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The Shannara Chronicles cancelled; 9-1-1 renewed; + more

17 January 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Internet TV

Facebook Watch green lights: series adaptation of Stephanie Oakes’ The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly as Sacred Lies
Netflix developing: supernatural drama Catrina: La Santa Muerte, with Blanca Soto
New trailer for Amazon’s Breathe

German TV

TNT Comedy green lights: series of comedy noir Arthur’s Gesetz (Arthur’s Law) [subscription required]

UK TV

Syfy acquires: lone survivor with magical powers drama The Outpost

Spike cancels: The Shannara Chronicles
Fox renews: 9-1-1
Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Skye Marshall to recur on The CW’s Black Lightning
Scott McNairy joins HBO’s True Detective

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of web series Mi Hermanastro
TNT developing: period criminal nun drama The Black Veil
JJ Abrams developing: drama about the world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force

New US TV show casting

Idara Victor, Tyrone Brown, Kadeem Hardison et al join OWN’s Love Is____

Agatha Raisin’s new home; Gary Oldman hunts a cannibal; + more

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UK TV

ITV green lights: Hillsborough justice drama Anne
Sky 1 cancels: Agatha Raisin

US TV

Acorn TV renews: Sky 1’s Agatha Raisin
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

Crackle developing: immortal cannibal serial killer drama The Butcher, with Gary Oldman, and Rob Riggle’s Jet Ski Academy

Clique, Liar, Chewing Gum, The Walking Dead, Stan Against Evil renewed; Lady Dynamite cancelled; + more

15 January 2018 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Internet TV

Andy Allo to star in Amazon’s Upload
Mira Sorvino to guest on Crackle’s StartUp
Netflix cancels: Lady Dynamite

UK TV

BBC Three renews: Clique
Channel 4 developing: adaptation of Monsters
E4 renews: Chewing Gum
ITV/Sundance (US) renew: Liar

US TV

AMC renews: The Walking Dead
IFC renews: Stan Against Evil
Trailer for season two of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez join AT&T’s Mr Mercedes
JR Cacia to recur on The CW’s Dynasty
Marisa Tomei to guest on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

New US TV series

Trailer for HBO’s Here and Now
Trailer for Hulu’s The Looming Tower
3AD developing: adaptation of Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay’s Buddhist detective books as First Rule of Ten
Hulu green lights: George Clooney’s Catch-22 adaptation
NBC green lights: pilots of Bellevue Hospital drama and clairvoyant police drama In Between Lives
Shane Black and Fred Dekker developing: reboot of ITV’s The Avengers
Starz green lights: John Wick TV series The Continental, with Keanu Reeves

New US TV show casting

Jeffrey Self, Chrissie Fit, H Jon Benjamin et al to star in Pop’s The Demons of Dorian Gunn

Derry Girls renewed; US Bletchley Circle spin-off; JLo double W&G; + more

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Internet TV

New trailer for Netflix’s Altered Carbon
Nancy Travis to co-star in Netflix’s The Kominsky Method

UK TV

Wunmi Mosaku joins BBC One’s Luther
Drama acquires: Nine (Australia)’s Doctor, Doctor (The Heart Guy)
Channel 4 renews: Derry Girls

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Fiona Gubelmann to recur on ABC’s The Good Doctor
Brooke Shields to recur on The CW’s Jane The Virgin
Jennifer Lopez to play herself and her Shades of Blue character on NBC’s Will & Grace

New US TV shows

BritBox green lights: spin-off of ITV’s The Bletchley Circle called The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, with Rachel Stirling and Julie Graham
Hulu developing: adaptations of Jade Chang’s The Wangs vs The World…
…and Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl as Search and Destroy

New US TV show casting

Brad Garrett to recur on Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here

Sharon Horgan’s Shining Vale; Deep State, Silicon Valley, Let’s Get Physical trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: series of supernatural heart donation horror drama Chambers
Apple green lights: series of world-building future drama See

International TV

Trailer for Fox’s Deep State

UK TV

Casting on ITV’s Endeavour

US TV

Trailer for season 5 of HBO’s Silicon Valley
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Michael J Fox to guest on ABC’s Designated Survivor
Kristin Chenoweth to guest on CBS’s Mom

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of music-driven family drama inspired by Selena Quintanilla
Anonymous/Paramount developing: adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram
Paramount developing: adaptation of BBC One’s Accused
TruTV green lights: pilot of bored firefighters comedy Tacoma FD
Showtime green lights: pilot of Sharon Horgan mental illness horror comedy Shining Vale
TNT green lights: series of Snowpiercer adaptation, with Jennifer Connelly, et al
Trailer for Pop’s Let’s Get Physical

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