UK TV

News

Internet TV

Clarke Peters joins Hulu’s Chance

UK TV show casting

Nick Hendrix joins Midsomer Murders
Bella Dayne joins Humans

US TV

Monday ratings

New US TV shows

Paramount developing: adaptation of Rebecca Traister’s All The Single Ladies

New US TV show casting

Michael K Williams and Ivory Aquino join ABC’s When We Rise; Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, David Hyde Pierce et al to guest

News: Indian Summers cancelled; Underground renewed; the Twin Peaks 217; + more

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Film trailers

Final X-Men: Apocalypse trailer

Internet TV

Nia Long and Brian Baumgartner join Hand of God
John Brotherton promoted to regular on Fuller House

UK TV

Channel 4 cancels: Indian Summers [subscription required]

US TV

WGN America renews: Underground
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

Getaway Productions developing: adaptation of Atavist Magazine’s serialised crime stories The Mastermind
Showtime developing: action comedy Manhunt
Nicki Micheaux and Dorian Missick to recur on TNT’s Animal Kingdom
Fox red lights: Famous

New US TV show casting

The 217 cast members of Showtime’s Twin Peaks
Lucien Laviscount to play Romeo in ABC’s Still Star-Crossed

News: new Doctor Who companion; BBC budget switches; less Grimm; M6’s Frozen Dead; + more

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Doctor Who

Pearl Mackie to be new companion

Film

Pamela Anderson joins Baywatch

Australian TV

ABC green lights: adaptation of Elliot Perlman’s psychological mystery Seven Types of Ambiguity, with Hugo Weaving et al

Canadian TV

CBC green lights: adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal

French TV

M6 green lights: thriller The Frozen Dead [subscription required]

UK TV

Trailer for series 3 of Peaky Blinders
BBC One to gain £60m, BBC Two to lose £20m [subscription required]

US TV

Grimm episode count cut
Thursday ratings

News: Carrie-Anne Moss joins Humans; Krypton pilot; HBO renewals; Dickensian cancelled; + more

22 April 2016 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Film casting

Robert Downey Jr joins Spider-Man: Homecoming

International TV

Japan’s Wowwow green lights: adaptation of CBS’s Cold Case

UK TV

BBC One cancels: Dickensian

UK TV show casting

Carrie-Anne Moss, Sam Palladio, Marhsall Allman et al joins Humans

New UK TV show casting

Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie, Finn Atkins et al join BBC One’s To Walk Invisible

US TV

HBO renews: Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon Valley
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Heather Graham, Danny Pudi, Noah Wyle et al to guest on Angie Tribeca

New US TV shows

IFC developing: comedies Todd Barth Can Help You, Canterbury Tales, Detective Lady, How To Rig An Election, Grand Lake, Living With Yourself, and This Land is Ours
OWN renews: Greenleaf
Syfy green lights: pilot of Superman prequel Krypton

New US TV show casting

Cloris Leachman, Peter Stormare, Chris Obi et al join Starz’s American Gods

News: Shannara Chronicles renewed; 6 new Sky shows, 2 new BET shows; Snatch series; + more

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Film trailers

Teaser trailer for The Girl on the Train, with Emily Blunt
Trailer for The Magnificent Seven, with Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt et al
Trailer for Jason Bourne

Internet TV

Crackle green lights: adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s Snatch
Trailer for Crackle’s StartUp
Trailer for Netflix’s Lady Dynamite
BBC Three green lights: Phoebe Waller-Bridge comedy Fleabag

Canadian TV

Alex Høgh Andersen joins Vikings [spoilers]
The Mark Gordon Company developing: adaptation of 1978 Wall Street secretaries comedy web series Whatever, Linda

European TV

Italy’s Lucisano Media Group green lights: adaptation of Enrico Pandiani’s Les Italiens series with Nicolas Winding Refn

New UK TV shows

Sky green lights: Rowan Joffe revenge thriller Tin Star with Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks; Dawn French cooking comedy Delicious; Neil Jordan thriller Riviera with Julia Stiles; adaptation of Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragonslayer; Bill Gallagher US-British period drama Jamestown…
…and John Ridley/Idris Elba Black Power drama Guerrilla

US TV

MTV renews: The Shannara Chronicles
Tuesday ratings

New US TV shows

BET green lights: John Singleton detective drama Rebel and young judge dramedy Benched
Televisa green lights: series of adaptation of Scott Shepherd’s The Seventh Day
Propagate/Valhalla developing: anthology horror TV series adaptation of Lore podcast

New US TV show casting

Jess Weixler joins AMC’s The Son

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News: Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell guest on When We Rise; new Midsomer Murders sidekick; + more

News: Indian Summers cancelled; Underground renewed; the Twin Peaks 217; + more

News: new Doctor Who companion; BBC budget switches; less Grimm; M6’s Frozen Dead; + more

News: Carrie-Anne Moss joins Humans; Krypton pilot; HBO renewals; Dickensian cancelled; + more

News: Shannara Chronicles renewed; 6 new Sky shows, 2 new BET shows; Snatch series; + more

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