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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

J’ai 10 Ans; The Magicians renewed; Picasso is a Genius; + more

1 March 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

John Magaro joins Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy

French TV

France 2 green lights: modern family comedy J’ai 10 Ans (I am 10 Years Old)

US TV

Syfy renews: The Magicians
Trailer for season 2 of National Geographic’s Genius
Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Gina Rodriguez to guest on Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Rhyon Nicole Brown and Porscha Coleman to recur on Fox’s Empire
Dawn Olivieri to recur on Fox’s SEAL Team
Iain Armitage, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling to return to HBO’s Big Little Lies
Sarah Shahi to recur on NBC’s Chicago Fire

New US TV shows

Trailer for Paramount’s Yellowstone

New US TV show casting

Chris Warren joins ABC’s Grand Hotel
Alexander Sokovikov joins ABC’s Staties
James Roday and Christina Moses to star in ABC’s A Million Little Things
Michael Trucco joins CBS’s Chiefs
Leonard Roberts and Andrea Demetriades to star in CBS’s Murder
Rupert Evans joins The CW’s Charmed
Joey King and Freddie Stroma to star in The CW’s Dead Inside
Matt Barr to star in The CW’s Skinny Dip
Janina Gavankar to star in Fox’s playboy dad comedy
Jennifer Carpenter and Morris Chestnut to star in NBC’s The Enemy Within
Lorraine Toussaint and Dominic Chianese to star in NBC’s The Village

Lucy Davis as Etta Candy in Wonder Woman

Lucy Davis joins Sabrina; Big Little Lies returning cast; Madeline Stowe’s Mixtape; + more

19 February 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Joel McHale, Maggie Lawson, Gerald McRaney and Zachary Knighton to guest on Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet
Cameron Britton, Colm Feore, Adam Godley join, Ashley Madekwe to recur on Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy
Lucy Davis joins Netflix’s Sabrina The Teenage Witch series

European TV

HBO Europe/TNT Serie (Germany) green light: series of German/Romanian cybercrime thriller Hackerville

UK TV

Asher Keddie joins BBC One’s The Cry

US TV

Teaser for season 3 of TNT’s Animal Kingdom
Trailer for season 6 of FX’s The Americans [US only]
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Alfre Woodard to recur on Fox’s Empire
Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz to return for season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies

New US TV shows

Trailer for TBS’s The Last OG
ABC yellow lights: Kenya Barris/Julie Bean fading TV star comedy

New US TV show casting

Mary McCormack to star in ABC’s 1970s Irish-Catholic family comedy
Soniqua Shandai joins ABC’s The Greatest American Hero
Lynn Collins to star, Aasif Mandvi and Kris D Lofton to co-star in ABC’s Safe Harbor
Aunjanue Ellis to star in CBS’s Chiefs
Javicia Leslie and Suraj Sharma join CBS’s God Friended Me
Freddie Prinze Jr and David Fynn to star in CBS’s I Mom So Hard
Greg Wise, Peter Mark Kendall, Michael Gaston et al join CBS All Access’ Strange Angel
Madeline Stowe to co-star in Fox’s Mixtape
Jeanine Mason to star in The CW’s Roswell
Punam Patel joins NBC’s So Close
Tammy Townsend, Loretta Devine, Time Reid et al to recur on OWN’s Love Is …

Tabula Rasa acquired; ITV’s The Singapore Grip; bitter ode to Zagreb; + more

13 February 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Mary J Blige to co-star on Netflix’s Umbrella Academy

European TV

HBO Europe greenlights: series of ‘bitter ode to Zagreb’ Success

UK TV

BBC developing: adaptation of Francesca Segal’s The Awkward Age
ITV green lights: series adaptation by Christopher Hampton of JG Farrell’s The Singapore Grip
Walter Presents acquires: VRT (Belgium)’s Tabula Rasa

US TV

Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Betty Buckley and Colin Cunningham join, Jeremy Childs and Liz McGeever to recur on AMC’s Preacher
Melia Kreiling and Ashley Thomas join CBS’s Salvation
Jessica Szohr joins Fox’s The Orville
Sheryl Lee Ralph to recur on TNT’s Claws
Felisha Terrell to recur on USA’s Shooter

New US TV shows

Comedy Central developing: parole officer comedy Re-Established with Roy Wood Jr

New US TV show casting

Hannah Simone to star in ABC’s Greatest American Hero
Richard T Jones joins ABC’s The Rookie
Chris Powell joins CBS’s History of Them
Regina Hall and Paul Scheer join Showtime’s Ball Street, Casey Wilson to guest

Living the Dream renewed; Going Forward cancelled; Cuéntame Un Cuento (US); + more

1 December 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Netflix acquires: Youku Tudou (China)’s Day and Night…
… (officially) renews: Mindhunter
Robert Sheehan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper et al join Netflix’s Umbrella Academy
Bobby Cannavale to star in Amazon’s Homecoming

International TV

HBO Asia green lights: multi-country horror anthology Folklore, Japanese gender-switched Sherlock Holmes Miss Sherlock and Dutch East Indies period drama Grisse

Israeli TV

Keshet developing: thriller Sleeping Bears [subscription required]

Scandinavian TV

Discovery (Sweden) green lights: series of psychological drama Det Som Göms i Snö (The Truth Will Out) [subscription required]

UK TV

BBC Four cancels: Going Forward
Sky1 renews: Living the Dream
Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg join BBC One’s A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

US TV

Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

New trailer for TNT’s The Alienist
New trailer for Crackle’s The Oath [US only]
CBS green lights: series of action-adventure antiques drama Blood and Treasure
CBS All Access green lights: adaptation of Antena tres (Spain)’s dark fairy tales series Cuéntame Un Cuento (Tell Me A Story)
NBC developing: pastor/federal special agent drama Spirit of the Law
USA developing: Ronald Reagan limited series

New US TV show casting

Ken Jeong and David Alan Grier join Fox’s A Christmas Story Live!
Josh Lucas to recur on Paramount’s Yellowstone

Jodie Whittaker's new Doctor Who costume

Star Wars TV series; Hotel Beau Séjour renewed; Channel 4 is Shamed; Jai-Alai crime drama; + more

10 November 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Monica Barbaro to star in Netflix’s The Good Cop
Ellen Page to star in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy
New trailer for Netflix’s Dark

Australian TV

Ten green lights: inept criminals comedy Street Smart, WAGs drama Playing for Keeps and It’s A Date spin-off How to Stay Married

European TV

VRT (Belgium)/Arte renew: Hotel Beau Séjour

International TV

Julio Medem developing: Miami-set Basque ball game crime series Jai-Alai

UK TV

Channel 4 green lights: media shaming kidnapping drama Shamed, with Faye Marsay and Nick Blood

US TV

Wednesday ratings

US TV show casting

Kim Raver to recur on ABC’s Designated Survivor
Eric Winter to recur on ABC’s The Good Doctor
Laurie Metcalf to guest on The CW’s Supergirl
Patti LaBelle and Brandy Norwood to recur on Fox’s Star
James Tupper to recur on NBC’s The Brave
Dan Bucatinsky, Barry Bostwick and Matthew Letscher to guest on NBC’s Will & Grace

New US TV shows

Disney developing: live-action Star Wars, High School musical and Marvel series

New US TV show casting

Benedict Wong, Benjamin Wadsworth, Lana Condor et al join Syfy’s Deadly Class, Henry Rollins to recur

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