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New trailer for BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris and Olly Alexander to star in Channel 4’s Boys
Two Cities Television developing: adaptation of Jonathan Rugman’s The Killing in the Consulate

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of CBS All Access’s Tell Me A Story
Trailer for season 6 of The CW’s The Flash
Pop renews: Florida Girls

US TV show casting

Colton Haynes to return to The CW’s Arrow
Cynthia Erivo to play Aretha Franklin on NatGeo’s Genius
Joel McHale to recur on NBC’s Will & Grace (spoilers)

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for Hulu’s Reprisal
ABC green lights: pilot of NFL-players-turned-bakers comedy Cupcake Men
CBS green lights: pilot of spy action drama The International, with Dolph Lundgren
Fox developing: Baltimore symphony orchestra drama Opus, with Nicole Ari Parker
NBC developing: related families drama Forever Family…
…and character-based political drama The Hill
Starz developing: spinoff of Blindspotting, with Jasmine Cephas Jones

New US TV show casting

Bernadette Peters joins The CW’s Katy Keene
Millicent Simmonds to star in Freeform’s Close Up
Garcia and Sol Rodriguez to recur on Freeform’s Party of Five
Jesse Williams to recur on Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
Cynthia Harris to return, Cloris Leachman to guest on Spectrum’s Mad About You

South Side, The Bridge (Asia) renewed; Krister Henriksson joins Hamilton; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s The Spy
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Amy Chozick’s Chasing Hillary
Henry Thomas joins Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor

Australian TV

Trailer for ABC’s Black B*tch

Canadian TV

NBCUniversal developing: adaptation Emily St John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel

Scandinavian TV

Krister Henriksson and Nina Zinjani join C More/TV4’s Hamilton

International TV

Via/HBO Asia renew: The Bridge…
…green light: supernatural rom-com My Bubble Tea

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s World on Fire
Teaser trailer for Sky Atlantic’s The New Pope
Naomie Harris joins Sky Atlantic’s The Third Day

US TV

Comedy Central renews: South Side

US TV show casting

Garcelle Beauvais to recur on CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Charisma Carpenter to guest on The CW’s Pandora
Joe Minoso to recur on Epix’s Get Shorty
Andrene Ward-Hammond and Ellen Tamaki to recur on NBC’s Manifest
Ana Villafañe and Ian Duff to recur on NBC’s New Amsterdam

New US TV shows

TBS developing: toxic masculinity and body image drama Homesick
Universal developing: adaptation of Bruce Holsinger’s The Gifted School

New US TV show casting

Kendrick Sampson and Carra Patterson to star in Showtime’s How To Make Love to a Black Woman

Pennyworth acquired; Pop’s Best Intentions; + more

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The Daily News will return on Monday

Internet TV

Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page, Jonathan Bailey et al to star in Netflix’s Bridgerton
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to star in Netflix’s Mindy Kaling comedy
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane, with Katherine Heigl

UK TV

StarzPlay acquires: Epix (US)’s Pennyworth

US TV show casting

Carrie-Anne Moss and Danielle Campbell to star in CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Angelica Ross joins FX’s American Horror Story: 1984

New US TV shows

Pop TV green lights: coming of age comedy Best Intentions

New US TV show casting

Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu and Hal Cumpston to star in AMC’s new Walking Dead spin-off
Tony Goldwyn to guest on HBO’s Lovecraft Country
Rory Cochrane, Shane Callahan, Craig Tate et al join Hulu’s Reprisal

Caïn, Money Heist renewed; One Day At A Time rescued; C5’s All Creatures Great and Small; + more

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Internet TV

Teaser trailer for Amazon’s Carnival Row
Juliette Lewis and Ryan Kwanten join, Kristin Bauer to recur on Facebook Watch’s Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones
Netflix renews: La Casa de Papel (Money Heist)
Sony developing: live-action Final Fantasy TV series

French TV

France 2 renews: Caïn
Telfrance developing: adaptation of Channel 4 (UK)’s Queer as Folk

UK TV

Channel 5 green lights: adaptation of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small

US TV show casting

Odette Annable and Natalie Alyn Lind to star…
…Matt Lauria, Eka Darville, Ashley Madewke join CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story
Sarah Gadon, Alison Wright, Greg Grunberg et al to guest on Hulu’s Castle Rock

US TV

Pop rescues: Netflix’s One Day At A Time

New US TV shows

New teasers for HBO’s Watchmen
Showtime green lights: pilot adaptation of TV2 (Denmark)’s Rita with Lena Headey…
…developing: post 9/11 military contractors anti-procedural The Company
USA developing: anthology adaptation of David Kushner’s Masters of Doom

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