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Ioan Gruffudd and Mirrah Foulkes in Harrow

The Handmaid’s Tale, Still Open All Hours, Harrow, The Good Fight, Empire renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Apple green lights: series of true-crime podcast drama Are You Sleeping, with Octavia Spencer
DC Universe developing: live-action adaptation of Swamp Thing

Australian TV

ABC renews: Harrow

Canadian TV

Thunderbird developing: adaptation of Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

French TV

M6 green lights: series of sexy, action-packed island-intrigue drama with Poppy Montgomery

Trailer for series 3 of Channel 4’s Humans
BBC One renews: Still Open All Hours

US TV

Trailer for season 4 of HBO’s The Affair
CBS All Access renews: The Good Fight
Fox renews: Empire
Hulu renews: The Handmaid’s Tale
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Paul Blackthorne to leave The CW’s Arrow

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for Hulu’s Castle Rock
Fox green lights: pilot of three-parent family comedy
Hulu green lights: series of Egyptian-American Muslim comedy Ramy, with Ramy Youssef…
…and Mindy Kaling’s Four Weddings and a Funeral limited series anthology show

New US TV show casting

Jonathan Majors to star in HBO’s Lovecraft Country
Kiran Deol and Moses Storm to star in Pop TV’s Arranged

Westworld, McMafia renewed; Legion expanded; Herrens veje acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon developing: Paul Feig international diplomacy comedy with Salma Hayek Pinault

French TV

Curious Times developing: mini-series biopic of photographer Robert Capa

UK TV

Walter Presents acquires: DR1 (Denmark)’s Herrens veje (Ride Upon The Storm)
Billy Zane and Miranda Richardson join Sky’s Curfew
Sky green lights: dark genderfluid love affair comedy Sally4Ever, with Julia Davis, Julian Barratt, Mark Gatiss et al
BBC One renews: McMafia

US TV

FX expands: Legion
HBO renews: Westworld
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

David McCallum to return to CBS’s NCIS

New US TV shows

Trailer for CBS All Access’ Strange Angel [US only]
Peace by Peace developing: adaptation of Linda Hirshman’s Sisters in Law

BBC Two’s new dramas and comedies; The Man Who Killed Don Quixote trailer; + more

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Film trailers

New trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Internet TV

YouTube Red green lights: series of rapper and crew comedy, with Adam Pally

Canadian TV

Levi Meaden, Brian Markinson, Aaron Douglas and David Lewis join CBC’s Unspeakable

UK TV

BBC Two green lights: comedy adaptation of Alex McBride’s Defending the Guilty, with Katherine Parkinson and Will Sharpe…
…Hugo Blick war crimes drama Black Earth Rising, with John Goodman, Michaela Coel, Harriet Walter et al…
…Riz Ahmed multi-generational Pakistani-British drama Englistan…
…dark Bognor Regis comedy Don’t Forget the Driver, with Toby Jones…
…and series of The Other One…
…cancels: People Just Do Nothing

US TV

Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

New trailer for Freeform’s Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger

New US TV show casting

Jimmy Kimmel joins ABC’s Man of the House

Red Dwarf renewed; no Tremors or Family Crimes; + more

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Internet TV

Sarah Chalke to recur on Netflix’s Friends From College

UK TV

Dave renews: Red Dwarf
BBC Two developing: Lee Mack separated couple comedy Semi-Detached

US TV

New US TV shows

Starz red lights: Family Crimes
Syfy red lights: Tremors

New US TV show casting

Casey WIlson, Owen Teague, Jen Richards and Jackson White join HBO’s Mrs Fletcher

Babylon Berlin, Billions, Zapped, Porters renewed; Bradley Whitford joins Flack; + more

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Internet TV

Clip from season 2 of Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
Natalia Tena and Tom Felton to star in YouTube Red’s Origin
Netflix green lights: series of space quest drama Another Life, starring Katee Sackhoff…
…and gifted misfit kids comedy Mr Iglesias, with Gabriel Iglesias

International TV

Arte/ARD green lights: pan-European migrant drama Eden [in French]

German TV

Sky Deutschland renews: Babylon Berlin [subscription required]
Das Erste green lights: male midwife comedy Toni, Männlich, Hebamme (Toni, Male, Midwife)[subscription required]

UK TV

Bradley Whitford joins W’s Flack
Timothy West, Gemma Whelan, Sophie Rundle et al to star in BBC One’s Gentleman Jack
Leo Suter, Barney Harris, Imogen King et al join BBC Three’s Clique
Dave renews: Zapped and Porters

US TV

Showtime renews: Billions
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Lindsay Wagner to guest on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy

New US TV shows

New trailer for Paramount’s Yellowstone
Rebel Maverick developing: adaptation of Dana L Davis’s Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now

New US TV show casting

Jurnee Smollett-Bell to star in HBO’s Lovecraft Country

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