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Film casting

Miranda Hart joins Paul Feig comedy
Dayo Okeniyi joins Terminator: Genesis

Trailers

Trailer for Begin Again, with Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo
Trailer for Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie

Internet TV

Dana Delany to star in Amazon’s Hand of God

UK TV

UK TV casting

Julian Sands et al join The Village

New UK TV shows

Trailer for ITV’s Prey with John Simm

New UK TV show casting

Eleanor Tomlinson to star as Demelza in BBC1’s Poldark

US TV

ABC cancels: Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
SyFy renews: Helix
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Patrick Brennan to play Blackout on Agents of SHIELD
Michael Chiklis joins American Horror Story
Matthew Goode promoted to regular on The Good Wife

New US TV shows

HBO developing: Carthage

New US TV show casting

Kelly Brook and Chris Williams join NBC’s One Big Happy
Andrea Parker joins NBC’s Feed Me

News: Mind Games cancelled, S4C to go HD, Sky Atlantic heads to Gomorrah + more

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Trailers

Teaser trailer for Phantasm: Ravager
Trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Trailer for Night Moves with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard et al
Trailer for Words and Pictures with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche

Internet TV

Andre Royo joins Amazon’s Hand of God

UK TV

Sky Atlantic acquires: Italy’s Gomorrah [subscription required]
Amazon prime acquires: TNT’s Black Sails
S4C to have HD channel by 2016

New UK TV shows

Trailer for ITV’s Undeniable with Peter Firth and Claire Goose

US TV

ABC cancels: Mind Games
Wednesday ratings
Wednesday cable ratings: Psych ends with 1.93m

US TV show casting

Brian Baumgartner to guest on The Bridge (US)
Michelle Borth leaving Hawaii Five-0
Carmine Giovinazzo and Jon Sklaroff to recur on Graceland

New US TV show casting

Ana Nogueira joins CBS’s Good Session
Casting on Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse
Toks Olagundoye joins NBC’s Feed Me, JoBeth Williams to be a regular on TBS’s Your Family or Mine
Boris Kodjoe joins ABC’s The Club

News: Chris Carter’s Area 51, Watch acquires Almost Human + more

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Film casting

Naomie Harris and Damien Lewis join Our Kind of Traitor

Trailers

New trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending

Theatre

Benedict Cumberbatch to play Hamlet

UK TV

ITV renews: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Comedy Central UK acquires: CBS’s Friends With Better Lives
Watch acquires: Fox’s Almost Human
Tuesday ratings

US TV

El Rey renews: From Dusk Till Dawn
NBC acquires: TF1’s Taxi Brooklyn
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Linus Roache to guest on The Blacklist
Amy Acker to guest on Agents of SHIELD

New US TV shows

BBC America green lights: Almost Royal
AMC green lights: We Hate Paul pilot, Chris Carter’s Area 51 development

New US TV show casting

John Cusack to guest on CBS’s Wall Street drama
Tiya Sircar joins CBS’s How I Met Your Dad

News: more Vikings, less Hebburn, Kevin Spacey is Churchill + more

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Film casting

Kevin Spacey to play Winston Churchill in Captain of the Gate

Trailers

Trailer for Hercules: The Thracian Wars
Clip from Raid 2
Trailer for Let’s Be Cops with Damon Wayans Jr and Jake Johnson
Trailer for Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

UK TV

BBC unveils new vision for BBC Arts
BBC2 cancels: Hebburn
BBC3 to make far fewer shows once online
Monday ratings

UK TV casting

Patrick Fitzsymons joins The Fall

New UK TV show casting

James Norton, Robson Green to star in ITV’s Grantchester

US TV

History renews: Vikings
Trailer for 24: Live Another Day
Those Who Kill shifted to LMN
Monday ratings

New US TV show casting

Nick Frost to star in Fox’s Sober Companion
Joseph Nunez joins ABC’s The Winklers, Jonny Cruz and Dylan Bruce join El Rey’s Matador
Debra Jo Rupp and Andrea Anders to co-star in CBS’s Cuz-Bros
Matthew Modine joins TNT’s Proof

News: Paul Guilfoyle leaves CSI, Disney’s Mahabharata, a new X-Men trailer + more

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Film

Disney India to make two-part adaptation of Mahabharata

Trailers

New X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer

UK TV

Sunday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Lee Ingleby, Liz White, Anne Reid, Ralf Little, Sophia Myles to star in BBC1’s Our Zoo

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Paul Guilfoyle to leave CSI…
…Gil Bellows to guest

New US TV show casting

Alfred Molina to co-star in El Rey’s Matador
Krysta Rodriguez leaves CBS’s How I Met Your Dad
Betsy Brandt to co-star in ABC’s The Club

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News: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland cancelled, more Helix + more

News: Mind Games cancelled, S4C to go HD, Sky Atlantic heads to Gomorrah + more

News: Chris Carter’s Area 51, Watch acquires Almost Human + more

News: more Vikings, less Hebburn, Kevin Spacey is Churchill + more

News: Paul Guilfoyle leaves CSI, Disney’s Mahabharata, a new X-Men trailer + more

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