News and reviews of Nordic TV
News
Discworld TV series; Carrie-Anne Moss goes to Norway; Bebe Neuwirth’s Good Fight; + more
Internet TV
- New teaser for YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai
- Kelly Marie Tran joins Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss
- Amazon acquires: Russia’s Velikaya (The Great) and Grigory R
International TV
- Sarah Wayne Callies, Michael Shanks, Shawn Doyle et al join SundanceTV (US)/CBC (Canada)’s Unspeakable
- Paramount TV developing: Moscow-set thriller, and adaptations of Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and Diksha Basu’s The Windfall
Scandinavian TV
- Carrie-Anne Moss to star in Viaplay/TV3 (Norway)’s Wisting
UK TV
- BBC Studios developing: adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books as The Watch
- Netflix added to Sky/Now TV subscription service
- Movies 24 acquires: UP (US)’s Date My Dad
US TV
US TV show casting
- Bebe Neuwirth to guest on CBS All Access’ The Good Fight
- Bill Nye to guest on NBC’s Blindspot
New US TV shows
New US TV show casting
- Luke Arnold joins ABC’s For Love
- Alyson Hannigan to star in ABC’s Man of the House
- Jim Belushi to co-star in ABC’s Salvage
- Laine Neil to recur on CBS All Access’ Strange Angel
- Zeeko Zaki joins CBS’s FBI
- Noel Fisher and Michael Patrick Thornton joins CBS’s Red Line
- Josh Helman to star in The CW’s The End of the World as We Know It
- Sheaun McKinney and Marcel Spears join CBS’s Welcome to the Neighborhood
- Ben Aldridge to star in The CW’s Skinny Dip
- Samantha Logan joins The CW’s high school football drama
- Dwain Murphy joins DC’s Titans
- Chosen Jacobs to recur on Hulu’s Castle Rock
- Athena Karkanis and Parveen Kaur join NBC’s Manifest
