UK TV

News

The Daily News will return on Monday

Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Fuller House
Samm Levine and Marlo Thomas join Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

New UK TV show casting

Holliday Grainger to star in BBC One’s Cormoran Strike

US TV

Three more episodes for Timeless
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Juliana Harkavy to recur on Arrow
Andrew Caldwell to recur on iZombie
Eric Bogosian to recur on Billions

New US TV shows

ABC developing: lesbians in Kansas comedy

News: Private Eyes renewed; Cruel Intentions dropped; Good Wife spin-off gets a name; + more

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Internet TV

Simone Missick and Deborah Ann Woll join Netflix’s Marvel’s The Defenders
Linda Park to recur on Bosch
Haley Joel Osment joins Amazon’s adaptation of The Book of Strange New Things
CBS All Access’ The Good Wife spin-off named The Good Fight, Erica Tazel joins

Canadian TV

Global renews: Private Eyes

US TV

Lucifer gets full season order
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Jimmi Simpson to guest on This is Us
Ivana Milicevic to recur on Gotham
Kelsey Grammer to guest on Modern Family
Eddie Jemison to recur on Chicago Med
Jared Ward to recur on The Fosters
Sarah Paulson returns to American Horror Story
Betty White returns to Bones

New US TV shows

NBC developing: boy and his aunt family comedy…
…red lights: Cruel Intentions
CBS developing: gay Mississippi lawyer drama Rebel Law
ABC developing: teaching in prison comedy

New US TV show casting

Penny Johnson Jerald and Halston Sage join Fox’s space dramedy
Jane Seymour to star in CMT’s His Wives and Daughters
Jack Kesy promoted to regular on TNT’s Claws
Chris Abbott, Abby Miller and Dohn Norwood join USA’s The Sinner

News: Nightcap, Young & Hungry renewed; Making History cut; Jim Gaffigan joins Fargo; + more

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Internet TV

Billy Eichner joins Netflix’s Friends From College
Paul Guilfoyle and Bernadette Peters to recur on CBS All Access’ Good Wife spin-off
Ever Carradine to recur on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Netflix green lights: post-apocalyptic Scandinavian thriller The Rain

UK TV

Trailer for series 4 of Sherlock
Trailer for series 2 of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man

New UK TV shows

ITV developing: Rhys Jones factual drama [subscription required]

US TV

US TV show casting

Denis O’Hare to recur on This Is Us
Jim Gaffigan joins Fargo
Tim DeKay to recur on American Crime
Sibo Mlambo to recur on Teen Wolf

New US TV shows

NBC developing: young couple comedy Landlords
Fox developing: disturbing workplace comedy…
…and lonely synchronised swimmer comedy…
…cuts Making History by four episodes
ABC developing: 1960s family comedy The Zipcoders
CBS developing: Latina dream chasing comedy…
…and amnesiac cop drama Here & Now
Pop renews: Nightcap
AMC developing: adaptation of Sarai Walker’s Dietland

New US TV show casting

Samara Weaving and Ismael Cruz Cordova join Showtime’s SMILF
Casting on TV Land’s Heathers
Rhys Ward, Anjali Jay and Thomas Cadrot cast in Lifetime’s Midsummer’s Nightmare
Will Sasso joins Audience’s Loudermilk

News: Saving Hope cancelled; BBC Three’s Sexy Murder; Comedy Central acquires Teachers; + more

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The Daily News will return on Monday

Canadian TV

CTV renews and cancels: Saving Hope
Imaginarium Studios developing: adaptation of the Riftworld Chronicles

Internet TV

Amazon developing: Matthew Weiner global anthology series
BBC Three green lights: series of reality crime parody Sexy Murder

Israeli TV

AXN developing: crime thriller Absentia with Stana Katic

UK TV

Comedy Central acquires: TV Land’s Teachers

New UK TV show casting

Jim Howick, Samuel Anderson, Mary McCormack et al to star in Channel 4’s Loaded

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Patti LuPone to guest on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

New US TV shows

NBC developing: self-explanatory crime procedural The Evidence Room
Trailer for Fox’s The Mick

New US TV show casting

Michael Nyqvist, Nazanin Boniadi, Nicholas Pinnock et al join Starz’s Counterpart

New: Knight Rider reboot; Gilmore Girls, 24: Legacy trailers; Notorious cut; Frontier renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Julia Garner joins Netflix’s Ozark
David Lyons and Beau Knapp to co-star in Netflix’s Seven Seconds
Trailer for Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life
Trailer for season 2 of The Art of More
Machinima developing: Knight Rider reboot
Michael Nathanson, Paul Schulze, Jaime Ray Newman et al join Netflix’s Marvel’s The Punisher

Canadian TV

Elyse Levesque, Andrew Moodie, Simu Liu et al join Orphan Black
Discovery Canada renews: Frontier

US TV

Cary Elwes to guest on Life in Pieces
ABC cuts Notorious by three episodes
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Jackson Rathbone joins The Last Ship

New US TV shows

CBS developing: self-explanatory comedy Family Business
The CW developing: adaptation of TC Boyle’s The Terranauts…
…and action fantasy road trip quest The Searchers
Trailer for Fox’s 24: Legacy

New US TV show casting

Lauren Ambrose to star in TNT’s Monsters of God
Darren Mann to recur on TNT’s Let The Right One In

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News: more Timeless; Kansas lesbians; Cormoran Strike casting; + more

News: Private Eyes renewed; Cruel Intentions dropped; Good Wife spin-off gets a name; + more

News: Nightcap, Young & Hungry renewed; Making History cut; Jim Gaffigan joins Fargo; + more

News: Saving Hope cancelled; BBC Three’s Sexy Murder; Comedy Central acquires Teachers; + more

New: Knight Rider reboot; Gilmore Girls, 24: Legacy trailers; Notorious cut; Frontier renewed; + more

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