UK TV

Donald Faison and Laya DeLeon Hayes to co-star in ABC’s Most Likely To
Crystal Balint and Ben Cotton join BritBox’s The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
Stephen Hill joins CBS’s Magnum PI
Daniel Ezra to star in The CW’s Beverly Hills high school football drama
Myles Bullock joins The CW’s Dead Inside
Campbell Scott and Marianne Jean-Baptiste join Fox’s Mixtape
Matthew Glave and Skai Jackson join Fox’s Our People

Happy! acquired; new BBC1, ITV dramas; Aisling Bea Feels Bad; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix (UK) acquires: Syfy (US)’s Happy!

UK TV

Sophie Okonedo, Marc Warren, Rufus Jones et al join W’s Flack
BBC One green lights: series of surveillance thriller The Capture, December-May drama Gold Digger, abuse pay-off drama Dark Mon£y and dementia mystery drama Elizabeth is Missing
ITV green lights: 19th century Indian drama Beecham House

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Adam Croasdell and Prema Cruz join AMC’s Preacher
Kathy Bates returns to FX’s American Horror Story

New US TV shows

Trailer for Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger
Clip from Syfy’s Nightflyers
E! green lights: pilot of billion-dollar tracksuit business drama Juicy Stories

New US TV show casting

Julie Hagerty and Cameron Boyce join ABC’s Steps
Demetrius Grosse to star in CBS’s Chiefs
Aubrey Dollar to co-star in CBS’s Main Justice
Raúl Castillo to star in Fox’s Mixtape
Jess Hilarious replaces Angel Laketa Moore, Sinbad joins Fox’s Rel
Nikki M James joins Fox’s wrongful conviction legal drama
Ashley Williams, James Earl and Daniel Stern join Fox’s Dan the Weatherman
Bernard David Jones to star in Fox’s Our People
Ione Skye joins HBO’s Camping
Aisling Bea joins NBC’s adaptation of I Feel Bad
Julie Klausner joins NBC’s So Close

Runaways, Siren, Stitchers acquired; Victor Hugo: Enemy of the State; John Constantine joins the Legends; + more

20 March 2018 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

French TV

France 2 green lights: Victor Hugo biopic Victor Hugo, ennemi d’État (Victor Hugo: Enemy of the State), with Yannick Choirat and Isabelle Carré [French]

UK TV

Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson join Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl
Syfy acquires: Hulu (US)’s Marvel’s Runways, and Freeform (US)’s Siren and Stitchers

US TV

Nora Zehetner to recur on ABC’s Designated Survivor
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Matt Ryan promoted to regular on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

New US TV show casting

Justina Adorno joins ABC’s Grand Hotel
Ving Rhames joins CBS’s Cagney and Lacey
Mira Sorvino to star in CBS’s The Code
Karimah Westbrook joins The CW’s Beverly Hills high school football drama
Curran Walters joins The CW’s Playing Dead
Mike O’Gorman joins Fox’s playboy dad comedy
Jenna Dewan Tatum joins Fox’s Mixtape
Juliette Lewis, Janicza Bravo, Arturo Del Puerto et al join, Bridget Everett to recur on HBO’s Camping

Britannia, The Sinner, Will & Grace renewed; A Place to Call Home cancelled; David Tennant goes Camping; + more

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Australian TV

Foxtel cancels: A Place To Call Home

UK TV

Sky Atlantic renews: Britannia
BBC Two green lights: Warrington bombing drama Mother’s Day

US TV

NBC extends and renews: Will & Grace
USA renews: The Sinner
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings
Saturday ratings

US TV show casting

Sean Maguire, JoAnna Garcia, Robbie Kay et al return to ABC’s Once Upon A Time
Jonny Coyne to recur on AMC’s Preacher
Sherry Cola to recur on TNT’s Claws

New US TV show casting

Nicole Byer to co-star in ABC’s How May We Hate You? adaptation
Feliz Ramirez joins ABC’s Grand Hotel
Lizzy Greene joins ABC’s A Million Little Things
Andrew Keenan-Bolger joins ABC’s Three Rivers
Mouna Traoré joins BET’s In Contempt
Chris Parnell to co-star in CBS’s lodger pop-star comedy
Raffi Barsoumian joins CBS’s The Code
Zachary Knighton joins CBS’s Magnum PI
Jake McDorman join CBS’s Murphy Brown
Monet Mazur and Michael Evans Behling join The CW’s Beverly Hills high school football drama
Brian d’Arcy James and Clare O’Connor join Fox’s wrongful conviction legal drama
Graeme Thomas King joins Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
David Tennant to star in HBO’s Camping
Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn and Lamorne Morris to star in National Geographic’s Valley of the Boom
James Davis to star in NBC’s Friends-in-Law
Anne-Marie Johnson joins NBC’s In Between Lives
Sadie Calvano joins NBC’s Suspicion

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