UK TV

News

[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

The Crown renewed and cancelled; a French Un Bore Mercher; Dispatches From Elsewhere acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix renews (and cancels): The Crown, Imelda Staunton joins
Jen Tullock and Zach Cherry join Apple TV+’s Severance

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of BBC Wales/S4C’s Un Bore Mercher (Keeping Faith)

Trailer for Sky 1’s Intelligence
AMC UK acquires: AMC (US)’s Dispatches From Elsewhere

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend

US TV show casting

Paget Brewster to recur on CBS’s Blood & Treasure
Rachel Boston and Tim Chiou to recur on CBS’s SEAL Team

New US TV shows

Trailer for Disney+’s Loki, WandaVision, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The CW green lights: pilot of Lost Boys reboot and presidential family drama Maverick

New US TV show casting

Owen Wilson joins Disney+’s Loki
Linda Hamilton, Mandell Maughan and Alex Barima to recur on Syfy’s Resident Alien

Perpetual Grace LTD cancelled; Åtta månader adaptation; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico
Sarah Shahi to star in Netflix’s Sex/Life
Apple TV+ green lights: series of magical town 1940s musical comedy, with Cecily Strong
Netflix/Canal+ green light: series of daring 40-something LA-set female comedy On the Verge, with Julie Delpy
Netflix green lights: series of country singer turned nanny comedy Country Comfort, with Katharine McPhee and Eddie Cibrian…
…seven original Spanish TV shows

Canadian TV

CTV green lights: series of parents’ lost lives comedy Children Ruin Everything

European TV

TV Joj (Slovakia)/Czech Television green light: Central European legends and folklore drama The Exorcist

Nordic TV

TV4/C More green lights: series adaptation of Magnus Montelius’s Åtta månader (Eight Months)

Spanish TV

Shine Iberia et al developing: adaptation of Miguel Bosé bioseries

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of NBC’s Good Girls
Epix extends and cancels: Perpetual Grace LTD

US TV show casting

Anthony Okungbowa and Bayo Akinfemi promoted to regulars on CBS’s Bob ♥ Abishola

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America
ABC green lights: series of procedural thriller The Big Sky…
…and pilot adaptation of Emily Bleeker’s Wreckage
Amblin developing: adaptation of The Washington Post’s At War with with the Truth
The CW green lights: pilots of Kung Fu reboot and independent town drama Republic of Sarah…
…red lights: The Game
Fox green lights: pilot remake of BBC Three’s This Country
Starz green lights: series of Harlem female friends comedy Run the World
HBO Max developing: coming-of-age drama Afro.Punks

New US TV show casting

Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel and Jack Gilpin join HBO’s The Gilded Age
David Krumholtz to star in USA’s Evel

All the UK trailers; Ray Romano returns to sitcoms; Equalizer gets a pilot; + more

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UK TV

Trailer for season 2 of BBC One’s The Split
Trailer for BBC One’s The Pale Horse
Trailer for season 2 of Channel 4’s Home
Trailer for season 7 of ITV’s Endeavour
ITV green lights: series of police surveillance drama Viewpoint

US TV show casting

Scottie Thompson to guest on CBS’s NCIS: LA
Ray Romano to guest on Pop TV’s One Day at a Time

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: pilot of The Equalizer reboot with Queen Latifah
Hulu developing: songwriting boot camp comedy Hit
HBO Max red lights: Delilah

New US TV show casting

Kelli Goss and Elizabeth Alderfer to co-star in CBS’s United States of Al
Kelli Berglund joins Starz’s Heels

Maroni, Un Bore Mercher renewed; The Undoing trailer; + more

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French TV

Arte renews: Maroni

UK TV

Douglas Henshall joins Channel 4’s Home
BBC Wales/S4C renew and cancel: Un Bore Mercher (Keeping Faith), Celia Imrie joins

US TV show casting

Lauren Bowles to recur on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder
Priscilla Quintana to recur on Freeform’s Good Trouble
Orlando Jones to recur on Spectrum’s LA’s Finest

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s The Undoing
NBC green lights: pilot of parallel lives drama Ordinary Joe
CBS developing: legal comedy We The Jury

New US TV show casting

Jessalyn Gilsig replaces Shiri Appleby on Disney+’s Big Shot
Noah Mills joins Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Paprika Steen, Isabella Crovetti, Glo Tavarez et al join Showtime’s Rita

News

Ambitions cancelled; Sliced renewed;+ more

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Internet TV

Eddie Marsan joins Amazon’s The Power

German TV

Trailer for season 3 of Sky’s Babylon Berlin

UK TV

Dave renews: Sliced
Baby Cow developing: adaptation of Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen

US TV

OWN cancels: Ambitions

US TV show casting

Betty Gilpin joins FX’s American Crime Story

New US TV shows

Disney+ amber lights: Obi-Wan
CBS green lights: kidney donor comedy B Positive
NBC green lights: pilots of rom-com Someone Out There, black people/dating/wine comedy, dating game-changer comedy Crazy For You…
…Jim Jefferies comedy and Detroit car company comedy American Auto
ABC green lights: pilots of empty-nester mum comedy My Village…
…and Erin Brockovich-inspired drama Rebel, with Katey Sagal
Fox green lights: pilot adaptation of Cine.ar (Argentina)’s La Chica Que Limpia as The Cleaning Lady
Universal developing: Latina ensemble drama Tias

New US TV show casting

Tosin Cole and Bentley Green join AMC’s 61st Street

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