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News: classic sitcom revivals, Memento remake, Detroit puppet comedy, Ryan Gosling’s in Blade Runner 2 + more

17 November 2015 Rob Buckley 20 Comments

Film

Memento remake planned

Film casting

Ryan Gosling joins Blade Runner 2

Australian TV

SBS green lights: series of gay hate crimes drama Deep Water

International TV

Trailer for South Africa’s e.tv’s Jongo

Internet/Canadian TV

Jason Momoa to star in Netflix/Discovery Canada’s Frontier

UK TV show casting

Paul Nicholls, Sandra Huggett, Andrew Buckley and Gemma Dobson join In The Club
Lily James, Peter Egan and Matt Barber to return to Downton Abbey, Patricia Hodge to guest

New UK TV shows

BBC One developing: specials/series of The Good Life, Are You Being Served?, Up Pompeii! and Keeping Up Appearances

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Erin Breen to recur on Silicon Valley
Jonathan Whitesell and Kacey Rohol to guest on Once Upon A Time
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dave Grohl to guest on The Muppets
Bailey Chase to recur on Grimm

New US TV shows

ABC developing: Mexican-American food factory comedy Picante…
…adaptation of eccentric small town comedy Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
TBS developing: Detroit puppet comedy The D
CBS developing: adaptation of long-distance dating comedy 7P/10E as My Time/Your Time…
…New York magic comedy New York Mythological
Trailer for HBO’s Vinyl

New US TV show casting

Miriam Shor to guest on HBO’s High Maintenance
Rob Heaps to star in Bravo’s My So Called Wife
Bailey Chase to recur on Showtime’s Twin Peaks

News: a Porridge spin-off, Wicked City cancelled, John Cardinal books adapted + more

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Canadian TV

CTV green lights: adaptation of Giles Blunt’s John Cardinal mysteries, Cardinal

New UK TV shows

BBC One green lights: pilot of Porridge spin-off

US TV

US TV show casting

Gaius Charles to guest on Blindspot

New US TV shows

CBS developing: unconventional-family comedy
Fox green lights: put pilot of high school basketball felon drama Soar
NBC developing: regret-free life comedy

New US TV show casting

Tamlyn Tomita, Richard Dillane, Leland Orser et al join Epix’s Berlin Station

News: Murder In The First, Unforgotten renewed, Andy Garcia joins Ballers, US Torpederna adaptation + more

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Internet TV

ABC America developing: original series for WatchABC
Max Ehrich to recur on Hulu’s The Path
Amazon Instant Video available on UK Roku

UK TV

ITV renews: Unforgotten

US TV

TNT renews: Murder In The First
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Better Call Saul
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Eliza Coupe to recur on Quantico
Georgina Haig to recur on Limitless
Andy Garcia joins Ballers

New US TV shows

FX developing: dark restaurant chain comedy Starters
Paramount TV developing: adaptation of TV4 Sweden’s Torpederna as Legbreakers
HBO developing: cancer survivor dramedy When I’m Sixty-Four
CBS developing: West Coast Mexican-American law enforcement family drama Protect & Serve

New US TV show casting

Amber Skye Noyes joins HBO’s The Deuce
Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Justin Hartley et al join NBC family comedy
Satya Bhabha joins TBS’s sensitive men comedy

What TV’s on at the BFI in December? Including Peter & Wendy, Dickensian and Churchill’s Secret

11 November 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s the final month of the BFI’s 2015 calendar and rather than looking behind, most of the highlights of December are previews of forthcoming TV shows, complete with Q&As with cast and crew. Well, I say look ahead, but they’re almost all all period dramas – ITV’s Peter Pan reimagining Peter & Wendy, BBC’s massive 20-part (Ed: surely shome mishtake?) Dickens crossover Dickensian and ITV’s dying Churchill biopic Churchill’s Secret. But there’s also a preview of a new David Walliams kids book adaptation, a season of plays and TV films about love and a Missing Believed Wipe mini-season dedicated to continuity footage – yes, an evening dedicated to things like this:

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News: The Eagle Is Landing again, American Horror Story renewed, Son of Zorn + more

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Internet TV

New Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones trailer
Trailer for season 2 of Transparent
Hulu developing: Stephenie Meyer adaptation of The Rook

New UK TV shows

BBC One developing: three-part The Eagle Has Landed adaptation

US TV shows

Trailer for season 2 of American Crime
FX renews: American Horror Story
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Alysia Reiner to recur on Rosewood
Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins The Walking Dead
Sara Rue to recur on Bones

New US TV shows

Fox green lights: series of live-action/animated comedy Son of Zorn
CBS developing: doctor brothers comedy
Fox’s Lookinglass changes name again to Second Chance
TBS developing: call centre comedy 1-800
HBO developing: historical home party drama
NBC developing: writing brothers comedy Relative Success

New US TV show casting

Mark Kendall to recur on NBC’s Chicago Med
Edi Gathegi to recur on Into The Badlands

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