Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Thursday’s “Made in Jersey cancelled, Hitchcock trailer, NBC ratings record, E4 acquires Nashville and Munsters for Halloween?” news
Film
- Fox News’s Sean Hannity to make film debut in Atlas Shrugged II
- Julianne Moore joins Non-Stop
- Uma Thurman joins Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
- Matt Damon joins Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
- Looper director’s commentary available to download
Trailers
- Trailer for Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren and James D’Arcy
- Trailer for The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
Books
- JRR Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur to be published
Canadian TV
- Chuck‘s Vik Patel to star in Satisfaction
French TV
- France 2 adapting Paris Burning?
UK TV
- E4 acquires Nashville, someone acquires The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
- Charles Dance, Johnny Vegas, Katy Brand and Jessica Hynes to star in Sky Atlantic’s Common People
- Tuesday ratings
US TV
- Made in Jersey cancelled
- The first five minutes of season 2 of American Horror Story
- Tuesday’s ratings: NBC wins three nights in a row for first time in nine years
US TV casting
- Matt Bomer to guest on The New Normal
- Christie Brinkley to guest on Parks and Recreation
- Ian McShane to appear in American Horror Story
- The Newsroom‘s Kelen Coleman to guest on The Mindy Project
- White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason to guest on Men At Work
- Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Arrested Development and Community
- Hamish Linklater to recur on The Good Wife
- Adam Goldberg to guest on Animal Practice
New US TV shows
- Modern Family‘s Ty Burrell sells comedy Babble to ABC with his brother
- Ed Brubaker sells Rising Sun to Fox with Kyle Killen, secret agent project to NBC
- ABC buys drama based on James Patterson’s Michael Bennett
- Hollywood Assistants blog to become CBS comedy
- ABC to adapt Australia’s Strange Calls paranormal cop comedy
- NBC to air failed Munsters reboot as a Halloween special?
New US TV show casting
- Kim Raver to star in Lifetime’s The Secret Lives of Wives
- Law & Order‘s Jesse L Martin and Revenge‘s James Tupper to star in NBC’s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
- Miley Cyrus leaves Bonnie & Clyde mini-series
- The Closer‘s Jon Tenney to star in TNT’s King and Maxwell
- Eric Dane to star in TNT’s The Last Ship
- Page Keller joins ABC Family’s Terminales
- Molly Shannon to guest on Hannibal