Caffeine – August 9th Edition

Ready for an extra-long catch up edition of TV news? Let’s go!

Premiere dates!
September 4: Hand of God
September 10: Longmire
September 11: Continuum, For Better or Worse
September 13: Doll & Em
September 15: The Bastard Executioner
September 22: If Loving You Is Wrong
October 4: The Leftovers
October 6: Finding Carter
October 7: American Horror Story: Hotel
October 8: Haven
October 9: Red Oaks
October 10: The Last Kingdom
October 12: Fargo, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
November 6: Master of None
November 15: Into the Badlands
November 19: The Art of More
November 20: The Man in the High Castle
December 4: Transparent
January 3: Downton Abbey

Renewed: When Calls the Heart, BoJack Horseman, The Soul Man (for a final season), Scream, Humans, Black Sails, The Strain, Sense8

Canceled: Lilyhammer, Welcome to Sweden, Banshee

Sleepy Hollow and Bones will have their crossover event on October 29th!

Amazon debuted the pilots of Sneaky Pete and Casanova on August 7th, so if you’re interested, head over and check them out!

Starz will release full seasons of Flesh and Bone and Da Vinci’s Demons on demand on their premiere dates.

Archer is moving to FXX.

People Are Talking is now called Truth Be Told.

David Fincher pilot Utopia is dead at HBO.

Ordered to series:
BBC America: Political thriller Undercover, mystery Thirteen
Fox: A Prison Break limited series
FX: Louis C.K. comedy Better Things
FXX: Animated comedy Cassius and Clay
Netflix: Brazilian futuristic drama 3%
OWN: Megachurch drama Greenleaf
Super Channel/Chiller: Horror show Slasher
Syfy: Grindhouse drama Blood Drive

Pilot orders:
Comedy Central: Relationship comedy Bad Couple
Fox: Lee Daniels music drama Star
HBO: David Simon 1970s porn industry drama The Deuce starring James Franco, an untitled David Simon Capitol Hill drama
Netflix: A Tig Notaro comedy
USA Network: Werewolf comic book adaptation Brooklyn Animal Control, Ryan Phillippe drama Shooter

In development:
ABC: Monster drama Monstropolis, a Latino family soap from Salma Hayek
BBC America: Douglas Adams adaptation Dirk Gently, a Sebastian Silva dating series, Tokyo crime series Moths, post-Jonestown drama The Greater Good, a 1950s resort noir drama from Anders August, a Berlin family drama from Anna Winger
CBS: An adaptation of Norwegian comedy Side by Side
The CW: A gritty dystopian adaptation of Little Women
Dynamic Television: Melina Kanakaredes drama Stolen for Good
Fox: Josh Schwartz horror dramedy Horrorstor, an Empire prequel
HBO: Wild West series Untamed, a figure skating comedy, Shaka King comedy These Are My Friends, science fiction comedy The Broken Lizard Show
Jerry Bruckheimer: A Training Day adaptation
Lionsgate TV: Christina Applegate family dramedy Your Time Is Up
Nat Geo: Vietnam War limited series Last Men Out, Mars miniseries Red Planet
NBC: Atlanta drama Buckhead from Will Packer, Cindy Crawford 1980s modeling drama Icon
Sony: A Married with Children spinoff
Starz: Detective series Havana Quartet starring Antonio Banderas
TV Land: Melissa McCarthy/Ben Falcone comedy Friends with Melissa, social worker comedy The Mighty Camilla
USA Network: Patterson Women’s Murder Club adaptation 1st to Die
WGN America: Drug cartel drama El Double
YRF Entertainment: A series based on comic The Nye Incidents

New EPs:
Blood and Oil: Jon Feldman
The Frankenstein Code: Brad Turner
Underground: John Legend

Directors:
Taboo: Kristoffer Nyholm

Promoted to series regular:
Chicago Fire: Dora Madison
Gotham: Drew Powell
Stitchers: Damon Dayoub

Guest stars!
Bones: Kim Raver
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Archie Panjabi, Bill Hader
Castle: Ann Cusack
CSI: Katie Stevens
Doctor Who: Reece Shearsmith, Bethany Black
Elementary: Jeremy Bobb
Empire: Becky G, Mariah Carey, Pitbull
Girl Meets World: Perez Hilton
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Barry Bostwick, Lesley Ann Warren
Gorgeous Morons: Federico Dordei
The Group: Brian Huskey
Hawaii Five-0: Jerry Rice
Master of None: Claire Danes, Noah Emmerich, Colin Salmon, H. Jon Benjamin, Todd Barry
The Mindy Project: Freida Pinto, Brooke Burke, Sakina Jaffrey, Ajay Mehta, Kunal Nayyar
NCIS: Jon Cryer
NCIS: LA: Pamela Reed
Roadies: Tanc Sade
Scream Queens: Tavi Gevinson
Supergirl: Chris Browning

Returns:
Bloodline: Ben Mendelsohn
Castle: Jack Coleman
Galavant: John Stamos
The Last Man on Earth: Jason Sudeikis
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Blair Underwood
The Mindy Project: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Sleepy Hollow: Zach Appelman
Suits: Troian Bellisario
The X-Files: Sheila Larken

Casting:
The 100: Shawn Mendes
11/22/63: Josh Duhamel
12 Monkeys: Scottie Thompson
The Affair: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Brooke Lyons
American Crime: Andre Benjamin, Trevor Jackson
American Horror Story: Hotel: Madchen Amick, Darren Criss
Animal Kingdom: Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Finn Cole, Jake Weary
Arrow: Ryan Robbins
The Bastard Executioner: Ed Sheeran
Berlin Station: Rhys Ifans
The Blacklist: Edi Gathegi
Blindspot: Michael Gaston
Blood and Oil: Miranda Rae Mayo
Bosch: Brent Sexton, Erika Alexander, Jeri Ryan
Chicago Fire: Brian White
Chicago P.D.: Clancy Brown
Coach: Andrew Ridings, Pam Stone
Colony: Adam Busch
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Falk Hentschel, Casper Crump
The Detour: Daniella Pineda
Edge: Max Martini, Ryan Kwanten, Yvonne Strahovski
Empire: Yani Marin, Adam Busch
The Flash: Keiynan Lonsdale
Fuller House: Eva LaRue, Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit
Game of Thrones: Ian McShane, Max von Sydow
The Get Down: Yolanda Ross
The Good Wife: Peter Gallagher
The Group: Wyatt Cenac, Ana Gasteyer, Oscar Nunez, Alice Wetterlund, Luka Jones, Tracee Chimo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Marylouise Burke
Guilt: Billy Zane, Katrina Law, Daisy Head, Zachary Fall, Kevin Ryan
How to Get Away with Murder: Famke Janssen
Incorporated: Julia Ormond
iZombie: Robert Knepper
Lady Dynamite: Ana Gasteyer
Madam Secretary: Chris Petrovski
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Andrew Howard, Constance Zimmer
Masters of Sex: Ben Koldyke, Rob Benedict
The Mindy Project: Garret Dillahunt
Modern Family: Jeremy Maguire
Mom: Emily Osment
The Mysteries of Laura: Callie Thorne
The Originals: Andrew Lees, Rebecca Breeds, Lawrence Kao, Oliver Ackland
Paradise Pictures: Georgina Reilly, Daren Kagasoff, Matthew Del Negro
The Patriot: Kurtwood Smith, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Dorman, Kathleen Munroe
The Player: Courtney Grosbeck
Recovery Road: Laura San Giacomo
Reign: Tom Everett Scott
Roadies: Carla Gugino
Scorpion: Kevin Weisman
Secrets & Lies: Terry O’Quinn, Jordana Brewster, Charlie Barnett, AnnaLynne McCord, Kenny Johnson
Snowfall: Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Malcolm Mays
Son of Zorn: Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows, Artemis Pebdani
Stay: Skeet Ulrich, Mia Vallet, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Jordan Fisher, Alicia Coppola, Sosie Bacon, Brianna Brown, Leonard Howze
Supergirl: Jenna Dewan-Tatum
Teen Wolf: Marisol Nichols
Thirteen: Jodie Comer, Aneurin Barnard, Richard Rankin, Valene Kane, Natasha Little, Stuart Graham, Joe Layton, Katherine Rose Morley, Eleanor Wyld, Ariyon Bakare, Nicholas Farrell
Underground: James Lafferty
The Vampire Diaries: Justice Leak, Jaiden Kaine, Tim Kang, Todd Lasance
The Way: Hugh Dancy
The Young Pope: Diane Keaton, James Cromwell, Cecile de France, Guy Boyd, Andre Gregory, Sebastian Roche, Silvio Orlando, Scott Shepherd, Javier Camara, Ludivine Sagnier, Toni Bertorelli, Marcello Romolo, Ignazio Oliva, Vladimir Bibic, Nadie Kammalaweera

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