David Harewood (Homeland), Amy Nuttall (Downton Abbey), Nick Moran (Mr Selfridge), Honor Blackman (Goldfinger), Michael Maloney (The White Queen) and Harriet Walter (Law & Order: UK) have joined the cast of BBC One’s upcoming drama series By Any Mean in guest roles, TVWise has learned.
TNT has renewed their top performing drama series Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes and Perception. Rizzoli & Isles will return for a fifth season, while Major Crimes and Perception will return for their third seasons. All three have received 15 episode orders and join fellow summer series Falling Skies which was also recently renewed for next season, although with a 12 episode order.
EXCLUSIVE: UK fans will get to see the resolution of Showtime’s The Big C. I’ve just confirmed that More4 has picked up the UK rights to the four episode final season (titled Hereafter when it aired state-side) of the dark comedy series from Sony Pictures Television. I hear that the current plan is to begin airing the final season immediately after the show’s third season, which is currently airing on More 4, wraps its run in mid-September.
Netflix has closed a deal with Scholastic Media which will see a number of Scholastic owned TV properties made available to members of the OTT service in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Latin America.
USA Network has unveiled their fall schedule and revealed the return dates for the back end of Covert Affairs’ fourth season, the fifth season of White Collar, Psych: The Musical as well as the off-network debuts of ABC’s Modern Family and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles.
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Duncan (Alice In Wonderland), Susie Blake (Mrs Brown’s Boys), Alice Felgate (Some Girls), Miller Henderson, Nigel Betts (Emmerdale) and Joshua McGuire (The Hour) have joined the cast of Gold’s upcoming comedy series You, Me and Them (formerly known as Us and Them). They join a cast which (as TVWise previously reported) is being led by Anthony Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Eve Myles (Frankie). Marcus Garvey (White Van Man), Daisy Beaumont (EastEnders) and Jeff Rawle (Drop The Dead Donkey) also star.
Rhys Ifans (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) has joined the cast of Showtime’s recently ordered comedy pilot Trending Down. Ifans joins a cast which is being led Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and acclaimed actress Kathryn Hahn. He will play Jonathan Clow, Thom Payne’s (Hoffman) boss.
ITV has released a trailer for the third season of their drama series Vera, which is set to premiere on Sunday August 25th at 8pm.