Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Wednesday’s “McKellen and Stewart return as X-Men, another Jeffrey Archer adaptation and Julian Fellowes goes US” news
Films
- Joe Carnahan to adapt vampire graphic novel Undying Love
- Misfits movie in the works, possibly with returning old characters
Film casting
- Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult all returning for next X-Men movie
- Guy Pearce, Rosamund Pike and Bryan Brown join Violet Town
- Cate Blanchett to play stepmother in Cinderella
Commercials
- Damian Lewis, Shannyn Sossamon and Jordi Molla to star in Ridley Scott’s Jaguar short film Desire
Canadian TV
- Jeffrey Archer’s The Prodigal Daughter being developed as a TV series
UK TV
- The Beeb’s and Sky’s Christmas schedules [subscription required]
- British Museum launches a BT Vision VoD channel [subscription required]
US TV
- Necessary Roughness gets a third season
- Monday ratings: Revolution up, CBS shows up, Fox shows up
US TV casting
- DB Sweeney to recur on Touch
- Travis Van Winkle joins Hart of Dixie
- David Anders to guest on Arrow
- Audra McDonald returning for Private Practice finale
- Keenen Ivory Wayans to guest on Happily Divorced
New US TV shows
- Julian Fellowes to write period drama The Gilded Cage for NBC
- AMC orders period spy drama Turn and 1980s computer drama Halt & Catch Fire
New US TV show casting
- Taryn Manning to recur on Orange is the New Black
- Brett Dalton joins SHIELD
- Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein and Niecy Nash join HBO’s remake of the BBC’s Getting On
