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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

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

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

US Veni Vidi Vici remake; trilingual Scandinavian arms deal drama; a new Deathstroke; + more

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Film

John Magaro joins Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark

Internet TV

Chris Messina to star in YouTube’s Dark Cargo

Scandinavian TV

NENT developing: trilingual arms deal drama The Ambassador

UK TV

Katy Wix and Lolly Adefope join BBC One’s Ghosts

US TV show casting

Easi Morales to play Deathstroke on DC Universe’s Titans

New US TV shows

Lionsgate developing: adaptation of NENT (Scandinavia)’s Veni Vidi Vici
USA developing: adaptation of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s An Anonymous Girl

New US TV show casting

Mary Stuart Masterson joins ABC’s criminal-cum-lawyer drama
Daniel Ings and Annie Funke join CBS’s The Republic of Sarah
Evan Evagora joins CBS All Access’s Captain Picard series
Peyton List and Susan Santiago join The CW’s Glamorous
Michael Imperioli to star in NBC’s The Bone Collector

New Orphan Black series; Kaikki synnit, Leila, On My Block trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s On My Block
Trailer for Netflix’s Leila
Netflix developing: limited series adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See

Scandinavian TV

Trailer for Elisa Viihde (Finland)’s Kaikki synnit (All The Sins)
Viaplay green lights: Munich Olympic massacre series Margeaux
Stampede developing: series adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson’s The Darkness

UK TV

Trailer for series 3 of Sky1’s Jamestown

US TV show casting

Clayne Crawford to guest on Hulu’s Into The Dark

New US TV shows

AMC developing: new Orphan Black series
HBO developing: limited series adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible

New US TV show casting

Hailey Kilgore joins ABC’s family pastors comedy
MC Lyte, Otmara Marrero, Toby Sandeman et al join ABC’s New York Undercover
Camryn Manheim joins ABC’s Stumptown
Christian Coulson joins ABC’s Until The Wedding
Justin Kirk joins CBS’s Under the Bridge
Tisha Campbell-Martin to co-star in Fox’s Geniuses
Gerardo Celasco joins Fox’s neXT
Mo McRae to star in Fox’s Sisters adaptation
Tom Payne replaces Finn Jones on Fox’s Prodigal Son
Jayne Atkinson to star in NBC’s Bluff City Law
Geno Segers and Rizwa Manji join NBC’s Perfect Harmony

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