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Jonas Cuaron writing Atlantis movie

Film casting

Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving to star in Strangerland

Trailers

Trailer for Homefront with James Franco and Jason Statham

UK TV

Next series of Moving On to premiere on the iPlayer…
…replace global iPlayer

US TV

Brooklyn Nine-Nine gets a full season…
…as do The Crazy Ones, Mom, The Millers
NBC cancels Welcome To The Family, Ironside, orders more Sean Saves The World
Netflix to create ‘DVD extras’ for its original shows
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Amanda Plummer to guest on Hannibal
James Van Der Beek to return to How I Met Your Mother
Marilyn Manson to guest on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

MTV green lights: Happyland and Faking It
ABC developing: Sins, remaking Los Roldán
BBC America green lights: Intruders from Glen Morgan

New US TV show casting

Paul Adelsten joins Bravo’s Divorce + more casting

Full seasons for Brooklyn 9-9, Fox shows, cancellations for Ironside and Welcome To The Family

21 October 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Jonas Cuaron writing Atlantis movie

Film casting

Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving to star in Strangerland

Trailers

Trailer for Homefront with James Franco and Jason Statham

UK TV

Next series of Moving On to premiere on the iPlayer…
…replace global iPlayer

US TV

Brooklyn Nine-Nine gets a full season…
…as do The Crazy Ones, Mom, The Millers
NBC cancels Welcome To The Family, Ironside, orders more Sean Saves The World
Netflix to create ‘DVD extras’ for its original shows
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Amanda Plummer to guest on Hannibal
James Van Der Beek to return to How I Met Your Mother
Marilyn Manson to guest on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

MTV green lights: Happyland and Faking It
ABC developing: Sins, remaking Los Roldán
BBC America green lights: Intruders from Glen Morgan

New US TV show casting

Paul Adelsten joins Bravo’s Divorce + more casting

Fox goes to Ancient Egypt, the US loves Mammon, and yet more Franklin and Bash

18 October 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Amanda Seyfried and Russell Crowe to star in Fathers and Daughters

Trailers

Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel with Ralph Fiennes

UK TV

Wednesday ratings: The Tunnel starts well

US TV

TNT renews: Franklin and Bash
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Struan Rodger joins Game of Thrones
Victor Garber to recur on The Good Wife

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Hieroglyph
Norwegian show Mammon to be remade
IDW developing TV shows based on its comics

New US TV show casting

Luke MacFarlane to guest on NBC’s The Night Shift

Babylon Fields resurrected, CBS’s crime-fighting nun and Fox ventures to Atlantis

17 October 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn to star in The Age of Adaline

Trailers

Trailer for Non-Stop with Liam Neeson

UK TV

BBC to appoint iPlayer controller [subscription required]
Tom Burke and Rose Leslie join Utopia
A second series for The Wrong Mans

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC2’s Ambassadors

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Da Vinci’s Demons
Three more scripts for The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Yvette Nicole Brown to guest on Welcome To The Family
Martin Donovan to recur on Hannibal

New US TV shows

NBC reviving Babylon Fields…
…developing church drama
CBS developing: The Shrine and Black Oak…
…crime-fighting nun drama Damascus
Fox developing: Shawn Ryan Hawaii period crime drama…
…quest for Atlantis
Casting on NBC’s Crossbones and TV Land’s Jennifer Falls
The CW developing: military drama Boots

Full season and a returning agent for SHIELD, and Richard Belzer leaves L&O:SVU

11 October 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Daily News will return on Wednesday. Or Thursday. It depends how tired I am

Doctor Who

Nine missing episodes recovered, now available on iTunes

Film casting

Kristin Chenoweth and Katrina Bowden joins Hard Sell
Sophie Turner joins Barely Lethal
Elizabeth Peña joins David Mamet’s Blackbird

Trailers

Trailer for Ambushed with Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture

Canadian TV

Sci-fi show Echoes in development
Trailer for Bitten

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC2’s autumn/winter dramas

US TV

Agents of SHIELD gets a full season
The Originals, The Tomorrow People and Reign gets orders for more scripts
Wednesday ratings: Super Fun Night and Ironside drop, The Tomorrow People starts okay
Wednesday cable ratings

US TV casting

Richard Belzer leaving Law & Order: SVU
Lots more guest stars for Community
Titus Welliver to reprise Agent Blake for Agents of SHIELD
Chris Elliott to guest on Hot In Cleveland

New US TV shows

NBC acquires: time travel dramas Lighthouse and Timeless…
…is developing: Justin Long comedy and Bert Kreischer comedy
ABC developing: Bright Young Things
CBS acquires: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s More Time With Family
A&E red lights Occult, Comedy Central red lights Schlub Life and Bad Advice
Fox adapting: Turkish drama The End

New US TV show casting

Natalie Zea to star in Amazon’s Outlaws, Peter Jacobson to recur on Lifetime’s HR
Ray Liotta and Mamie Gummer join HBO’s The Money

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Full seasons for Brooklyn 9-9, Fox shows, cancellations for Ironside and Welcome To The Family

Full seasons for Brooklyn 9-9, Fox shows, cancellations for Ironside and Welcome To The Family

Fox goes to Ancient Egypt, the US loves Mammon, and yet more Franklin and Bash

Babylon Fields resurrected, CBS’s crime-fighting nun and Fox ventures to Atlantis

Full season and a returning agent for SHIELD, and Richard Belzer leaves L&O:SVU

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