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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

Little Dog, Cavendish, Crawford cancelled; Maman a tort, Noces rouges acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Mr Iglesias

Canadian TV

CBC renews: Diggstown, When Calls The Heart and Workin’ Moms, green lights Vietnam-era spy drama Fortunate Son, relationship thriller The Sounds and adaptation of Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster books The Trickster…
…cancels: Little Dog, Cavendish and Crawford

Italian TV

Sky Italia green lights: series of Latin-language Rome origin story Romulus, with Andrea Arcangeli, Marianna Fontana and Francesco Di Napoli

Scandinavian TV

B-Reel Films developing: adaptation of Jonas Bonnier’s Knutby – A Novel

UK TV

Walter Presents acquires: France Télévisions’ Maman a tort (Mother is Wrong) and Noces rouges (Crimson Wedding)

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of FX’s Snowfall

US TV show casting

Joslyn DeFreece to recur on CBS All Access’ Strange Angel
Carla Gugino to star in Spectrum’s Manhunt

New US TV show casting

Jake Johnson to replace Mark Webber on ABC’s Stumptown
Andrea-Rachel Parker joins Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga

Nordic gangsters; Swamp Thing, Jessica Jones, Family Business trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Family Business
Teaser trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Amazon green lights: series of stranded teenage girls drama The Wilds

Australian TV

Screen Australia to fund development of: supernatural drama Secret Threads, crime dramedy Partners in Crime, adaptation of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, musical comedy High Rotation, and prostitution comedy drama Rough

Canadian TV

Jann Arden and Sean Beak to guest, Laura Vandervoot, Colin Ferguson and Lucas Bryant to return to Global’s Private Eyes

Scandinavian TV

Creative Alliance green lights: epic international Nordic gangster drama 5 From Hell

UK TV

Hayley Squires replaces Sheridan Smith, Kerry Godliman, Rupert Everett, Phil Daniels et al join Channel 4’s Adult Material
Red developing: adaptation of Jess Phillips’ Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking The Truth

New US TV shows

Trailer for DC Universe’s Swamp Thing

New US TV show casting

Michael Beach to recur on DC Universe’s Swamp Thing

Sweden’s Thin Blue Line; Miss France’s Tahiti Murders; The Angel of Hamburg and the Rio Connection; + more

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French TV

Vaimalama Chaves to guest on France 3’s Meurtres à Tahiti (Murders in Tahiti)

Scandinavian TV

SVT (Sweden) green lights: gritty police drama The Thin Blue Line

International TV

Nippon TV (Japan) green lights: CJ ENM (S Korea)’s police ‘voice profiler’ drama Voice
Globo (Brazil)/Sony developing: Brazilian Oskar Schindler drama The Angel of Hamburg and 70s heroin trafficking drama Rio Connection series

UK TV

Trailer for Sky1’s Temple
Trailer for BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson to guest on Sky’s The New Pope

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Westworld
Dirty John moves from Bravo to USA

New US TV shows

Syfy green lights: series of Vagrant Queen adaptation, with Adrian Rae
Hulu developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s Eyes of the Dragon

Countless US renewals, cancellations and new shows; What Happened in Oslo; Catherine the Great trailer; + more

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Netflix green lights: series of parenting sitcom Black Excellence, with Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones
Netflix/TV2 (Norway)/HOT (Israel) green light: series of Norwegian daughter missing in Israel drama What Happened in Oslo
Eric McCormack to recur on Netflix’s Atypical

UK TV

Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s Catherine The Great

US TV

CBS All Access to release black and white versions of The Twilight Zone
Full trailer for season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies
ABC renews: The Goldbergs and Schooled; Grey’s Anatomy and How To Get Away With Murder; Station 19; The Rookie; American Housewife and Bless This Mess; Single Parents; Fresh Off The Boat…
…cancels: The Fix, The Kids Are Alright, Speechless, Splitting Up Together and Whiskey Cavalier
Audience cancels: You Me Her
CBS renews: Man With A Plan…
…cancels: Murphy Brown, Life in Pieces, Fam and Happy Together
Fox renews: The Orville…
…cancels: The Cool Kids, Proven Innocent, Star, Lethal Weapon, The Passage
NBC renews: This Is Us for three seasons…
…and Blindspot for a final season…
…cancels: I Feel Bad

US TV show casting

Chris Carmack, Jake Borelli and Greg Germann promoted to regulars on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: series of conspiracy drama Emergence, with Allison Tolman, Donald Faison, Owain Yeoman et al…
…self-explanatory drama The Baker and the Beauty, with Victor Rasuk and Nathalie Kelley…
…legal drama For Life and family comedy United We Fall
…yellow lights: Heart of Life and NYPD Blue
CBS green lights: series of female LA police chief drama Tommy, with Edie Falco
…red lights: Under the Bridge and The Republic of Sarah
Fox green lights: series of 911 spin-off 911: Lone Star, with Rob Lowe…
…and soap southern Gothic family drama Filthy Rich
NBC green lights: series of newly widowed dad comedy The Kenan Show, with Kenan Thompson and Andy Garcia…
…Jeffery Deaver’s Bone Collector adaptation Lincoln, with Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel; church choir comedy Perfect Harmony, with Bradley Whitford, Anna Camp, Tymberlee Hill et al; and live-in grandparents comedy Indebted, with Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Steven Weber and Fran Drescher

New US TV show casting

Anders Holm exits ABC’s Mixed-ish
Mark Webber exits ABC’s Stumptown
David Denman exits Fox’s Filthy Rich
Ike Bainholtz, Sean Hayes, Amber Stevens West et al join ABC’s All In The Family and The Jeffersons specials

Bloom acquired; Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes, Champain ILL cancelled; Good Girls et al renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon renews: Hanna
YouTube cancels: Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes, Champaign ILL, Sideswiped and Do You Want To See A Dead Body
Kate Mulvany joins, James Le Gros, Ebony Obsidian, Celeb Emery et al to recur on Amazon’s The Hunt
Netflix green lights: man-and-dog comedy series It’s Bruno!, with Solvan “Slick” Naim, Rob Morgan and Shakira Barrera

Scandinavian TV

Trailer for YLE (Finland)’s Invisible Heroes

UK TV

BBC Three renews: Enterprice
Channel 5 acquires: Stan (Australia)’s Bloom
Trailer for BBC Two’s Summer of Rockets

US TV

CBS renews: Blue Bloods and NCIS…
…developing; JAG continuation
Hallmark renews: When Calls The Heart
HBO renews: Barry
NBC renews: Good Girls
Disney+ unveils pricing, worldwide roll-out strategy
Trailer for season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies

US TV show casting

Iain Glen to play Bruce Wayne on DC Universe’s Titans
Lena Waithe joins HBO’s Westworld
Paul Sparks to replace Garrett Hedlund in Hulu’s Castle Rock
Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Barbara Crampton et al join Hulu’s Into The Dark
Ana Ortiz to guest on NBC’s Superstore
Joel McHale and Jimmy Simpson to guest in USA’s new Psych movie

New US TV shows

Hulu green lights: limited series biopic of Elizabeth Holmes as The Dropout, with Kata McKinnon
…adaptation of Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success, with Jake Gyllenhaal
Disney+ developing: Hawkeye mini-series, with Jeremy Renner…
…adaptations of Love, Simon…
…and The Sandlot
Paramount developing: adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans

New US TV show casting

Tatiana Maslany to star in HBO’s Perry Mason
Shay Mitchell to replace Lex Scott Davis in Hulu’s Dollface

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