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BBC4 acquires Missions, Nat Geo acquires The Long Road Home, Odd Mom Out cancelled + more

9 October 2017 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle
Teaser trailer for season 1b of Amazon’s The Tick

Australian TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of Stan’s Wolf Creek
ABC developing: car-set commuter comedy Squinters

BBC Four acquires: OCS Signature (France)’s manned Mars mission sci-fi drama Missions
National Geographic UK acquires: National Geographic US’s The Long Road Home
Stephen Tompkinson, Mark Bonnar and Neil Maskell to star in BBC Four’s Eric, Ernie & Me

US TV

Bravo cancels: Odd Mom Out
10 more episodes for Freeform’s Shadowhunters
Teaser for season 2 of Hulu’s Shut Eye
Trailer for season 11 of Fox’s The X-Files
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Kevin Carroll to play The Sinnerman on Fox’s Lucifer
Matt Ryan to play John Constantine on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

New US TV shows

ABC developing: 20-somethings comedy Bright Futures
CBS developing: post 10-year high school reunion comedy Perfect 10
Fox developing: 27-year-old judge legal drama Being Judged…
…multi-generational dance show drama Shine
NBC developing: music industry comedy A&R
Universal developing: adaptation of Bill Carter’s Desperate Networks
Trailer for USA’s Unsolved
Clip from Freeform’s Siren
Teaser for Hulu’s Castle Rock
Teaser for Hulu’s Marvel’s Runaways

New US TV show casting

Jay Hayden joins ABC’s firefighter Grey’s Anatomy spin-off
Fortune Feimster joins NBC’s Champions
Ella Purnell to star in Starz’s Sweetbitter

Anthony Hopkins is King Lear; US versions of ITV’s Suspecst, Netherlands’ A’dam – E.V.A.; + more

6 October 2017 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Internet TV

Aubrey Plaza, Judy Greer, Kate Berlant et al join Netflix’s Easy
Sally Field to recur in Netflix’s Maniac
Trailer for YouTube Red’s Lifeline
Netflix green lights: magical realist superhero drama Raising Dion

International TV

Reel One Entertainment developing: adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Second Variety
Electric Entertainment and Arrowstorm Entertainment green light: fantasy adventure series The Outpost

UK TV

Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson et al to star in BBC Two’s King Lear

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of IFC’s Stan Against Evil
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Amirah Vann to recur on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder
Natalia Cordova-Buckley promoted to regular on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
Anabelle Acosta to recur on NBC’s Chicago PD
Jeff Ross and Andrew Daly to guest on TV Land’s Teachers

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of ITV’s Suspects…
…Liberal Redneck comedy
Fox developing: Adam & Eva based on VARA (the Netherlands)’ A’dam – E.V.A.
…green lights: pilot of futuristic medical drama Strange Conditions
NBC developing: family legal drama
Trailer for Hulu’s Future Man
Trailer for Syfy’s Happy!

New US TV show casting

Jill Scott to play Lady Eve on The CW’s Black Lightning

BBC1 & 2’s new series; The Bold Type renewed; Pauley Perrette leaves NCIS; + more

5 October 2017 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Internet TV

Finn Jones to appear as Iron Fist on Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
Netflix developing: Ricky Gervais suicide comedy

International TV

Euston Films and UFA Fiction (Germany) green light: adaptation of Robert Harris’ Munich

UK TV

BBC One green lights: multi-side World World Two drama World On Fire…
…and Jed Mercurio special protection drama The Bodyguard with Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes
BBC Two green lights: love story Trigonometry, adaptation of Ian McGuire’s The North Water, and drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
Sony Channel acquires: ABC Family (US)’s Chasing Life

US TV

Freeform renews: The Bold Type for two seasons
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Pauley Perrette leaving CBS’s NCIS
Brandon Victor Dixon promoted to regular on Starz’s Power

New US TV shows

Fox developing: developing undercover actress FBI comedy Headshot
Hulu developing: Eve Babitz-inspired coming of age comedy LA Woman…
…Indian maths genius radio DJ comedy In Theory…
…green lights: pilot of Ramy Youssef Arab-American Muslim comedy
NBC developing: family drama based on Heather Lende’s Find The Good…
…and adaptation of TV2 (New Zealand)’s Step Dave
Paramount developing: adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s Velvet…
…Paris-set Darren Star dramedy
Starz green lights: series of New York restaurant drama Sweetbitter

New US TV show casting

Kether Donohue to recur on Fox’s L.A. to Vegas
Tim Meadows and Patrick Brammall to star in CBS All Access’ No Activity
Leland Orser to star in TNT’s One Day She’ll Darken

What have you been watching? Including Bad Blood, 9JKL and Will and Grace

4 October 2017 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you each week what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently and your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching. TMINE recommends has all the reviews of all the TV shows TMINE has ever recommended, but for a complete list of TMINE’s reviews of (good, bad and insipid) TV shows and movies, there’s the definitive TV Reviews A-Z and Film Reviews A-Z. But it’s what you have you been watching? I bet it’s better than what I’ve been watching. And I watched a lot

Week one into the new US TV season and I reckon I’m keeping up pretty well. Admittedly, I’ve had to ditch Boxset Monday and move WHYBW? from Tuesday to Wednesday to do it, but I don’t think that’s going to cause too many fainting fits.

This week, I’ve reviewed (and even previewed) the first episodes of:

My, Myself and I (US: CBS)
Young Sheldon (US: CBS; UK: E4)
Ghosted (US: Fox)
SEAL Team (US: CBS)
Marvel’s Inhumans (US: ABC; UK: Sky1)
Wisdom of the Crowd (US: CBS)
White Famous (US: Showtime)

That’s not the whole gamut of new shows, mind, and still to come this week are my reviews of Kevin (Probably) Saves The World (US: ABC), Ten Days in the Valley (US: ABC) and The Gifted (US: Fox; UK: Fox UK). I’m also planning to have a look at Alias Grace (Canada: CBC; UK: Netflix) and Absentia (AXN), and I might even give 4 Blocks (Germany: TNT Serie; UK: Amazon) a whirl if I have the time.

On top of that, there are a few other new shows – but I’ll be dealing with them after the jump, along with the regulars, both old and new. So follow me over the page to where I will cast my eye over the latest episodes of The Brave, Get Krack!n, Great News, Halt and Catch Fire, The Last Ship, Lethal Weapon, Lucifer, My Myself and I, Professor T and Star Trek: Discovery, as well as fill you in on new arrivals Bad Blood, 9JKL and – what’s this? – Will and Grace. Is that right?

(Yep, I dropped Bang and The Good Doctor. What you gonna do?)

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Vernon Subutex; Major Crimes cancelled; Idris Elba comedy; Alyssa Milano takes over TV; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon developing: John Stamos’ 80s soap drama
New teaser trailer for Amazon’s Jack Ryan
Alyssa Milano promoted to regular on Netflix’s Insatiable

Australian TV

Nine green lights: crime-solving shark-survivors drama Bite Club, with Dominic Monaghan

French TV

Canal+ green lights: adaptation of Virginie Despentes’ novels as Vernon Subutex, starring Romain Duris

UK TV

Sky1 green lights: Idris Elba comedy In The Long Run
Drama acquires: Starz (US)’s The White Princess

US TV

TNT cancels: Major Crimes
ABC orders full season of The Good Doctor
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Uma Thurman to return to Bravo’s Imposters
Christopher Meyer joins Showtime’s The Affair

New US TV shows

ABC developing: ageing African Americans comedy Black Don’t Crack
The CW developing: adaptation of Alyssa Milano’s Hactivist
Fox developing: adaptation of Kathleen Kent’s The Dime…
…and night-time lawyering drama Midnight Lawyer
Lifetime developing: comedy Alyssa Milano for Mayor, starring Alyssa Milano

New US TV show casting

Connie Britton to star in Fox’s 9-1-1
Myko Olivier, Mia Serafino, Punam Patel et al to star in Freeform’s Now & Then

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