Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/PICK-UPS/CANCELLATIONS

Krypton has been renewed for a second season by Syfy. (The Hollywood Reporter)

The Expanse has officially been picked up at Amazon for a fourth season. (Variety)

CBS has cancelled Code Black after three seasons. (Variety)

The Broadway show Hair will be the next live NBC musical. (Variety)

The 4th season of the Lifetime drama UnReal will actually air on Hulu, but it still may air on Lifetime although it is not expected to return until potentially 2019 IF Lifetime picks it up at all. (The Hollywood Reporter and The Futon Critic)

The spin-off series to the soon-to-be-ending Freeform drama The Fosters, which will focus on Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) as they embark on the next phase of their young adult lives in Los Angeles has been given an official title: Good Trouble. (The Futon Critic)

CASTING NEWS

Actress Kim Raver will reprise her role of Dr. Teddy Altman, coming back to Grey’s Anatomy as a series regular for the show’s upcoming fall TV season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Cheyenne Jackson has joined the cast of the Disney Channel made-for-TV movie Descendants 3, playing Hades, the underworld ruler. The movie is set to debut in 2019. (Deadline)

Movie star Richard Gere will appear in the upcoming BBC drama MotherFatherSon, his first TV role in almost three decades. He will play Max, a charismatic self-made American businessman who owns media outlets in London and around the world. (Variety)

Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) will appear in the Netflix film Six Underground, the latest action flick from Michael Bay. The film will release in 2019. (Variety)

Actor Zachary Levi (Chuck) will have a recurring role in the 2nd season of the Amazon comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, playing an eclectic Manhattan doctor who suddenly starts orbiting the world of Midge Maisel (series lead Rachel Brosnahan) and her parents, Abe (Tony Shaloub) and Rose Weissman (Marin Hinkle). (Variety)

The HBO pilot Watchmen [from producer Damon Lindelof] has cast Regina King, Don Johnson and Louis Gossett, Jr. [among others]. The exact details of their characters are being kept under wraps, though. (Variety)

Actor John Malkovich (Red) and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) will appear in the small screen adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery The ABC Murders that will air on the BBC in Britain and on Amazon in the US. (Variety)

Actor Martin Kove has joined the YouTube Red series Cobra Kai as a series regular. (Deadline)

Actor Ryan Guzman (Heroes Reborn) has joined the cast of the FOX drama 9-1-1, playing a firefighter who joins the firehouse led by Capt. Bobby Nash (series regular Peter Krause). (Deadline)

Veteran Actor James Cromwell will have a major recurring role in the Starz spy thriller Counterpart, playing Yanek, the enigmatic warden of Echo, an underground facility where Howard (J.K. Simmons) finds himself fighting for his life. (Deadline)

Actress Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) and soap actor Billy Magnussen will star in the CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story that takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Actors Sam Heughan (Outlander) and Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) and actress Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) are expected to join Vin Diesel in the box office film Bloodshot based on the comic, which is about a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting-edge nanotechnology and tasked with rounding up super-powered outcasts known as “harbingers.” (Variety)

Actors Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf and Jane the Virgin), KJ Apa (Riverdale) and Maia Mitchell (The Fosters) will air in the box office film The Last Summer, which will follow a group of young adults who spend their “last summer” before college on the precipice; ready to take control of their lives and their futures for the first time. (Deadline)

Actress Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) will appear alongside Christian Bale and Matt Damon in the untitled Ford vs. Ferrari movie, revolving around car manufacturer Ford’s quest to beat Ferrari as the top maker of race cars. Damon will play Carol Shelby, the eccentric engineer who designs from scratch the Ford GT 40, the car that just may win the 1966 Le Mans race, while Bale will play Ken Miles, the hotshot British racer who drives it. Balfe will play Bale’s wife, who is also an accomplished driver. (The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!