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News: Minority Report and Wet Hot American Summer TV series, The CW renews 8 shows, iZombie trailer + more

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Trailers

Two clips from Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie
Trailer for Run All Night with Liam Neeson and Ed Harris

Internet TV

Netflix green lights: prequel series to Wet Hot American Summer
Trailer for season 3 of House of Cards

UK TV

Pick TV acquires: NBC’s Siberia [subscription required]
The Vicar of Dibley to return for Red Nose Day
Thursday ratings
Saturday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Tom Bateman, Richard E Grant and Natalie Gumede join ITV’s Jekyll & Hyde

US TV

The CW renews: Arrow, Supernatural, Jane The Virgin, Reign, The 100, The Flash, The Originals and The Vampire Diaries
Trailers for new seasons of Black Sails, Outlander and Power
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Steven R McQueen leaves The Vampire Diaries

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: Minority Report sequel series
NBC developing: magical martial arts drama Warrior
Extended trailer for AMC’s Better Call Saul
Trailer for The CW’s iZombie

New US TV show casting

Condola Rashad joins Showtime’s Billions

News: Amazon green lights Guillermo del Toro’s Carnival Row, Edward James Olmos joins SHIELD + more

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Film casting

Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Sudeikis join Alexander Payne’s Downsizing
Bruce Willis to star in adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Bandits

Trailers

Trailer for Run All Night, with Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, Ed Harris et al

Internet TV

Amazon green lights: Guillermo del Toro’s Carnival Row

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Ken Jeong and Jennifer Coolidge to guest on Glee
Jonathan Tucker joins Justified
Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Nick Offerman, Brad Garrett and Jean Smart join Fargo
Jane Seymour to recur on Jane The Virgin, Jon Lovitz to guest on Hawaii Five-O
Emmanuelle Chriqui joins Murder In The First
Edward James Olmos joins Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD

News: Marco Polo renewed, Sky 1’s Apocalypse Slough, John Travolta’s American Crime Story + more

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Film

Jack Whitehall working on Bad Education film

Film casting

Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon to star in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing

Internet TV

Netflix renews: Marco Polo

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Sky 1 green lights: comedy thriller Apocalypse Slough [subscription required]
ITV 2015 drama preview

US TV

About a Boy loses two episodes
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Gladys Knight to guest on Hot In Cleveland

US TV show casting

Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Lane return to Modern Family
Liam McIntyre to play Mark Mardon on The Flash

New US TV shows

Showtime acquires: George Clooney’s The Studio

New US TV show casting

John Travolta to star in FX’s American Crime Story
Ivana Baquero joins MTV’s Shannara, Lil Rel joins NBC’s Go Jerrod Go
Hayes MacArthur joins TBS’s Angie Tribeca

News: Ant-Man trailer, Covert Affairs cancelled, two new ABC Family shows, Felix Faust on Constantine + more

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Film casting

Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star with Matthew McConaughey in The State of Jones

Trailers

Teaser trailer for Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man, with Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly et al
Trailer for Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill, with Ethan Hawke
Trailer for The Lazarus Effect, with Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover et al
Trailer for David O Russell’s Accidental Love with Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tracy Morgan et al

Internet TV

Ruby Rose joins Orange is the New Black

UK TV

Monday ratings

US TV

USA cancels: Covert Affairs
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Mark Margolis to play Felix Faust on Constantine

New US TV shows

ABC Family green lights: Tough Cookies and Kevin From Work

News: HBO renews Girls, Amazon abandons The After, The Prisoner audio plays + more

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Doctor Who

Season 9 gets best ratings ever in the US

Film casting

Scarlett Johansson to star in Ghost In The Shell adaptation
Casey Affleck replaces Matt Damon on Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester-By-The-Sea
Tadanobu Asano replaces Ken Watanabe on Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Raid 2 cast members join Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Trailers

Clip from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
Trailer for Big Game, starring Samuel L Jackson

Audio plays

Big Finish to make The Prisoner series

International TV

UTV Ireland launches to modest ratings

Internet TV

Amazon red lights: Chris Carter’s The After
Amazon Prime UK viewers to get AMC and SundanceTV shows straight after US broadcast

UK TV

Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 green lights sci-fi comedy pilot [subscription required]

US TV

HBO renews: Girls
Teaser trailers for season 3 of Vikings
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

The first nine minutes of Syfy’s 12 Monkeys [US only]

New US TV show casting

David Alan Grier joins NBC’s Go Jerrod Go

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News: Minority Report and Wet Hot American Summer TV series, The CW renews 8 shows, iZombie trailer + more

News: Amazon green lights Guillermo del Toro’s Carnival Row, Edward James Olmos joins SHIELD + more

News: Marco Polo renewed, Sky 1’s Apocalypse Slough, John Travolta’s American Crime Story + more

News: Ant-Man trailer, Covert Affairs cancelled, two new ABC Family shows, Felix Faust on Constantine + more

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