Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday’s “Fairly Legal, Political Animals cancelled, Life on Mars goes Russian and a 24 reunion” news
Happy Bonfire Night, everyone!
Film
- Amber Heard to star in Dead Sand, Elijah Wood in Open Windows
- Kim Basinger joins Grudge Match
- Jason Statham to star in remake of Heat [no not that one]
- Mark Wahlberg to remake French Point Blank
Trailers
- Trailer for Steven Doderbergh’s Side Effects, with Rooney Mara, C Z-J, Jude Law et al
- Trailer for Hitchcock with Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson et al
Theatre
- Hayden Gwynne, Robert Hardy and Paul Ritter join The Audience
Canadian TV
- Ratings for the week of October 22
International TV
- Sam Mendes and John Logan team up for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-style vampire hunter TV show
- CBS shows added to Netflix
- Life on Mars to be remade, inverted as The Dark Side of the Moon for Russian TV
UK TV
- Channel 4 picks up Man Down to series
US TV
- Fairly Legal cancelled, Burn Notice to return for 13 episodes
- No second season of Political Animals
- Hell on Wheels on hold while it looks for a new showrunner
- Another superheroine for Arrow [minor spoilers]
- Friday ratings: ABC’s comedy block starts well
US TV casting
- Elizabeth Peña to play Sofia Vergara’s mother in Modern Family
- 24‘s Annie Wersching to guest on Touch
New US TV shows
- TNT developing It’s A Wonderful Life-like drama Cold Feet
- The Goodwin Games cut to seven episodes
- Hello Ladies gets picked up to series
- Diablo Cody sells comedy to ABC
New US TV show casting
- Freddy Rodriguez to co-star in After Hours
- James D’Arcy joins Those Who Kill
- Brendan Fraser leaves TNT’s Legends