Monday’s “Fairly Legal, Political Animals cancelled, Life on Mars goes Russian and a 24 reunion” news

Happy Bonfire Night, everyone!

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Steven Doderbergh’s Side Effects, with Rooney Mara, C Z-J, Jude Law et al
  • Trailer for Hitchcock with Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson et al

Theatre

Canadian TV

  • Ratings for the week of October 22

International TV

  • Sam Mendes and John Logan team up for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-style vampire hunter TV show
  • CBS shows added to Netflix
  • Life on Mars to be remade, inverted as The Dark Side of the Moon for Russian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Wednesday’s “Elementary and Vegas full seasons, The CW’s teenage Mary Queen of Scots & more Guys With Kids” news

Film

  • Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner and Julianne Moore to star in Imagine

Trailers

  • TV spot for The Hobbit
  • Trailer for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Canadian TV

UK TV

  • Bruce Greenwood, Brian Dennehy, Kevin McNally join Challenger disaster docudrama
  • ITV orders wartime crime drama Murder on the Home Front
  • Virgin gets record number of subscribers

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • HBO buys family mystery drama The Return of Daniel Shepherd
  • The CW developing teenage Mary Queen of Scots drama
  • ABC acquires Mixology
  • NBC picks up Jennifer Garner-produced comedy
  • CBS buys modern Sense and Sensibility, Fox buys Paradise Falls, from Margaret Nagle

New US TV show casting

Friday’s “Jeffrey Archer TV series, William Hurt to play Richard Feynman and Citizen Khan gets a 2nd series” news

The Daily News will be back on Tuesday

Film

Theater

Canadian TV

International TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

  • ABC buys heist drama from 24‘s Evan Katz
  • NBC developing New Orleans marching band comedy The Swamp
  • Gale Anne Hurd developing adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s The Eleventh Commandment for NBC
  • NBC buys This Thing Called Love
  • Fox buys buddy-buddy-buddyette cop show from House and Rescue Me creators
  • CBS buys medical drama from Reaper creators
  • Medium’s Glenn Gordon Caron sells Motor City Shakedown and Near Dead to CBS

New US TV show casting

Tuesday’s “Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza united, The Bridge gets 1m viewers and more Defiance recruits” news

Theatre

Canadian TV

  • CBC’s passes on Wish List pilot

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

  • 24/The L Word‘s Mia Kirshner and Lost‘s Fionnula Flanagan join Defiance
  • Vince Vaughn and Tony Danza working on ABC comedy
US TV

Preview: Awake (NBC) 1×1

Awake

In the US: Thursdays, 10/9c, NBC. Starts March 1
In the UK: Not yet acquired

Hello to Jason Isaacs! Welcome back to the blog.

Yes, Jason Isaacs has himself a new US TV show, this time on network TV instead of cable. In it, rather than a member of the Rhode Island Irish mafia, he’s a cop.

No, don’t turn off. The cop bit is the least interesting part.

He’s a cop, but he’s a cop who has a car accident in which his wife dies, leaving him to look after his teenage son.

Except when he goes to sleep, he wakes up in seemingly a parallel world in which his son died and his wife survived. And when he goes to sleep at the end of the day, he returns to the first reality.

I say reality because he doesn’t know which one’s real and which one’s a dream. They both seem equally real. Both his therapists want to help him, but will he give up on his wife or his son, assuming he can? Because for some reasons, the cases he investigates in the two realities are linked.

Here’s the first seven minutes of it for you to enjoy:

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