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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: The Cockfields renewed; ABC, The CW and NBC’s picked up and cancelled pilots; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: limited series Colin Kaepernick biopic Colin in Black & White

UK TV

Gold renews: The Cockfields

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 3 of Comedy Central’s Corporate

New US TV shows

ABC red lights: The Brides, Valley Trash and thirtysomething(else)…
…and Revenge sequel…
…green lights: pilots of Rebel, Harlem’s Kitchen, Bossy (formerly Kids Matter Now), Home Economics and Work Wife…
…yellow lights: Adopted, National Parks Service (formerly ISB) and Triage
The CW red lights: LA Complex reboot
NBC green lights: series of crashed spaceship drama Debris, with Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele
HBO developing: limited series adaptation of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

New US TV show casting

Leslie Odom Jr, Tommy Dorfman, Gil Bellows et al to star in Freeform’s Love in the Time of Corona

Almost Family cancelled; Profilage trailer; Jason Isaacs joins Good Sam; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Elite
Amazon developing: adaptation of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Inheritance Games

International TV

NBCUniversal International/Buccaneer Media developing: California/Japan crime drama Moths

French TV

Trailer for season 10 of TF1’s Profilage (Profiling)

UK TV

Trailer for season 3 of ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Freeform’s Siren
Fox cancels: Almost Family

New US TV shows

Teaser trailer for HBO’s I Know This Much is True
HBO developing: Ivy League alienation drama

New US TV show casting

Brian Geraghty to co-star in ABC’s The Big Sky
Gina Torres to star in ABC’s The Brides
Kyra Sedgwick to star in ABC’s My Village
Kendrick Sampson to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Sara Rue and Kether Donohue join CBS’s B Positive
Jason Isaacs to star in CBS’s Good Sam
Rochelle Aytes to star in The CW’s The Lost Boys
Luke Mitchell to star in The CW’s The Republic of Sarah
Emily Alyn Lind, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown et al to star in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl
Reid Scott to star in NBC’s Echo
Ashley Zukerman to star in NBC’s Langdon
Ian Gomez, Collette Wolfe, James Earl et al join NBC’s Night School
Grace Gummer and Molly Griggs join Peacock’s Dr Death

Yellowstone, The Blacklist renewed; Shantaram on hold; + more

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Internet TV

Geoffrey Arend and Brandon Scott join, Obba Babatundé and Elias Koteas to recur on Amazon’s Goliath
Rainn Wilson joins Amazon’s The Power
Kristofer Hivju, Yasen Atour, Agnes Bjorn et al join Netflix’s The Witcher
Apple yellow lights: Shantaram
Netflix developing: English department dramedy The Chair, with Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass
Amazon/RTVE (Spain) developing: Magellan circumnavigation drama Boundless

German TV

RTL green lights: adaptation of Kan (Israel)’s Stockholm

UK TV

Trailer for season 3 of Channel 4’s The Windsors
Trailer for ITV’s Belgravia
Trailer for ITV’s Flesh and Blood
History UK to become Sky History
ITV green lights: bomb thriller Trigger Point, with Vicky McClure

US TV shows

Trailer for season 2 of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend
Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Westworld
Paramount renews: Yellowstone
NBC renews: The Blacklist

US TV show casting

Someone’s leaving CBS All Access’ The Good Fight [spoilers]
Two people are leaving The CW’s Riverdale [spoilers]
Jeri Ryan joins CBS’s MacGyver

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of love story with a twist comedy
Universal Content developing: adaptation of Watergate podcast Slow Burn as Gaslit, with Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer et al

New US TV show casting

Ariela Barer to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Melanie Mayron and Polly Droper to return for ABC’s thirtysomething(else)
Annie Murphy to star in AMC’s Kevin Can F*** Himself
Jack Cutmore-Scott to star in CBS’s Jury Duty
Jon Prasida, Shannon Dang and Eddie Liu join The CW’s Kung Fu
Mitch Pileggi joins The CW’s Walker (previously Walker, Texas Ranger)
Bebe Neuwirth to recur on HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant
Harriet Dyer to star in NBC’s American Auto
Michael Raymond-James to star in NBC’s La Brea

Bigger renewed; French Cold Feet trailer; Kung Fu casting; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Feel Good
Teaser trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Kingdom
Teaser trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s On My Block
Netflix green lights: opioid crisis limited series Painkiller

French TV

Trailer for France 2’s Cold Feet remake Une belle histoire (A Beautiful Story)
Arte green lights: political thriller mini-series Alger Confidentiel (Algeria Confidential), with Ken Duken, Hania Amar, Dali Benssalah, Anna Schudt et al

UK TV

Shalom Brune-Franklin, Perry Fitzpatrick, Andi Osho et al join BBC One’s Line of Duty

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Starz’s Vida
BET+ renews: Bigger

US TV show casting

Jorge Garcia to return to CBS’s MacGyver

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America
Fox green lights: pilot of genetic genealogist crime drama Blood Relative, with Melissa Leo
Showtime green lights: pilot of cursed married couple comedy The Curse
Hulu developing: adaptation of Graham Moore’s The Holdout

New US TV show casting

Tamala Jones to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Auden Thornton to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan to co-star in The CW’s Kung Fu
Carl Lumbly joins Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Freddy Miyares joins HBO’s DMZ
Norbert Leo Butz to co-star in NBC’s Debris

The Secrets She Keeps, The Last Wave acquired; Insatiable cancelled; Alan Partridge renewed; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix cancels: Insatiable
Chanté Adams, Roberta Coldindrez and Melanie Field join Amazon’s A League of Their Own

UK TV

BBC One renews: This Time With Alan Partridge
BBC Four acquires: Ten (Australia)’s The Secrets She Keeps and France 2’s La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave)
Siobhan Finneran, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jayde Adams et al to star in BBC Two’s Alma’s Not Normal

US TV

Teaser trailer for season 3 of BBC America’s Killing Eve
Trailer for season 3 of TBS’s The Last OG

US TV show casting

Lance Gross joins CBS’s Hawaii Five-0

New US TV shows

Trailer for Syfy’s Vagrant Queen
Trailer for HBO’s Run
ABC developing: ex-Green Beret adopts Russian brother comedy Adopted

New US TV show casting

Topher Grace to star in ABC’s Home Economics
Patrick Fugit to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Emma Meisel, Lexi Simonsen, Kevin Rahm et al join HBO Max’s Vegas High
Riann Steele to star in NBC’s Debris
Jude Law to star in Showtime’s The Auteur
Omar Epps joins Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan

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