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Trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Clip from Heist with Robert de Niro, Giana Carano, Dave Bautista, Morris Chestnut and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Radio

BBC Radio Wales renews: Siadwel

Canadian TV

Peter Mooney to recur on Saving Hope

UK TV

E4 acquires: A to Z

US TV

Tuesday’s ratings

US TV show casting

Bob Newhart to return to The Big Bang Theory

New US TV shows

Spike red lights: Harvest
IFC green lights: comedic anthology Jon Benjamin’s 100 Erotic Nights
ABC developing: political comedy Work Married
Josh Friedman developing: adaptation of Snowpiercer

New US TV show casting

Zoe Kazan to replace Lisa Joyce on HBO’s Max

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

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Radio

John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Manville to star in 10 hour New Year’s Day War and Peace

Theatre

Phoenix Nights to return as a stage show

Canadian TV

CBC unveils Winter season
Trailer for CBC’s The Book of Negroes
Trailer for CBC’s Schitt’s Creek

Internet TV

Bittorrent green lights: Children of the Machine

UK TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

A returning Arrow character [spoilers]

Afternoon Edition podcast available for the next 30 days

22 October 2014 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Anyone who for some reason wants to listen to my appearance on BBC Radio 5’s Afternoon Edition yesterday can do so for the next 30 days by clicking here. Although we didn’t quite have time to cover Scorpion, as advertised, I did manage to find the time to slag off Jonathan Ross and the licence fee, muse about soap opera recasting, ponder Strictly Come Dancing and mention The Affair. And if you’d like to read slightly longer, written reviews of all the shows I did mention, here you go:

Had I got my thinking hat on, I’d have mentioned recasting on S4C’s Caerdydd as well. But I didn’t. Oh well.

Catch me tomorrow on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Edition

20 October 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Assuming reading all my exciting opinions isn’t too much for you, tomorrow you’ll get the chance to hear me ramble incoherently, too – I’m going to be appearing on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Edition to talk about US TV shows that are heading towards your screens very, very soon, as well about a bit of UK TV for a change.

Up for discussion are:

Rome: The World’s First Superpower (Channel 5)
Starts Friday 24th October, 8pm-9pm
Emmerdale (ITV)
Monday-Friday 7pm
How To Get Away With Murder (Universal)
Starts Wednesday 10pm
Review of the first episode
Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (Channel 4)
Starts Wednesday 10pm
The Walking Dead (Fox TV)
Mondays, 9pm
Review of the first episode
Other US programmes people should watch, such as ITV2’s Scorpion

I’ll be there from about 3pm. Wish me luck!

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Radio

Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Josie Lawrence et al to star in adaptation of Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens

Australian TV

Australia Network to shut this month [subscription required]
ABC cancels: The Time of Our Lives [subscription required]

Internet TV

Elizabeth Warren to cameo on Alpha House

New UK TV show casting

George MacKay to star in BBC1’s adaptation of Sadie Jones’ The Outcast
Hermione Norris, Robert Bathurst, Mathew Horne et al join Sky 1’s Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis to star in ITV’s Home Fires

US TV

Twelve more episodes for The Exes

US TV show casting

Lev Gorn promoted to regular on The Americans, to recur on NCIS
Rebecca Mader to guest on Blue Bloods
Mary Mouser to replace Madeline Carroll on Scandal
Peter Gallagher to recur on Law & Order: SVU
Austin Butler to recur on Arrow

New US TV shows

AMC greenlights: Walking Dead spin-off

New US TV show casting

Emmett Scanlan to play Jim Corrigan on NBC’s Constantine
Rob Brydon and Michelle Gomez to recur on HBO’s The Brink
Clarke Peters joins HBO’s Show Me A Hero
Alexander Dreymon to star in BBC America/BBC2’s The Last Kingdom

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News: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 trailer, more Siadwel, E4 acquires A to Z + more

News: CBC’s Winter shows, Radio 4’s 10-hour New Year’s War and Peace, Bittorrent’s first TV show + more

Afternoon Edition podcast available for the next 30 days

Catch me tomorrow on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Edition

News: A Walking Dead spin-off, Elizabeth Warren’s Alpha House cameo, Good Omens for radio + more

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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