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[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Schitt’s Creek cancelled; Deadwood movie teaser trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Jasper Pääkkönen and Sam Strike join Amazon’s Dark Tower

Canadian TV

CBC renews and cancels: Schitt’s Creek

UK TV

Sky developing: US-UK immigration comedy Detained

US TV

Teaser for season 2 of Syfy’s Krypton
Teaser for HBO’s Deadwood: The Movie

US TV show casting

Alimi Ballard and Pepe Rapazote to recur on USA’s Queen of the South

New US TV shows

Teaser for Epix’s Godfather of Harlem

New US TV show casting

Nick Thune joins ABC’s Heart of Life
Beth Riesgraf, Jeffery Self and Linda Park join Fox’s Lovestruck
Nicole Richie and Asif Ali join Fox’s Richard Lovely
Denny Love, Jay Lee, Sofia Vassilieva et al join Hulu’s Looking For Alaska
Steven Weber to star in NBC’s Uninsured
Josh Charles to recur in Showtime’s The Loudest Voice

Tin Star’s final series; Ms Fisher acquired; new Bäckström series; + more

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Film

Leslie Odom Jr joins Newark

Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Stranger Things
Trailer for Netflix’s Tijuana
Michelle Dockery and Jaeden Martell join Apple’s Defending Jacob
Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to guest on Netflix’s Black Mirror
Netflix green lights: series of Mindy Kaling semi-autobiographical comedy

European TV

Wild Horses developing: King Richard I epic Three Lions

Scandinavian TV

C More/TV4 green light: adaptation of Leif GW Persson’s Bäckström books, with Kjell Bergqvist

UK TV

Sky Atlantic renews and cancels: Tin Star
Alibi acquires: Seven (Australia)’s Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Stormzy to guest on BBC One’s Noughts + Crosses
Donna Air and Ben Bailey Smith join BBC One’s The Split

US TV show casting

Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gelman and Natalie Paul to guest on Audience’s Mr Mercedes
Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Garrett Hedlund et al join Hulu’s Castle Rock

New US TV shows

OWN green lights: series of romance anthology Cherish The Day

New US TV show casting

Dorian Missick joins ABC’s criminal-cum-lawyer drama
Matt Passmore to co-star in ABC’s Triangle
Will Sasso and Christina Vidal to star in ABC’s United We Fall
Katherine Heigl to star in CBS’s Our House
Deborah S Craig joins CBS’s The Emperor of Malibu
Emma Paetz and Jessica Ellerby join Epix’s Pennyworth
Andy Garcia to star in NBC’s The Kenan Show
Saba Homayoon and Paul Chahidi to star in TBS’s Chad

High Maintenance renewed; Rory Kinnear’s Dreadful return; BBC boxsets on Sky; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: limited series adaptation of Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit, with Anya Taylor-Joy
David Stakston, Jones Strand Gravli, Theresa Forstad Eggesbø et al join Netflix’s Ragnarok
Heather Lind to star in YouTube’s Dark Cargo

International TV

Endemol Shine China green lights: adaptation of TV Land (US)’s Younger

Scandinavian TV

NRK (Norway) green lights: flashback police procedural For Life, with Tone Mostraum, Iselin Shumba, Ingar Helge Gimle et al

UK TV

Colm Meaney, Paapa Essiedu and David Bradley join Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London
BBC drama and comedy boxsets to be added to Sky and Now TV

US TV

HBO renews: High Maintenance

US TV show casting

Chella Man joins DC Universe’s Titans

New US TV shows

ABC Studios developing: historic incredible women anthology series Unsung Heroes

New US TV show casting

Ryan Phillippe, Katrina and Aaron Staton to star in CBS’s Alive (previously Frankenstein)
Chris O’Dowd to guest on CBS All Access’s The Twilight Zone
Sadie Calvano joins CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill
Steve Kazee to star in Fox’s Lovestruck
John Slattery and Jason Butler Harner to star in Fox’s neXT
Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons and Roslyn Ruff join NBC’s Lincoln
Rory Kinnear joins Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Dan J Johnson and Tyler Lepley join Starz’s P-Valley

Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn in Star Trek: Discovery

ABC’s KGB; Miranda Richardson joins Game of Thrones prequel; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Z-Nation spin-off Black Summer
Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Alba Baptista to star, Toya Turner, Tristan Ulloa, Thekla Reuten et al join Netflix’s Warrior Nun

Australian TV

ABC Indigenous green lights: comedy detective series KGB, with Clarence Ryan, Bjorn Stewart, Mark Coles Smith, et al

Canadian TV

New Metric Media developing: adaptations of Michael Arntfield’s Monster City, Peter Edwards books, and Anne T Donahue’s Nobody Cares

International TV

Imagine Television developing: Chinese-language mind-control crime syndicate drama Mindscaping

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s Gentleman Jack
Trailer for series 4 of ITV’s The Durrells

US TV show casting

Tika Sumpter, Andres Holm, Gary Cole et al to guest on ABC’s Black-ish in backdoor pilot
Ansom Mount and Rebecca Romijn leave CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery
Rhea Seehorn and Michael McKean to guest on HBO’s Veep

New US TV shows

Syfy developing: adaptation of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children books

New US TV show casting

Lilah Richcreek joins ABC’s family pastors comedy
Jessica Stroup joins ABC’s Heart of Life
Marg Helgenberger to star in CBS’s Courthouse
Raymond Ablack, Michael Cassidy, Taylor Dearden et al join CBS’s To Whom It May Concern
Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton join CBS’s The Us Project
Ivonne Coll, Remey Hill, Holland Roden et al to co-star in The CW’s Jane The Novela
Alvina August joins The CW’s Nancy Drew
Ryan Hansen to star in Fox’s Adam & Eve
Rachel Bilson to star in Fox’s Lovestruck
Miranda Richardson joins HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel
MaameYaa Boafo join NBC’s Bluff City Law
Matias Varela joins TNT’s Raised By Wolves

Rig 45, Teenage Psychic, American Gods renewed; La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off; + more

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Apologies for the delay in today’s news – apparently there was a power cut at the data centre… for eight hours.

Internet TV

Ernie Hudson to return to Netflix’s Grace and Frankie
Netflix/Amazon developing: Jean-Luc Azoulay series [in French]

French TV

TF1 developing: La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off Olivia, with Laetitia Milot [in French]
France 2 developing: Astrid et Raphaëlla [in French]

International TV

HBO Asia green lights: series of human consciousness thriller Dream Raider, food anthology series Food Lore, mass shooting drama The World Between Us…
…renews: Teenage Psychic

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay renews: Rig 45

UK TV

Audio to missing Callan episode discovered

US TV

Starz renews: American Gods

US TV show casting

Azie Tesfai promoted to regular on The CW’s Supergirl

New US TV shows

Trailer for Starz’s The Rook
Waterman Entertainment developing: adaptation of Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone books

New US TV show casting

Ben Lawson replaces Josh Cooke on ABC’s Nana
Bryce Charles and Tate Moore join ABC’s Woman Up
Joseph Lyle Taylor and David Fierro join CBS’s Tommy (formerly Nancy)
Hunter Parrish to star in The CW’s Jane the Novela
Freddie Prinze Jr to star in The CW’s Nancy Drew
Michael Mosley joins Fox’s neXT
Jonathan Sadowski joins Fox’s Patty’s Auto
Zabryna Guevara joins NBC’s Emergence
Joe Tippett and Alex Neustaedter join NBC’s Prism

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