Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATIONS/RENEWALS
The Canadian series Ransom has been cancelled after three seasons. (Variety)
Hallmark Channel has given Good Witch a 6th season renewal. However, regular cast member Bailee Madison will not be returning to the show for that 6th season. (Deadline)
It looks like Amazon is finalizing a 3rd season renewal for Stana Katic’s series Absentia. (Deadline)
CASTING NEWS
Actors Chris Klein (The Flash) and Justin Bruening (Good Behavior) and actress Jamie Lynn Spears (Zoey 101) have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix series Sweet Magnolias, which is based on the popular book series by Sherryl Woods. The series is set in the charming small town of Serenity, South Carolina., centering on three women (Monica Potter, Brooke Elliott and Heather Headley), best friends since childhood. Klein will play Bill Townsend, Serenity’s leading pediatrician who struggles to navigate life in a small town after an unexpected fall from grace. Spears will portray Noreen Fitzgibbons, a young woman who came to Serenity to work as a nurse. After a sequence of bad choices, she is determined to build a new life in her new city. And, Bruening will play Cal Maddox, a former professional baseball player who arrived in Serenity looking for a fresh start. (Deadline)
Actress Kari Matchett (Covert Affairs) and actor Stephen Moyer (True Blood and The Gifted) will star in the Canadian spy drama Fortunate Son, which is set in the social and political chaos of the late 1960s. Matchett will play Ruby Howard, an American who fled to Canada as a fugitive from the law. While Moyer will play Vern Lang, a CIA agent. (Deadline)
TV MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Peter Facinelli (S.W.A.T., Supergirl) will play NXIVM leader Keith Raniere in a newly greenlit Lifetime movie about the dangerous sex cult that will premiere this fall. NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare will center on the shocking true story of actress Catherine Oxenberg and her fight to save her daughter India from the cult. Andrea Roth (Rescue Me) will play Oxenberg, while Jasper Polish has been cast as India. Additionally, Sara Fletcher (Mom Tested) will play Allison Mack, the Smallville alum who came to be Raniere’s associate in the cult. (TV Line)
FOX drama Star co-creator Lee Daniels announced this week that the series will be getting a movie of the week to wrap “things up” on the cancelled series. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise, Me Before You) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office movie Enola Holmes, which will star Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown in the title role as well as Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter and Fiona Shaw. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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