Every week day, I let you know what’s happening in the world of television from around the world
Monday’s “Who/Trek crossover, not quite a West Wing reunion, and Legion and Lawrence of Arabia: the TV series” news
Film
- Will Ferrell to star in Flamingo Thief
- Paddy Considine adapting The Years of the Locust
- Michael C Hall, Ben Foster, Kyra Sedgwick and Jennifer Jason Leigh join Kill Your Darlings
- Mark Hamill to star in Airborne
Comics
- Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation to cross over
Theatre
- Christopher Eccleston to play Creon in the NT’s Antigone
British TV
- BBC1 Daytime working on National Service drama [subscription required]
- Andrew Davies to adapt Les Misérables, Lawrence of Arabia to be remade [subscription required]
US TV
- Lost‘s Henry Ian Cusick to guest on Fringe
- Barry Corbin to guest on Modern Family [minor spoilers]
- Stephen Root joins Boardwalk Empire
- Two guest characters get promoted to regulars on Homeland [minor spoilers]
- Autumn Reeser and Kevin Alejandro cast in pilots
- SyFy to turn Legion into a TV series
- Catherine Dent joins Touch [minor spoilers]
- Bradley Whitford to guest on Parks and Recreation, but no reunion with Rob Lowe [minor spoilers]
- Perfect Couples‘ Christine Woods to star in Daddy’s Girls
- Pan Am‘s Mike Vogel joins Living Loaded
- John Goodman joins Roseanne’s Downwardly Mobile
- Becki Newton to star in The Goodwin Games
- Ryan Phillippe joins Golden Boy
- TBS orders 10 episodes of Sullivan and Son
- Friday’s ratings: Grimm bounces back, A Gifted Man at series low
- Lone Star‘s Jimmy Wolk joins Political Animals
- TNT working on detective show with Bill Engvall
- John Stamos to star in Little Brother
- Blythe Danner joins Gilded Lilys