News: Toby Jones is Marvellous, Gemma Arterton sings Made in Dagenham, pilot casting + more

4 March 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Theatre

New UK TV show casting

New US TV show casting

  • Rob Brown joins NBC’s Salvation, Drew Powell to recur on Fox’s Gotham
  • Benito Martinez and W Earl Brown join ABC’s American Crime
  • Rich Sommer to co-star on CBS’s Good Session, Brian Howe to co-star on Save The Date
  • Stacey McGunnigle to star in NBC’s Ellen More Or Less
  • Christina Kirk to star in NBC’s A to Z, Yara Shahidi to co-star in ABC Anthony Anderson comedy
  • Gabriel Luna to star in El Rey’s Matador
  • Abbie Cobb joins ABC’s Warriors

Explore diversity with The (female) Wolf of Wall Street and Mad Black Men

3 March 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

It’s an interesting exercise to see how strange cultural norms are if you flip them in some way. So prepare to have your mind slightly boggled by these two videos. The first sees a gender-reversed version of the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street (original: sexist or merely reflecting a sexist world? Discuss), while the second is actually a trailer for a six-part web series, Mad Black Men, which rather than swap black and white, looks at the 1960s ad industry from the point of view of its few black employees.

[via Slate, Adage]

News

News: Many new BBC1 shows, a new Matrix triology? and no more Single Ladies + more

3 March 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Film

Trailers

Canadian TV

  • Trailer for season 2 of Orphan Black

UK TV

New UK TV shows

New UK TV show casting

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV shows casting

  • Dean Winters to co-star in Vince Gilligan’s Battle Creek
  • Sarah Baker joins CBS’s The Odd Couple
  • Brian O’Byrne to star in ABC’s Exposed, Jessica Knappett and Iris Bahr join Irreversible and Henry Simmons joins Saint Francis
  • Dylan McDermott joins Kevin Williamson’s CBS drama
  • Max Brown to star in Fox’s Hieroglyph
  • Ethan Suplee joins TV Land’s Jennifer Falls
  • Aimee Garcia joins CBS’s Red Zone, Billy Brown joins ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder
  • Tituss Burgess joins NBC’s Tooken
  • Jon Fletcher joins The CW’s Messengers + casting on NBC’s Coercion and TNT’s Legends
  • Riley Smith joins HBO’s True Blood