UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s Bodyguard
BBC green lights: series of country house spirits comedy Ghosts, disabled daughter family comedy There She Goes with David Tennant and Jessica Hynes, returning small town prisoner comedy Back to Life with Daisy Haggard, and dark coming of age comedy In My Skin
BBC Three renews: Pls Like
Inside No. 9 to get a live Halloween special
Sky1 renews: Bulletproof

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Jane Leeves joins, Moran Atias, Melina Kanakaredes and Marrin Dungey leave Fox’s The Resident
Mindy Kaling to guest on FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

New US TV show casting

Giancarlo Esposito, Elena Anaya, Michael Aronov et al join Cinemax’s Jett
Courtney B Vance, Aunjanue Ellis and Elizabeth Debicki join HBO’s Lovecraft Country

Jon Bernthal’s Walking Dead return; RTÉ’s comedy pilots; Netflix’s 60s Spanish heroin drama; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green light: 1960s Spanish heroin trafficking drama Hache
Emmett Scanlan to recur on Amazon’s Lore

European TV

RTÉ (Ireland) green light: pilots of comedies Headcases, Dad, Handy and The South Westerlies

UK TV

Tom Hollander to star in BBC One’s Baptiste
ITV green lights: series of psychological thriller Cheat, starring Katherine Kelly and Molly Windsor, with Tom Goodman-Hill, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Firth et al

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Jon Bernthal to return to AMC’s The Walking Dead
Jessica Parker Kennedy promoted to regular on The CW’s The Flash
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Glenn Morshower promoted to regulars on Fox’s The Resident
Madeline Wise to recur on HBO’s Crashing

New US TV shows

Hulu green lights: pilot of femme fatale revenge drama Reprisal

New US TV show casting

Jacob Artist and Chris Aquilino to recur on Starz’s Now Apocalypse
Xavier Samuel joins TNT’s Tell Me Your Secrets

Father Brown renewed; France creates SALTO; Werner Herzog’s Fordlandia; + more

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Internet TV

Peter Outerbridge joins Netflix’s V-Wars
Keith David, Curtis Armstrong, Allyce Beasley et al to recur on YouTube Red’s Adam Pally comedy

French TV

France Télévisions, M6 and TF1 to create French streaming platform SALTO [in French]

UK TV

BBC One renews: Father Brown

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of USA’s The Sinner [US only]
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Richard Flood promoted to regular on Showtime’s Shameless

New US TV shows

Showtime green lights: series of period stock market crash comedy Black Monday, with Don Cheadle and Andrew Rannells
Hyde Park Entertainment developing: adaptation of Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia

New US TV show casting

Jean Smart joins Bravo’s Dirty John
Leah Remini joins Fox’s middle-America comedy
Tyler Posey joins Starz’s Now Apocalypse

Taika Waititi and Scarlett Johansson in WW2 satire Jojo Rabbit

Succession renewed; Jack Ryan, GLOW, Suits trailers; Freeview boost; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s GLOW
Amazon green lights: series of romcom anthology Modern Love…
…red lights: Making Friends

German TV

RTL green lights: daytime drama Freundinnen – Jetzt Erst Recht (Girlfriends – Now More Than Ever) [subscription required]

UK TV

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to invest £125m in Freeview

US TV

Trailer for season 8 of USA’s Suits
HBO renews: Succession

New US TV shows

Freemantle developing: Brandon Sanderson alternate world tyrant fantasy drama Dark One
MRC developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider
Sunday ratings

New US TV show casting

Beth Behrs to replace Dreama Walker on CBS’s The Neighborhood
Paul Wesley joins CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Tommy Martinez, Zuri Adele, Sherry Cola and Rogert Bart to star, Emma Hunton and Ken Kirby to recur on Freeform’s Good Trouble

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