Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATION/RENEWALS/PICK-UPS
Netflix has cancelled Daredevil after three season. (Variety)
AMC has renewed Preacher for a 4th season. (Variety)
The First Wives Club which was going to air on the Paramount Network will actually air on BET. The small screen adaptation of the film will follow a group of New York women who band together after their marriages fall apart, and who find strength in their sisterhood and a little revenge. It will star Ryan Michelle Bathe, Michelle Buteau and Jill Scott in the lead roles. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actor George Eads will be leaving the CBS drama MacGyver after three season. (The Futon Critic and The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Dennis Haysbert (The Unit and 24) has joined the upcoming CBS drama pilot Surveillance that will star Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D.). He will play Barry, the NSA Deputy Director, a father figure to Maddy (Bush) and her longtime mentor. (The Futon Critic and Deadline)
Actor Griffin Dunne will play the present-day version of Nicky Pearson, Jack’s long-thought-dead younger brother on This Is Us. (Deadline)
Actress Mckenna Grace (Designed Survivor) and actor Alexis Denisof (Angel) will join the second season of the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Grace will appear as Li’l Sabrina, a dead ringer for teenage Sabrina (series lead Kiernan Shipka). Denisof will play Adam Masters, the boyfriend of Mary Wardwell (series star Michelle Gomez). (Deadline)
Actors Gerald McRaney (This Is Us), Ben Lawson (Designated Survivor) and Tim Reid (Greenleaf) and actresses Brooke Elliott (Drop Dead Diva), Michele Weaver (Love Is ____) and Delta Burke (Designing Women) will star in Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: If I Had Wings, an episode of the 8-episode Netflix series inspired by Parton’s most beloved songs. In this episode, after receiving invitations to the 70th birthday party of their decades-long estranged father Tom Freeman (McRaney), three disparate siblings, Clay (Lawson), Nancy (Elliott) and Phyllis (Weaver) converge on a Mississippi farm where they test the bonds of blood and issues of faith, all to confront the sins of their father. Each episode will feature a different cast and Parton will appear in some stories. (Deadline)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actress Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) will co-star with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in the Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw. The film will also star Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby and Eddie Marsan. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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