Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday “NBC’s disasters, returning Alan Partridge favourites, James Lipton’s Arrested Development plus more Mr Selfridge” news
Film
- The return of familiar Alan Partridge characters for the movie
- Tarantino planning Django/Basterds trrilogy
Film casting
- Saoirse Ronan joins How To Catch A Monster
- Ralph Fiennes to star in Sands
- Jessica Alba to star in Weightless
Trailers
- Trailer for Hours, starring Paul Walker
UK TV
- A second series for Mr Selfridge
- Up to 40 hours of content to premiere on the iPlayer this year
- TCM acquires Longmire
- William Gaminara leaves Silent Witness
- Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb reunited for Love And Marriage
- Dougray Scott joins The Wrong Mans
- Thursday ratings
US TV
- NBC’s Do No Harm cancelled…
- …Christina Applegate leaves NBC’s Up All Night…
- …NBC pulls 1600 Penn for a week
- Thursday ratings: Do No Harm drops 22%, Community up
- Friday ratings: Touch down
US TV casting
- Chin Han joins Arrow
- Max Fowler joins The Killing
- Once Upon A Time character returning [spoilers]
- James Lipton returning to Arrested Development
New US TV shows
- NBC’s Wonderland pushed off-cycle
- HBO greenlights: Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers
- Showtime greenlights: The Affair
New US TV show casting
- Kim Raver, Scott Grimes and Gillian Alexy to star in CBS’s NCIS: LA spin-off
- Christina Ricci to star in NBC’s Girlfriend in a Coma, Parker Posey to star in DJ Nash project
- Neighbours‘ Adelaide Kane to star as Mary Queen of Scots in The CW’s Reign
- Aimee Teegarden to star in The CW’s Oxygen
- Jonathan Banks joins NBC’s Bloodline
- Jonathan Groff to star in HBO gay friends comedy
- Rose McIver to recur on Showtime’s Masters of Sex
- Casting on HBO’s Silicon Valley