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Film casting

Steve Coogan to play James Boswell in Boswell For The Defence

Theatre

Haydn Gwynne joins Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Australian TV

Lucy Lawless to star in ABC’s The Code

US TV

New trailer for season four of Homeland
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Kristen Johnson to guest on Modern Family
Phyllis Logan to guest on Bones
Bojana Novakovic to recur on Shameless

New US TV shows

NBC developing: sitcom Pub Quiz…
…magical drama The Curse of the Fuentes Women
Keanu Reeves and Roland Emmerich developing virtual reality show
David Fincher and James Ellroy developing 1950s crime show for HBO
The CW’s The Flash to crossover with Arrow
CBS green lights: pilot for adaptation of Stephen King’s The Things They Left Behind…
…developing: Halle Berry medical drama

New US TV show casting

Zachary Quinto and Brian Cox join NBC’s The Slap adaptation
Rami Malek to star in USA’s Mr Robot

News: Catherine Tate – Assassin, an Agent Carter SHIELD cameo, Minority Report sequel approved, + more

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Trailers

Trailer for Fury with Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Isaacs et al
Trailer for Dark, with Whitney Able, Alex Breckenridge, Michael Eklund et al

Theatre

Catherine Tate joins Assassins

Internet TV

Trailer for CW Seed’s Veronica Mars spin-off Play It Again, Dick
Alexa Davalos to star in Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle adaptation
Ben Chaplin, Steve Zahn and Romany Malco to star in Amazon/Shawn Levy’s Mad Dogs remake

New Zealand TV

Trailer for Prime’s The Brokenwood Mysteries

UK TV

Universal Channel acquires: ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder

UK TV casting

Patti Lupone to guest, Helen McCrory and Simon Russell Beale promoted to regulars on Penny Dreadful

US TV

Trailer for season six of Vampire Diaries
ABC Family cancels: Mystery Girls
Sunday ratings

US TV casting

Hayley Hatwell and George Stephanopoulos to guest on Agents of SHIELD
Maggie Lawson to recur on Two and a Half Men

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: Minority Report sequel
NBC green lights: series of anthology drama Manhunt
ABC green lights: pilot of comedy mystery Couch Detective

News: A Walking Dead spin-off, Elizabeth Warren’s Alpha House cameo, Good Omens for radio + more

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Radio

Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Josie Lawrence et al to star in adaptation of Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens

Australian TV

Australia Network to shut this month [subscription required]
ABC cancels: The Time of Our Lives [subscription required]

Internet TV

Elizabeth Warren to cameo on Alpha House

New UK TV show casting

George MacKay to star in BBC1’s adaptation of Sadie Jones’ The Outcast
Hermione Norris, Robert Bathurst, Mathew Horne et al join Sky 1’s Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis to star in ITV’s Home Fires

US TV

Twelve more episodes for The Exes

US TV show casting

Lev Gorn promoted to regular on The Americans, to recur on NCIS
Rebecca Mader to guest on Blue Bloods
Mary Mouser to replace Madeline Carroll on Scandal
Peter Gallagher to recur on Law & Order: SVU
Austin Butler to recur on Arrow

New US TV shows

AMC greenlights: Walking Dead spin-off

New US TV show casting

Emmett Scanlan to play Jim Corrigan on NBC’s Constantine
Rob Brydon and Michelle Gomez to recur on HBO’s The Brink
Clarke Peters joins HBO’s Show Me A Hero
Alexander Dreymon to star in BBC America/BBC2’s The Last Kingdom

News: Arrow finds its Ra’s al Ghul, a new trailer for Gracepoint, Sean Hayes’ live sitcom + more

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Comics

A new Miracleman comic

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Matt Noble to play Ra’s al Ghul in Arrow
Serinda Swan to recur on Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

New trailer for Fox’s Broadchurch remake Gracepoint
NBC developing: Sean Hayes live weekly sitcom Hospitality

News: Bruce Springsteen visits Lilyhammer, Prison Break brothers reunited, Syfy’s Childhood’s End + more

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Film

George Clooney to direct film about phone hacking scandal

Film casting

The Rock to play Black Adam in Shazam adaptation

Trailers

Trailer for Dracula Untold
Trailer for Cymbeline with Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson et al

Internet TV

Bruce Springsteen and Tony Sirico to appear on Lilyhammer

UK TV

Sky 1 acquires: TNT’s Legends
CBS Action to launch on Freeview

US TV

Promo for season six of The Good Wife
Trailer for final season of Sons of Anarchy
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

CBS developing: Washington DC horror show Brain Dead
Syfy green lights: Childhood’s End mini-series
DC developing: Supergirl series
NBC developing: The Possession of Maggie Gill

New US TV show casting

Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller to reunite on The CW’s The Flash
Jennifer Carpenter to star in USA’s Stanistan

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News: NBC’s Pub Quiz, Keanu’s virtual reality, Zachary Quinto gets Slapped + more

News: Catherine Tate – Assassin, an Agent Carter SHIELD cameo, Minority Report sequel approved, + more

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News: Arrow finds its Ra’s al Ghul, a new trailer for Gracepoint, Sean Hayes’ live sitcom + more

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