Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Absentia (the new Stana Katic drama) has been given a second season 10-episode order. Amazon has yet to announce if the streaming service will air that new season for North American audiences. (TV Line)

Sadly NBC has cancelled the time-travel drama Timeless; but supposedly the network and Sony are in talks for a movie that would serve as a series finale. (Variety)

AMC has given the horror anthology The Terror a second season order. The new season will tell the story of a specter that haunts a Japanese-American community during World War II in the homes of Southern California, the internment camps where many were held during the war, and in the Pacific theater. (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Actress Erin Doherty (Call the Midwife) will play Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in the third season of the Netflix drama The Crown, which is set to debut in 2019. Also cast is actor Ben Daniels (The Exorcist) who will take over the role of Antony Armstrong-Jones alongside Helena Bonham Carter, who takes over the role of Princess Margaret. (The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline)

Actress Courtney Ford has been promoted to series regular for season four of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. (Deadline and TV Line)

Actress Lisa Edelstein (House) has landed a recurring role on The Good Doctor where she will play Dr. Blaize, an expert oncologist who has returned to the hospital after a brief suspension, at the request of Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff), to help treat his cancer. (Deadline)

Actor Jon Bernthal will return for the upcoming 9th season of The Walking Dead. The exact circumstances of his return remains unknown at this time. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Jessica Parker Kennedy (Black Sails) has been promoted to series regular on The Flash where she plays Nora West-Allen, Barry and Iris’ future daughter. (Deadline)

Actor Jason Ritter (Kevin Probably Saves the World) has landed a role in the straight-to-series Netflix series Raising Dion based on a short film by Dennis Liu about an African-American single mother who discovers her young son has multiple, constantly changing abilities. Ritter will play Pat, a comic-book-reading scientist. (Deadline)

Actress Serinda Swan (Marvel’s Inhumans and Graceland) will star in the Canadian drama Coroner based on the best-selling book series by M.R. Hall, which centers on a newly appointed coroner investigating suspicious deaths in Toronto. (Deadline)

Actress Jane Leeves (Hot in Cleveland and Frasier) has landed a series regular role on the upcoming 2nd season of the FOX medical drama The Resident, which will see the departures of Moran Atias, Merrin Dungey and Melina Kanakaredes. Actors Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Glenn Morshower have been promoted to series regulars while series regular Matt Czuchry, Manish Dayal, Bruce Greenwood, Emily VanCamp and Shaunette Renée Wilson will be back. There are no specific details on what role Leeves will be playing as yet. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!