Hey All,
Here are the news items for the past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Amazon Prime Video has renewed A League of Their Own for a truncated, 4-episode second and final season. (Puck, The Hollywood Reporter and TV Line)
Meanwhile, Amazon Prmie Video has pulled the plug on the Canada-set mystery series Three Pines, which starred Alfred Molina, after only one season. (Variety)
Disney+ has yanked the small screen adaptation Willow after only one season. (TV Line)
Peacock has given a third season renewal to Bel-Air. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Garrett Hedlun (Tulsa King) has joined the cast of the Taylor Sheridan western drama Bass Reeves that will air on Paramount+. He will play Garrett Montgomery, a posse man hired by Bass Reeves (David Oyelowo) for his riding know-how and expertise of the area. (Collider)
Actress Kelly McCreary will be leaving Grey’s Anatomy at the end of this season. (TV Line)
Rebecca Mader (Once Upon a Time) has joined the cast of the new CBS drama Fire Country in the key recurring role of Faye, the head of a private concierge firefighting company, who meets Manny (series regular Kevin Alejandro) at an AA meeting. Meanwhile Kanoa Goo (The Rookie) will play Kyle, a swim Adonis, who has arrived to attend a swim clinic. (Deadline)
INTERNATIONAL TV NEWS
Outlander alum Richard Rankin has lined up his new project now that Outlander has an end date in sight. Rankin will play Inspector Rebus in the new series Rebus that will air on the Nordic streaming service Viaplay. The series follows 40-year-old Inspector John Rebus at a psychological crossroads following an altercation with an infamous Edinburgh gangster. At odds with a job increasingly driven by technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. (Deadline)
REUNION MOVIE NEWS
Monk fans will be excited to learn that Peacock has officially ordered a reunion movie for the popular series, and Tony Shalhoub will back as the title character along with returning cast members Ted Levine, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Melora Hardin (Trudy Monk) and Hector Elizondo. Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie will find Monk returning to solve one final, very personal case involving his beloved stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Game of Thrones actress and Fast and Furious franchise member Nathalie Emmanuel will star opposite Omar Sy in the upcoming Peacock flick The Killer, which is a reimagining of the 1989 John Woo movie that followed an assassin who takes one last assignment in order to use his earnings to pay for the surgery that will restore the sight of a singer he blinded. Details of this reimagining have yet to be revealed, though. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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