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News: ITV to launch ITVBe, Juliette Lewis returns to TV and HBO adapts Utopia + more

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Film casting

Richard Dreyfuss joins Zipper

UK TV

Digital episode of Inside No 9 made available
ITV to launch free channel for young women, ITVBe
Tuesday ratings

US TV

Monday ratings

US TV show casting

Krista Allen to guest on Mistresses
Jeffrey Dean Morgan to guest on Shameless
C Thomas Howell to guest on Grimm
Gregg Henry promoted to regular on The Killing
Emily Rose to recur on Graceland

New US TV shows

HBO greenlights: adaptation of Channel 4’s Utopia
Fox greenlights: Will Forte’s Last Man on Earth

New US TV show casting

Juliette Lewis joins ABC’s Secrets & Lies adaptation
Criistin Milioti joins NBC’s A to Z
Sarah-Jane Potts replaces Georgina Rylance on Fox’s Broadchurch remake Gracepoint
Donal Logue joins Fox’s Gotham
Oscar Nuñez joins USA’s Benched
Jeffrey Norling and Christina Chang to recur on ABC’s Sea of Fire + casting on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder
Jamey Sheridan joins TNT’s Agent X, Rose Rollins to star in TNT’s Guilt By Association
Idara Victor to recur on AMC’s Turn

Watch ‘that scene’ from Sunday’s True Detective

12 February 2014 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Talking of directorial innovation in American TV, HBO/Sky Atlantic’s True Detective has progressively been turning into a ‘must see’ show. Episode four, which aired on Sunday in the US, included a particular directorial flourish that you can watch below: a six-minute long tracking shot, done as a single take. It’s pretty impressive to watch and shouldn’t spoil the story too much if you haven’t been watching and intend to – or if you have been watching but haven’t seen episode four yet.

It reminds me of Point Break‘s famous chase scene, which although not a tracking shot, gave a similar almost first-person view of the narrative.

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Now it’s Cynthia Nixon’s turn to wear a floral crown for Hannibal

12 February 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s tradition.

News: Taylor Lautner is BBC3’s new Cuckoo, the good Sheriff of Nottingham, Flash back + more

12 February 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film casting

Olivia Wilde to star in and produce Reed Morano’s Meadowland

Trailers

New trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson
New trailer for Wally Pfister’s Transcendence with Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall et al

Theatre

Lily Cole to play Helen of Troy in The Last Days of Troy

Canadian TV

CBC greenlights: comedy Schitt’s Creek with Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara

UK TV

Janice Hadlow to step down as controller of BBC2
ITV and Channel 5 licences renewed until 2024 [subscription required]
BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to create Freeview Connect for smart TVs

UK TV show casting

Taylor Lautner to replace Andy Samberg on Cuckoo
Joan Collins to guest on Benidorm

New UK TV shows

Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston and Noel Clarke to star in ITV’s Chasing Shadows

US TV show casting

Michelle Fairley replaces Judy Davis on 24: Live Another Day
Nazanin Boniadi to recur on Scandal
Candace Cameron and Scott Weinger to reunite on The Neighbors
Ron Canada to guest on Elementary

New US TV shows

BBC America developing: Robin Hood/Sheriff of Nottingham reinvention Nottingham
Lifetime greenlights: dystopian future show The Lottery
HBO greenlights: comedy The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins
MTV greenlights: cyberstalker series Eye Candy, will reshoot pilot
USA redlights: Horizon and Divide & Conquer

New US TV show casting

Greta Gerwig to star in CBS’s How I Met Your Dad
Original Flash John Wesley Shipp to recur on The CW’s The Flash
Maggie Lawson to star in CBS’s Save The Date
JoAnna Garcia Swisher joins ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club
Titus Welliver to guest on TNT’s The Last Ship
Sean Pertwee to play Alfred plus other casting on Fox’s Gotham
Annie Wesching joins CBS’s Extant
Katrina Bowden to star in TNT’s Public Morals
Dick Van Dyke and Valerie Harper to recur on Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Ahna O’Reilly to star in The CW’s Identity
Colton Dunn joins NBC’s The Pro, Jonathan Tucker to co-star in DirecTV’s Navy St
Georgina Rylance leaves Fox’s Broadchurch remake Gracepoint

News: more Musketeers and Lewis, less Mob City, a young Transporter + more

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Film casting

Ed Skrein to play young Jason Statham in Transporter prequel movies
Eliza Dushku and Bradley Whitford join Midnight Rider

Trailers

Trailer for Richard Ayoade’s The Double, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska

International TV

Maggie Q to star as pirate Ching Shih in Red Flag

UK TV

BBC1 renews: The Musketeers
ITV1 renews: Lewis
Sunday ratings

US TV

NBC to create web series for Chicago Fire, Parks & Rec, Grimm and Parenthood during the Olympics
CBS adds more shows to Hulu Plus
TNT cancels: Mob City
Teaser for season 3 of Veep
Sunday ratings: Walking Dead gets 15.8m viewers

US TV show casting

Roseanne Barr to guest on The Millers
Barry Watson to recur on Hart of Dixie
Nathalie Emmanuel promoted to regular on Game of Thrones
Vinessa Shaw to recur on Ray Donovan
Michael J Fox to return to The Good Wife

New US TV shows

HBO adapting: A Teacher
AMC developing: civil rights drama Bombingham
CBS green lights: comedy Cuz-Bros pilot
TBS green lights: adaptation of Israeli comedy Your Family or Mine
Teaser for HBO’s Silicon Valley

New US TV show casting

Tom Cavanagh joins The CW’s The Flash
Courtney B Vance and Eloise Mumford join ABC’s Warriors
Lucas Black joins CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans
Nick Zano to co-star on NBC’s One Big Happy
Laurence Fishburne joins ABC’s Black-ish
Kevin Alejandro to co-star on ABC’s Clementine
Ben McKenzie to play Jim Gordon in Fox’s Gotham
Rob Riggle joins NBC’s The Pro
Jamie McShane joins Netflix’s ZKZ
Rita Moreno joins NBC’s Old Soul

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News: ITV to launch ITVBe, Juliette Lewis returns to TV and HBO adapts Utopia + more

Watch ‘that scene’ from Sunday’s True Detective

Now it’s Cynthia Nixon’s turn to wear a floral crown for Hannibal

News: Taylor Lautner is BBC3’s new Cuckoo, the good Sheriff of Nottingham, Flash back + more

News: more Musketeers and Lewis, less Mob City, a young Transporter + more

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