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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Chicago shows, L&O:SVU renewed; Dutch A Word adaptation; + more

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Trailer for Amazon’s Tales from the Loop
Teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Eddy
Haley Joel Osment, Jena Malone and Clara Wong join Amazon’s Goliath
Fred Hechinger joins Amazon’s The Underground Railroad
Max Jenkins to recur on Netflix’s Special
Netflix green lights: Nigerian reincarnated goddess vengeance drama
Apple TV+ developing: WeWork limited series
Amazon developing: aspirational horror comedy Mitchcraft

Australian TV

Teaser for season 2 of Stan’s Bloom

Canadian TV

Jewel Staite, Victor Garver, Zach Smadu et al to star in Global’s Family Law

European TV

NPO1 (Netherlands) green lights: adaptation of Keshet (Israel)’s The A Word

UK TV

Channel 4 green lights: narcissistic fantasist comedy Frank of Ireland, with Brian Gleeson, Pom Boyd, Sarah Greene et al

US TV

Teaser for season 3 of Hulu’s Future Man
Trailer for season 2 of The CW’s Roswell: New Mexico
NBC renews: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med and L&O:SVU

US TV show casting

Gideon Glick to recur on Comedy Central’s The Other Two
Juliet Landau to recur on TNT’s Claws

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of character-based surgeon drama Triage

New US TV show casting

Katheryn Winnick to star in ABC’s The Big Sky
Molly Hagan to co-star in The CW’s Walker
Tyrone Marshall Brown joins Fox’s Blood Relative
Caleb Ruminer, Angel Parker, Catherine Dent et al join NBC’s La Brea
Shanola Hampton to star in NBC’s Night School

Top Boy renewed; The Great acquired; + more

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Josh Brolin to star in Amazon’s Outer Range
Tramell Tillman to star in Apple’s Severance
Bella Heathcote to star in Netflix’s Pieces of Her
Netflix renews: Top Boy
Amazon developing: adaptation of Octavia E Butler’s Dawn

International TV

Cross Productions (Italy) developing: period German Italian-immigrant werewolf drama Wolfsburg
Legendary Global developing: adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

Nordic TV

SVT green lights: series adaptation of Kerstin Ekman’s Blackwater
Viaplay green lights: series adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm

UK TV

Channel 4/StarzPlay acquire: Hulu (US)’s The Great

US TV show casting

James Purefoy, Edward Hogg, Jessye Romeo et al join Epix’s Pennyworth
Macauley Culkin, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe et al join FX’s American Horror Story
Rick Hoffman to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of blue-collar private-school culture clash Valley Trash
Showtime red lights: How to Make Love to a Black Woman

New US TV show casting

Ryan Phillippe joins ABC’s The Big Sky
Rebecca Breeds to star in CBS’s Clarice
Olivia Liang to star in The CW’s Kung Fu
Branden Cook, Lincoln Younes and Ruby Cruz to star in The CW’s The Lost Boys
Lyndsy Fonseca and Carra Patterson to star in Disney+’s Turner & Hooch
Tony Hale to star in Hulu’s The Mysterious Benedict Society
Natalie Zea to star in NBC’s La Brea

The Adventures of Young Voltaire; Seven Australia pauses all dramas; + more

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Trailer for Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker

Australian TV

Seven yellow lights: all dramas

French TV

Lauréna Thellier joins TG1’s Une affaire française (A French Affair)
France 3 green lights: self-explanatory mini-series Les aventures du jeune Voltaire (The Adventures of Young Voltaire), with Valérie Bonneton et al

US TV show casting

Ryan Michelle Bathe to recur on CBS’s All Rise
Kelsey Grammer to recur on CBS’s Carol’s Second Act

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters
Peacock developing: freedom fighter and fan comedy Fan Girl

New US TV show casting

Liza Lapira joins CBS’s Equalizer
Amanda Warren joins CBS’s Ways and Means
Stella Baker to star in The CW’s Republic of Sarah
Coolio joins HBO Max’s Vegas High
Molly Shannon to co-star in Showtime’s Big Deal
Michael Rooker joins Showtime’s The President is Missing
Mekai Curtis to star in Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Sarah Gadon to co-star in USA’s Evel

Atypical, This Way Up renewed; Stateless acquired; + more

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Netflix renews (and cancels): Atypical…
…acquires: ABC (Australia)’s Stateless
Sebastian Chacon joins Amazon’s Daisy Jones & The Six
Krysta Rodriguez to star in Netflix’s Halston

German TV

ZDF green lights: series of Berlin music hall period drama Friedrichstadt-Palast (The Palace)
Leonine/Syrreal developing: modern adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo as Santiago

Nordic TV

Elisa Viihde (Finland) green lights: series of 1980s revenge thriller Munkkivuori (Summer of Sorrow)

UK TV

Disney+ begins offering discount subscriptions
Channel 4 renews: This Way Up
BBC green lights: adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, thriller Chloe, sex-work drama Superhoe…
…and cop drama The Responder, with Martin Freeman
BBC Scotland green lights: series of The Scotts
ITV green lights: series of sibling/missing child mystery thriller Hollington Drive

US TV show casting

Robert Wisdom to return to The CW’s Supernatural

New US TV show casting

Jazz Raycole to co-star in CBS’s The Lincoln Lawyer
Oliver Hudson and Malin Akerman to star in CBS’s The Three of Us
Matt Lucas, Teri Polo, Ser’Darius Blain et al join Fox’s The Big Leap
Seann William Scott to star in Fox’s This Country
Ana Gasteyer to star in NBC’s American Auto
Betsy Brandt, Darien Sills-Evans and Mike Lane join NBC’s Jefferies

Yellowstone, The Blacklist renewed; Shantaram on hold; + more

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Geoffrey Arend and Brandon Scott join, Obba Babatundé and Elias Koteas to recur on Amazon’s Goliath
Rainn Wilson joins Amazon’s The Power
Kristofer Hivju, Yasen Atour, Agnes Bjorn et al join Netflix’s The Witcher
Apple yellow lights: Shantaram
Netflix developing: English department dramedy The Chair, with Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass
Amazon/RTVE (Spain) developing: Magellan circumnavigation drama Boundless

German TV

RTL green lights: adaptation of Kan (Israel)’s Stockholm

UK TV

Trailer for season 3 of Channel 4’s The Windsors
Trailer for ITV’s Belgravia
Trailer for ITV’s Flesh and Blood
History UK to become Sky History
ITV green lights: bomb thriller Trigger Point, with Vicky McClure

US TV shows

Trailer for season 2 of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend
Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Westworld
Paramount renews: Yellowstone
NBC renews: The Blacklist

US TV show casting

Someone’s leaving CBS All Access’ The Good Fight [spoilers]
Two people are leaving The CW’s Riverdale [spoilers]
Jeri Ryan joins CBS’s MacGyver

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of love story with a twist comedy
Universal Content developing: adaptation of Watergate podcast Slow Burn as Gaslit, with Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer et al

New US TV show casting

Ariela Barer to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Melanie Mayron and Polly Droper to return for ABC’s thirtysomething(else)
Annie Murphy to star in AMC’s Kevin Can F*** Himself
Jack Cutmore-Scott to star in CBS’s Jury Duty
Jon Prasida, Shannon Dang and Eddie Liu join The CW’s Kung Fu
Mitch Pileggi joins The CW’s Walker (previously Walker, Texas Ranger)
Bebe Neuwirth to recur on HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant
Harriet Dyer to star in NBC’s American Auto
Michael Raymond-James to star in NBC’s La Brea

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