UK TV

Still, here we (almost) are and the BFI has already laid plans to welcome in the New Year. First among these is a season of John Hurt’s work, including episodes of I, Claudius, The Naked Civil Servant, Crime and Punishment, Whistle and I’ll Come to You and Doctor Who‘s The Day of the Doctor.

But that’s not all. There’s a couple of previews: BBC Two’s Collateral and BBC One’s Troy: Fall of a City (I can’t even). There’s also a Missing Believed Wiped featuring an old documentary about Rod Stewart – Rod the Mod.

All that after the jump.

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Living the Dream renewed; Going Forward cancelled; Cuéntame Un Cuento (US); + more

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Internet TV

Netflix acquires: Youku Tudou (China)’s Day and Night…
… (officially) renews: Mindhunter
Robert Sheehan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper et al join Netflix’s Umbrella Academy
Bobby Cannavale to star in Amazon’s Homecoming

International TV

HBO Asia green lights: multi-country horror anthology Folklore, Japanese gender-switched Sherlock Holmes Miss Sherlock and Dutch East Indies period drama Grisse

Israeli TV

Keshet developing: thriller Sleeping Bears [subscription required]

Scandinavian TV

Discovery (Sweden) green lights: series of psychological drama Det Som Göms i Snö (The Truth Will Out) [subscription required]

UK TV

BBC Four cancels: Going Forward
Sky1 renews: Living the Dream
Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg join BBC One’s A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

US TV

Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

New trailer for TNT’s The Alienist
New trailer for Crackle’s The Oath [US only]
CBS green lights: series of action-adventure antiques drama Blood and Treasure
CBS All Access green lights: adaptation of Antena tres (Spain)’s dark fairy tales series Cuéntame Un Cuento (Tell Me A Story)
NBC developing: pastor/federal special agent drama Spirit of the Law
USA developing: Ronald Reagan limited series

New US TV show casting

Ken Jeong and David Alan Grier join Fox’s A Christmas Story Live!
Josh Lucas to recur on Paramount’s Yellowstone

Sex Education, Widow, La légiste, Rig 45, A Christmas Carol and The Long Song; + more

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Internet TV

Neflix green lights: underground sex therapy clinic dramedy Sex Education
YouTube Red green lights: self-explanatory dark comedy Widow

French TV

France 3 green lights: pilot of whimsical pathologist crime drama La légiste, with Julie Depardieu

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: oil-rig crime drama Rig 45, with Catherine Walker

UK TV

BBC One green lights: series of adaptations of Dickens novels, starting with A Christmas Carol…
…adaptation of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Dove Cameron to guest on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
Garrett Morris to guest on CBS’s MacGyver
Nicollette Sheridan to play Alexis Carrington on The CW’s Dynasty
Saïd Taghmaoui leaves FX’s Legion
Meghan Markle to leave USA’s Suits

New US TV shows

Teaser for The CW’s Black Lightning
Fox developing: liberal-conservative translation comedy Re-Training Day
NBC developing: post-disaster anthology series American Disaster

Sweden’s Eldmärk; UK UFOs, firewomen and Soft Border Patrol; Wisdom of the Crowd cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

Wilson Bethel joins Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay (Norway)/TV3 (Sweden) developing: adaptation of Jonathan Sjöberg’s Förstfödd as Eldmärk (Hidden)

UK TV

Kudos developing: adaptation of Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton’s Through The Fire
Eleventh Hour developing: Joe Ahearne UK UFO sightings drama Rendlesham
BBC Northern Ireland: post-Brexit border sitcom Soft Border Patrol
BBC One’s Christmas highlights

US TV

CBS (probably) cancels: Wisdom of the Crowd…
…extends: Man with a Plan, Superior Donuts
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

FX developing: banking con drama Heist 88 with Courtney B Vance
NBC developing: adaptation of Karen Lynch’s Good Cop, Bad Daughter
Starz developing: opioid epidemic drama P-Town

New US TV show casting

John Stamos to recur on Lifetime’s You

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