An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.
UK TV
News
News: Feed The Beast cancelled; The Young Pope and Longmire trailers; sexy crime-solving Olive(r) Twist; + more
Internet TV
- Hulu Japan green lights: adaptation of Jun Ioaka’s lawyer/psychopath thriller Daisho (Compensation)
- Britney Young and Sydelle Noel join Netflix’s GLOW
- Trailer for season 5 of Longmire
European TV
- Greece halves number of private TV broadcasting licences
New UK TV shows
- Trailer for Sky/HBO/Canal+’s The Young Pope
US TV
- AMC cancels: Feed The Beast
- Trailer for season three of Younger
- Thursday ratings
US TV show casting
- Chris Payne Gilbert to guest on Lucifer
- Alisha Wainwright joins Shadowhunters
- Juan Antonio and Romeo Miller join Empire
- Rhiannon Giddens to guest on Nashville
- Jim O’Heir to guest on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Albert Tsai to guest on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
New US TV shows
- NBC developing: sexy modern procedural adaptation of Oliver Twist as Twist
- Teaser trailer for Syfy’s Channel Zero
New US TV show casting
- Georgina Campbell to star in Syfy’s Krypton
News: Killjoys and Dark Matter renewed; Fox UK acquires Atlanta; Devious Maids cancelled; + more
Film casting
- Jon Favreau joins Spiderman: Homecoming
Internet TV
- Trailer for Netflix’s Mascots
Canadian TV
- Syfy renews: Killjoys and Dark Matter
European TV
- Spain’s Movistar+ green lights: adaptation of Julia Navarro’s Dime Quién Soy
UK TV
- Fox UK acquires: FX’s Atlanta
US TV
- TLC renews: Too Close To Home
- Lifetime cancels: Devious Maids
- Trailer for season 2 of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
- Wednesday ratings
US TV show casting
- Jonathan Cake to recur on The Affair
- Danny Jacobs, Stephen Root and Romy Rosemony to guest on Masters of Sex
New US TV shows
- NBC developing: sci-fi spy thriller Unidentified
- CBS green lights: pilot of billionaire crime-fighter drama Firewall
- Berlanti Productions developing: adaptation of Black Lightning
New US TV show casting
- Jeremy Davies to play Jesus on Starz’s American Gods
- Marianne Rendón joins Bravo’s My So Called Wife
News: Stranger Things renewed; Grimm, Pretty Little Liars cancelled; King Arthur police procedural; Let The Right One In pilot; + more
‘Ow do?
Film trailers
- Featurette and second trailer for Doctor Strange
Internet TV
- Alison Brie, Marc Maron and Betty Gilpin to star in Netflix’s GLOW
- Jason Ritter to recur on Amazon’s Goliath
- Chastity Dotson to recur on Amazon’s Patriot
- Prema Cruz joins Mozart in The Jungle
- Amazon developing: real-life superhero comedy Legend of Master Legend
- …K-pop drama Idolm@ster
- Netflix renews: Stranger Things
Canadian TV
- Trailer for Showcase’s Travelers
UK TV
- Sky1 renews: Trollied
New UK TV shows
- BBC One green lights: political and psychological thriller MotherFatherSon
US TV
- Freeform cancels: Pretty Little Liars
- NBC cancels: Grimm
- Trailer for season 7 of Shameless
- Teaser for season 2 of Scream Queens
- Teaser for season 2 of Ash vs Evil Dead
- Tuesday ratings
US TV show casting
- Frederick Schmidt to play Metallo on Supergirl
- David Meunier to recur on Arrow
- Paget Brewster promoted to regular on Criminal Minds
- Leon Rippy to recur on The Blacklist
- Phylicia Rashad to recur on Empire
- Mary J Blige to guest on How To Get Away With Murder
- Amy Manson, Andrew Whipp and Patrick Gibson join The White Princess
- Jim Broadbent joins Game of Thrones
- Bethany Joy Lenz joins Colony
New US TV shows
- Marvel developing: New Warriors adaptation
- Fox developing: King Arthur police procedural Camelot
- ABC green lights: pilot of Zach Braff business comedy Start Up…
- …developing: Kerry Washington female cop workplace drama Patrol…
- …Iranian-American family comedy…
- …and adult carers comedy The Favorite
- CBS developing: yet another adaptation of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner…
- …Judge Judy-inspired Her Honor…
- …and five-decade comedy Me, Myself and I
- Cinemax green lights: Bruce Lee-inspired crime drama Warrior
- FX developing: workplace YouTube comedy Radicalocity
- NBC green lights: pilot of cop family drama Family Honor
- Showtime developing: Islamic satire Fatwa, with Aasif Mandvi
- TNT green lights: pilot of adaptation of Let The Right One In
- The Weinstein Company developing: Waco TV series with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch
New US TV show casting
- Kristoffer Polaha and Michelle Mitchenor join Fox’s Lethal Weapon
- Chastity Dotson to recur on Fox’s Pitch
- Robin Givens to recur on The CW’s Riverdale
- Audrey Marie Anderson joins Audience’s Ice
- Scott MacArthur to recur on Fox’s The Mick
- Colin Woodell, Erinn Westbrook, Ginny Gardner and David Corenswet to star in USA’s The Tap
What TV’s on at the BFI in September/October 2016? Including The Fall, Inside No. 9, From The North and Inappropriate Behaviour
A bit later than usual (for obvious reasons), a bit thinner than usual (for obvious reasons), and combining events for September and a bit of October (for not obvious reasons), here’s TMINE’s usual rundown of the upcoming TV showings at the BFI. Not much for TV aficionados, beyond an ‘Andrew Davies at 80’ event consisting of a chat and a showing of Inappropriate Behaviour, and a chat and documentary about Granada TV, but there is the excitement of two previews, one of series 3 of Inside No. 9, the other of series 3 of The Fall, complete with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan…