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Doctor Who

Maisie Williams to guest star

Film

Disney developing: live-action Mulan

Film casting

Scott Eastwood to play Steve Trevor, Raymond Olubowale to play two roles in Suicide Squad

European TV

Sky to develop more German dramas

UK TV

BBC Two cancels: Up The Women
Sunday ratings

US TV

US TV show casting

Emmanuelle Vaugier to recur on Mistresses

New US TV shows

EuropaCorp developing: post-apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours and assassin drama Bulletproof
ABC Family green lights: Mortal Instruments TV show Shadowhunters

New US TV show casting

Japheth Gordon and Joey Polari join NBC’s Take It From Us
Mary Lynn Rajskub joins Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience
Ciara Renée to play Hawkgirl, Arthur Darvill to play Rip Hunter on Arrow/Flash spin-off

News: Missy returns, Monica Potter’s three husbands, Philip Winchester: Las Vegas sniper + more

20 February 2015 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Michelle Gomez to return as Missy

Film

A Settlers of Catan movie

Film casting

Gina Carano and Kellan Lutz join Extraction

Trailers

Trailer for Kill Me Three Times with Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Sullivan Stapleton et al
Clip for Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Internet TV

Erin Moriarty, Eka Darville and Will Traval join Netflix’s AKA Jessica Jones

UK TV

E! acquires: The Royals
Clip from series of Raised By Wolves
Wednesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC Two’s Banished

US TV

Teaser for final season of Mad Men
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Aleksa Palladino and Mark O’Brien join Halt and Catch Fire
Tom Everett Scott to guest on How To Get Away With Murder

New US TV shows

USA red lights: Evil Men
HBO green lights: period drama New World
Teaser for Fox’s The Last Man on Earth [US only]
Trailer for Fox’s Wayward Pines

New US TV show casting

Liam James joins ABC politics pilot
Jami Gertz to co-star in ABC NBC comedy
Eddie Cibrian, Josh Hopkins, Donald Faison and Rory Scovel join NBC’s Monica Potter comedy
Jay R Ferguson to star in ABC’s Dan Savage comedy
Thomas Sadoski and Angelique Cabral to star in CBS’s Life in Pieces
Philip Winchester to star in NBC’s Endgame
Jill Marie Jones joins Starz’s Ash Vs Evil Dead

News: Spider-Man joins The Avengers, Lady Sif rejoins SHIELD, Outlander joins Amazon + more

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Doctor Who

Big Finish to release range of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart dramas with Jemma Redgrave

Film

Spider-Man joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Bloodline
Amazon Instant Video acquires: Outlander

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 developing: Graham Linehan and Adam Buxton comedy The Cloud

US TV

HBO renews and cancels: Getting On
ABC Family cancels: Melissa & Joey
Sundance TV acquires: RTL’s Deutschland 83
Sunday ratings
Sunday cable ratings

US TV show casting

Nia Vardalos to guest on Jane The Virgin
Aasif Mandvi to guest on Person of Interest
Richard Schiff and Bianca Lawson join Rogue
Emily Kinney to guest on The Flash
Cuba Gooding Jr to recur on Forever
David Morrissey joins Extant
Jaimie Alexander/Lady Sif to return to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD

New US TV shows

Showtime red lights: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
HBO developing: supernatural drama Incurable
Trailer for HBO’s Happyish

New US TV show casting

Tyler Ross and Sam Page join HBO’s Living on Video
Yaya DaCosta to star in NBC’s Chicago Med
Adhir Kalyan joins Fox’s Frankenstein
Meaghan Rath to star in Fox’s Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life
Walter Goggins and Shea Whigham join HBO’s Vice Principals
Adam Canto to star in NBC’s The Curse of the Fuentes Women

News: Canadian Lovejoy and Beowulf, Torchwood returns on radio, Benched cancelled, Broad City renewed + more

15 January 2015 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Paul Kaye, Arsher Ali, Morven Christie and Colin McFarlane to guest
Torchwood to return on radio

Canadian TV

Omnifilm developing: Blood Magick, Pacific Spirit, Beowulf, Homegrown Terrorist, Corrective Measures and The Last Spike

UK TV

Tuesday ratings

New UK TV shows

Trailer for BBC Two’s The Eichmann Show, with Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia et al

US TV

US TV show casting

Devon Graye to play new Trickster on The Flash
Lucy Lawless and Stuart Townsend to recur on Salem

New US TV shows

NBC green lights: three comedy pilots including How We Live and Superstore

New US TV show casting

ABC Family recasts Stitchers

News: HBO renews Girls, Amazon abandons The After, The Prisoner audio plays + more

6 January 2015 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Season 9 gets best ratings ever in the US

Film casting

Scarlett Johansson to star in Ghost In The Shell adaptation
Casey Affleck replaces Matt Damon on Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester-By-The-Sea
Tadanobu Asano replaces Ken Watanabe on Martin Scorsese’s Silence
Raid 2 cast members join Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Trailers

Clip from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
Trailer for Big Game, starring Samuel L Jackson

Audio plays

Big Finish to make The Prisoner series

International TV

UTV Ireland launches to modest ratings

Internet TV

Amazon red lights: Chris Carter’s The After
Amazon Prime UK viewers to get AMC and SundanceTV shows straight after US broadcast

UK TV

Sunday ratings

New UK TV shows

Channel 4 green lights sci-fi comedy pilot [subscription required]

US TV

HBO renews: Girls
Teaser trailers for season 3 of Vikings
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

The first nine minutes of Syfy’s 12 Monkeys [US only]

New US TV show casting

David Alan Grier joins NBC’s Go Jerrod Go

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TMINE Agreed re: Three Body Problem. Reading ahead in the Wikipedia rundown for the novels, it does feel there are more exciting things ahead in the next season than there were in this season. Let's...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
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What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE Managed to watch some more TV! Apple TV+: Lessons in Chemistry. Adaptation of the bestseller about a discriminated against, possibly autistic chemist in the US in the 50s who ends up being a TV chef...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE Watching Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen TV series on Netflix. It's actually not bad. Nothing extraordinary and not as good as his movie of the same name, but a pretty decent cast and some actual nuance...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE The Richard Chamberlain version loomed large in my teenage years. Almost life-changing. Although the difference between that version and this version is a bit like the difference between the...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
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News: live-action Mulan, Steve Trevor and Hawkgirl found, Up The Women cancelled + more

News: Missy returns, Monica Potter’s three husbands, Philip Winchester: Las Vegas sniper + more

News: Spider-Man joins The Avengers, Lady Sif rejoins SHIELD, Outlander joins Amazon + more

News: Canadian Lovejoy and Beowulf, Torchwood returns on radio, Benched cancelled, Broad City renewed + more

News: HBO renews Girls, Amazon abandons The After, The Prisoner audio plays + more

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