Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
PICK-UPS/CANCELLATIONS
The CW has given Charmed a full season order. (Variety)
ABC has given The Rookie a full season pick up. (Variety)
The Purge has been renewed for a second season by the USA Network. (Variety)
NBC has officially cancelled the drama Reverie after one season. (Variety)
Good Behavior has been cancelled after two seasons by TNT. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
More cast members have been announced for next summer’s small screen return of Veronica Mars on Hulu. Actress Dawnn Lewis (iZombie and A Different World) will play the recurring role of Marcia Langdon, the new police chief of Neptune. Also, actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve and Barry) will have the recurring role of Nicole, who owns and operates a Neptune nightclub; actor Max Greenfield (New Girl and The Neighborhood) will reprise his role of Leo D’Amato and actor Patton Oswalt (Happy!) will play the recurring role of Penn Epner, the best pizza delivery guy in Neptune. (TV Line and Deadline)
Actor Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) has joined the cast of The Good Fight in the role of Roland Blum, a brilliant, charismatic and Machiavellian lawyer. The third season is set to premiere in early 2019 on CBS All Access. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actors Jeremy Irvine (Mamma Mia 2) and Brian J. Smith (Sense8 and Stargate Universe) will star in the Jason Bourne spy thriller spin-off series Treadstone set to air on the USA Network. The series will explore the origin story and present-day action of the covert program that uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. Irvine will star as J. Randolph Bentley, a spy dispatched by the CIA to eliminate a key target but who ends up embroiled in an international conspiracy. Smith will play Doug McKenna, an all-American oil-rig worker whose life changes after he discovers long-buried truths about himself. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone) and Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon a Time) and actor Kyle Bornheimer (Casual) will star in Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones, an episode of Netflix’s upcoming 8-episode anthology series showcasing the stories, memories and inspirations behind Parton’s most beloved songs. These Old Bones will be set in the 1940s, focusing on a determined D.C. lawyer who returns to her small Smoky Mountain hometown to prove herself professionally when a mysterious old mountain woman, who locals believe to be a fortune teller, threatens a lumber company’s business. What results is a test of faith along with shocking secrets from the past. Turner will play Miss Mary Shaw, aka Old Bones; Goodwin will play Genevieve; and Bornheimer will play Landon. All eight episodes will launch at once in 2019. (Deadline)
Actress Anna Paquin (True Blood and the X-Men franchise) has landed a series regular role in the 5th and final season of The Affair, which will introduce a flash-forward storyline. The season will center on Alison and Cole’s now-adult daughter Joanie Lockhart (Paquin), who returns some years in the future to a climate-change ravaged Montauk to piece together the truth about what happened to her mother and bringing the whole story full circle. (Deadline)
Actor Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes and Reverie) will have a recurring role on the new NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, playing a new doctor at the hospital. (Deadline and TV Line)
Actor Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars) will appear in multiple episodes of Chicago Med, playing Phillip Davis, a man facing a medical crisis which bonds him with Dr. Manning (series regular Torrey DeVitto. (TV Line)
Actor James Wolk (Tell Me a Story) has joined the cast of the HBO adaptation of Watchmen, based on the cult classic Alan Moore comic book, which is set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws. The new series embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own. Wolk will play a junior senator from Oklahoma. The series is slated for a 2019 premiere. (TV Line)
UPCOMING MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Lifetime is planning a contemporary spin on the literary classic Pride and Prejudice that will star Jackee Harry (Sister, Sister), Tiffany Hines (Being Mary Jane), Reginald VelJohnson (Family Matters), Victoria Roswell (The Young and the Restless) and Keshia Knight Pulliam (The Cosby Show) [among others]. This present-day story will be set in Atlanta, Georgia as a church-based drama. The network has also ordered the movie Very Valentine, based on the Adriana Trigiani Valentine Trilogy books that follows a family-owned shoe store in Greenwich Village on the brink of financial collapse that will star Kelen Coleman (Big Little Lies) and veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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