UK TV

An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.

Monday’s “Alan Partridge trailer, Stephen Fry’s a superhero’s butler and BBC4 acquires more foreign shows” news

18 March 2013 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film casting

  • Josh Lawson and Greg Kinnear join Anchorman 2
  • Theo James to star in Divergent with Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller
  • Max Irons to star in Posh

Trailers

  • Trailer for Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa

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New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Stephen Fry joins CBS’s Super Clyde
  • Rainn Wilson to star in CBS’s Backstrom
  • Mike Castle to star in NBC’s Greg Daniels comedy
  • Amber Tamblyn to star CBS’s Anatomy of Violence
  • Tom Berenger off Fox’s Gang Related
  • Amanda Peet to star in HBO’s Togetherness
  • Alex Kapp Horner to star in Fox’s I Suck At Girls, Joshua Erenberg joins Rand Ravich drama…
  • …as do Michael Beach and James Lafferty, while Josh Zuckerman joins NBC’s I Am Victor
  • John Cho to guest on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow
  • Mike Colter joins CBS’s Surgeon General, James Earl and Rene Gube join TBS’s Ground Floor
  • Bruno Ganz to play the Pope in Showtime’s The Vatican

Friday’s “Damian Lewis in Vicar of Dibley, Veronica Mars movie gets go-ahead and Martin Clunes joins Strike Back” news

15 March 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Film casting

UK TV

  • Domino’s funding online football-themed sitcom [subscription required]
  • Damian Lewis to appear in Comic Relief Vicar of Dibley sketch
  • Martin Clunes, Robson Green, Dougray Scott and Milauna Jackson join Strike Back
  • Netflix acquires third season of The Killing (US)

US TV

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Sean Astin to co-star in CBS’s Surgeon General
  • Al Madrigal joins NBC’s About A Boy, Rossif Sutherland to play Nostradamus on The CW’s Reign, Brenda Koo joins Fox’s Delirium
  • Christopher Meloni joins Fox’s I Suck At Girls
  • Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs to star in TNT’s Murder In The First
  • Adam Rodriguez joins CBS’s Reckless…
  • …as does Gregory Harrison, plus casting on ABC’s Westside and NBC’s Undateable
  • Mandy Moore joins CBS’s The Advocates
  • Fox’s The List swaps roles, Hilarie Burton joins
  • Ginger Gonzaga replaces Mercedes Masohn on ABC’s Mixology
  • Casting on NBC’s The Blacklist and AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
  • Casting on Fox’s Boomerang, and The CW’s The Selection and Company Town

Thursday’s “An Avengers stage show, a Kick Ass 2 trailer, Kristin Davis returns to TV and other Doctor Who producer leaves” news

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Film casting

Trailers

Theater

New US TV shows

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Kristin Davis joins CBS’s Bad Teacher
  • Ewen Bremner joins Showtime’s The Vatican
  • Jane Kaczmarek to play Gavin’s mum in Fox’s Gavin & Stacey remake Friends & Family + other pilot casting
  • Adam Goldberg joins ABC’s Divorce: A Love Story, Diego Klattenhoff joins NBC’s The Blacklist + other pilot casting
  • Dermot Mulroney joins NBC spy drama
  • Majandro Delfino moves from ABC’s Keep Calm and Karey On to CBS’s Friends With Better Lives, Nicky Whelan joins TBS’s Do It Yourself
  • Daija Owens joins NBC’s Brenda Forever
  • Casting on ABC’s Westside and Fox’s Two Wrongs
  • Casting on ABC’s Bad Management