Ooh. Sci-fi fun for Fillion. I wonder if they’re going to mention Firefly.
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Nathan Fillion on Community, Avengers 2 casting, a Jack Ryan trailer and more Covert Affairs and Sleepy Hollow
You all know what day it is and this is the news, right?
Film casting
- Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Johnson join Avengers: Age of Ultron
Trailers
- Trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
UK TV
- Watch acquires: NBC’s Believe
- Channel Five acquires: CTV’s Played
US TV
- Next 24 to film in London
- Sleepy Hollow gets a second season
- Covert Affairs gets a fifth season
- Wednesday ratings: Ironside tanks, Super Fun Night starts well, Revolution hits series low
US TV show casting
- Nathan Fillion to guest on Community
- Jason Priestley to guest on Hot In Cleveland
- Dennis Haysbert to guest on Trophy Wife
New US TV shows
- Hallmark green lights: Signed, Sealed & Delivered
- NBC green lights: The Pro with Rob Lowe
- ABC developing: Just Rewards
- NBC developing: The Mason Twins
New US TV show casting
- Jamie Kennedy, Adrian Pasdar, Aldis Hodge join Amazon’s The After
- Patrick Kennedy, Dominique McElligott and Laila Robins join HBO’s The Money
- Joel Gretsch to guest on Witches of East End
Wednesday’s “Jed Mercurio goes Critical, Fox orders male strippers and Mad Men split in two” news
Film
- Paul Greengrass off Chicago 7
Film casting
- Leonardo DiCaprio to play Woodrow Wilson
- Kelsey Grammar joins The Expendables 3
- Amber Tamblyn joins Girlfriend’s Day
Trailers
- Trailer for The Last Days on Mars, with Live Schreiber, Olivia Williams, Romola Garai et al
- Trailer for Great Expectations
UK TV
- Comedy Central acquires: The Millers and We Are Men
- Clip from Sky1’s The Smoke, with Jamie Bamber
- Sky Atlantic shows off new dramas
New UK TV shows
- Sky1 orders: Jed Mercurio real-time medical drama Critical
US TV
- SyFy acquires: Space’s Bitten
- Mad Men final season expanded, split in two
- Monday ratings
- Sunday cable ratings: The Newsroom finale down
US TV casting
- Dana Powell to guest on Modern Family
- Nathan Lane to return to The Good Wife
- Jon Tenney to return to Major Crimes
- LeVar Burton to return to Community
- Danielle Brooks to guest on Girls
- Two Nashville stars demoted
- Lea Thompson to guest on CSI
New US TV shows
- ABC developing: female detectives show
- CBS orders: The 40s pilot
- Fox orders: The Whole Shebang pilot
New US TV show casting
- Robert Knepper to guest on NBC’s The Blacklist
- Brad Garrett to recur on The Crazy Ones
Thursday’s “Breaking Bad spin-off a go, Endemol to remake Spiral for the US and John Oliver returns to Community” news
Film casting
- Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Frankenstein
- Jim Broadbent joins Samuel L Jackson’s Big Game
- Djimon Hounsou joins Fast & Furious 7
Trailers
- Trailer for Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom with Idris Elba
Theatre
- Maxine Peake to play Hamlet
French TV
- Exports up 10% [subscription required]
UK TV
- SyFy acquires: The CW’s The Originals
- Press pack for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
US TV
- Promo for season 9 of Supernatural
- Promo for season 5 of White Collar
- Tuesday ratings
US TV casting
- Kim Raver returns for 24: Live Another Day
- Steve Kazee to guest on Elementary [spoilers]
- John Oliver returns to Community
New US TV shows
- AMC green lights: Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul
- Endemol to remake Engrenages/Spiral for the US
- NBC developing: alien drama
- Fox developing: Far From The Tree
- ABC developing: Princess, Stuck and Women & Girls
New US TV show casting
- Carly Pope to recur on The CW’s The Tomorrow People
- Annie Wersching to guest on CBS’s Intelligence
- Julia Goldani Telles joins Showtime’s The Affair
- Catriona Balfe to star in Starz’s Outlander
Thursday’s “Elizabeth Hurley is a queen, Dan Stevens is a computer and Tom Hollander is Dylan Thomas” news
Film casting
- Jared Harris joins Poltergeist remake
- Benedict Cumberbatch to star in Lost City of Z
Trailers
- New trailer for Gravity
- Trailer for Kill Your Darlings
- Trailer for Best Man Down with Justin Long
Canadian TV
- Warren Christie joins Motive
New UK TV show casting
- Tom Hollander to play Dylan Thomas in BBC2’s A Poet In New York
US TV
- Cinemax to air original Strike Back as Strike Back: Origins
- Trailer for season 4 of Eastbound and Down
- HBO renews: The Newsroom?
US TV casting
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson joins Arrow [minor spoilers]
- Jason O’Mara to recur on The Good Wife
- Hafƥór Julius Björnsson to play The Mountain on Game of Thrones
- Walton Goggins to guest on Community
New US TV shows
- ABC orders: First Timers…
- …and Damaged Goods
- NBC orders: Half
New US TV show casting
- Elizabeth Hurley to star in E!’s The Royals
- Jennifer Finnigan to star in FX’s Tyrant
- Dan Stevens to voice TIM in The CW’s The Tomorrow People
- Graham McTavish and Gary Lewis joins Starz’s Outlander
- Jane Leeves to guest on We Are Men