UK TV

News

Internet TV

Eddie Shin, Jolie Jenkins and Emery Kelly join Netflix’s Alexa & Katie
Amazon acquires: Keshet (Israel)’s The Baker and the Beauty

Australian TV

Natalie Bassingthwaighte joins Ten’s The Wrong Girl

New UK TV shows

BBC developing: adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Daniel Henney moves from CBS’s Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders to CBS’s Criminal Minds
Colton Haynes FX’s American Horror Story

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Atlanta vice squad cop drama Atlanta’s Most Wanted
HBO developing: adaptation by Damon Lindelof of DC’s Watchmen
The CW developing: Supernatural spin-off Wayward Sisters

New US TV show casting

Roberto Urbina and Katie McGuinness join TNT’s Snowpiercer

News: Sean Bean takes The Oath; Tony Danza to star in The Good Cop; David Suchet on Capitaine Marleau; + more

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Internet TV

Clip from Netflix’s Atypical
Netflix green lights: series of father-son family-friendly cop drama The Good Cop, with Tony Danza

French TV

David Suchet to guest on France 3’s Capitaine Marleau

New UK TV show casting

Tommy Tiernan joins Channel 4’s Derry Girls

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Amirah Vann to recur on TNT’s Major Crimes
Kim Raver to recur on Showtime’s Ray Donovan

New US TV shows

USA red lights: The Tap

New US TV show casting

Sean Bean to star in Crackle’s The Oath
Jacki Weaver to co-star in TNT’s The Deep Mad Dark

News: Greg Wise and Billy Campbell join Modus; Netflix acquires Queen of the South; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 4 of Amazon’s Transparent

Scandinavian TV

Greg Wise and Billy Campbell join C More (Sweden)’s Modus

UK TV

Netflix acquires: USA (US)’s Queen of the South

US TV

Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

USA green lights: pilot of high school cat burglar comedy Olive Forever
FX developing: corporate espionage drama Honey

New US TV show casting

Alison Wright and Benjamin Haigh join TNT’s Snowpiercer

News: Viceland acquires Son of Zorn; Ten enters administration; Black Mirror books; + more

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Books

Netflix’s Black Mirror to become a book series

Internet TV

New trailer for Netflix’s Friends from College
Jason O’Mara joins Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle

Australian TV

Ten enters voluntary administration

European TV

Reanimator rebooted as web series, TV series and movie

UK TV

Viceland UK acquires: Fox (US)’s Son of Zorn

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Insecure
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Zachary Levi joins USA’s Psych reunion movie
Kirsten Vangsness and AJ Cook to return to CBS’s Criminal Minds
Billy Zane to guest on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Yasmine Al Massri leaves ABC’s Quantico

New US TV show casting

Vincent Piazza joins Fox’s The Passage
Annalise Basso and Sasha Frolova join TNT’s Snowpiercer

News: 24: Legacy cancelled; Loosely Exactly Nicole, Insatiable rescued; + more

13 June 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film trailers

Teaser trailer for Black Panther

Internet TV

Facebook green lights: season 2 of MTV (US)’s Loosely Exactly Nicole
Tiffani Thiessen joins Netflix’s Alexa & Kate
New trailer for Netflix’s Gypsy
Netflix green lights: series of dark comedic beauty pageant drama Insatiable

International TV

Annalise Basso, Maura Tierney, Essie Davis et al join Channel 4 (UK)/Amazon’s Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams

UK TV

BBC Two acquires: FX (US)’s Feud: Bette and Joan
BBC One renews: Luther
BBC One Scotland renews: Scot Squad

New UK TV shows

ITV green lights: jewellry heist drama Hatton Garden, with Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham and Brian F O’Byrne
BBC green lights: new Alan Partridge show
Sky Arts green lights: summer short comedies season
Sky green lights: pilot of David O’Doherty Antarctic sitcom Stuck
Sky 1 renews: Sick Note, Lindsay Lohan joins

New UK TV show casting

Indira Varma, Luke Treadaway and Neil Maskell to star in Channel 4’s The Truth

US TV

US TV show casting

Anna Chlumsky joins AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire
Damon Gupton leaves CBS’s Criminal Minds
Jennifer Esposito leaves CBS’s NCIS
Geena Davis, Alan Ruck, Hannah Kasulka and Brinna Howey leave Fox’s The Exorcist

New US TV shows

New trailer for TNT’s Will
Cinemax green lights: series of Bruce Lee period martial arts organised crime drama Warrior
Fox red lights: The Beast

New US TV show casting

Jennifer Connelly and Mickey Sumner join TNT’s Snowpiercer

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News: Moffat/Gatiss’ Dracula; HBO’s Watchmen; a Supernatural spin-off; + more

News: Sean Bean takes The Oath; Tony Danza to star in The Good Cop; David Suchet on Capitaine Marleau; + more

News: Greg Wise and Billy Campbell join Modus; Netflix acquires Queen of the South; + more

News: Viceland acquires Son of Zorn; Ten enters administration; Black Mirror books; + more

News: 24: Legacy cancelled; Loosely Exactly Nicole, Insatiable rescued; + more

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