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[ 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: Supergirl to end; Power Book II renewed; a West Wing special; + more

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Streaming TV

Anthony Ruiviviar, Brandon Jay McLaren and Becca Tobin join Disney+’s Turner & Hooch
Apple TV+ green lights: series of addict turned PI comedy High Desert, with Patricia Arquette

Nordic TV

Trailer for Viaplay’s serial killer soap Lyckoviken

UK TV

Rory Kinnear, Tamzin Outhwaite, Tracy-Ann Oberman et al join BBC One’s Ridley Road
Julian Barratt and Sam Campbell join Sky’s Bloods

US TV

Starz renews: Power Book II: Ghost
The CW’s Supergirl to end with season six

US TV show casting

Liv Tyler exits Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star
Nicole Ari Parker to recur on NBC’s Chicago PD
Holly Taylor joins NBC’s Manifest

New US TV shows

HBO Max green lights: West Wing voting special
OWN developing: wine business drama The Kings of Napa

New US TV show casting

Parisa Fitz-Henley to star in ABC’s Triage
John Hoogenakker joins Hulu’s Dopesick

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

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Perry Mason renewed; Walter’s eight acquisitions; + more

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Yes. I’ve gone there. Double bulletpoints

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Biohackers

UK TV

Walter Presents acquires:
- Antena 3 (Spain)’s Bajo sospecha (Under Suspicion)
- Club Illico (Canada)’s La Faille (The Wall – Cover Your Tracks)
- Das Erste (Germany)’s Das Verschwinden (The Vanishing)
- Movistar (Spain)’s El día de mañana (What The Future Holds)
- Rai 1 (Italy)’s Imperial
- Rai 2 (Italy)’s Il Cacciatore (The Hunter) and Rocco Schiavone: Ice Cold Murders
- Viaplay (Sweden)’s Hassel
Britbox green lights: adaptations of
- Nicholas Blake’s The Beast Must Die, with Cush Jumbo, Jared Harris and Billy Howle
- Irvine Welsh’s Crime, with Dougray Scott

US TV

HBO renews: Perry Mason

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of Richard Vasquez’s Chicano
Bedrock Entertainment developing: adaptation of Barry Eisler’s John Rain books
Hulu developing: adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

New US TV show casting

Tiffany Boone to star in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers
Otmara Marrero to star in NBC’s Connecting
Sherri Saum joins Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost

TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: The Moodys, War of the Worlds renewed; Run cancelled; Katy Keene acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: French adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Gone for Good as Disparu à jamais, with Finnegan Oldfield, Garance Marillier, Nicolas Duvauchelle et al

French TV

France 2 green lights: adaptation of TV3 (Spain)’s Merlí as La Faute à Rousseau (Rousseau’s Fault), with Anny Duperey, Charlie Dupont, Samira Lachha et al

International TV

Fox Networks/Canal+ (France) renew: War of the Worlds

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s A Suitable Boy
BBC iPlayer acquires: The CW (US)’s Katy Keene

US TV

Teaser for season 2 of TNT’s Snowpiercer [spoilers]
Fox renews: The Moodys
HBO cancels: Run

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost
HBO Max developing: The Batman Gotham PD spin-off
Village Roadshow developing: 1980s Brooklyn street crew drama Lo Lifes: Stealing the American Dream

New US TV show casting

Aya Cash and Justin Linville join Fox’s This Country

You, Vera renewed; Batwoman acquired; Jack Reacher, Superman and Lois, Walker, Texas Ranger series a go; + more

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Internet TV

Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas to star in Amazon’s Citadel
Nazanin Boniadi, Owain Arthur, Megan Richards et al join Amazon’s Lord of the Rings
Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Jerrie Johnson et al join Amazon’s Tracy Oliver comedy
Amazon green lights: Jack Reacher TV series
…red lights: People Just Do Nothing
Netflix renews: You

Canadian TV

Andrew Phung and Ty Olssen join CTV’s Wynonna Earp

French TV

TF1 green lights: adaptation of Yes (Israel)’s Kvodo (Your Honor), with Jean Reno and Kad Merad

UK TV

E4 acquires: Batwoman
ITV renews: Vera

New US TV shows

Comedy Central renews: Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
BritBox green lights: Father Brown spin-off The Sister Boniface Mysteries
The CW green lights: series of Superman & Lois and Walker, Texas Ranger
Paramount green lights: series of prison-industry drama Mayor of Kingstown
Hulu developing: adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti

New US TV show casting

Corey Hawkins joins HBO Max’s Americanah
Method Man to star in Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost

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