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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God Friended Me renewed; Chucky, To Catch a Thief TV series; + more
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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
US TV
When Carrie Bradshaw met The Dude
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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Internet TV
- Amazon green lights: pilot of student social disasters comedy Half-Empty, with Cazzie David
- Netflix green lights: series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s The Stranger, with Richard Armitage…
- …acquires: Indian anthology crime drama Golden Caravan’s Delhi Crime
International TV
- NTV (Russia) green lights: adaptation of Canal+ (France)’s Guyane (Ouro)
- HBO Europe green lights: adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s Beartown
UK TV
- Jo Brand and Morwenna Banks developing: OAPs behaving badly comedy
- Trailer for Channel 4’s Traitors
US TV
US TV show casting
- JoBeth Williams to guest on ABC’s Station 19
- Tyler Alvarez to recur on Hulu’s Veronica Mars
New US TV shows
- ABC green lights: pilot adaptations of Reshet 13 (Israel)’s Ad Hatuna as Until The Wedding and Keshet (Israel)’s Beauty and the Baker as The Baker and the Beauty
- CBS green lights: pilot of medical second career comedy Carol’s Second Act, with Patricia Heaton
- Fox green lights: pilot of serial killer’s psychologist son cop drama Prodigal Son
- NBC green lights: pilot of immigrant dream comedy, with Kal Penn
- USA green lights: series of high school cheerleading drama Dare Me, with Herizen Guardiola, Marlo Kelly and Willa Fizgerald
- Freeform developing: biopic of Black Panther Party leader Elaine Brown and daughter Ericka Suzanne Party Girls
New US TV show casting
- Taissa Farmiga, Rhea Seehorn, Luke Kirby et al to guest on CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
News
FBI, Magnum P.I., The Neighborhood renewed; Stan Against Evil cancelled; + more
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Internet TV
- Sherri Saum and Griffin Gluck join Netflix’s Locke & Key, Steven Williams to recur
- Aya Cash and Lennon Parham join YouTube’s Edge of Seventeen
- Netflix green lights: adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes
Scandinavian TV
- Trailer for season 2 of Kanal 5 (Denmark)’s Gidseltagningen (Below The Surface)
UK TV
US TV
- CBS renews: FBI, Magnum P.I. and The Neighborhood
- IFC cancels: Stan Against Evil
New US TV shows
- Trailer for USA’s Pearson
- CBS green lights: pilots of medical drama Under the Bridge and police drama Nancy
- NBC green lights: pilot of church choir comedy with Bradley Whitford
- Freeform developing: subversive romantic comedy The Girlfriend
New US TV show casting
- Marika Domińczyk to recur, Christa Miller to guest on ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier
- Meagan Tandy, Camrus Johnson and Nicole Kang join The CW’s Batwoman
- Jasmine Cephas Jones to recur on HBO’s Mrs Fletcher
- Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Paddy Considine et al join HBO’s The Outsider
