Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

HBO has renewed “Euphoria” for a second season. (Variety)

The upcoming sixth season of How to Get Away With Murder will be its last on ABC. (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Actresses Danielle Campbell (The Originals) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Jessica Jones) will appear in the second season of the CBS All Access anthology series Tell Me A Story. Campbell appeared in the first season of the series, playing a character inspired by Little Red Riding Hood; but this time around she’ll play Olivia, who is not inspired by Belle but has ties to the Sleeping Beauty storyline. While Moss will play Rebecca, who has ties to all three storylines (Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast). The cast already includes Odette Annable, Natalie Alyn Lind and Paul Wesley. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)

Actress Alana De La Garza will join the cast of the CBS drama FBI instead of the spin-off series FBI: Most Wanted, playing the series regular role of Assistant Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castile. (Deadline and TV Line)

Actress Katherine McNamara (Shadowhunters) has been promoted to series regular for the 8th and final season of Arrow, where she has been recurring as Mia Smoak, the daughter Olive Queen and Felicity Smoak. (TV Line)

NEW SERIES/CASTING NEWS

Actress Katherine Heigl (Suits) will star and executive producer the upcoming 10-episode Netflix drama Firefly Lane, the adaptation of the best-selling book by Kristin Hannah that centers on two inseparable best friends and tracks their enduring, complicated bond over the course of four decades. Heigl will play Tully Hart, a magnetic, ambitious, reckless and fiercely loyal force of nature. Still bearing the scars of a traumatic childhood, Tully is dogged by inner loneliness, even as she goes on to fabulous fame and fortune as a journalist and talk show host. Her saving grace is her best friend and soulmate, Kate (not yet cast), with whom she shares an unshakable bond, over the course of four tumultuous decades. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren is returning to the big screen for the first time in a decade, appearing in her son Edoardo Ponti’s film titled La vita davanti a sé (“The Life Ahead”). She will play Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who forges a bond with a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant boy named Momo. (Variety)

Actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Haunting of Hill House, Emerald City and Man in an Orange Shirt) has landed the title role in the upcoming box office film The Invisible Man that, at one point, was – during early development of the project – going to star Johnny Depp. The cast will include Elizabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale and Mad Men), Aldis Hodge (City On A Hill and Hidden Figures), Harriet Dyer (The InBetween) and Storm Reid (Euphoria and A Wrinkle in Time). (Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actor Colin O’Donoghue (Once Upon a Time) will star in the upcoming National Geographic NASA drama The Right Stuff, taking over the role [which was to be played by Game of Thrones and Deep State star Joe Dempsie] of Lt. Gordon Cooper, the youngest of the Mercury Seven. The cast of this mini-series, which is set to debut in 2020, already includes Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Jake McDorman (Murphy Brown). (Deadline and TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!