Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Thursday’s “NBC, Fox, CTV, TV4, Fuse and TNT cancellations and pick-ups, plus Everybody Loves Catherine Tate” news
Film
- Guy Ritchie to direct, Alicia Vikander to star in The Man From UNCLE
Film casting
- Richard Madden to star in Cinderella
- Michael Shannon to star in Midnight Special
- Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba and Kristin Scott Thomas to star in How To Make Love Like An Englishman
Trailers
- Trailer for the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, with Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, F Murray Abraham et al
- Trailer for Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, with Tom Hanks
- Trailer for Edgar Wright’s World’s End, with Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Reece Shearsmith et al
Canadian TV
- CTV renews: Motive
French TV
- Fuse to launch Entourage-like The Hustle
International TV
- Sweden’s TV4 green lights: Amy and Greg Poehler comedy Welcome To Sweden
UK TV
- Lee Mack and Catherine Tate to star in BBC1 remake of Everybody Loves Raymond
- ITV renews: The Bletchley Circle
- Tamzin Outhwaite joins New Tricks
- Casting on Atlantis, Breathless and The Smoke
- Casting on Mr Selfridge and The Widower
US TV
- NBC cancels: Deception
- Trailer for season 2 of Copper
- Tuesday ratings
US TV show casting
- Colin Ferguson joins Haven
New US TV shows
- Piers Morgan developing Fleet Street for Starz
- Fox green lights: dramas Rake, Gang Related, Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human…
- …and comedies Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Surviving Jack, Enlisted and Us and Them
- Fox red lights: Delirium
- NBC red lights: Bloodline, The Sixth Gun, The Gates, Joe & Jane, Brenda Forever, Hatfields & McCoys, Holding Patterns and The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
- TNT green lights: Legends (trailer)
New US TV show casting
- Omar Miller to co-star with The Rock in HBO dramedy