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Canadian TV

CBC cancels: Arctic Air, Cracked

UK TV casting

Aneurin Barnard, Melanie Hill, John Henshaw et al join ITV’s Cilla

US TV

Flash characters to appear on Arrow
Friday’s cable ratings
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Brian Baumgartner to guest on Criminal Minds

New US TV shows

ABC Family green lights: Alice in Arabia, Recovery Road and Unstrung

New US TV show casting

Kim Dickens to star in CBS’s Red Zone
Katharine McPhee to star in CBS’s Scorpion
Judith Light to co-star in ABC’s The Winklers
Rachel Dratch joins CBS’s Dead Boss
Jason Jones to star in NBC’s Love is Relative
Melonie Diaz to star in HBO’s Laughs Unlimited
Danny Huston to star in NBC’s Salvation, Adam Kaufman to co-star in State of Affairs
Jay R Ferguson to co-star in CBS’s Save The Date, Elaine Hendrix joins FX’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
Ashton Holmes and Anna Brewster to co-star in CBS’s Only Human
Georgia King to star in CBS’s The Odd Couple

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Film casting

Ciaran Hinds joins Agent 47

Australian TV

SBS sourcing comedy for new portal

UK TV

Sky Atlantic renews: The Tunnel
Channel 5 renews: Suspects
S4C plans to move to Carmarthen

New UK TV shows

Four BBC sitcoms to be shown at Salford Sitcom Showcase
Channel 4 green lights: civil service comedy The Cut

New UK TV show casting

Lenny Henry to star in Rudy’s Rare Records

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Veep
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Nazanin Boniadi promoted to regular on Homeland

New US TV shows

Trailer for TNT’s Murder In The First

New US TV show casting

Eddie Kaye Thomas to co-star on CBS’s Scorpion
Anders Holm, Nick D’Agosto and Andrew Santino join CBS’s How I Met Your Dad
Wendell Pierce joins CBS’s The Odd Couple
Odette Annable to star in ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club
Joe Morton joins TNT’s Proof
Kevin Nealon joins NBC’s The Pro
Necar Zadegan joins Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce
Josh Helman and Damon Herriman join Starz’s Flesh and Bone
Melissa George to star in ABC’s Richard LaGravenese drama
Julian Morris to star in Amazon’s Hand of God
Josh Lucas to star in NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura
Max Casella and Jack Quaid to star in HBO’s Martin Scorsese rock and roll drama
Anthony LaPaglia to star in CBS’s Red Zone
Joel David Moore, Barbara Eve Harris and Donnie Keshawarz join ABC’s Forever
Miguel Sandoval joins NBC’s Bad Judge, Joseph Lyle Taylor joins CBS Wall Street drama

News: A French Broadchurch, a Dutch Cheers, CBS renews multiple shows + more

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Doctor Who

Keeley Hawes to guest on Doctor Who

French TV

France 2 TV green lights: remake of ITV’s Broadchurch

European TV

The Netherlands’ SBS6 remaking Cheers

US TV

CBS renews: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, CSI, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, Elementary, The Good Wife, Two and a Half Man, Mike & Molly, The Millers, Mom and 2 Broke Girls
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Emily Bergl promoted on Shameless, Andrea Bogart to recur on Ray Donovan
Jorge Garcia to be a regular on Hawaii Five-0
Brandy to guest on The Soul Man

New US TV shows

Showtime green lights: Billions pilot

New US TV show casting

Greg Stults to star in CBS’s Cuz-Bros (if Enlisted gets cancelled)
S Epatha Merkerson to recur on NBC’s Babylon Fields
David Morse and Sophie Okonedo to co-sar in CBS’s Wall Street drama
Thomas Lennon to star in CBS’s Odd Couple remake
Kat Foster and Kyle Howard to star in TBS’s Israeli comedy remake Your Family or Mine, Danny Comden and Andrew Lees to recur
John Cho to star in ABC’s Selfie
Oder Gehr to be a regular on ABC’s Richard LaGravenese pilot, Kyle Jones to recur on ABC’s Damaged Goods
Ben Koldyke to co-star in NBC’s Mr Robinson, Manish Dayal joins The CW’s Identity

News: Pretty Woman musical, The Wicker Man TV series, Those Who Kill to relaunch + more

13 March 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Theater

Pretty Woman: The Musical

UK TV

Red to adapt The Wicker Man, Billy Liar et al as TV series [subscription required]
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Three more seasons for The Big Bang Theory
Those Who Kill pulled from schedules, to be relaunched
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Adrian Pasdar to guest on Agents of SHIELD
Keke Palmer to recur on Masters of Sex
Nic Bishop to recur on Covert Affairs

New US TV show casting

Rose McIver to star in The CW’s Rob Thomas adaptation of iZombie
Annie Thurman to to recur on TNT’s Proof, Shantel VanSanten joins The CW’s The Messengers
Scott Cohen to star in NBC’s Coercion
Olivia Wilde and Juno Temple join Martin Scorsese’s HBO pilot
Maggie Grace to star in CBS’s Wall Street pilot
Zoe Boyle joins ABC’s Astronaut’s Wives Club, Morgan Taylor Campbell joins ABC’s Sea of Fire

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The Daily News will return on Wednesday

Trailers

Trailer for Annie with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx

UK TV

BBC3 confirmed to go online only
Pobol Y Cwm cutbacks
Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for ITV’s The Widower

US TV

Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

AMC red lights: Line of Sight with David Morrissey

New US TV show casting

Penelope Ann Miller and Timothy Hutton join ABC’s American Crime, Chris Butler joins NBC’s Lifesaver
Mary-Louise Parker to star in NBC’s Feed Me
Diogo Morgado joins The CW’s The Messengers
Patricia Arquette to star in CBS’s CSI spinoff
Lucy Griffiths and Harold Perrineau join NBC’s Constantine
Rufus Sewell to star in ABC’s Richard LaGravenese drama
Bresha Webb to star in ABC’s Keep It Together, Brianna Brown joins ABC’s The Visitors
Annie Ilonzeh to recur on NBC’s Coercion, Cliff Chamberlain joins NBC’s State of Affairs
Krysta Rodriguez to star in CBS’s How I Met Your Dad
Patina MIller joins CBS’s Madam Secretary + casting on Fox’s Red Band Society

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