Film casting
- Olivia Wilde to star in and produce Reed Morano’s Meadowland
Trailers
- New trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson
- New trailer for Wally Pfister’s Transcendence with Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall et al
Theatre
- Lily Cole to play Helen of Troy in The Last Days of Troy
Canadian TV
- CBC greenlights: comedy Schitt’s Creek with Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara
UK TV
- Janice Hadlow to step down as controller of BBC2
- ITV and Channel 5 licences renewed until 2024 [subscription required]
- BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to create Freeview Connect for smart TVs
UK TV show casting
- Taylor Lautner to replace Andy Samberg on Cuckoo
- Joan Collins to guest on Benidorm
New UK TV shows
- Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston and Noel Clarke to star in ITV’s Chasing Shadows
US TV show casting
- Michelle Fairley replaces Judy Davis on 24: Live Another Day
- Nazanin Boniadi to recur on Scandal
- Candace Cameron and Scott Weinger to reunite on The Neighbors
- Ron Canada to guest on Elementary
New US TV shows
- BBC America developing: Robin Hood/Sheriff of Nottingham reinvention Nottingham
- Lifetime greenlights: dystopian future show The Lottery
- HBO greenlights: comedy The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins
- MTV greenlights: cyberstalker series Eye Candy, will reshoot pilot
- USA redlights: Horizon and Divide & Conquer
New US TV show casting
- Greta Gerwig to star in CBS’s How I Met Your Dad
- Original Flash John Wesley Shipp to recur on The CW’s The Flash
- Maggie Lawson to star in CBS’s Save The Date
- JoAnna Garcia Swisher joins ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club
- Titus Welliver to guest on TNT’s The Last Ship
- Sean Pertwee to play Alfred plus other casting on Fox’s Gotham
- Annie Wesching joins CBS’s Extant
- Katrina Bowden to star in TNT’s Public Morals
- Dick Van Dyke and Valerie Harper to recur on Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- Ahna O’Reilly to star in The CW’s Identity
- Colton Dunn joins NBC’s The Pro, Jonathan Tucker to co-star in DirecTV’s Navy St
- Georgina Rylance leaves Fox’s Broadchurch remake Gracepoint
