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Ben Whishaw to play Freddie Mercury
Colm Feore joins Painkillers
Laura Dern joins 99 Homes

Trailers

Trailer for Godzilla
Trailer for Calvary with Brendan Gleeson

Canadian TV

Patrick J Adams to guest on Orphan Black

International TV

NFI funds third season for Lilyhammer

UK TV casting

Geri Halliwell to guest on Trollied

New UK TV show casting

Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton to star in BBC3’s Siblings

US TV

US TV casting

Megan Mullally to play Sean Hayes’s sister on Sean Saves The World
Dann Florek leaving L&O:SVU
Kevin Pollak to guest on Mom [minor spoilers]
Frances Fisher to guest on Castle

New US TV shows

eOne developing: King David
NBC developing: Jerrod Carmichael comedy…
…and Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
New Helix promo

A Will and Grace reunion, Rosemary has more babies and King David: mafia boss

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Film casting

Ben Whishaw to play Freddie Mercury
Colm Feore joins Painkillers
Laura Dern joins 99 Homes

Trailers

Trailer for Godzilla
Trailer for Calvary with Brendan Gleeson

Canadian TV

Patrick J Adams to guest on Orphan Black

International TV

NFI funds third season for Lilyhammer

UK TV casting

Geri Halliwell to guest on Trollied

New UK TV show casting

Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton to star in BBC3’s Siblings

US TV

US TV casting

Megan Mullally to play Sean Hayes’s sister on Sean Saves The World
Dann Florek leaving L&O:SVU
Kevin Pollak to guest on Mom [minor spoilers]
Frances Fisher to guest on Castle

New US TV shows

eOne developing: King David
NBC developing: Jerrod Carmichael comedy…
…and Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
New Helix promo

Californication cancelled, Jason Bateman’s Bad Words and Fifty Shades of Cylons

10 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Callum Keith Rennie joins Fifty Shades of Grey

Trailers

Trailer for Bad Words with Jason Bateman [NSFW]
Trailer for Jupiter Ascending from the Wachowskis

US TV

Promo for season 2 of Vikings
Showtime cancels: Californication
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

CBS developing: adaptation of The Dovekeepers

New US TV show casting

Patrick Heusinger to star in NBC’s Tim Man
Mimi Kennedy to recur on HBO’s The Brink and guest on ABC’s Mind Games

A proper third season Sherlock trailer – and an interactive extra, too

9 December 2013 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ooh.

UPDATE: And here’s an interactive one, too! Double ooh!

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Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman, a Twenty Twelve spin-off and Low Winter Sun cancelled

9 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Trailer for Amazing Spider-man 2

Film casting

Gal Gadot to play Wonder Woman in Superman v Batman

UK TV

BBC1 cancels: Ripper Street…
…green lights: Twenty Twelve spin-off W1A
BBC2/HBO cancel: Family Tree
Channel 4 trims comedy budget, cuts back on pilots [subscription required]…
…renews: Toast of London
ITV2 remaking: ABC1’s Laid

New UK TV shows

BBC2 green lights: Victoria Wood’s Tubby and Enid

US TV

Dads cut back to 19 episodes…
…Scandal to 18 episodes
AMC cancels: Low Winter Sun
TV Land renews: The Soul Man
Trailer for season 2 of Bates Motel
Wednesday ratings
Wednesday cable ratings: TNT’s Mob City starts low
Friday ratings

US TV casting

Chris Elliott to guest on Community
Lance Reddick to recur on American Horror Story
Tom Everett Scott to recur on Beauty and the Beast
Alexandra Metz to play Rapunzel on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

New Terminator TV series being developed
MTV developing: Shannara adaptation
Trailer for A&E’s Those Who Kill remake with Chloë Sevigny
Entertainment One developing: Pam Grier action show
SyFy green lights: Dominion
Starz developing: remake of Sky Italia’s Romanzo Criminale

New US TV show casting

Sutton Foster to star in TV Land’s Younger
Regina King joins FX’s The Strain
Esai Morales joins HBO’s The Brink
Alan Ruck and Byron Mann to star in USA’s The Novice
Robert Wisdom to star in FX’s Hoke, Nate Mooney to star in NBC’s Odyssey

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A Will and Grace reunion, Rosemary has more babies and King David: mafia boss

A Will and Grace reunion, Rosemary has more babies and King David: mafia boss

Californication cancelled, Jason Bateman’s Bad Words and Fifty Shades of Cylons

A proper third season Sherlock trailer – and an interactive extra, too

Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman, a Twenty Twelve spin-off and Low Winter Sun cancelled

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