Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday’s “Returning X-Men, Dr Strange is coming and loads more pilots” news
Film
- Marvel phase 3 to include Ant-Man and Dr Strange
Film casting
- Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore returning for X-Man: Days of Future Past
Trailers
- Trailer for Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, with Audrey Tautou
- New trailer for Snitch with Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon et al [US only]
Theater
- Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to star in No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot
Canadian TV
- Pamela Anderson to guest on Package Deal
UK TV
- ITV greenlights Love and Marriage
- Father Brown gets a second series
- Trailer for season five of Being Human
US TV
- Ben and Kate cancelled
- Thursday ratings: 30 Rock hits season high
- Friday ratings: Nikita hits season high
US TV casting
- Sarah Chalke to guest on Grey’s Anatomy
- John Pyper-Ferguson to recur on Once Upon a Time and Sendhil Ramamurthy to be a regular on Beauty and the Beast
New US TV shows
- ABC greenlights: Influence from Kyle Killen and Killer Women from Sofia Vergara…
- …a David Shore legal pilot, Doubt…
- …Cullen brothers comedy with James Caan…
- …an adaptation of Sky’s Spy
- The CW greenlights: Reign, Oxygen and The Hundred
- NBC greenlights: JJ Abrams drama Believe and Bill Lawrence’s comedy Undateable…
- …and Lorne Michaels comedy
- Fox greenlights: JJ Abrams futuristic cop drama…
- …and assassins drama Boomerang from John Wells
- A new promo for Vikings
New US TV show casting
- Ana Nogueira joins Michael J Fox comedy
- Britt Robertson joins Under The Dome