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Film casting

Jeremy Renner confirmed for Mission: Impossible 5

Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Hemlock Grove

UK TV

Starz’s Power to be available on digital platforms after US airing
ITV Encore to broadcast deleted Broadchurch scenes

New UK TV show casting

Toby Jones, Rachael Striling, Lucy Benjamin et al join BBC4’s Detectorists

US TV

MTV renews: Faking It
Frozen characters to join Once Upon A Time
Saturday ratings

US TV show casting

Michael O’Keefe, Tyler Labine et al to guest on Royal Pains
Eric Roberts to recur on Suits

New US TV shows

Gavin & Stacey remake Us and Them will never air
Trailer for FX’s Married with Judy Greer and Nat Faxon
Trailer for TV Land’s Younger with Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff
Comedy Central green lights: Another Period and Idiotsitter
New trailer for HBO’s The Leftovers

New US TV show casting

John Doman joins Showtime’s The Affair

News: Miriam Margolyes is Trollied, Peyton Reed replaced Edgar Wright on Ant-Man + more

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Film

Peyton Reed to replace Edgar Wright on Ant-Man, Adam McKay to work on the script

Trailers

Teaser trailer for The November Man with Pierce Bronson

Internet TV

Pedro Pascal to star in Netflix’s Narco

UK TV show casting

Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Tompkinson, Aisling Bea et al join Trollied

New UK TV show casting

Keeley Hawes and Michael Gambon joins BBC/HBO’s Casual Vacancy
Paul Nicholls, Haydn Gwynne et all join BBC1’s The C Word
Casting on A&E’s The Returned

News: more Vera, Kellan Lutz comes back to The Comeback, Jeremy Sisto to co-star in The Returned remake + more

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Film casting

Ike Barinholtz joins The Nest with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

Internet TV

Boyd Holbrook joins Netflix’s Narcos

UK TV

ITV renews: Vera
BBC, Channel 4 and ITV agree Freeview Connect deal

New UK TV shows

BBC2 green lights: Life in Squares

US TV

Game of Thrones is most-watched HBO series ever

US TV show casting

Suraj Sharma to recur on Homeland
Kellan Lutz comes back to The Comeback
Merritt Patterson joins E!’s The Royals

New US TV show casting

Jeremy Sisto to co-star in A&E’s The Returned remake
Harry Hamlin, Rachel Nichols join USA’s Rush, Victoria Smurfit, Jesse Luken to guest

News: L&O:UK cancelled, more Penny Dreadful, adaptations of MaddAddam and The Son + more

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UK TV

ITV cancels: Law & Order: UK
Sky Atlantic renews: Penny Dreadful

US TV

Trailer for season 4 of Teen Wolf

US TV show casting

Zuzanna Szadkowski joins Girls
Five guest stars for Royal Pains

New US TV shows

Bryan Cranston developing Dangerous Book for Boys
Extended trailer for FX’s The Strain
HBO developing: Darren Aronofsky’s Margaret Attwood adaptation MaddAddam
AMC developing: Philipp Meyer adaptation The Son

What TV’s on at the BFI in July 2014 + The Wednesday Play: Schmoedipus (1974)

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It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in July 2014. Given that it’s the second part of a season dedicated to his work, this month can again best be summed up by two words: Dennis Potter. And why not?

But there’s also a preview of the second series of The Mill, and a couple of events dedicated to children’s TV throughout the ages as well.

I’ll leave you with this week’s Wednesday Play: Potter’s Schmoedipus, starring Tim Curry, Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. More on that after the jump, though.

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