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News: Walter Presents Réttur & Hellfjord; Mistresses, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll cancelled; German death-by-beer drama; + more

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Internet TV

Hulu green lights: series of alien invasion comedy Future Man
Richard Madden to star in Aamazon’s The Book of Strange New Things
Walter Presents acquires: Channel 2 Iceland’s Réttur (Case) and NRK1 Norway’s Hellfjord

Australian TV

Seven developing: Shane Warne biopic
Trailer for SBS’s Deep Water

European TV

Germany’s Das Erste developing: crime drama about foreign student murdered in beer Bierleichen [subscription required]

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Trailer for season 4 of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
ABC cancels: Mistresses
FX cancels: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

US TV show casting

Kara Royster to guest on Supernatural
Betty Buckley to guest on Chicago Med
Brian Dennehy to recur on Hap & Leonard

New US TV shows

NBC developing: sports medicine and psychology drama…
…and Kourtney Kang family comedy
CBS developing: interracial family comedy The Mix Up
New promo for FX’s Legion [US only]
HBO developing: Jim Jones series Raven

New US TV show casting

Jacob Ming-Trent joins Showtime’s White Famous
Tobias Menzies to star in AMC’s The Terror

That time a Star Trek comic book artist got the colours very badly wrong

9 September 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Oops.

News: The Last Ship re-renewed; Joe Manganiello is movie Deathstroke; + more

9 September 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

Joe Manganiello to play Deathstroke in new Batman movie

Internet TV

New trailer for Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
Trailer for Amazon’s Goliath

US TV

Trailer for season four of Black Sails
Teaser for season 12 of Supernatural
Trailer for season two of Code Black
TNT re-renews: The Last Ship for fifth season
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Anthony Edwards to guest on Law & Order: SVU

New US TV shows

NBC developing: high-action search and rescue drama First Responders
WB TV developing: adaptation of Nathan Hill’s The Nix, with Meryl Streep
Fox green lights: pilot of adaptation of Black Lightning
The Jackal Group developing: adaptation of Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists
ABC developing: multi-generational soap American Heritage…
…and widow comedy Women in Black

New US TV show casting

Alexandra Grey to guest on CBS’s Doubt
Aasif Mandvi, Maya Kazan, Robin Bartlett et al join TBS’s World’s End

Beware of strangers, warns Worzel Gummidge

8 September 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

If you don’t, you’ll end up dead.

It’s on the 7″ single of “Worzel’s warning” by Worzel Gummidge, for those who are interested.

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News: Tyrant cancelled; Jessica Biel is The Sinner; new Wake In Fright adaptation; + more

8 September 2016 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

David Cronenberg to co-star in Netflix’s Alias Grace
Nia Jervier and Wyatt Nash to recur on Netflix’s Dear White People
O-T Fagbenle to recur on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Hulu developing: adaptation of Sarah J Maas’ Throne of Glass series as Queen of Shadows

Australian TV

Ten developing: adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s Wake In Fright

Scandinavian TV

Dramacorp developing: adaptation of Jan Guilou’s Hamilton books as Hamilton

New UK TV shows

Trailer for ITV’s The Level

US TV

FX cancels: Tyrant
Trailer for season 3 of The Flash
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Camryn Manheim to recur on Major Crimes [spoilers]

New US TV shows

NBC developing: adaptation of Jeremy Blachman and Cameron Stracher’s The Curve: A Novel
FX developing: AI horror Basilisk
USA green lights: pilot of adaptation of Petra Hammesfahr’s The Sinner, with Jessica Biel

New US TV show casting

Emma Caulfield to guest on CBS’s Training Day
Kevin Connolly to recur on Fox’s Pitch

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The Medium is Not Enough

Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

News: Walter Presents Réttur & Hellfjord; Mistresses, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll cancelled; German death-by-beer drama; + more

That time a Star Trek comic book artist got the colours very badly wrong

News: The Last Ship re-renewed; Joe Manganiello is movie Deathstroke; + more

Beware of strangers, warns Worzel Gummidge

News: Tyrant cancelled; Jessica Biel is The Sinner; new Wake In Fright adaptation; + more

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent