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News

UK TV

Sky1 acquires: Syfy’s Ascension
Trailer for series three of Last Tango in Halifax
Friday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky1’s Critical
Channel 4 green lights: pilot of Space Ark

US TV

US TV show casting

Ed Asner to guest on The Good Wife
Marc Singer to recur on Arrow
Eddie Cibrian to recur on Baby Daddy

New US TV shows

Fox developing: hidden camera sitcom Meet The Kellers
USA developing: alien abduction show The Terrestrial
CBS developing: new Criminal Minds spin-off
FX green lights: Donald Glover’s rap comedy Atlanta

New US TV show casting

Scottie Pippen, Judah Friedlander to guest on ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat
Simon Kassianides joins TNT’s Lumen, Aleks Paunovice joins The CW’s iZombie

News: Doctor Who and Broadchurch trailers, Boomers, Citizen Khan renewed, Jonathan Strange clip + more

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Doctor Who

Trailer for Last Christmas

Trailers

Trailer for The Gunman with Sean Penn
Trailer for Michael Madsen’s The Visit

UK TV

Trailer for series 2 of Broadchurch
BBC One renews: Boomers and Citizen Khan
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Ruth Jones developing sitcom for BBC One
Clip from BBC One’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Ashley Hinshaw to recur on, Rick Springfield joins True Detective
AJ Buckley joins Murder In The First
Jason Butler Harner to recur on Scandal
Blair Underwood to guest on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD [minor spoilers]

New US TV show casting

Winston Duke joins The CW’s The Messengers
Bella Thorne joins MTV’s Scream

News: Kirsten Dunst joins Fargo, BBC1’s JK Rowling adaptation, Olivia Colman’s Flowers + more

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Trailers

Trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road

Internet TV

Camille de Pazzis to recur on Hemlock Grove

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

BBC One green lights: adaptation of JK Rowling’s Comoran Strike novel The Cuckoo’s Calling
Channel 4 green lights: pilot of comedy Flowers, with Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of The Americans
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Peter Stormare to return to Arrow
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons join Fargo

New US TV show casting

Zara Zoe to star in TNT’s Lumen
Justin Long to star in ABC’s Irreversible redo

News: Rizzoli & Isles renewed, a new Ken Follett TV series, a Still Open All Hours trailer + more

10 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Martin Campbell to direct adaptation of Sebastian X

UK TV

Trailer for Still Open All Hours series

US TV

TNT renews: Rizzoli & Isles
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Mark Moses, Brian F O’Byrne and Nick Court to recur on The Last Ship

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Diamond in the Sky, based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz…
…adaptation of Ken Follett’s ‘century trilogy’ as Fall of Giants
Tomorrow Studios adapting: The Crow Girl trilogy
Showtime developing: corporate espionage comedy Professionals
Fox developing: remake of Norway’s Next Summer [subscription required]

New US TV show casting

Christopher McDonald joins TNT’s Jerry Bruckheimer drugs pilot, David Costabile joins Showtime’s Billions
Carrie Preston, Molly Price and Andre Royo join Showtime’s Happyish
Cuba Gooding Jr and Sarah Paulson join FX’s OJ Simpson mini-series

News: Superman’s granddad, Mark Hamill’s the Trickster again, Toast and Continuum renewed + more

9 December 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Toho to produce new Godzilla movie

Film casting

Gina Carano joins Kickboxer

Canadian TV

Showcase renews: Continuum for one more season

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon Prime’s Mozart In The Jungle

UK TV

Channel 4 renews: Toast
BBC One Christmas trailer
Call the Midwife Christmas trailer
Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

John Henshaw and Mark Benton to star in Channel 4 spoof Educating Bitchfield

US TV

USA renews: Playing House
FXX renews: The League for one more season
Sunday ratings
Sunday TNT ratings

US TV show casting

Melina Kanakaredes to guest on Hawaii Five-0
Mark Hamill to play The Trickster on The Flash. Again

New US TV shows

TruTV green lights: school comedy Those Who Can’t
Syfy developing: Superman’s granddad prequel Krypton

New US TV show casting

Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Keisha Castle-Hiughes, Rafe Spall and Peter Cambor join Showtime’s Roadies
Austin Butler to star in MTV’s Shannara
Maggie Siff joins Showtime’s Billions
Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis join Fox’s Scream Queens

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News: Channel 4’s Space Ark, Sky1 acquires Ascension, Beastmaster to recur on Arrow + more

News: Doctor Who and Broadchurch trailers, Boomers, Citizen Khan renewed, Jonathan Strange clip + more

News: Kirsten Dunst joins Fargo, BBC1’s JK Rowling adaptation, Olivia Colman’s Flowers + more

News: Rizzoli & Isles renewed, a new Ken Follett TV series, a Still Open All Hours trailer + more

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