Hey All,
Here are the few news items from this past week:
CASTING NEWS
Actress Grace Park (Hawaii Five-0 and Battlestar Galactica) is replacing actress Anne Son in the upcoming new TV series A Million Little Things that will debut on ABC this fall. The show follows a group of friends who are reeling from an unexpected death within their social circle. Park will play the series regular role of Katherine, who is married to Eddie (David Giuntoli from Grimm). (TV Line)
Actor Noah Mills (The Brave) has joined the cast of the upcoming NBC drama The Enemy Within, a fast-paced thrilled set in the world of counterintelligence that will center on Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter from Dexter), a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history and serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton (Morris Chestnut from Rosewood) enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. Mills will play Special Agent Jason Bragg, a rising star in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. (Deadline)
Actor Tom Brittney (Outlander and Call the Midwife) will take over for departing actor James Norton in the PBS series Grantchester. He will play Reverend Will Davenport. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Sibongile Mlambo has been promoted to a series regular for the second season of Lost in Space on Netflix. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actor Sam Jaeger (Parenthood) has joined the cast of the CBS All Access drama Tell Me a Story, which will reimagine children’s fairy tales as psychological thrillers, subversive story of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder in modern-day New York City. Jaeger will play a recently widowed single father who moves to NYC with his troubled daughter. (TV Line)
Actress Nicole Ari Parker has been promoted to a series regular on Empire, where she has been playing the ex-wife of Eddie Barker (Forest Whitaker). (TV Line)
CANCELLATIONS
The History Channel has canceled the military drama Six after two seasons. The July 25 episode will actually be the show’s series finale. (Variety)
Freeform has cancelled the drama Famous in Love after two seasons. (Variety)
PICK-UP NEWS
The NBC spin-off of the box office movies Bad Boys, which wasn’t picked up as a series, is actually being picked up by Charter Communications, airing on the company’s new Spectrum Original Content platform, marking the company’s first foray into original programming. The series follows Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union), who has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), a working mom with an equally complex past. Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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