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TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: The Chi, Quer O Destino renewed; a Fresh Prince drama; old black-ish spin-off; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix developing: Canadian gay conversion drama Alter Boys, Black girl magic comedy drama #RelationshipGoals, rejuvenated Nazi fighter drama The Ageless and mistaken gender High School comedy drama girl

Canadian TV

Tara Strong, Karen Robinson, Dean McDermott et al join CBC’s Lady Dicks

European TV

TVI (Portugal) renews: Quer O Destino

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery
Showtime renews: The Chi

US TV show casting

Carrie Wampler replaces Kelli Berglund on ABC’s The Goldbergs

New US TV shows

Trailer for AMC’s Soulmates
NBC greenlights: series of drama reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Bel-Air
ABC developing: black-ish spin-off old-ish, with Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Lewis
Game1 developing: adaptation of Frank Gifford’s The Glory Game
Jungle Entertainment developing: adaptations of ABC (Australia)’s Squinters and Nine (Australia)’s Bad Mothers
NBC developing: modern Shakespeare hotel drama The Stratford
UCP developing: murdered missionary limited series adaptation of The Life and Death of John Allen Chau

New US TV show casting

Jeremy D Howard joins CBS’s The Big Bad Wolves

Shameless, The L Word, Work in Progress renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Dave Bautista joins Apple TV+’s See

Canadian TV

MarbleMedia developing: adaptation of MG Hennessey’s The Other Boy

UK TV

Sheila Hancock, Susan Lynch, Phaldut Sharma et al join ITV’s Unforgotten
Channel 4 green lights: post-#MeToo romance comedy drama Chivalry, with Sarah Solemani and Steve Coogan

US TV

Showtime renews and cancels: Shameless…
…renews: The L Word: Generation Q and Work in Progress
Trailer for season 2 of Hulu’s Shrill
Trailer for season 3 of Showtime’s The Chi
Trailer for season 8 of Showtime’s Homeland

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere
Trailer for CBS All Access’s Interrogation
Trailer for Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Pop TV green lights: pilot adaptation of Antichrist’s mum comedy Mother Mary, with Rachel Bloom
Showtime red lights: Intelligence

New US TV show casting

Gael García Bernal to recur on HBO Max’s Station Eleven

Black Summer renewed; new Doctor Who guest stars; Les espions de la terreur adaptation; + more

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Internet TV

Joan Allen to co-star in Apple TV+’s Lisey’s Story
Netflix renews: Black Summer

French TV

Tetra Media Studio developing: mini-series adaptation of Matthieu Suc’s Les espions de la terreur as Mirage

UK TV

Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry to guest on BBC One’s Doctor Who
Channel 5 developing: new adaptations of Richard Llewellyn’s How Green is My Valley and Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

US TV

Teaser for season 2 of TBS’s Miracle Workers

US TV show casting

David Cross joins NatGeo’s Genius
Cory Hardrict, Joel Steingold and Salvador Chacon to recur on Showtime’s The Chi

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of LA private school comedy Valley Trash
CBS redeveloping: Bait and Tackle
Searchlight developing: adaptation of Mark Seal’s The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Showtime developing: adaptation of Stephanie Land’s Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will To Survive

New US TV show casting

Holly Hunter joins NBC’s LA mayor comedy

PLL: The Perfectionists cancelled; War of the Worlds trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Jim Parsons, Dylan McDermott, Joe Mantello et al join Netflix’s Hollywood

French TV

OCS green lights: a cleaner, a Parisian, a crime boss and a dead body crime drama Cheyenne et Lola (Cheyenne and Lola), with Veerle Baetens, Charlotte Le Bon, Patrick d’Assumçao et al

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s The War of the Worlds
Rupert Graves joins Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
BritBox to feature on Freeview, YouView and Samsung TV

US TV

Freeform cancels: Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
Trailer for The CW’s Charmed

US TV show casting

Kerr Smith, Reign Edwards, Peter Giles et al to guest on Hulu’s Into The Dark
Margaret Cho to guest on NBC’s L&O:SVU
Miriam A Hyman to recur on Showtime’s The Chi

New US TV shows

ABC developing: adaptation of MBC (South Korea)’s Possessed
CBS developing: CDC “special forces” medical drama Control…
…adaptation of United States of Israel’s La Famiglia as The Last Happy Couple…
…and adaptation of William Knoedelseder’s Bitter Brew
Fox developing: online shopping workplace comedy
NBC developing: witchcraft comedy Black Girl Magic

New US TV show casting

Rachel York to recur on Fox’s Filthy Rich
Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice et al join HBO’s Mare of Easttown

On Becoming A God…, Absentia renewed; Birds of Prey’s Huntress returns; + more

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Internet TV

New trailer for Apple TV+’s For All Mankind
Jeremy Pope to star in Netflix’s Hollywood
John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Diana Silvers et al join Netflix’s Space Force, Jimmy O Yang and Alex Sparrow to recur
Amazon renews: Absentia, Josette Simon and Geoff Bell join

Australian/New Zealand TV

Seven (Australia)/TVNZ green light: supernatural crime drama One Lane Bridge, with Dominic Ona-Ariki, Joel Tobeck, Alison Bruce et al
Rupert Reid to replace Marcus Graham on ABC’s The Heights

Canadian TV

Trailer for season 6 of Crave’s Letterkenny

UK TV

Trailer for series 2 of BBC Two’s Motherland

US TV

Trailer for season 6 of The CW’s The Flash
Showtime renews: On Becoming A God In Central Florida

US TV show casting

Ashley Scott to reprise Birds of Prey role on The CW’s Arrowverse crossover, Osric Chau to recur
Chad Rock to recur on The CW’s The 100
Kandi Burruss to recur on Showtime’s The Chi
Ray Stevenson, Peter Egan, Andrew Buchan et al join Starz’s The Spanish Princess

New US TV show casting

Timothy Busfield to co-star in ABC’s For Life
Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Amanda Peet et al join HBO’s The Gilded Age
AnnaSophia Robb, Tiffany Boone, Alona Tal et al to guest on Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
Eduardo Franco, Patrick Gibson, John Karna et al join USA’s Masters of Doom

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