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News: Rambo: Last Blood, S4C’s new Wednesday drama slot, Channel 4’s Irish potato famine comedy + more

5 January 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Happy New Year!

Films

Last Rambo film to be called Rambo: Last Blood

UK TV

Saturday ratings

New UK TV shows

S4C to have new Wednesday drama slot, starting with Lan a Lawr
Channel 4 developing: Irish potato famine comedy

US TV

News: Thunderbirds renewed, HBO’s Sarah Silverman, James Ellroy and David Fincher shows + more

19 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on January 5th 2015. Happy holidays!

Trailers

Trailer for Stephen Belber’s Match, with Patrick Stewart, Matthew Lillard and Carla Gugino

Australian TV

iView being added to PlayStation 3 and 4

Canadian TV

New trailer for season 3 of Orphan Black

UK TV

Ten new channels for Virgin Media
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: second series of Thunderbirds Are Go!

US TV show casting

Annie Wesching to recur on Vampire Diaries
Eion Bailey to return to Once Upon A Time
Nasim Pedrad to recur on New Girl

New US TV shows

HBO developing: James Ellroy and David Fincher 1950s Los Angeles drama

New US TV show casting

Amber West to star in NBC’s Go Jerrod Go
Casting on Syfy’s Dark Matter
Sarah Silverman to star in HBO comedy

News: Charlie Sheen to guest on The Goldbergs, Manu Bennett joins Shannara, Sam Neill to Toast London + more

18 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Trailer

New trailer for Taken 3
Clip from Terry Jones’ Absolutely Anything with Simon Pegg

Australian TV

ABC green lights: The Divorce

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

UK TV show casting

Sam Neill to guest on Toast of London

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Gina Torres to recur on Revenge
Ana Gasteyer and Anthony Edwards to guest on Girls
Charlie Sheen to guest on The Goldbergs

New US TV show casting

Manu Bennett to co-star in MTV’s Shannara
Julian McMahon to co-star on Syfy’s Childhood’s End

News: E4 acquires The Goldbergs, The Missing and Brokenwood Mysteries renewed, a Crims trailer + more

17 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Viola Davis to play Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad

Trailers

Trailer for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
New trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella

Canadian TV

CBC green lights: Ava Lee crime thriller series

New Zealand TV

TV2 green lights family sci-fi drama The Cul De Sac, Prime renews The Brokenwood Mysteries

UK TV

E4 acquires: The Goldbergs
BBC One renews: The Missing
Trailer for series two of The Musketeers
Monday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC Three’s young offenders comedy Crims

US TV

US TV show casting

JoAnna Garcia Swisher to return to Once Upon A Time
David James Elliott to guest on Scorpion
Dax Shepard to return to About A Boy
Peyton List and Nicholas Gonzalez to guest on The Flash

New US TV shows

TBS green lights: pilot of Broken Lizard fatherhood comedy Quality Time
ABC Family green lights: adaptation of teen addiction novel Recovery Road

New US TV show casting

Neil Jackson joins TNT’s Lumen, Giacomo Gianniotti joins Lifetime’s Marilyn

News: Gracepoint cancelled, ITV’s Beowulf, trailer for RTD’s Cucumber, Banana and Tofu + more

16 December 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Trailers

Trailer for Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, with Christian Bale

UK TV

Joanna Lumley to guest on charity Downton Abbey
Trailer for Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Christmas special

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Russell T Davies’s Cucumber, Banana and Tofu
ITV green lights: western Beowulf

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Broad City [US only]
Fox cancels: Gracepoint
Sunday ratings
Sunday Showtime ratings

US TV show casting

Mo McRae joins Murder in the First, Cicely Tyson to guest on How To Get Away With Murder

New US TV shows

Trailer for MTV’s Eye Candy [US only]

New US TV show casting

Christina Hendricks joins Showtime’s Roadies

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News: Rambo: Last Blood, S4C’s new Wednesday drama slot, Channel 4’s Irish potato famine comedy + more

News: Thunderbirds renewed, HBO’s Sarah Silverman, James Ellroy and David Fincher shows + more

News: Charlie Sheen to guest on The Goldbergs, Manu Bennett joins Shannara, Sam Neill to Toast London + more

News: E4 acquires The Goldbergs, The Missing and Brokenwood Mysteries renewed, a Crims trailer + more

News: Gracepoint cancelled, ITV’s Beowulf, trailer for RTD’s Cucumber, Banana and Tofu + more

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