An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.
The Vampire Diaries cast read out fan fiction
And try to keep a straight face.
US TV
Friday’s “More Psychobitches, USA’s ‘transhuman’ drama, and cancellations and renewals” news
Film
- Cary Elwes to direct biopic about The Who’s manager
Film casting
- Dylan McDermott joins Mercy
- Bobby Moynihan joins Delivery Man
- Sheridan Smith joins Powder Room
- Amber Heard joins Three Days To Kill
- Garrett Hedlund returning for Tron 3
Trailers
- Final trailer for Zero Dark Thirty
UK TV
- Sky Arts orders full series of Psychobitches
- BBC2 hoping to air archive shows during the daytime
- Sky 1 ratings down [subscription required]
- C4 reducing its commissioning budget [subscription required]
- Watch acquires Do No Harm
- CBS Drama joins Virgin
US TV
- Retired at 35 cancelled
- Three more episodes for Whitney
- A second season for The Soul Man and a third season for The Exes
- OWN orders Tyler Perry drama and comedy series
- Wednesday ratings: everything’s down
US TV casting
- Adam Brody to recur on House of Lies
- Ashley Benson to guest on How I Met Your Mother
- Rosie O’Donnell to guest on Smash
New US TV shows
New US TV show casting
- Kelen Coleman joins Super Fun Night
Thursday’s “Gillian Anderson to guest on Hannibal, MTV acquires Underemployed and a Southland teaser” news
Film casting
- Peter Fonda joins The Harvest
- Penn Badgley and Hill Harper join Parts Per Billion
- Johnny Depp joins Transcendence
Trailers
- Trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim
- Trailer for GI Joe: Retaliation
- Trailer for Haunting in Georgia
- Clip from Freeloaders, with Olivia Munn
International TV
- Unit One with Mads Mikkelson out on DVD on 21st January in the UK
UK TV
- MTV picks up Underemployed
- Angus Deayton joins Waterloo Road
US TV
- Teaser for season 5 of Southland
- Hell on Wheels finds a new showrunner
- Tuesday ratings
US TV casting
- Sandra Vergara to guest on CSI
- Billy Campbell, Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes out of The Killing (if it happens)
New US TV shows
- John Leguizamo developing ABC comedy based on his life
- ABC developing The Returned
New US TV show casting
- Margo Martindale joins The Americans
- Gillian Anderson to recur on Hannibal
News
Wednesday’s “More Arrested Development, Weird Desk shelved and three modern day period dramas” news
Film
- Salt 2 gets a new writer
Film casting
- Ray Liotta joins Uwe Boll’s Suddenly
- Michael Shannon and Samantha Morton to star in John McNaughton’s The Harvest
- Gillian Jacobs joins Walk of Shame
Trailers
- New trailer for The Lone Ranger
- New trailer for Man of Steel
- Trailer for Welcome To The Punch with James McAvoy and Mark Strong
UK TV
- Some Girls gets a second series
- Sky 1 acquires Revolution
- Morph returns online
- S4C budget for the next two years
US TV
- More episodes for Arrested Development
- Sunday cable ratings: Homeland and Dexter still growing
- Monday ratings: CBS wins for the first time this fall
US TV casting
- Teen Wolf‘s Colton Haynes to recur on Arrow
New US TV shows
- ABC shelves Weird Desk
- ABC Family developing two Romeo and Juliet dramas
- Lifetime developing modern day Pride and Prejudice Darcy’s Town
- CBS buys single mum comedy from Chuck Lorre
- Bravo developing Moguls
- Discovery working on first scripted series, Klondike
- AMC developing period comedy We Hate Paul Revere
New US TV show casting
- James Cromwell to guest on Do No Harm
Tuesday’s “Switch and Me and Mrs Jones axed, Elisha Dushku joins The Saint and FX picks up Tyrant” news
Film casting
- Glenn Close and Nick Nolte join Always On My Mind
- Martin Sheen returns for Amazing Spider-man 2
Trailers
- Trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s After Earth, with Will and Jaden Smith
UK TV
- Second series for Last Tango in Halifax
- Me and Mrs Jones axed
- Switch axed
US TV
- Trailer for season 3 of Shameless
- Sunday ratings
US TV casting
- Robert Patrick to be a regular on True Blood
- Brenda Song to recur on New Girl
- RuPaul to guest on Happy Endings
- Ever Carradine to guest on Bones
- Sarah Jane Morris to guest on Body of Proof
- The guest stars for Californication season 6
New US TV shows
- Fox developing viral video Upstairs into comedy
- FX orders pilot of Tyrant from Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff
New US TV show casting
- Eliza Dushku joins The Saint, Roger Moore to co-produce