Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

Director Sam Mendes has revealed the title for Bond 24, which will be Spectre. The newest cast members are Christoph Waltz, Andrew Scott (Moriarty of BBC's Sherlock), Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux. Returning cast members include Daniel Craig as Bond along with Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Ben Whishaw as Q, Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny and Ralph Fiennes as the new M. As Deadline reports, the logline for the new film is: “A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.”

Actress Cate Blanchett and director Baltasar Kormakur are in negotiations to participate in Cascade, a thriller about an oil tanker collision in the Persian Gulf that sets off an international crisis and leads the tanker’s captain (Blanchett) to find a way to prove she didni't commit a terrorist act.

Zoey Deutch has joined the cast, incuding headliners Emile Hirsch and Zoe Kravitz, for the crime drama Vincent-N-Roxxy. Hirsch and Kravitz star as a small town loner and a rebellious punk rocker  who "unexpectedly fall in love as they are forced on the run and soon discover violence follows them everywhere," with Deutch playing the bubbly and tattooed girlfriend of a character played by Emory Cohen.

More than 40 new images were released from Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Inherent Vice, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel. Inherent Vice arrives in theaters December 12 in limited release, with the wide release slated for January 9.

Settling in for some holiday movie binge-watching? Word and Film compiled a list of "Four Must Sees from the Raymond Chandler Canon."

TELEVISION

TNT has given a 10-episode second-season pickup to freshman drama series Legends, based on the book by Robert Littell about the work and life of Martin Odum (Sean Bean), an undercover agent for the FBI’s Deep Cover Operations division.

CBS announced schedule slots for some mid-season programs, including placing Battle Creek (about two Michigan detectives) in the recent CSI slot on Sunday nights, two weeks after the CSI finale in March, and CSI: Cyber, which will launch in the time slot that housed CSI for three years, Wednesdays at 10 p.m.

HBO has remastered all 60 episodes of its Peabody Award-winning drama The Wire, making them available in 16×9 full-frame HD for the first time. HBO Signature will run them in order starting the day after Christmas.

The El Rey Network has chosen not to order a second season of its original spy drama series Matador, starring Gabriel Luna as a DEA agent recruited by the CIA to go undercover as a professional soccer player.

Korean broadcaster KBS will adapt the hit Israeli spy drama The Gordin Cell (a/k/a MICE), marking the first time an Israeli drama will be adapted for South Korea. NBC has ordered a U.S. version of the series, to air as Allegiance in 2015.

Deadline noted that The Newsroom alumna Wynn Everett has signed on for a lead role in the TNT drama pilot Lumen, about what happens when the famous author of a best-selling series of fantasy books disappears, and a family of four is transported to the mystical alternate world that inspired her work; and also that Afemo Omilami and Chris Kerson have booked roles on the upcoming second season of HBO’s True Detective.

PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO

NPR's Fresh Air program remembered PD James with two interviews — one from 1987 with Terry Gross and one from 1998 with NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan.

BBC Radio 4 is offering a series of Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael mysteries online. The series stars Philip Madoc as the Medieval monk detective, and will be available for four weeks.