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Trailers

Trailer for God’s Pocket with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks et al
Trailer for David Fincher’s Gone Girl, with Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike et al

Internet TV

Shaun Evans leaves Amazon’s Cosmopolitan

US TV

US TV show casting

Nazneen Contractor to recur on Covert Affairs
Laura Benanti to recur on Nurse Jackie

New US TV shows

Another trailer for HBO’s The Leftovers
Sundance to remake BBC1’s The Village [subscription only]
WGN America to adapt DC’s Scalped
TV Land green lights: Darren Star’s Younger

New US TV show casting

Dominique McElligott to star in ABC’s The Astronaut’s Wives Club

News: BBC4 acquires The Code, SyFy heads for The Expanse, Banshee recruits + more

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Trailers

Trailer for Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Rachel McAdams et al
Opening battle from X-Men: Days of Future Past

French TV

Kam&Ka acquires Canadian show format Appearances, to co-develop Israeli shows

UK TV

BBC Four acquires: Australia’s ABC1’s The Code

UK TV show casting

Colin Morgan joins The Fall

US TV

Another 24: Live Another Day trailer
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Meaghan Rath, Langley Kirkwood, Chaske Spencer, Tom Pelphrey to recur on Banshee
Melanie Papalia to recur on Suits

New US TV shows

SyFy green lights: The Expanse

News: TNT’s The Librarians spin-off, Marc Warren joins the Musketeers, Tom Ellis in Rush + more

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Film

David Benioff and DB Weiss to write, direct and produce Dirty White Boys

Trailers

Trailer for Hercules with Dwayne Johnson
Trailer for 22 Jump Street

Canadian TV

CBC to cut 657 jobs

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

UK TV show casting

Marc Warren joins The Musketeers

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, with David Threlfall, Amanda Redman and Helen McCrory

US TV

Promo for season 5 of Covert Affairs
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Donal Logue to recur on Law & Order: SVU

New US TV shows

Trailer for USA’s Rush with Tom Ellis [US only]

New US TV show casting

Parker Young to co-star in CBS’s Cuz-Bros
Steven Cree to star in Starz’s Outlander
Rebecca Romijn to star in TNT’s The Librarians

News: The Truman Show TV show, more GoT, Americans, Single Ladies, Line of Duty, Wrong Mans, Red Dwarf + more

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Doctor Who

Ben Miller to guest

Film casting

Amy Poehler, Tina Fey join Universal’s The Nest

Trailers

Trailer for Wish I Was Here, with Zach Braff and Kate Hudson

Canadian TV

Annie Murphy, Jenn Robertson join CBC’s Schitt’s Creek

Internet TV

Amazon green lights: pilots of Hand of God and The Cosmopolitans

International TV

Russia’s CTC green lights: adaptation of BBC1’s My Family
Paolo Sorrentino working on The Young Pope

Scandinavian TV

Iceland’s RUV green lights: series of Trapped

UK TV

BBC2 renews: The Wrong Mans…
…Line of Duty
Watch acquires: NBC’s Crisis
Dave green lights: Red Dwarf XI
History UK acquires: Vikings

New UK TV shows

BBC2 green lights: Nurse

US TV

HBO renews: Game of Thrones
FX renews: The Americans
Centric renews: Single Ladies
Trailer for season 2 of Defiance
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Cobie Smulders to return to Agents of SHIELD
Michael Gross to recur on Suits
Chris Colfer to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

Paramount developing: The Truman Show, Terminator
Trailer for NBC’s Undateable
The CW green lights: series of Backpackers

News: A Goonies sequel, a BSG movie, SyFy travels to Olympus and Z Nation + more

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The Daily News will return on Thursday

Film

Universal developing “reimagined” BSG movie
Goonies sequel in development

Trailers

Trailer for Jon Favreau’s Chef with Dustin Hoffman, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson et al

Internet TV

Yahoo! developing comedy series
Max Hernandez joins Amazon’s Hand of God
Geek & Sundry green lights: Morganville: The Series

French TV

Canal+ green lights: London-set Spotless
‘Major channel’ acquires: The Sniffer/Nyukhach format rights

UK TV

Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 and Xbox green light: Humans

US TV

A&E renews: Bates Motel
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings: HBO and Showtime

US TV show casting

Enver Gjokaj to recur on Rizzoli & Isles
Samuel L Jackson to cameo again on Agents of SHIELD
Amy Jo Johnson to recur on Covert Affairs

New US TV shows

SyFy green lights: zombie apocalypse drama Z Nation…
…and mythology drama Olympus
Teaser trailer for HBO’s The Leftovers

New US TV show casting

George Wendt and Ashley Tisdale joins TBS barbershop comedy

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News: BBC4 acquires The Code, SyFy heads for The Expanse, Banshee recruits + more

News: TNT’s The Librarians spin-off, Marc Warren joins the Musketeers, Tom Ellis in Rush + more

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