will Yun Lee joins NBC’s Warrior
Courtney B Vance joins FX’s American Crime Story

News: Milo Ventimiglia to recur on Gotham, a Slap promo, Jenna Elfman’s new comedy + more

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Trailers

Clip from Mr Holmes with Sir Ian McKellen

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Daredevil

US TV

CBS cancels (almost): The McCarthys
Bravo renews: The Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Billy Baldwin, Lynn Whitfield, Andy Buckley et al join Hit The Floor
Derek Luke joins Rogue
Marcia Cross and Robert Vaughn to guest on L&O:SVU
Laverne Cox to guest on The Mindy Project
Mira Sorvino to recur on Stalker
Milo Ventimiglia to recur on Gotham

New US TV shows

Preview of ABC’s American Crime
HBO green lights: pilot of Issa Rae comedy Insecure
NBC developing: Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago Med
Promo for NBC’s The Slap

New US TV show casting

Finesse Mitchell to recur on HBO’s Brothers in Atlanta
Jenna Elfman to star in CBS’s Dana Klein comedy

News: A new Harper Lee novel, Rita Ora to guest on Empire, Cheerleader Death Squad a go + more

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Books

New Harper Lee Mockingbird book

Trailers

Trailer for Lazarus Effect with Olivia Wilde

Internet TV

Michaela Watkins to star in Hulu’s Jason Reitman comedy Casual

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Jennifer Hudson and Rita Ora to guest on Empire
Neve Campbell to recur on Welcome To Sweden
Naya Rivera joins Devious Maids
Rob Mayes joins Mistresses
Amanda Plummer to guest on The Blacklist

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of Lucifer adaptation
NBC green lights: Aseem Batra buddy comedy pilot
USA green lights: series of sci-fi drama Colony, with Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies
The CW green lights: pilot of Cheerleader Death Squad

New US TV show casting

Tone Bell to co-star in NBC’s People Are Talking
Malin Akerman joins Showtime’s Billions
Billie Lourd joins Fox’s Scream Queens

News: More Musketeers, 35 Diwrnod, US Cordon remake, James Cromwell to Halt and Catch Fire + more

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Film casting

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny to star in Whit Stilman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Love & Friendship

Internet TV

Richard Gunn joins Hemlock Grove
Vikings to get online spin-off Athelstan’s Journal
Carrie-Anne Moss joins Netflix’s AKA Jessica Jones

UK TV

BBC One renews: The Musketeers…
…and Last Tango In Halifax
S4C renews: 35 Diwrnod
E4 cancels: My Mad Fat Diary
Lifetime acquires: Blue

New UK TV show casting

Denise Welch, Rebecca Root and Harry Hepple to star in BBC Two’s Boy Meets Girl

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Sarah Carter joins Rogue
James Cromwell to recur on Halt and Catch Fire
Nathan Fillion to play himself on Big Bang Theory
Garret Dillahunt to guest on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Sandra Bernhard to guest on 2 Broke Girls
Lee Tergesen, Nichole Galicia and Conrad Coates join Defiance

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of comedy Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life
Weinstein Co developing The Reaper as mini-series
MTV developing: feminism comedy
The CW green lights: remakes of Tales From The Darkside and Belgium’s Cordon, plus supernatural drama Dead People
OWN developing: adaptation of Queen Sugar
Cinemax green lights: Quarry

New US TV show casting

Augustus Prew to star in HBO’s Mamma Dallas
Gillian Vigman, Alexie Gilmore and Jessica Meraz join TBS’s Quality Time

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