Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday’s “Han Solo returns?, Sarah Michelle Gellar teams up with Robin Williams and Zero Hour bombs” news
Doctor Who
- Missing Tenth Planet episode to be animated for DVD release
- Reece Shearsmith to play Patrick Troughton in anniversary special
Film
- Lobo movie ‘just went away’
Film casting
- Matthew Modine to star in Ralph Bakshi’s Last Days of Coney Island
- Jennifer Lawrence joins David O Russell’s American Bullshit
- Jason Momoa to star in Guardians of the Galaxy?
- Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode VII?
UK TV
- Channel 4 greenlights: Matt Berry’s Toast Of London
- Mayday to be stripped across five days
US TV
- Valentine’s Day ratings: Zero Hour has worst ever ABC scripted TV debut, Community hits lowest ever ratings for its time slot, everyone else down
- Friday ratings: Touch down 22%
- Up All Night probably dead
US TV casting
- Jack McBrayer to guest on The Middle
New US TV shows
- TV Land greenlights: Kirstie’s New Show
- Lifetime redlights: Cinnamon Girl
- Lifetime developing Cleopatra mini-series
- Amazon developing Press Start to Continue
New US TV show casting
- Sarah Michelle Gellar to star with Robin Williams in CBS’s Crazy Ones
- Ernie Hudson to co-star in ABC’s Reckless, Burn Gorman to star in AMC’s Turn, plus casting on CBS’s Hostages
- Krysten Ritter to star in NBC’s Assistance
- Kyle Chandler to star in Showtime’s Vatican
- Felicity Huffman to star in Fox’s Boomerang
- Tom Everett Scott joins NBC’s Bloodline
- Miranda Cosgrove to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Humphrey Ker joins NBC’s Holding Patterns
- Jake McLaughlin to star in JJ Abram’s NBC pilot Believe
- Peyton List to star in The CW’s The Tomorrow People, Matt Malloy to star in Amazon’s Alpha House
- David Alan Grier to star in CBS’s Bad Teacher
- Gage Golightly to star in The CW’s Company Town
- Sean Patrick Thomas to star (again) in The CW’s The Selection
- Corey Reynolds to co-star in Delirium