Mr Robot

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Internet TV

Hulu renews: Casual
Trailer for season 2 of Difficult People
YouTube green lights: series based on Step Up

European TV

Sky Germany green lights: sequel series to Das Boot

New UK TV shows

Kudos developing: adaptation of Robert Harris’ Cicero trilogy [subscription required]

US TV

Two more episodes for Mr Robot
Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Sherilyn Fenn and Missi Pyle guest on Major Crimes
James Carpinello to recur on Gotham
Taylor Lautner to star in Scream Queens
Kristen Gutoskie joins The Vampire Diaries, Christina Moses joins The Originals
Aimee Garcia joins Lucifer
Maisie Richardson-Sellers joins DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as Vixen

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s Insecure

New US TV show casting

Tom Everett Scott joins truTV’s I’m Sorry
Rell Battle promoted to regular on CBS’s Superior Donuts
Frances Conroy joins Spike’s The Mist

News: Toby Jones to guest on Sherlock; CBS cancellations and renewals; Buckaroo Banzai returns?; + more

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UK TV show casting

Toby Jones to guest on Sherlock

US TV

CBS renews: Code Black, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and The Odd Couple…
…cancels: Rush Hour
Trailer for season 2 of Mr Robot
Sunday ratings

New US TV shows

MGM developing: Kevin Smith adaptation of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
Trailer for E!’s The Arrangement

News: The Durrells, Fear The Walking Dead renewed; Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens TV show; Mr Robot teaser trailer; + more

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Australian TV

Craig McLachlan, Hamish Blake, Kerry Armstrong et al join Ten’s The Wrong Girl

Internet TV

Callum Keith Rennie joins Man In the High Castle

International TV

Neil Gaiman developing Good Omens TV series

UK TV

ITV renews: The Durrells

US TV

AMC renews: Fear The Walking Dead
Hallmark renews: When Calls The Heart
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Mr Robot
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Ella Thomas to recur on Mistresses, Christopher J Hanke to recur on Devious Maids
Jodie Comer to star in The White Princess
Anthony Michael Hall joins Murder In The First
Jewel Staite to guest on Castle

New US TV shows

Trailer for AMC’s Feed The Beast

New US TV show casting

Clara Rugaard joins ABC’s Still Star-Crossed
Paul Chahidi and Christine Tawflik join Fox’s Chad: An American Boy

News: Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet; Heartland renewed; Carl Weathers’ justice; Maniac US; + more

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Internet TV

Teaser trailer for Netflix’s Luke Cage
Netflix green lights: rom com Santa Clarita Diet, with Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant

Canadian TV

Teaser for Wyonna Earp
CBC renews: Heartland

New UK TV show casting

Tim Roth and Samantha Morton to star in BBC One’s Rillington Place

US TV

Trailer for season three of Silicon Valley
Trailer for season five of Veep
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Andrea Savage to recur on Veep and iZombie
Aasif Mandvi to recur on Mr Robot

New US TV shows

Paramount developing: adaptation of Norway’s Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill

New US TV shows

Joshua Carlon, Steele Stebbins, Amberia Allen to be regulars on Fox’s mixed-marriage comedy
Veronica Osorio and Lateefah Holder to star in Fox’s HR
Carla Jimenez, Thomas Barbusca and Jack Stanton join Fox’s The Mick
Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss and Stephen Moyer to star in Fox’s Shots Fired
Ben Rappaport joins Fox’s Zoobiquity
Carl Weathers joins NBC’s Chicago Justice
Gavin Stenhouse to star in NBC’s Me & Mean Margaret

News: Ripper Street, Young & Hungry cancelled; JK Simmons is Commissioner Gordon; Andie MacDowell – model woman; Geena Davis – exorcist; + more

8 March 2016 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Film casting

JK Simmons to play Commissioner Gordon in Justice League

Internet TV

Amazon cancels: Ripper Street
Glenne Headly and Ed Begley Jr to star in Hulu’s Future Man
Jonathan Groff to star in Netflix’s Mindhunter

UK TV

Sony to launch true crime channel

New UK TV shows

BBC green lights: King Lear, with Anthony Hopkins; adaptation of King Charles III; adaptation of Zadie Smith’s NW; and multigenerational family drama Wanderlust

US TV

Freeform cancels: Young & Hungry
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Craig Robinson to recur on Mr Robot
Michael Gaston joins Murder In The First

New US TV shows

WGN America green lights: pilots of adaptations of DC Comics’ Scalped and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic

New US TV show casting

Eddie Cahill to star in ABC’s Conviction
Andie MacDowell to star in ABC’s Model Woman…
…Nicole Ari Parker, Caitlin Carver and Madeline Blake join
Ryan Guzman and Sepideh Moafi join ABC’s Notorious
Eric Close to star in ABC’s The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez
Kevin Rankin joins ABC’s The Jury
Genesis Rodriguez to star in ABC’s Time After Time
Jenna Fischer to star in CBS’s Matt LeBlanc comedy
Ross Kimball joins CBS’s Real Good People
Lex Scott Davis joins CBS’s Training Day
Dougie Baldwin joins CBS’s What Goes Around Comes Around
Devin Kelley to star in The CW’s Frequency
Luke Allen-Gale to star in The CW’s Transylvania
Kevin Rahm joins Fox’s Lethal Weapon
Geena Davis joins Fox’s The Exorcist
François Arnaud to star in NBC’s Midnight, Texas

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News: Cicero series; Das Boot sequel series; new Vixen; + more

News: Toby Jones to guest on Sherlock; CBS cancellations and renewals; Buckaroo Banzai returns?; + more

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