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News

[ 22 December 2021 ] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The most Nicolas Cage movie ever?
[ 22 November 2021 ] Unexpectedly, there’s a Russian Film Festival and no one told me
[ 22 October 2021 ] December 2021 at the BFI, including Jack Clayton and Dirk Bogarde at 100
[ 5 October 2021 ] BFI Japan comes to big screens UK-wide this Autumn

News: Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder to star in NCIS: New Orleans, a trailer for Chris Carter’s The After + more

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Theatre

Mark Heap and Robert Webb to take over as Jeeves and Wooster

UK TV

BBC4 and BBC Scotland renew: Bob Servant
Universal Channel acquires: Fox’s Rake
Saturday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Sky1’s The Smoke with Jamie Bamber, Jodie Whitaker, Rhashan Stone et al

US TV

TV Land renews: The Exes
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Max Greenfield to guest on The Mindy Project
Bob Newhart to return to The Big Bang Theory
Colin Salmon joins 24: Live Another Day

New US TV shows

Trailer for Chris Carter’s Amazon pilot The After
Fremantle picks up American Gods rights

New US TV show casting

Scott Bakula to star in CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans…
…as will CCH Pounder and Zoe McLellan
John Ducey joins NBC’s Bad Judge
Jack Davenport joins ABC’s Vuurzee remake Sea of Fire
Ashley Zukerman to star in WGN America’s Manhattan, Whiter Thomas joins Comedy Central’s Crazy House
Ken Marino to co-star in NBC’s Marry Me

Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical

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Film casting

Jesse Eisenberg to play Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons to play Alfred in Superman v Batman
Liam Neeson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Kyle Chandler joins Carol
Zachary Quinto joins Agent 47

Trailers

Superbowl trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Superbowl trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Superbowl trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction
Superbowl teaser for Pompeii

Theatre

Back To The Future: The Musical

UK TV

Sky Arts acquires: DR1’s The Legacy/Arvingerne
5USA acquires: Hallmark’s Cedar Grove

New UK TV shows

BBC4 green lights: Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and The Walshes co-written by Graham Linehan and Diet of Worms

US TV

Chicago PD gets an extra two episodes
New Hannibal promo
Trailer for 24: Live Another Day
Thursday ratings: Rake drops
Friday ratings: Blue Bloods gets highest ratings since it started

US TV casting

Lucy Hale to guest on Baby Daddy
Michael Pitt to recur on Hannibal
Dianne Wiest to guest on The Blacklist
Toni Trucks joins Franklin & Bash

New US TV show casting

David Schwimmer to star in ABC’s remake of Israel’s Bilti Hafich, Irreversible
Grace Gummer joins CBS’s Extant
Christina Cole and Carole Bouquet joins NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
Tony Hale to guest on NBC’s About A Boy adaptation
Matt McGorry joins ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, Mike Colter joins TNT’s Agent X
Penny Marshall and Lorraine Bracco to guest on Fox’s Mulaney

BBC Brit, Sky uploads to YouTube, Birds of Prey and a Salamander

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Film

Elizabeth Banks to direct Pitch Perfect 2

Trailers

Trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
Trailer for Maleficent with Angelina Jolie

International TV

Top Gear to be focus of new global BBC Brit channel

UK TV

Sky to offer full episodes on YouTube
Trailer for BBC4’s Salamander
Sunday ratings

New UK TV show casting

Lennie James to star in Sky1’s Critical

US TV

The Fosters to get a web series spin-off
Saturday cable ratings: Black Sails strongest ever new series premiere for Starz…
…and Sherlock drops while Downton Abbey stays big
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Jenna Dewan Tatum to guest on The Mindy Project
Huntress returning to Arrow for Birds of Prey episode [minor spoilers]
John Boyega joins 24: Live Another Day

New US TV shows

CBS green lights: female secretary of state drama Madam Secretary…
…and therapy comedy Good Session
ABC green lights: comedies Fresh Off The Boat and Saint Francis
TV Land green lights: Jennifer Falls with Jaime Pressly as single-camera comedy

New US TV show casting

Jonathan Banks joins AMC’s Better Call Saul

A Money Pit remake, Stephen Fry is the Prime Minister and Sharon Stone is the Vice President

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UK TV

BBC dominates 2013’s terrestrial TV

New UK TV shows

London Live green lights: Brothers With No Game and The T-Boy Show
BBC4 green lights: In And Out of the Kitchen remake

US TV

New trailer for season 2 of Hannibal
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV casting

Kathryn Prescott to recur on Reign
Stephen Fry to recur on 24: Live Another Day, plus a returning president [minor spoilers]
Rose McGowan to return to Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: Astronaut Wives Club, Warriors, Agatha and rival socialites drama
NBC green lights: The Money Pit remake and Fifth Wheel
Fox green lights: Lee Daniels’ Empire
FX green lights: Married with Judy Greer and You’re The Worst
USA green lights: Benched with Eliza Coupe

New US TV show casting

Mira Sorvino and James Frain join BBC America’s Intruders
Margaret Cho joins Fox’s Cabot College
Sharon Stone to star in TNT’s Agent X
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins NBC’s Odyssey, Kara Killmer joins NBC’s Tin Man…
…as do Kathleen York and Kristen Connolly
Sarah Hay to star in Starz’s Flesh and Bone
Rick Cosnett and Danielle Panabaker to co-star in The CW’s The Flash

New Murder She Wrote abandoned, Rashida Jones to star in Tribeca, and trailers for Babylon and Those Who Kill

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Film casting

Bruce Willis joins Vice
Olivia Williams, Rory Kinnear, Sharon Horgan et al join Man Up

Trailers

New trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive with Tom Hiddleston

Canadian TV

Rogers Media renews: Package Deal

UK TV

Monday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Channel 4’s Babylon

US TV casting

Tate Donovan joins 24: Live Another Day
Tahmoh Penikett to guest on Criminal Minds

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for FX’s The Strain
NBC red lights: Murder She Wrote reboot
Trailer for A&E’s Those Who Kill remake
Teaser trailers for CBS’s Extant

New US TV show casting

Ben Mendelsohn to co-star in Netflix thriller
Rashida Jones to star in TBS’s Tribeca
Jesse L Martin to co-star in The CW’s The Flash

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News: Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder to star in NCIS: New Orleans, a trailer for Chris Carter’s The After + more

Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical

BBC Brit, Sky uploads to YouTube, Birds of Prey and a Salamander

A Money Pit remake, Stephen Fry is the Prime Minister and Sharon Stone is the Vice President

New Murder She Wrote abandoned, Rashida Jones to star in Tribeca, and trailers for Babylon and Those Who Kill

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