Anton Yelchin, best known for his role as Pavel Chekov in JJ Abrams series of rebooted Star Trek feature films, died on Sunday June 19th. He was 27. He is survived by his parents Irina & Victor Yelchin. Read More
ITV is extending the run of Maigret. The commercial broadcaster has ordered a further two TV movies based on the novels by Georges Simonen which will again star Rowan Atkinson as Maigret, TVWise has learned. Read More
Comedy Central UK has ordered a pilot for an as-yet untitled comedy-entertainment series which will be fronted by comedian Chris Ramsey, TVWise has learned. The untitled pilot will feature Ramsey and guest comedians ‘taking a fast-paced look at the stories everybody has been talking about and sharing via social media`, via a mixture of regular and random games, pre-recorded items and audience interaction in an informal studio setting. Read More
Wilmer Valderrama (Grey's Anatomy, Minority Report) has joined the cast of CBS' hit procedural NCIS as a series regular for the show's fourteenth season, TVWise has learned. He will play a once grounded NCIS field agent who accepted a deep cover assignment years ago and never resurfaced. Many agents don’t know he’s still on the job or that he’s even alive. Now, he’s back and his dedication to job and country has left him an unpredictable, charismatic loose cannon. Read More
Granfathered and Full House star is joining the cast of Fox's horror-comedy anthology series Scream Queens as a series regular for its second season, TVWise has learned. Read More
Janeane Garofalo (Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce) has been cast in a recurring role in Foreign Bodies, the eight part dramedy series from Plebs co-creator Tom Basden which is set up as a co-production at E4 an TNT, TVWise has learned. Read More
BBC America's breakout original scripted series Orphan Black is coming to and end. The network announced on Thursday that they had picked up the critically acclaimed genre series starring Tatiana Maslany for a ten episode fifth and final season. Read More
