US TV

Only two left after these: how are you enjoying them so far? If you’ve missed the previous episodes, here are one and two, here are three and four, and here are five and six.

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Okay, they’re just pretending they don’t like Go On and The Office, because of that naughty Angus T Jones. Nice jab at Studio 60, too.

Friday’s “MacGyver cameo, CBS’s Stephen King adaptation and more original iPlayer content” news

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Films

Nick Hornby to adapt Wild for Reese Witherspoon

Film casting

Hailee Steinfeld joins McG thriller

UK TV

BBC1 and BBC2 factual quota abolished
Netflix picks up Chuck, Fringe and more
Katherine Kelly joins Fields of Blood
Call the Midwife‘s Christmas special and second series
Welsh government demands Pobol Y Cwm badgers episode be pulled
Doug Naylor writing new Red Dwarfs
BBC to add more original content to the iPlayer

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV casting

Richard Dean Anderson to guest on Don’t Trust The B—-
Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldblum to return to The League
Regina King to guest on Big Bang Theory
Richard Karn to guest on Last Man Standing
Diane Farr to recur on Private Practice

New US TV shows

ABC to remake BBC2’s Vexed [subscription required]
Fox to adapt Rubí, developing Slaty Fork
Cinemax developing Kingpin
CBS orders adaptation of Stephen King’s Under The Dome from Steven Spielberg
Wonder Woman to be (codenamed?) Iris?

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