On the Verge

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Internet TV

• Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico
• Sarah Shahi to star in Netflix’s Sex/Life
• Apple TV+ green lights: series of magical town 1940s musical comedy, with Cecily Strong
• Netflix/Canal+ green light: series of daring 40-something LA-set female comedy On the Verge, with Julie Delpy
• Netflix green lights: series of country singer turned nanny comedy Country Comfort, with Katharine McPhee and Eddie Cibrian…
• …seven original Spanish TV shows

Canadian TV

• CTV green lights: series of parents’ lost lives comedy Children Ruin Everything

European TV

• TV Joj (Slovakia)/Czech Television green light: Central European legends and folklore drama The Exorcist

Nordic TV

• TV4/C More green lights: series adaptation of Magnus Montelius’s Åtta månader (Eight Months)

Spanish TV

• Shine Iberia et al developing: adaptation of Miguel Bosé bioseries

US TV

• Trailer for season 3 of NBC’s Good Girls
• Epix extends and cancels: Perpetual Grace LTD

US TV show casting

• Anthony Okungbowa and Bayo Akinfemi promoted to regulars on CBS’s Bob ♥ Abishola

New US TV shows

• Teaser trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America
• ABC green lights: series of procedural thriller The Big Sky…
• …and pilot adaptation of Emily Bleeker’s Wreckage
• Amblin developing: adaptation of The Washington Post’s At War with with the Truth
• The CW green lights: pilots of Kung Fu reboot and independent town drama Republic of Sarah…
• …red lights: The Game
• Fox green lights: pilot remake of BBC Three’s This Country
• Starz green lights: series of Harlem female friends comedy Run the World
• HBO Max developing: coming-of-age drama Afro.Punks

New US TV show casting

• Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel and Jack Gilpin join HBO’s The Gilded Age
• David Krumholtz to star in USA’s Evel