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Long-term readers will notice it’s been a while since Ali Larter’s done anything random enough to get mentioned on TMINE. Shame that. Still, she does at least remember to record important dates, like the release of Varsity Blues 20 years ago, so she posted about it on Insta. That’s good enough to temporarily revive a now-defunct blog category, isn’t it?

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Varsity Blues came out 20 years ago! Here’s a behind the scenes picture from my 1st day shooting my 1st real movie. We were all kids hoping to make a movie that connected people to the experiences of a small town. I have so many wonderful memories, and my heart breaks a little for the castmates that aren’t with us anymore. This movie feels like it captured a moment in time! What were you doing when Varsity Blues came out?

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God Friended Me renewed; Chucky, To Catch a Thief TV series; + more

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Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Internet TV

Sasha Lane to star in Amazon’s Utopia
Matt Lauria to recur on Apple’s Dickinson
Ali Ahn to recur on Netflix’s Raising Dion

French TV

Bruno Wolkowitch and David Brécourt to guest on TF1’s Léo Mattéi [in French]

International TV

Viacom developing: adaptation of Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief as Atrapa a un Ladrón
Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, Léa Drucker et al to star in Fox’s War of the Worlds

Scandinavian TV

DR1 (Demark) green lights: Copenhagen terrorist attack drama When the Dust Settles with Karen-Lise Mynster, Jacob Lohmann, Henning Jensen et al

UK TV

Sally Phillips, Alan Armstrung, Paul Kaye et al to guest on Channel 4’s Year of the Rabbit

US TV

CBS renews: God Friended Me

New US TV shows

Teaser for Starz’s The Spanish Princess
ABC green lights: pilots of Bermuda Triangle drama Triangle and adaptation of Greg Rucka’s Stumptown…
…and nontraditional Indian family comedy
CBS green lights: pilot of FBI spin-off Most Wanted
Fox green lights: pilot of all-female car repair company comedy Patty’s Auto
Pop green lights: pilots of high school comedy Best Intentions and spin class detective comedy Ride or Die
Syfy green lights: pilots of father-son AI drama Cipher and dark slasher sci-fi high school drama comedy (Future) Cult Classic
…developing: Chucky adaptation

New US TV show casting

Vanessa Williams to star in ABC’s Happy Accident

When Carrie Bradshaw met The Dude

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This year’s Superbowl is fast-approaching in the US, so expect a lot of high-profile, highly expensive ads to start hitting the YouTubes. First up, we have an unexpected meeting between Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw and The Big Lebowski‘s The Dude, both of whom have decided to forego their normal tipples in favour of Stella Artois this year.

This isn’t quite a one-off, as Carrie (well, Sarah Jessica Parker) also recently recreated the title sequence of Sex and the City for the company’s ‘Pour it forward’ clean water campaign:

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Delhi Crime acquired; pilot season starts in the US; Richard Armitage in Netflix’s The Stranger; + more

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