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News

Trailers

Trailer for Monsters: Dark Continent

Film casting

Edgar Ramirez replaces Gerard Butler on Point Break remake

Internet TV

TR Knight joins Amazon’s Hysteria, Adrienne C Moore promoted to regular on Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black

New UK TV shows

ITV2 green lights: post-apocalyptic rom-com Cockroaches

US TV

SundanceTV acquires: Channel 4’s Babylon
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

John Barrowman to be a regular on Arrow

New US TV shows

Jonathan Ames to adapt Iceland’s World’s End/Heimsendir for Showtime

News: Tom Hardy is a true American, CBS won’t meet your dad, Legit cancelled + more

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Film casting

Tom Hardy to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s The True American

Trailers

Trailer for Deliver Us From Evil with Eric Bana

International TV

CJ E&M adds Flower Grandpas Investigators to tvN

Australian TV

Australia Network axed [subscription required]

UK TV

Turner to launch TruTV [subscription required]
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Kayvan Novak and Bradley Walsh to star in BBC1’s Woody

US TV

CBS cancels: Two And A Half Men
FXX cancels: Legit
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

News: Channing Tatum is Gambit, a look at the new Batman, Charlotte Rampling in Broadchurch + more

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Film casting

Channing Tatum to play Gambit in X-Men spin-off

Trailers

Trailer for The Hundred-Foot Journey with Helen Mirren

UK TV

Monday ratings

UK TV casting

Charlotte Rampling joins Broadchurch

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle drama with Martin Clunes and a DNA-based crime thriller [subscription required]

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV casting

Marin Ireland to recur on Girls

New US TV shows

Sundance TV developing: Crack in the Sky

News: Broadchurch cast returns, S4C relaunches Clic, US pilot (re)casting + more

13 May 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Noomi Rapace joins Brilliance

Trailers

Trailer for And So It Goes with Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton

UK TV

S4C relaunches Clic
Saturday ratings

UK TV casting

David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Arthur Darvill et al to return for second series of Broadchurch

New UK TV shows

BBC’s People Just Do Nothing to air on iPlayer first

US TV

New US TV show casting

Michael Rosenbaum out of NBC’s Mission Control
Jane Krakowski to recur on NBC’s Tina Fey comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

News: Massive US cancellations and pick-ups, The Trip to Italy deleted sccene, ITV Encore ad + more

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Doctor Who

Hermione Norris to guest star

Film casting

Julia Stiles joins The Great Gilly Hopkins adaptation

Trailers

Trailer for The Inbetweeners 2

UK TV

Ad for ITV Encore
Deleted scene from The Trip to Italy

US TV

TBC cancels: Men at Work, Cougar Town
NBC renews: Parenthood, About A Boy, Hannibal
…cancels: Parks and Rec, The Michael J Fox Show, Dracula, Believe, Crisis, Community, Revolution, Growing Up Fisher
ABC renews: Last Man Standing and Nashville…
…and The Middle, Grey’s Anatomy and Revenge
…cancels: The Neighbors, Suburgatory, Super Fun Night…
…and Trophy Wife and Mixology
CBS cancels: The Crazy Ones, Intelligence, Friends With Better Lives, Bad Teacher and Hostages…
…renews The Mentalist
Trailer for season 2 of Masters of Sex
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: series of Cristela, Fresh Off The Boat and Secrets and Lies
CBS green lights: series of CSI: Cyber, NCIS: New Orleans, The Odd Couple, Stalker, Battle Creek, Madam Secretary, The McCarthys and Scorpion
NBC green lights: series of Bad Judge, Mission Control and One Big Happy
Bravo developing: adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s Rules of Attraction

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News: John Barrowman’s new job, ITV2’s Cockroaches, Showtime’s Heimsendir adaptation + more

News: Tom Hardy is a true American, CBS won’t meet your dad, Legit cancelled + more

News: Channing Tatum is Gambit, a look at the new Batman, Charlotte Rampling in Broadchurch + more

News: Broadchurch cast returns, S4C relaunches Clic, US pilot (re)casting + more

News: Massive US cancellations and pick-ups, The Trip to Italy deleted sccene, ITV Encore ad + more

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