UK TV

News

[ 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

Designing Woman sequel; YouTube Premium goes to Germany; Aaron Paul goes to Westworld; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Homecoming
Teaser trailer for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
YouTube premium green lights: German digital star comedy Neuland, with Phil Laude and David Hasselhoff, and petrol station sitcom Bullsprit

BBC green lights: pilot of adaptation of Conversations From A Long Marriage, with Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam…
…and Welsh caravan park family comedy Pitching In, with Larry Lamb, Melanie Walters, Hayley Mills et al

US TV

Trailer for season 5 of ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder
Trailer for season 2 of NBC’s Midnight, Texas

US TV show casting

Mykelti Williamson to recur on Fox’s Lethal Weapon
Aaron Paul joins HBO’s Westworld
Clementine Nicholson to recur on History’s Knightfall

New US TV shows

ABC developing: sequel to Designing Women
The CW developing: female-led adaptation of Lean on Me
Entertainment One developing: adaptation of Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder
Fox green lights: pilots of cop dramas Connect and Prodigal Son
Grey Matter/Topic developing: adaptation of Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl

New US TV show casting

Zachary Quinto and Ashleigh Cummings to star in AMC’s NOS4A2
Adan Rocha joins CBS’s Murphy Brown
Craig Parker joins The CW’s Charmed
Elaine Hendrix joins Fox’s Proven Innocent
Noah Emmerich, Topher Grace, Robert Sean Leonard et al join Nat Geo’s The Hot Zone
Shaun Toub to recur on TNT’s Snowpiercer

Mystery Road, Shut Eye, The Art of More acquired; Insatiable, Candice Renoir renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: Lady of the Lake-centric Arthurian drama Cursed, with Katherine Langford…
…renews: Insatiable
James Marsden and Ed Asner to co-star in Netflix’s Dead to Me
Trailer for Netflix’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Trailer for Amazon’s The Romanoffs

Canadian TV

Cynthia Dale, Eric Peterson and Anthony Sherwood to return to, Cara Ricketts, Steve Lund and Yvonne Chapman join CBC’s Street Legal
Global green lights: series of medical drama Nurses

French TV

France 2 renews: Candice Renoir [in French]

International TV

Lee Pace joins Youku (Hong Kong)’s Flying Tiger

UK TV

Channel 4 and Sky to swap content
Virgin Media acquires: Hulu (US)’s Shut Eye and Crackle (US)’s The Art of More, to launch Virgin TV Ultra HD
BBC Four acquires: ABC (Australia)’s Mystery Road

US TV

Teasers for season 2 of Fox’s The Gifted

US TV show casting

Melanie Griffith and Stormy Daniels to guest on Showtime’s SMILF

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Tessa Coates comedy
CBS developing: family racing team comedy The Crew
NBC developing: gay couple small town comedy The Inn Crowd…
…Phil Lord/Chris Miller workplace comedy Business as Usual
Contradiction Films/Remedy Entertainment developing: adaptation of game Alan Wake

New US TV show casting

Vincent D’Onofrio and Ilfenesh Hadera to star in Epix’s Godfather of Harlem
Chloë Sevigny and AnnaSophia Robb to co-star in Hulu’s The Act

His Dark Materials renewed; Jemima Rooper joins Gold Digger; + more

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International TV

Federation Entertainment developing: adaptation of Christina Alger’s The Banker’s Wife, with Rosamund Pike

UK TV

Jemima Rooper, Sebastian Armesto, Alex Jennings et al join BBC One’s Gold Digger
BBC One renews: His Dark Materials, Anne-Marie Duff, James Costa, Mat Fraser et al to join

US TV

Trailer for season 4 of The CW’s Supergirl

US TV show casting

Geoffrey Owens to guest on NCIS: NO
Shane West to recur on Fox’s Gotham
Terrence J and Lyndie Greenwood to recur on Fox’s Star
Luis Guzman and Jess Gabor to recur, Bob Saget to guest on Showtime’s Shameless

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Chinese-American inheritance comedy
CBS developing: Latinx family comedy Just Like Us

New US TV show casting

Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Christopher Jefferson et al join BET’s American Soul

The Blake Mysteries trailer; Umbre renewed; Poldark cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Seven’s The Blake Mysteries

European TV

HBO Europe renews: Umbre (Shadows)

UK TV

BBC One cancels: Poldark
Ben Miller, Alexandra Roach, Sean Sagar et al join ITV’s The Man

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Fox’s 9-1-1
Trailer for season 4 of Starz’s Outlander

US TV show casting

Luke Perry to return to CBS’s Criminal Minds
Eden Sher to guest on NBC’s Superstore

New US TV shows

The CW developing: Caribbean family adventure series The Cove
NBC developing: multi-ethnic family comedy Brotherly Love

New US TV show casting

Eva Longoria to guest on ABC’s Grand Hotel
David Lambert to gust on Freeform’s Good Trouble

Ballers and Insecure renewed; Narcos: Mexico trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico

Australian TV

Ironbark Media developing: adaptation of Blanche D’Alpuget’s Birth of the Plantagenets series

UK TV

Waleed Zuaiter, Bertie Carvel, Clara Khoury et al join Channel 4’s Baghdad Central

US TV

HBO renews: Ballers and Insecure

US TV show casting

Charles Michael Davis joins ABC’s For the People
Alex Landi joins ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy
Mario to recur on Fox’s Empire

New US TV shows

A&E developing: Saudi-American women TV series Habibti

New US TV show casting

Olivia Vinall, Julie Graham, Sarah Woodward et al to star in Acorn TV’s Queens of Mystery
Sophia Bush to star in CBS’s Surveillance
Crystal Reed to star as Abby Arcane in DC Universe’s Swamp Thing
Joey King to star in Hulu’s The Act
Ryan Michelle Bathe to star in Paramount’s First Wives Club

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