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Stranger Things, Motherland renewed; TVPlayer goes French; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Insatiable
Sendhil Ramamurthy to recur on Netflix’s Never Have I Ever
Netflix renews: Stranger Things

French TV

Charlie Bruneau, Grégoire Bonnet, Catherine Alric et al join France 2’s Le mensonge (The Lie)

Daniel Ings, Leila Farzad and Nathaniel Martello-White join Sky’s I Hate Suzie
BBC Two renews: Motherland
Alchimie acquires TVPlayer, adds 40,000 hours of content

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of Hulu’s Castle Rock

US TV show casting

Christian Kane to guest on The CW’s Supernatural

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for Freeform’s Everything’s Gonna Be Okay
CBS developing: definitely not Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) PI with a ghost partner drama Soul Survivor
Fox developing: country music family dynasty drama
Universal TV developing: adaptation of Chelsea Handler’s Life Will Be the Death of Me

New US TV show casting

Georgina Reilly to recur on ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty
Maria Gabriele de Faria to recur on Fox’s A Moody Christmas
Arturo Castro joins HBO Max’s Delilah
Sonoya Mizuno to co-star in HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant

PLL: The Perfectionists cancelled; War of the Worlds trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Jim Parsons, Dylan McDermott, Joe Mantello et al join Netflix’s Hollywood

French TV

OCS green lights: a cleaner, a Parisian, a crime boss and a dead body crime drama Cheyenne et Lola (Cheyenne and Lola), with Veerle Baetens, Charlotte Le Bon, Patrick d’Assumçao et al

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s The War of the Worlds
Rupert Graves joins Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
BritBox to feature on Freeview, YouView and Samsung TV

US TV

Freeform cancels: Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
Trailer for The CW’s Charmed

US TV show casting

Kerr Smith, Reign Edwards, Peter Giles et al to guest on Hulu’s Into The Dark
Margaret Cho to guest on NBC’s L&O:SVU
Miriam A Hyman to recur on Showtime’s The Chi

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of MBC (South Korea)’s Possessed
CBS developing: CDC “special forces” medical drama Control…
…adaptation of United States of Israel’s La Famiglia as The Last Happy Couple…
…and adaptation of William Knoedelseder’s Bitter Brew
Fox developing: online shopping workplace comedy
NBC developing: witchcraft comedy Black Girl Magic

New US TV show casting

Rachel York to recur on Fox’s Filthy Rich
Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice et al join HBO’s Mare of Easttown

On Becoming A God…, Absentia renewed; Birds of Prey’s Huntress returns; + more

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Internet TV

New trailer for Apple TV+’s For All Mankind
Jeremy Pope to star in Netflix’s Hollywood
John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers et al join Netflix’s Space Force, Jimmy O Yang and Alex Sparrow to recur
Amazon renews: Absentia, Josette Simon and Geoff Bell join

Australian/New Zealand TV

Seven (Australia)/TVNZ green light: supernatural crime drama One Lane Bridge, with Dominic Ona-Ariki, Joel Tobeck, Alison Bruce et al
Rupert Reid to replace Marcus Graham on ABC’s The Heights

Canadian TV

Trailer for season 6 of Crave’s Letterkenny

UK TV

Trailer for series 2 of BBC Two’s Motherland

US TV

Trailer for season 6 of The CW’s The Flash
Showtime renews: On Becoming A God In Central Florida

US TV show casting

Ashley Scott to reprise Birds of Prey role on The CW’s Arrowverse crossover, Osric Chau to recur
Chad Rock to recur on The CW’s The 100
Kandi Burruss to recur on Showtime’s The Chi
Ray Stevenson, Peter Egan, Andrew Buchan et al join Starz’s The Spanish Princess

New US TV show casting

Timothy Busfield to co-star in ABC’s For Life
Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Amanda Peet et al join HBO’s The Gilded Age
AnnaSophia Robb, Tiffany Boone, Alona Tal et al to guest on Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
Eduardo Franco, Patrick Gibson, John Karna et al join USA’s Masters of Doom

Miss Fisher movie trailer; Upstart Crow stage show; In Contempt cancelled; + more

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Theatre

BBC Two’s Upstart Crow to become a stage show

Internet TV

David Corenswet to star in Netflix’s Hollywood

Australian/New Zealand TV

Trailer for Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears (2020)
Sky NZ/Acorn TV (US)/CBC (Canada) green light: New Zealand missing person drama The Sounds, with Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Nable, Matt Whelan et al

Scandinavian TV

C More/TV4 (Sweden) green light: Arctic environmental thriller Tunn is (Thin Ice), with Lena Endre, Alexander Karim, Bianca Kronlöf et al

US TV

BET cancels: In Contempt

US TV show casting

Chuku Modu promoted to regular on The CW’s The 100

New US TV shows

New trailer for USA’s Treadstone
Freeform green lights: pilot of multiple timelines thriller Last Summer
Hulu red lights: Ghost Rider
CBS developing: Gen X v millennial cop drama Queens
Fox developing: self-explanatory drama DEA
MGM developing: sequel to ABC’s Thirtysomething

New US TV show casting

Guillermo Diaz joins ABC’s United We Fall
Justice Smith, Chloe East, Michael Johnston et al join HBO Max’s Generation
Ray Romano to star in HBO Max’s Made for Love
Molly Gordon, Rob Morgan, Spencer Garrett join Showtime’s LA Lakers drama
Andrew Scott to star in Showtime’s Ripley

New Arrow spin-off; a new Lee Child adaptation; C5 finds its James Herriot; + more

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Internet TV

Full trailer for Netflix’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Netflix green lights: series of episodic love anthology Notes on Love

Australian TV

ABC green lights: series of outrage comedy Why Are You Like This

UK TV

Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley et al to star in Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small
BBC developing: adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans

US TV show casting

Ebboney Wilson to recur on The CW’s Legacies
Griffin Dunne promoted to regular on NBC’s This is Us
Blythe Danner to recur on Starz’s American Gods

New US TV shows

New trailer for HBO’s Watchmen
CBS developing: flawed cops drama Wet House and adaptation of Lee Child’s The Terminal
The CW developing: female-led Arrow spin-off, with Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy
FX developing: adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s The Spook Who Sat By The Door

New US TV show casting

Daphne Rubin-Vega to recur on The CW’s Katy Keene
Kai Bradbury to recur on Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem
Derek Theler, Beth Riesgraf, Lamont Thompson et al join Paramount’s 68 Whiskey

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