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News: Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder to star in NCIS: New Orleans, a trailer for Chris Carter’s The After + more

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Theatre

Mark Heap and Robert Webb to take over as Jeeves and Wooster

UK TV

BBC4 and BBC Scotland renew: Bob Servant
Universal Channel acquires: Fox’s Rake
Saturday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky1’s The Smoke with Jamie Bamber, Jodie Whitaker, Rhashan Stone et al

US TV

TV Land renews: The Exes
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Max Greenfield to guest on The Mindy Project
Bob Newhart to return to The Big Bang Theory
Colin Salmon joins 24: Live Another Day

New US TV shows

Trailer for Chris Carter’s Amazon pilot The After
Fremantle picks up American Gods rights

New US TV show casting

Scott Bakula to star in CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans…
…as will CCH Pounder and Zoe McLellan
John Ducey joins NBC’s Bad Judge
Jack Davenport joins ABC’s Vuurzee remake Sea of Fire
Ashley Zukerman to star in WGN America’s Manhattan, Whiter Thomas joins Comedy Central’s Crazy House
Ken Marino to co-star in NBC’s Marry Me

Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical

3 February 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film casting

Jesse Eisenberg to play Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons to play Alfred in Superman v Batman
Liam Neeson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Kyle Chandler joins Carol
Zachary Quinto joins Agent 47

Trailers

Superbowl trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Superbowl trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Superbowl trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction
Superbowl teaser for Pompeii

Theatre

Back To The Future: The Musical

UK TV

Sky Arts acquires: DR1’s The Legacy/Arvingerne
5USA acquires: Hallmark’s Cedar Grove

New UK TV shows

BBC4 green lights: Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and The Walshes co-written by Graham Linehan and Diet of Worms

US TV

Chicago PD gets an extra two episodes
New Hannibal promo
Trailer for 24: Live Another Day
Thursday ratings: Rake drops
Friday ratings: Blue Bloods gets highest ratings since it started

US TV casting

Lucy Hale to guest on Baby Daddy
Michael Pitt to recur on Hannibal
Dianne Wiest to guest on The Blacklist
Toni Trucks joins Franklin & Bash

New US TV show casting

David Schwimmer to star in ABC’s remake of Israel’s Bilti Hafich, Irreversible
Grace Gummer joins CBS’s Extant
Christina Cole and Carole Bouquet joins NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
Tony Hale to guest on NBC’s About A Boy adaptation
Matt McGorry joins ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, Mike Colter joins TNT’s Agent X
Penny Marshall and Lorraine Bracco to guest on Fox’s Mulaney

More Banshee, more Still Open All Hours and more Rob Schneider

31 January 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

UK TV

BBC1 green lights: Still Open All Hours series
Sky and HBO to co-commission drama
S4C now available on YouView

US TV

Cinemax renews: Banshee
Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Tony Trucks joins Franklin & Bash

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: pilots for comedy The Mistake…
…and terrorist drama
MTV green lights: series of drama Finding Carter
ABC green lights: comedy pilots Damaged Goods and Selfie
HBO developing: adaptation of Lookaway, Lookaway
Rob Schneider independently producing his own sitcom
Trailer for El Rey’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

New US TV show casting

Timothy Omundson to star in ABC’s Galavant
Jocko Sims to be a regular on TNT’s The Last Ship
Dora Madison Burge to recur on The CW’s Star-Crossed

ITV to launch a pay TV channel, more Inside No 9, and a Supernatural spin-off

30 January 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Thor 3 gets some writers

Film casting

Daniel Craig to star in The Whole Truth

UK TV

ITV to launch pay TV drama channel on Sky
iPlayer requests up by a third in 2013
BBC2 renews: Inside No 9
ITV cancels: Breathless
UKTV adds Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi to Sky’s On Demand

New UK TV shows

BBC Scotland green lights: pilot of comedy Mountain Men

US TV

Fox renews: Bones

US TV show casting

Lori Petty to guest on Orange is the New Black
Gene Simmons to guest on CSI
Jeremy Davies and Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Hannibal

New US TV shows

Amazon developing: pilots from Whit Stillman and Shaun Cassidy
CBS greenlights: comedy More Time With Family
The CW green lights: Supernatural spin-off, iZombie and Flash pilots…
…as well as pilots for Identity and Jane the Virgin
ABC green lights: The Winklers pilot, with Henry Winkler

New US TV show casting

Tea Leoni to star in CBS’s Madam Secretary
Goran Visnjic to recur on CBS’s Extant
Jennifer Carpenter to star in ABC’s Sea of Fire, Patrick Murney joins TNT’s Public Morals

What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2014

29 January 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in March 2014. Not much on this month, because of the full film schedule, but previews of the final two parts of the ‘Worricker Trilogy’, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, as well as a showing of the first part, Page Eight, and a short season of TV documentaries by Mira Hamermesh, including Maids and Madams, Talking to the Enemy and Loving the Dead.

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News: Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder to star in NCIS: New Orleans, a trailer for Chris Carter’s The After + more

Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical

More Banshee, more Still Open All Hours and more Rob Schneider

ITV to launch a pay TV channel, more Inside No 9, and a Supernatural spin-off

What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2014

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