UK TV

News

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[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

Mary Kills People, Younger renewed; Shadowhunters, The Detail cancelled; American Gods recasts Media; + more

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Film trailers

Trailer for Steve McQueen’s adaptation of Lynda La Plante’s Widows

Internet TV

Clip from Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s The Ranch
Adrian Holmes to co-star, Jacky Lai joins Netflix’s V-Wars
Netflix green lights: Dolly Parton anthology series

Canadian TV

Global renews: Mary Kills People
CTV cancels: The Detail

Kenneth Branagh, Ben Miller, Lily Cole et al to guest on BBC2’s Upstart Crow
BBC One green lights: Russell T Davies dystopian family drama Years and Years
Reel One developing: adaptation of Eén (Belgium)’s Tytgat Chocolat (Team Chocolate)

US TV

TV Land renews: Younger
Freeform cancels: Shadowhunters

US TV show casting

Kahyun Kim replaces Gillian Anderson, Dean Winters and Devery Jacobs join Starz’s American Gods

New US TV shows

Clip from Britbox’s Bletchley Circle: San Francisco

New US TV show casting

Liana Liberato, Haley Ramm, Ajiona Alexus et al join Hulu’s Light as a Feather

Legion renewed; Imposters cancelled; Heathers pre-cancelled; Father Ted – the musical; + more

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Theatre

Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews developing: Pope Ted – The Father Ted Musical

Canadian TV

Bell Media rescues: LA’s Finest

French TV

TF1 green lights: remake of BBC One’s Doctor Foster

UK TV

Sherdian Smith, Alison Steadman and Sinead Keenan to star in BBC One’s Care
Alessandro Nivola, Cherry Jones, Sophie Okonedo, F Murray Abraham et al join Channel 4’s Chimerica

US TV

Teaser for season 3 of HBO’s Insecure
Trailer for season 4 of Syfy’s 12 Monkeys
FX renews: Legion
Bravo cancels: Imposters
Thursday ratings

New US TV shows

Paramount pre-cancels: Heathers

New US TV show casting

JoAnna Garcia Swisher replaces Ashley Williams on Fox’s Dan the Weatherman
Kelsey Grammer replaces Brian D’Arcy James on Fox’s Proven Innocent

Jamie Bamber joins Strike Back; Resident Alien adaptation; Lil Dicky comedy; + more

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Australian TV

ABC green lights: ‘slice of life’ inner city serial The Heights

UK TV

Jamie Bamber and Yasemin Allen join Sky 1’s Strike Back

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Raymond Cruz to recur on Epix’s Get Shorty
Alfonso Herrera to recur on USA’s Queen of the South

New US TV shows

FX green lights: pilot of Lil Dicky neurotic rapper comedy
Syfy green lights: pilot of adaptation of Dark Horse’s Resident Alien
NBC developing: horror drama Cul-De-Sac
Showtime developing: swingers comedy

The Split, The Rain renewed; The Middle spin-off; Apple’s Emily Dickinson comedy; + more

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Internet TV

Apple green lights: Emily Dickinson coming-of-age comedy series Dickinson, with Hailee Steinfeld
Netflix renews: The Rain

UK TV

BBC One renews: The Split
John Lynch, Anamaria Marinca and Jenessa Grant join Sky Atlantic’s Tin Star

US TV

Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

ABC developing: The Middle spin-off with Eden Sher
Lionsgate developing: adaptation of Wednesday Martin’s Primates of Park Avenue

Love, Lies & Records, Maigret, The Arrangement cancelled; Roseanne unrenewed; Costa del Sol Brigade acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Uma Thurman to star in Netflix’s Chambers
Netflix rescues: Locke and Key…
…acquires: Telecinco (Spain)’s Costa del Sol Brigade

UK TV

BBC cancels: Love, Lies & Records [subscription required]
ITV cancels: Maigret
Jamie Dornan, Matthew Rhys and Ann Skelly to star in BBC Two’s Death and Nightingales

US TV

ABC unrenews: Roseanne
E! cancels: The Arrangement
Trailer for season 2 of FX’s Snowfall [US only]
Monday’s ratings

US TV show casting

Andrew Lincoln to leave AMC’s The Walking Dead

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