MOVIES
Rupert Friend (currently starring in Homeland on HBO), is in talks to replace the late Paul Walker in Agent 47 from Fox International. The film is based on the elite assassin who is the star character in The Hitman video franchise.
Bruce Willis is set to star in the thriller Captive, playing a real estate developer who gets kidnapped in Brazil and has to find a way out of his armored-truck prison while a detective specializing in kidnap and ransom cases works to find him.
Here's your latest trailer for The Muppets Most Wanted, in which Kermit and the gang find themselves involved in a spy ring.
TELEVISION
Fox has given a 13-episode series order to Backstrom, a one-hour crime drama from 20th Century Fox TV starring Rainn Wilson of The Office. The show is based on Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books.
A&E recently revealed the premiere date for their serial-killer drama Those Who Kill will be March 3, and they also released a still from the show featuring star Chloe Sevigny. The ten-episode series is based on a Danish series co-written by journalist turned crime novelist Elsebeth Egholm.
Meanwhile, HBO announced that its beloved mob drama Boardwalk Empire will end after its upcoming fifth season.
NBC picked up the drama Coercion (formerly M.I.C.E.), which is based on the Israeli format The Gordin Cell. It thriller centers on a decorated American war hero and CIA analyst whose parents and sister are part of a dormant Russian sleeper cell that has just been reactivated.
ABC canceled the series The Assets after only two weeks. The eight-part miniseries, set in the 1980s, was based on the CIA's hunt for the most notorious mole in U.S. history.
BBC One has confirmed that there will be four episodes in the new season of the period crime drama George Gently, although, as Omnimystery News reports, there is still no firm word on the broadcast date in the UK or the U.S.
Good news, Sherlock fans: Steven Moffat announced that he and Mark Gattis have planned out Seasons 4 and 5 of the popular BBC drama while sitting on top of the producton bus one day recently. Moffatt added that “The ideas...that day, I thought were the best we’ve ever had.”
David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), is to star in three-part thriller The Driver for the BBC, playing a taxi driver who "blames himself and his inadequacies after a family mystery and makes the mistake of accepting an offer to start driving for a criminal gang."
BBC America has greenlighted a six-episode Cold War spy thriller miniseries titled The Game. It stars Brian Cox and tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.
Sundance Channel released a new poster for its upcoming drama The Red Road, which centers on a local sheriff (Martin Henderson) as he struggles to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
CNN announced it has ordered an eight-part documentary series about capital murder cases from executive producers Alex Gibney and Robert Redford, with Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon on board to narrate.
If you like a little comedy with your crime, Comedy Central has a show for you. It picked up an animated cop series produced by Rob Lowe, which is described as "an absurdist take on the gritty, sex-drenched crime dramas from the 1980s."
AMC announced its 2014 scheduling plans, including an April 13 return date for Mad Men and a November launch for Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad prequel starring Bob Odenkirk. AMC's Revolutionary War spy drama Turn will also have a 90-minute premiere on April 6.
Crimetime Preview makes note of new TV crime dramas coming in 2014 to UK audiences (some are American crossovers; hopefully others will get a global distribution in the not-too-distant future).
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Erik Arneson has teamed with Scott Detrow, a reporter for KQED in Sacramento, for the podcast TITLE 18: WORD CRIMES.The show will feature short crime fiction stories, with the debut show including Scott reading Arneson's "For the Honesty," originally published at Out of the Gutter.
THEATER
The Red Bull Theater's Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton's Loot begins previews Jan. 9, prior to an official opening Jan. 16. The story is described as a "merciless satire of religious hypocrisy, middle-class British morality, and blind faith in authority," and involves a couple of young thieves, Scotland Yard, and the body of a recently-deceased woman that goes missing.
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