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Thursday’s “Modern Wuthering Heights, Red Dwarf X clips and Michael McKean and Christopher Guest reunited” news

27 September 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Hilary Swank to star in You’re Not You
David Thewlis joins Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem

Trailers

Trailer for Identity Thief with Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy
Trailer for Stoker, with Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman

UK TV

Tuesday ratings: The Paradise beats Midsomer Murders…
…Cuckoo sets BBC3 comedy record
YouView ready for phase two with mobile app and online TV channels [subscription required]
Sky adds seven-day catch-up service
Three Red Dwarf X clips

US TV

Friday cable ratings: Boss and Haven both up
Wednesday ratings: Vegas starts big, The Mindy Project starts okay

US TV casting

Stockard Channing to guest on The Good Wife [minor spoilers]

New US TV shows

Greg Berlanti developing modern Wuthering Heights series

New US TV show casting

Fred Willard, Michael McKean and Ed Begley Jr join Christopher Guest’s Family Tree

Wednesday’s “USA renews 3 shows, The Walking Dead gets a 4th season and Thomas Edison: crime fighter” news

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US TV shows

USA renews Royal Pains, White Collar and Covert Affairs
The Walking Dead gets a fourth season
Monday ratings: Revolution down 15% to 9.3m, Hawaii Five-0 back with series low of 8m, Castle down 22%, How I Met Your Mother down 28%, Mob Doctor down to 3.9m; Partners starts with 6.5m

US TV show casting

Claire Coffee to be a regular on Grimm
Annabeth Gish to guest on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

ABC developing a female soap from Make It Or Break It producers
NBC developing young Thomas Edison crime drama
L Word creator sells Solve for X to CBS
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage sell two dramas to ABC

New US TV show casting

Nicholas Gonzalez to be a regular on Witches of East End

Tuesday’s “Fargo: The TV series, Whitechapel’s fourth series and Gina Carano in female Expendables” news

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Doctor Who

Arthur Darvill to appear in The Paradise

Film

Gina Carano to star in female Expendables
Rachelle Lefevre joins White House Down and Homefront
Len Wiseman to direct Mummy reboot
Tom Hardy to play Mallory in Doug Liman’s Everest

International TV

Russian TV remaking Be Tipul/In Treatment

UK TV

Downton Abbey down to 8.1m viewers
Whitechapel gets a fourth series, Steve Pemberton to write two episodes

US TV shows casting

Jason Gedrick to guest on Grimm
David Meunier to return to Justified

New US TV shows

Garry Marshall working on sitcom for Fox
Mandy Moore working on Miss Most Likely for ABC
FX working with Joel and Ethan Coen on Fargo TV series
ABC orders pilot of erotic fashion thriller Dress To Kill

New US TV shows casting

Teri Polo and Sherri Saum to star in The Fosters

Monday’s “RDM to adapt A Knight’s Tale, Treme gets a short fourth season and Helen Mirren to play The Queen again” news

24 September 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Doctor Who

The Power of Three gets 5.49m viewers
A Town Called Mercy ends up with 8.42m viewers

Film

Matt Bomer, Lucy Griffiths and Eva Marie Saint join Winter’s Tale
Allen Hughes to direct remake of A Bittersweet Life

Trailers

TV spot for Cloud Atlas
International trailer for Life of Pi
Trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land with Matt Damon
Trailer for Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, with Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver
Trailer for The Details with Tobey Maguire
Trailer for Winnie with Jennifer Hudson
Trailer for Tai Chi Zero

Theatre

Helen Mirren to play the Queen again in The Audience
Scarlett Johansson to play Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

UK TV

Hugh Bonneville to star in Mr Stink
Channel 4 lines up sequel to The Devil’s Whore

US TV

Treme to finish with abbreviated fourth season
Army Wives gets a seventh season

US TV casting

Giancarlo Esposito to return to Community
Anthony Michael Hall to guest on Psych
Matthew Broderick to guest on Modern Family
Dean Norris to guest on Whitney

New US TV shows

CBS buys Friends With Better Lives
Alfonso Cuarón and JJ Abrams team up for NBC superpowers drama
Zooey Deschanel to produce Fox comedy Must Be Nice
Ben Stiller sells two comedies to ABC
The CW buys District 9-like alien drama
Ted trio sell dad comedy to Fox
CBS buys Intelligence
ABC greenlights Super Fun Night
Ronald D Moore adapting A Knight’s Tale
Guillermo del Toro working on HBO drama based on Nutshell Studies

New US TV show casting

No Lizzy Caplan for SHIELD series
Anastasia Griffith joins Banshee
JoBeth Williams joins Mistresses

Friday’s “Dallas down 50%, The Secret Dude Society and Guillermo del Toro’s TV The Strain” news

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Doctor Who

Ashley Walters to guest

Films

Kate Bosworth joins Jason Statham and James Franco in Homefront
Roman Polanski to direct Venus in Fur
Katee Sackhoff joins Oculus
Teri Polo and Cary Elwes join A Bit of Bad Luck

Trailers

Trailer for 42 with Harrison Ford
Trailer for remake of Gambit with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz
Trailer for Beautiful Creatures with Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons et al

Canadian TV

Outsourced‘s Rizwan Manji to star in The Khouris

UK TV

Sky1 acquires Last Man Standing
Dallas ratings down 50% since the first episode
Pappy’s to make The Secret Dude Society for BBC3
Lifetime to launch in 2013 [subscription required]
ITV working on two pay-TV channels [subscription required]
Danny Brocklehurst and Jim Poyser working on BBC crime drama [subscription required]
Sky fit to broadcast
Last episode of Bad Cop pulled

US TV casting

Buffy‘s Ken Lerner to guest on The Big Bang Theory
Stephen Colbert to visit The Office
Sherilyn Fenn joins Magic City

New US TV shows

Fox developing modern Hamlet set in DC
Guillermo del Toro adapting The Strain for FX with Carlton Cuse
FX buys thriller from Stephen Belber
CBS buys Melissa McCarthy-produced comedy
ABC buys Party Girls

New US TV show casting

Missi Pyle to guest on 1600 Penn
Diane Kruger to star in adaptation of The Bridge

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Monday’s “RDM to adapt A Knight’s Tale, Treme gets a short fourth season and Helen Mirren to play The Queen again” news

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