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Filmo Estudios (Chile) developing: Mupuche crime drama En la Frontera (The Frontier)
Mediapro Chile developing: suicide cliff drama El acantilado (The Cliff)

Scandinavian TV

SVT Play green lights: adaptation of Joakim Granberg and Isabella Rodriguez’s Kurs I självutplåning (Course in Self-Annihiliation)

US TV

TruTV renews: I’m Sorry and Tacoma FD

US TV show casting

Jennifer Morrison to recur on NBC’s This Is Us

New US TV shows

USA developing: female private detective drama Dicks

New US TV show casting

Himesh Patel joins HBO’s Avenue 5
Michelle Forbes, Patrik Fugit, Michael Gaston et al join USA’s Treadstone

Countless US renewals, cancellations and new shows; What Happened in Oslo; Catherine the Great trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix green lights: series of parenting sitcom Black Excellence, with Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones
Netflix/TV2 (Norway)/HOT (Israel) green light: series of Norwegian daughter missing in Israel drama What Happened in Oslo
Eric McCormack to recur on Netflix’s Atypical

UK TV

Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s Catherine The Great

US TV

CBS All Access to release black and white versions of The Twilight Zone
Full trailer for season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies
ABC renews: The Goldbergs and Schooled; Grey’s Anatomy and How To Get Away With Murder; Station 19; The Rookie; American Housewife and Bless This Mess; Single Parents; Fresh Off The Boat…
…cancels: The Fix, The Kids Are Alright, Speechless, Splitting Up Together and Whiskey Cavalier
Audience cancels: You Me Her
CBS renews: Man With A Plan…
…cancels: Murphy Brown, Life in Pieces, Fam and Happy Together
Fox renews: The Orville…
…cancels: The Cool Kids, Proven Innocent, Star, Lethal Weapon, The Passage
NBC renews: This Is Us for three seasons…
…and Blindspot for a final season…
…cancels: I Feel Bad

US TV show casting

Chris Carmack, Jake Borelli and Greg Germann promoted to regulars on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: series of conspiracy drama Emergence, with Allison Tolman, Donald Faison, Owain Yeoman et al…
…self-explanatory drama The Baker and the Beauty, with Victor Rasuk and Nathalie Kelley…
…legal drama For Life and family comedy United We Fall
…yellow lights: Heart of Life and NYPD Blue
CBS green lights: series of female LA police chief drama Tommy, with Edie Falco
…red lights: Under the Bridge and The Republic of Sarah
Fox green lights: series of 911 spin-off 911: Lone Star, with Rob Lowe…
…and soap southern Gothic family drama Filthy Rich
NBC green lights: series of newly widowed dad comedy The Kenan Show, with Kenan Thompson and Andy Garcia…
…Jeffery Deaver’s Bone Collector adaptation Lincoln, with Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel; church choir comedy Perfect Harmony, with Bradley Whitford, Anna Camp, Tymberlee Hill et al; and live-in grandparents comedy Indebted, with Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Steven Weber and Fran Drescher

New US TV show casting

Anders Holm exits ABC’s Mixed-ish
Mark Webber exits ABC’s Stumptown
David Denman exits Fox’s Filthy Rich
Ike Bainholtz, Sean Hayes, Amber Stevens West et al join ABC’s All In The Family and The Jeffersons specials

Ramy and PEN15 renewed; Ghost Rider returns; Evangeline Lilly’s Albedo; Dutch This is Us;+ more

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Canadian TV

Bell Media green lights: series of space station murder mystery drama Albedo with Evangeline Lilly

European TV

NL Film (Netherlands) green lights: series adaptation of NBC (US)’s This is Us as Dit Zijn Wij, with Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Vincent van der Valk, Esmée van Kampen et al

UK TV

Molly Windsor, Laura Fraser and Jennifer Spence to star in Alibi’s Traces

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Teaser for Hulu’s Veronica Mars
Teaser for season 2 of HBO’s Succession
Hulu renews: PEN15 and Ramy

New US TV shows

Teasers for HBO’s Watchmen
Disney+ developing: sequel to Willow
Hulu green lights: series adaptations of Marvel’s Ghost Rider, with Gabriel Luna, and Helstrom…
…Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers and Elizabeth Holmes biopic The Dropout with Kate McKinnon
Lionsgate developing: adaptation of Warm Bodies
Paramount developing: US-Mexico border smuggling drama Coyote, with Michael Chiklis, and southern family drama Heaven of Hell
Showtime green lights: alternative reality anthology series Omniverse, with Jaden Smith

El Ministerio del Tiempo, After Life renewed; Emily in Paris acquired; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s Too Old To Die Young
Netflix renews: After Life
Lisa Dwan, Jasmine Jobson, Kadeem Ramsay et al join Netflix’s Top Boy

International TV

La 1 (Spain) renews: El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time)
Viaplay (Scandinavia) green lights: adaptations of four Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström crime novels, starting with Box 21
Les Films du Nouveau Monday (France) and 2M (Morocco) developing: near-future social issue drama set in Ceuta, Blackout
Noe Productions (France) developing: adaptation of Linwood Barclay’s Never Look Away

UK TV

Paramount acquires: Paramount (US)’s Emily in Paris
BBC Studios developing: adaptation of Keith Badman’s The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe: The Shocking True Story

US TV

Younger to remain on TV Land

US TV show casting

Katelyn Nacon, Froy Gutierrez, Adriyan Rae et al join Hulu’s Light as a Feather
Mary McDonnell joins Hulu’s Veronica Mars
Someone’s leaving NBC’s This is Us

New US TV show casting

Amit Shah, Sibongile Mlambo, Diana Bermudez et al join ABC’s Triangle
Ebon Moss-Bachrach to recur on CBS All Access’ Interrogation
Jason Alexander joins Fox’s Richard Lovely
Rosie O’Donnell, Archie Panjabi, Kathryn Hahn et al join HBO’s I Know This Much Is True
Lily Collins to star in Paramount’s Emily in Paris
Adrienne Barbeau, Giancarlo Esposito and Tobin Bell to star in Shudder’s Creepshow

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