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All About the Washingtons cancelled; Manifest expanded; US להיות איתה adaptation; + more

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  • Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, Katie Couric and Peter Gallagher to guest on CBS’s Murphy Brown
  • Louie Anderson to recur on TBS’s Search Party
  • Derek Mio to star in AMC’s The Terror

New US TV shows

  • HBO green lights: adaptation of Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much Is True, with Mark Ruffalo
  • New trailer for Bravo’s Dirty John
  • Fox developing: not-settling comedy Tails, with Riki Lindhome…
  • …and inspiring lesbian daughter family relationship comedy Hanging On
  • ABC developing: adaptation of Keshet (Israel)’s להיות איתה (Beauty and the Baker) as The Baker and the Beauty

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Pine Gap
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What have you been watching? Including Pine Gap, All American and Light as a Feather

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend to fellow TMINE readers anything you’ve been watching this week

At my TV signal, unleash Hell.

Gosh, what a lot of new shows there have been this week. I got the air date of Marvel’s Daredevil wrong – it’s out this Friday, not last Friday as I thought last week – which was some relief, but The CW has finally released its new wares onto the world and ABC has unveiled its second wave of shows. I’ve just not had time to review them yet.

Of the new shows, elsewhere, I’ve reviewed DC Universe’s Titans and passed a fourth-episode verdict on Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House; I’ve also passed verdicts on ABC (US)’s A Million Little Things and CBS (US)’s God Friended MeThe Neighborhood and Happy Together. But that still leaves a fair few other shows to cover. After the jump, I’ll be dealing with two of them: The CW’s All American and Hulu’s Light As A Feather. But HBO’s remake of BBC Four’s Camping, The CW’s remake of its predecessor The CW’s Charmed, last night’s new ABC shows The Rookie and The Kids Are Alright, and Amazon’s Matthew Weiner anthology show The Romanoffs will all have to wait. As will anything else joining them in the next couple of days, although I imagine I’ll be binge-watching Daredevil at the weekend. Or maybe Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – that’s this weekend, too, isn’t it?

However, joining All American and Light as a Feather after the jump is another new show, this one from Australia to add a little variety: Pine Gap. And, of course, there’ll be the current roster of regulars: Black Lightning, Doctor Who, The Last Ship, Magnum P.I., Mr InBetween, SEAL Team and You. One of those is for the chop – can you guess which?

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Chessgame
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Chessgame is coming soon

I’d never heard of this until about a year ago, but Terence Stamp in a six-part spy series based on the novels by Anthony Price? Sign me up! I’ve had it on pre-order ever since and now Network seems about ready to release it at last.

Adapted by television heavyweights Murray Smith (Strangers, Bulman) and John Brason (Colditz, Secret Army), Chessgame stars Stamp as David Audley, a university professor who covertly heads a small team of counter-intelligence agents for the British government. This stylish, intelligent and much-sought-after release features adaptations of three of Price’s novels: The Labyrinth Makers, The Alamut Ambush and Colonel Butler’s Wolf.

The wreckage of a plane that crashed 27 years ago is discovered and the Russians take an interest in its missing cargo. This makes it a priority operation for David Audley and his team – though it seems that the Soviets are willing to kill to keep their secret safe…

The Name of the Rose
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The Name of the Rose, My Brilliant Friend acquired; BBC’s Dracula; + more

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  • Netflix green lights: series adaptation of Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith’s Trinkets, with Brianna Hildebrand, Kiana Madeir, Quintessa Swindelal et al

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  • Cineteve developing: political comedy Parlement, border crime thriller Nine, French revolution western Cagliostro and spy thriller Gaston

UK TV

  • Syco developing: Julian Fellowes royal art collection drama
  • ITV green lights: missing girl detective drama A Confession, starring Martin Freeman, Charlie Cooper and Siobhan Finnerman
  • BBC acquires: Rai (Italy)’s The Name of the Rose
  • Sky Atlantic acquires: HBO (US)’s My Brilliant Friend
  • Atrium developing: adaptations of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano, with Joseph Fiennes; Hanif Kureishi’s The Body; Jane Thynne’s Clara Vine novels as Clara Vine; and supernatural thriller The Mexican Witch Hunt
  • BBC One green lights: Dracula

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  • Trailer for season 2 of Starz’s Counterpart

New US TV shows

  • CBS developing: sibling co-parenting comedy Siblings…
  • …and adaptation of James Patterson’s Texas Ranger as Ranger
  • Fox developing: modern Wild West procedural Deputy
  • FX developing: adaptation of Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties
  • NBC developing: adaptations of Bruce Feiler’s Council of Dads and RTS (Switzerland)’s Quartier des Banques (Banking District)

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Marvel's Iron Fist
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Iron Fist cancelled; Lethal Weapon extended; Name of the Rose trailer; + more

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  • Rarmian Newton and Darby Camp to recur on AMC’s NOS4A2
  • Shannon Kane and Perri Camper to recur on BET’s American Soul
  • RJ Walker and Paula Newsome to recur on BET’s Boomerang
  • Seth MacFarlane, Sienna Miller, Simon McBurney et al join Showtime’s The Loudest Voice in the Room