Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/PICK-UP ORDERS

Amazon has renewed Goliath for a third season. (Variety)

Facebook has renewed the dramas Five Points and Sorry For Your Loss and the fairy-tale inspired anthology series Sacred Lies. (Variety)

JJ Abrams and Jennifer Garner will be reuniting in the Apple straight-to-series limited series My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, based on the 2017 memoir by Amy Silverstein, which follows a group of women who supported Silverstein as she waited for a second life-saving heart transplant. (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Supernatural fans! Jeffrey Dean Morgan is coming back to play John Winchester in the show’s upcoming 300th episode. (Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Joel McHale has been cast as Sylvester Pemberton (aka Star-Spangled Hero and later Skyman) in the upcoming DC Universe series Stargirl. But in this version, Pemberton will be a version of the “Golden Age” Starman, who will be a recurring character in the series. Stargirl centers on Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger), a high school sophomore who inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. (Variety)

Actress Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) will have a recurring role, in an as yet-to-be-revealed role in Grey’s Anatomy. (The Futon Critic and TV Line)

Actress Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) will star opposite Kaya Scodelario (who is replacing Emma Roberts) in the upcoming Netflix drama series Spinning Out that will be set in the world of competitive figure skating. The series centers on Kat Baker (Scodelario), an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who’s about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall which took her off the competition track. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that could unravel her entire life. (Deadline)

TEASER TRAILER

Downton Abbey The Movie

That’s it. Enjoy!