Caffeine – TV News – August 24th Edition

Caffeine – TV News – August 24th Edition

We’ve got a bunch more fall premiere dates, casting, and other TV news this week! Next weekend I’ll be traveling, so I’ll see you in September as we gear up for the fall TV season.

Premiere dates:

September 25th: House of Guinness
September 29th: Murder Before Evensong

October 5th: Maigret
October 18th: The Diplomat
October 22nd: Riot Women, The Monster of Florence

November 6th: Death by Lightning
November 12th: Palm Royale
November 20th: A Man on the Inside

December 17th: Fallout
December 18th: Emily in Paris

Renewed:

Dept. Q, Gangs of London, The Institute

Canceled:

Dexter: Original Sin (despite being previously renewed)

Other headlines:

Rather than the planned weekly release, Peacock will release all episodes of The Paper on September 4th.

Joanna Calo is no longer working on the second season of The Perfect Couple.

Ordered to series:

Canal+: Police thriller Hit Point from Howard Overman
Channel 4: Crime series Maud starring Glenn Close, political drama Number 10 from Steven Moffat, near-future thriller Army of Shadows
Diamond Moving Pictures: Comedy Rode Hard about American cowboys in Poland starring Rafal Zawierucha and Mauricio Ochmann
HBO: Legal drama War starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller

In development:

ABC: Legal drama The Advocate
Amazon MGM Studios: An adaptation of R.F. Kuang’s new fantastical academic satire Katabasis
CBS: A post-wildfire comedy from Kenya Barris and starring Mike Epps
A Higher Standard/Harris Films: An adaptation of David Morrell’s Victorian-set mystery thriller Murder as a Fine Art
Hulu: An adaptation of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s novel The Summer of Songbirds
Working Title: A series about artist/AIDS activist Keith Haring

Guest stars:

Law & Order: SVU: Corey Cott, Molly Griggs, Michael Cassidy
Rivals: Hayley Atwell, Rupert Everett
Shifting Gears: Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Debbe Dunning

Casting:

All Creatures Great and Small: Lucy-Jo Hudson, Gaia Wise, Jonathan Hyde, Philip Martin Brown, Chris Gascoyne
The Comeback: Tim Bagley, Matt Cook, Jack O’Brien, Ella Stiller
The Dark: Laura Donnelly
Extraction: Natalie Dormer
The Faithful: Alexa Davalos, Tom Mison, Tom Payne, Ben Robson
Harry Potter: Tristan and Gabriel Harland, Ruari Spooner, Gracie Cochrane
I Will Find You: Madeleine Stowe, Clancy Brown
Joseph of Egypt: Omid Abtahi
NCIS: Nancy Travis
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Dafne Keen, Saara Chaudry
The Pitt: Zack Morris
Pride and Prejudice: Jasmine Blackborow
The Shards: Hayes Warner
Tommy & Tuppence: Antonia Thomas, Josh Dylan, Imelda Staunton
The Varnell Hill Show: Kym Whitley
You’re Killing Me: Amalia Williamson, Tom Cavanaugh
Untitled Hulu Dan Fogelman NFL series: Mandy Moore

(Image courtesy of Netflix.)

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