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[ 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

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: The Boys, Sweet Magnolias, La Jauria renewed; Plex adds live TV; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Utopia
Trailer for Amazon’s Truth Seekers
Amazon renews: The Boys and La Jauria
Netflix renews: Sweet Magnolias
Amazon green lights: series adaptation of Brian K Vaughan/Cliff Chiang’s Paper Girls
Apple TV+ green lights: adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ Shining Girls, with Elisabeth Moss
Plex adds live TV, including 80 free channels

International TV

ZDF (Germany), Nucleus Media (US) and 3zero2 (Italy) green light: UK/Italian crime drama Body of Water

UK TV

Teaser for season 2 of BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Terence Stamp, Jade Anouka and Simone Kirby join BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Bad Wolf developing: adaptation of Terri White’s Coming Undone

New US TV shows

Fox developing: Empire spin-off with Taraji P Henson
Made Up Stories developing: adaptation of Greer Macallister’s Woman 99, with Nina Dobrev
STXtv developing: authentic LA family drama Once Upon a Time in Aztlan, with George Lopez

New US TV show casting

Shalim Ortiz to recur on Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost

Grand Hotel cancelled; Claws, JANN renewed; 50 Cent goes to jail; + more

2 October 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Winston Duke to star in Apple’s Swagger
Pauline Etienne, Laurent Capelluto, Nabil Mallat et al join Netflix’s Into The Night
Cornelius Smith Jr, Keeya King, J Alphonse Nicholson et al to recur on Netflix’s Madam CJ Walker

Canadian TV

CTV renews: JANN, Sarah McLachlan, Elisha Cuthbert and Keshia Chanté to guest

US TV

TNT renews and cancels: Claws
ABC cancels: Grand Hotel

US TV show casting

Alexandra Grey to recur on Fox’s Empire
Leah Gibson and Carl Lundsedt to recur on NBC’s Manifest
Mary Kay Place and Elizabeth Rodriguez to recur on Showtime’s Shameless
Julia Goldani Telles to star in Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience
Lolly Adefope to return, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Demetriou, Jessica Lowe et al to recur, Fred Armisen, Anna Drezen, Miles Robbins et al to guest on TBS’s Miracle Workers

New US TV shows

AMC green lights: series of legal drama 61st Street and dark comedy Kevin Can F*** Himself
HBO Max green lights: pilot adaptation of DC Comics’ DMZ
ABC developing: millennial single-family comedy My Wife and Kids, with Damon Wayans
CBS developing: sea crimes drama Drift

New US TV show casting

50 Cent to recur on ABC’s For Life
Nat Wolff joins CBS All Access’ The Stand
Natalia Cigliuti to recur on Fox’s Deputy
Cherie Johnson returning for NBC’s Punky Brewster
Linc Hand joins Paramount’s 68 Whiskey

A new Earthsea adaptation; no Bastards; Viaplay starts The Machinery; + more

4 September 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Skylines
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Jacek Dukaj’s The Old Axolotl as Into The Night
Netflix developing: A Chorus Line mini-series with Ewan McGregor
Patti LuPone joins Netflix’s Hollywood
Martha Plimpton to star in HBO Max’s Generation
Apple red lights: Bastards

French TV

France 3 green lights: desperate mum TV movie Maddy Etcheban, with Cristiana Réali, Arnaud Binard and Lorie Pester

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: amnesiac with a gun drama The Machinery, with Kristoffer Joner, Julia Schacht, Emilia Roosmann et al

International TV

Extraordinary Entertainment developing: Triad crime drama The Successor

US TV show casting

Katlynn Simone, Meta Golding, Wood Harris et al promoted to regulars on Fox’s Empire
Glynn Turman to recur on FX’s Fargo
Eden Brolin to recur on Paramount’s Yellowstone

New US TV shows

A24 developing: adaptation of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea books
Anonymous Content developing: adaptation of David Ignatius’ The Quantum Spy
Fox developing: adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s The Perfect Couple

Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic in CBS's Instinct

Vienna Blood acquired; The Heights renewed; Instinct, Krypton cancelled; + more

19 August 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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Internet TV

Damon Herriman joins Amazon’s Underground Railroad
Sarah Chalke to co-star, Ben Lawson joins Netflix’s Firefly Lane

Australian TV

ABC renews: The Heights

UK TV

BBC Two acquires: ZDF (Germany)/ORF (Austria)’s Vienna Blood
ITV green lights: chalk and cheese crime drama Invisible, with Robert Lindsay, Tala Gouvela, Jason Watkins et al…
…Who Wants to be a Millionaire? crime drama Quiz, with Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Sheen, Sian Clifford et al

US TV

CBS cancels: Instinct
Syfy cancels: Krypton
Teaser for season 6 of HBO’s Silicon Valley
Trailer for season 3 of Fox’s 9-1-1

US TV show casting

Katrina Law joins CBS’s Hawaii Five-0
Ronda Rousey to recur on Fox’s 9-1-1
Keesha Sharp to recur on Fox’s Empire
Casting on HBO’s The Nevers
Jessica Hecht, Parisa Fitz-Henley and Eddie Martinez join USA’s The Sinner

New US TV shows

Fox developing: adaptations of Ten (Australia)’s Mr Black…
…and Eén (Belgium)’s De Twaalf as The Twelve
HBO green lights: series adaptation of Skate Kitchen as Betty
NBC developing: adaptation of St Elmo’s Fire
Showtime developing: adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast

New US TV show casting

Joe Holt to recur on AMC’s Walking Dead spin-off
Niecy Nash to recur on FX’s Mrs America
Piper Perabo joins Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Empire cancelled; Friday Night Dinner renewed; Picard series, I Hear You acquired; + more

14 May 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s What/If
Apple relaunches Apple TV app
Amazon (UK) acquires: CBS All Access (US)’s Captain Picard Star Trek series
Netflix acquires: Yoku (China)’s I Hear You

UK TV

Channel 4 renews: Friday Night Dinner

US TV

Fox cancels: Empire

New US TV shows

New teaser for Epix’s Pennyworth

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