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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: NOS4A2 cancelled; Biohackers renewed; France’s The Night Of…; Asia’s Miss Fisher; Arnie’s spy show; + more

1 September 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Happy September everyone! How was your August?

Internet TV

Netflix renews: Biohackers
Netflix cancels: The Big Show Show and Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love
Trailer for Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor
Nick Robinson joins Netflix’s Maid
Amazon developing: human rights lawyer drama…
…adaptation of Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of BBC One’s Criminal Justice/HBO (US)’s The Night Of… as Une Si Longue Nuit (Such a Long Night), with Mathilde Seigner and Sayyid el Alami

International TV

Trailer for HBO Asia’s Miss S

UK TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Grand River/The Bridge developing: adaptation of Bob Baldwin and Max Kinnings’ Wireless Operator

US TV

Eight teasers for season 3 of NBC’s Manifest
AMC cancels: NOS4A2

US TV show casting

Daniel Kyri promoted to regular on NBC’s Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s We Are Who We Are
Teaser for CBS All Access’s The Stand
Starz greenlights: Power spin-off Power Book IV: Force, with Joseph Sikora
The CW developing: witness protection drama The Pretenders
Skydance developing: spy adventure series, with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sony developing: undercover agent child sex trafficking drama

New US TV show casting

Gus Bierney and Dylan Gage join Starz’s Shining Vale

Emergence acquired; Inside No. 9 renewed (x2); AJ and the Queen cancelled; + more

9 March 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Theatre

Simon Callow and Clive Francis to star in Yes, Prime Minister sequel I’m Sorry Prime Minister I Can’t Quite Remember

Internet TV

Trailer for Apple TV+’s Home Before Dark
Trailer for Netflix’s Freud
Vanessa Lengies joins Disney+’s Turner & Hooch
Disney+ developing: Beauty and the Beast prequel with Josh Gad and Luke Evans
Netflix cancels: AJ and the Queen

Australian TV

Trailer for Ten’s The Secrets She Keeps

Canadian TV

Victor Garber to guest on CBC’s Schitt’s Creek

European TV

Matías Varela joins Movistar+ (Spain)/Arte (France)’s Hierro (Iron)

UK TV

Fox acquires: ABC (US)’s Emergence
BBC Two renews: Inside No. 9
Jessica Knappett to star in Channel 4’s Hullraisers

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 2 of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows

New US TV shows

New trailer for Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
HBO developing: adaptation of Judy Blume’s Wifey

New US TV show casting

Sheryl Lee Ralph and Miguel Gomez join ABC’s Harlem’s Kitchen
Julie Bowen to star in CBS’s Raised by Wolves
Cheyenne Jackson to star in Fox’s Call Me Kat
Gbenga Akinnagbe to star, Bill Heck to replace Austin Stowell on FX’s The Old Man
Richard Brooks joins NBC’s Echo
Josh Segarra to star in NBC’s Night School
Kimia Behpoornia joins NBC’s Someone Out There
London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Shanley Caswell et al join Starz’s Power III: Raising Kanan

Ragnarok renewed; The Rook, Flack, Best Intentions, Florida Girls cancelled; + more

5 March 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Netflix renews: Ragnarok
Georgina Haig replaces Jessica Marais on Amazon’s Back to the Rafters
Kim Fields joins Netflix’s The Upshaws

UK TV

Trailer for season 4 of BBC One’s Our Girl

US TV

Pop TV cancels: Florida Girls, Flack and Best Intentions
Starz cancels: The Rook

US TV show casting

Christopher Lloyd to guest on CBS’s NCIS

New US TV show casting

Rose McIver to star in CBS’s Ghosts
Troian Bellisario to star in CBS’s Ways & Means
Jeff Pierre joins The CW’s Walker
Shannyn Sossamon to star in Fox’s The Cleaning Lady
Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley to star, Taylor Orterga and Krystal Smith join Fox’s This Country
Emayatzy Corinealdi to star in NBC’s At That Age
Wesam Keesh joins NBC’s Echo
Jon Seda to star in NBC’s La Brea
Hailey Kilgore joins Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan

The Adventures of Young Voltaire; Seven Australia pauses all dramas; + more

26 February 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker

Australian TV

Seven yellow lights: all dramas

French TV

Lauréna Thellier joins TG1’s Une affaire française (A French Affair)
France 3 green lights: self-explanatory mini-series Les aventures du jeune Voltaire (The Adventures of Young Voltaire), with Valérie Bonneton et al

US TV show casting

Ryan Michelle Bathe to recur on CBS’s All Rise
Kelsey Grammer to recur on CBS’s Carol’s Second Act

New US TV shows

Hulu developing: adaptation of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters
Peacock developing: freedom fighter and fan comedy Fan Girl

New US TV show casting

Liza Lapira joins CBS’s Equalizer
Amanda Warren joins CBS’s Ways and Means
Stella Baker to star in The CW’s Republic of Sarah
Coolio joins HBO Max’s Vegas High
Molly Shannon to co-star in Showtime’s Big Deal
Michael Rooker joins Showtime’s The President is Missing
Mekai Curtis to star in Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Sarah Gadon to co-star in USA’s Evel

Veronica Mars acquired; Doc Savage in development; + more

20 February 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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TMINE might be having a day off tomorrow, but stay tuned in case it doesn’t!

Internet TV

Kevin Bigley, William B Davis, Allegra Edwards et al to star in Amazon’s Upload

UK TV

Trailer for ITV’s McDonald & Dodds (formerly Invisible)
StarzPlay acquires: Hulu (US)’s Veronica Mars
Miriam Margolyes, Julia Deakin and Simon Day join Channel 4’s The Windsors
Channel 5 green lights: identity thriller The Drowning, with Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones

New US TV shows

HBO Max green lights: pilot of 1970s erotic feminist magazine comedy Minx…
…developing: 1980s Miami coming-of-age kids and family comedy The Gordita Chronicles
MRC Television developing: adaptation of podcast The Shrink Next Door, with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd
Sony developing: Doc Savage series

New US TV show casting

Annaleigh Ashford to star in CBS’s B Positive
Angus Sampson joins CBS’s The Lincoln Lawyer
Keegan Allen joins The CW’s Walker
Tate Donovan to star in Fox’s Blood Relative
James Wolk to star in NBC’s Ordinary Joe
Janet McTeer to star in Showtime’s The President is Missing
Patina Miller to star in FX’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan

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