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Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s Goliath
Disney+ red lights: Book of Enchantment
Carter MacIntyre, Adam J Harrington and Terrence Terrell to recur on Amazon’s Bosch
William Jackson Harper to recur on Amazon’s The Underground Railroad
Elena Satine joins Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop

Australian TV

Someone’s leaving ABC’s The Heights (spoilers)

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: supernatural thriller Besatt (Seizure)

UK TV

Trailer for season 5 of ITV2’s Plebs
Sky1 renews: Brassic
BBC Three acquires: NRK (Norway)’s Nudes
BBC Three green lights: series of comedy drama My Left Nut, reality TV drama Killed By My Fame and horror drama Red Rose
BBC One green lights: series of NI abortion drama When It Happens To You, 60s fascism thriller Ridley Road, Steven Moffat crime thriller Inside Man, and political thriller Roadkill, with Hugh Laurie…
…and pilot of 63-year-old new mum comedy Bumps, with Amanda Redman
ITV green lights: seaside café sitcom Kate and Kolo, with Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola

US TV

Hulu renews: Into the Dark
HBO cancels: Ballers

US TV show casting

Some people are leaving The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (spoilers)
Matt Bomer, Vanessa Bayer and Blythe Danner to return to NBC’s Will & Grace
Dabney Coleman to guest on Paramount’s Yellowstone

New US TV shows

Trailer for Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q
FX developing: horror thriller The Bridgewater Triangle
USA developing: housewife drug queenpin drama Philly Reign

New US TV show casting

Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in Fox’s Other People’s Houses

Gavin and Stacey Christmas special; AP Bio cancelled; Ghosts, The A Word, Riviera renewed; Vis a Vis (Locked Up) spin-off; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: adaptation of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s Paranormal books…
…Latinx family comedy The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, with Jencarlos Canela

French TV

Teaser trailer for Canal+’s Mouche
Kool Shen to guest on Canal+’s Engrenages (Spiral)

Spanish TV

Fox green lights: spin-off from Vis a Vis (Locked Up), Vis a Vis: El Oasis

UK TV

Trailer for ITV’s Beecham House
BBC One renews: Ghosts and The A Word…
…green lights: A Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special
Sky Atlantic renews: Riviera
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Gordy and David Gyasi join BBC One’s The A Word
Tom Wilkinson to star in ITV’s Belgravia
Emilia Fox, Tony Robinson, Kevin Bishop et al to guest on ITV2’s Plebs
Kudos developing: drama adaptation Ben Macintyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes

US TV

NBC cancels: AP Bio
Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Divorce

New US TV shows

Hulu green lights: anthology adaptation of Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters
FX developing: yet another adaptation of Channel 4’s Peep Show

Humans, Warren cancelled; Waco, I Am The Night acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Teaser for season 3 of Netflix’s Stranger Things
Lisa Kudrow to star in Amazon’s Good People

International TV

Viu (India) green lights: adaptations of Keshet 12 (Israel)’s The Beauty and the Baker and The Stylist

UK TV

Trailer for ITV’s Wild Bill
Alibi acquires: Paramount (US)’s Waco and TNT (US)’s I Am The Night
BBC One cancels: Warren
Channel 4 cancels: Humans
Amanda Holden and Tracey Anne Oberman join ITV2’s Plebs

US TV

Teaser for season 3 of Hulu’s Harlots

US TV show casting

Someone’s leaving Showtime’s The Chi (spoilers)

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s Los Espookys

New US TV show casting

Joshua Jackson to star in Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
Amy Madigan, Brent Spiner and Lin Shaye to recur on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

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