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Film casting

Tom Hiddleston to star in King Kong origin story Skull Island
Jack Huston to star in Ben-Hur remake

Canadian TV

Victor Garber and Jessica Lowndes to guest on Motive

Internet TV

Netflix green lights: two seasons of Judd Apatow’s Love, with Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust
Nathan Parsons to star in Amazon’s Point of Honor

UK TV casting

Tim Healy joins BBC1’s Still Open All Hours

US TV

IFC renews: Maron
Monday ratings

US TV casting

Mark Feuerstein to recur on Nurse Jackie
Nick Tarabay to play Captain Boomerang on Arrow
Emily Rutherford replaces Christa Miller on Ground Floor
Someone’s leaving Cougar Town early [spoilers]

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: pilot of adaptation of DC’s Lucifer
NBC developing: remake of Problem Child
Spike TV developing: Gary Oldman’s Deep Web
ABC developing: ‘true crime’ procedural drama LA Crime
CBS green lights: comedy Wife of Crime

New US TV show casting

James D’Arcy to play Edwin Jarvis on ABC’s Agent Carter

News: Amanda Pays returns to The Flash, a new Damon/Greengrass Bourne, Scott Glenn is a Stick + more

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Film

Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass to reunite for new Bourne movie?

Film casting

Leslie Mann to play Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon’s Vacation reboot

Trailers

New trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Theatre

James Cromwell to play Rupert Murdoch in Rupert

Internet TV

Scott Glenn joins Netflix’s Daredevil as Stick

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of Israel’s Channel 10’s Little Mom comedy

UK TV

BBC2 renews: W1A
Derek to finish with a special

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Helix
Sunday ratings
Friday Syfy ratings

US TV show casting

Chiké Okonkwo to recur on Banshee

New US TV shows

HBO developing: adaptation of Factory Man with Tom Hanks
ABC developing: Jimmy Kimmel, Carson Daly comedy
CBS developing: comedy Letters to My Daughter’s Future Therapist

New US TV show casting

Amanda Pays to return as Dr Tina McGee in The CW’s The Flash

News: National Lampoon reunion TV, Sky Living’s Stalker, Murder In The First renewed + more

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Film casting

Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover to star in Antron

Trailers

Trailer for John Wick with Keanu Reeves
Trailer for Serena with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence
Trailer for Playing It Cool with Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan

Australian TV

Season 2 of Danger 5 delayed by ISIS

UK TV

Sky Living acquires: CBS’s Stalker
Saturday ratings

New UK TV shows

BBC1 to air Lenny Henry’s Rudy’s Rare Records pilot

US TV

TNT renews: Murder In The First
Friday ratings

US TV casting

Owain Yeoman to play Benedict Arnold in Turn
Mykelti Williamson joins Nashville
Greg Ellis to recur on Hawaii Five-O

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: Chevy Chase-Beverly D’Angelo comedy…
…developing female buddy comedy I Love Your Ex
AMC picks up: sci-fi drama Humans
Fox developing: mob comedy 100 Grand
NBC developing: comedy with Kevin Nealon and Susan Yeagley

New US TV show casting

Luke Perry to recur on CBS’s CSI: Cyber
Mandy Moore to recur on Fox’s Red Band Society

News: Shooter – the series, Teen Titans go live action, Sky Living’s Enfield Haunting + more

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Film

James Franco to adapt Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant

Film casting

Morgan Freeman joins Ben-Hur

Trailers

New trailer for The Judge, with Robert Downey Jr, Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall et al

Internet TV

Rupert Evans joins Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle

New UK TV shows

Sky Living green lights: The Enfield Haunting, with Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen

US TV

Acorn TV acquires: ABC Australia’s ANZAC Girls
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Gillian Anderson promoted to regular on Hannibal

New US TV shows

TNT developing: live-action Teen Titans adaptation Titans…
…to adapt Mark Wahlberg’s Shooter
Fox green lights: John Stamos pilot
HBO red lights: Ryan Murphy’s Open

New US TV show casting

Carly Chaikin and Portia Doubleday join USA’s Mr Robot
Ricky Gervais to guest on ABC’s Galavant

News: Rambo: Last Blood, Nurse Jackie ends, Anne Rice TV adaptation, female 24, Clooney on Downton + more

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Film

Sylvester Stallone planning Rambo: Last Blood

Internet TV

Leslie Bibb to star in Amazon’s Salem Rogers: Model of the Year 1998

UK TV

BBC3 renews: Siblings
Channel 4 to replace 4oD with All 4 [subscription required]
Tuesday’s ratings

UK TV casting

George Clooney to guest on Downton Abbey. Kind of

US TV

Nurse Jackie to end after seventh season
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Christa Miller to play John C McGinley’s wife (again) on Ground Floor

New US TV shows

Televisa US to adapt Anne Rice’s The Sleeping Beauty novels
CBS developing: female 24-esque action drama Last Hour
Fox green lights: pilot of Turkish gun running drama Son as Runner

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News: Shooter – the series, Teen Titans go live action, Sky Living’s Enfield Haunting + more

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