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Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! Happy not-Thanksgiving everyone else!

UK TV

BBC One renews: Call The Midwife for three series

US TV

Trailer for the final season of Girls
Full-length Arrowverse crossover trailer
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

Trailer for NBC’s Emerald City

News: Salamander US; Shannen Doherty rejoins Heathers; The Monarchy is Going to Sh*t; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix acquires: Syfy’s Van Helsing and Rai Italy’s Medici: Masters of Florence
Parker Posey to play Doctor Smith in Netflix’s Lost in Space
Michelle Yeoh joins CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery

UK TV

BBC One green lights: A Last Tango in Halifax Christmas special

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Molly Shannon to guest on Life In Pieces
Elisabeth Rohm to recur on Jane The Virgin
Ken Leung leaving The Night Shift
Nia Long to recur on Empire
James Remar to recur on Gotham

New US TV shows

Freeform developing: bad new royal heir comedy The Monarchy is Going to Sh*t
ABC developing: single dad comedy…
…and adaptation of Eén Belgiums’s Salamander
Fox developing: adaptation of Amy Herman’s Visual Intelligence…
…and Antarctica comedy Thin Ice

New US TV show casting

Shannen Doherty joins TV Land’s Heathers

News: Dirk Gently’s Holistic renewal; Pure Genius ‘cancelled’; new Dune adaptation; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Hulu’s Shut Eye
Anil Kapoor joins Amazon’s Book of Strange New Things

Canadian TV

Casting on CBC/Netflix’s Anne

UK TV

A Christmas Outnumbered special

US TV

BBC America renews: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
CBS ‘cancels’: Pure Genius
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Michael Drayer to play Harry Houdini on Timeless

New US TV shows

Fox developing: disgraced politician comedy Catalina
TNT green lights: pilot of adaptation of Snowpiercer
Legendary developing: adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune

News: Doctor Who Christmas clip; Emilia Clarke joins Han Solo; + more

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Film trailers

Emilia Clarke joins Han Solo solo movie

Doctor Who

Clip from the Christmas special

Internet TV

Brett Gelman joins Netflix’s Stranger Things
Sherry Cola joins Amazon’s I Love Dick
Justin Bartha joins CBS All Access’ The Good Fight

US TV

US TV show casting

Sibylla Deen to recur on The Last Ship

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Boston working class biology comedy

News: Berlin Station, Graves, The Night Shift renewed; Baby Cow’s Swing Time; BBC4’s Bucket; + more

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Internet TV

Russell Hornsby, Raul Castillo and Zackary Momoh join Netflix’s Seven Seconds

New UK TV shows

ITV Encore green lights: returning crime drama Bancroft
Baby Cow developing: adaptation of Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
BBC Four green lights: series of bucket list road trip comedy Bucket, with Miriam Margolyes and Frog Stone

US TV

Epix renews: Berlin Station and Graves
NBC renews: The Night Shift
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Marlee Matlin to guest on Code Black
Greg Grunberg to recur on The Flash
Danny Strong to recur on Billions
Lou Diamond Phillips to guest on Hawaii Five-0…
…Masi Oka to leave
Natasha Rothwell promoted to regular on Insecure

New US TV shows

Fox developing: two live, one die medical drama The Beast…
…and shipwrecked spoilt girl comedy Missing American Woman

New US TV show casting

Hina Abdullah and Punam Patel to star in Freeform’s Brown Girls
Courtney B Vance joins ABC’s Libby & Malcolm
Holly Hunter to star in HBO’s Alan Ball family drama
Maureen McCormick to guest on TBS’s The Guest Book

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News: bumper Call The Midwife renewal; Emerald City, Arrowverse crossover, Girls trailers; + more

News: Salamander US; Shannen Doherty rejoins Heathers; The Monarchy is Going to Sh*t; + more

News: Dirk Gently’s Holistic renewal; Pure Genius ‘cancelled’; new Dune adaptation; + more

News: Doctor Who Christmas clip; Emilia Clarke joins Han Solo; + more

News: Berlin Station, Graves, The Night Shift renewed; Baby Cow’s Swing Time; BBC4’s Bucket; + more

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