Rueben's Ramblings

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RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for a 4th season by Hulu. (TV Line)

Netflix has cancelled Designated Survivor with four seasons under its belt after rescuing it from ABC. (Variety)

Animal Kingdom has been renewed for its fifth season by TNT. (TV Line)

TV Land has given Younger a 7th season renewal. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Amazon has renewed both the new drama Carnival Row for a second season before its debut on July 30 as well as a fifth season for The Expanse. (Variety)

Amazon has cancelled the cop drama Too Old to Die and the anthology drama The Romanoffs. (TV Line)

TV NEWS

Netflix has given the final season order of Lucifer 6 more hours, bringing the season total to 16 episodes. (Deadline)

The Droughtlander will continue with Starz announcing that Outlander will not be back with its fifth season until early 2020. (Deadline)

NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT

Starz will have a spin-off to their drama Power, which ends after this current season. Power Book 2: Ghost will continue the journey of the show’s most controversial characters, and will feature Mary J. Blige. (Variety)

MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Actor Jason Dohring (Veronica Mars) has landed a lead role in the ensemble indie film You Are Here with Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth), William Baldwin (Netflix’s Northern Rescue), Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise) [among others], which is about a dying young man who clashes with his dysfunctional family when his attempts to bring them closer together over one weekend – reveal how truly estranged they are from one another. (Deadline)

Actress Auli’i Cravalho (the voice of Disney’s Moana) has landed the lead role in the Netflix film Sorta Like A Rock Star about a teenage girl who, despite difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world and her place in it. She often helps those around her, resulting in powerful bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and can no longer ignore the challenges in her own life. The movie is based off Matthew Quick’s novel of the same name. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Veteran actor Jeff Bridges will star in the newly ordered FX drama The Old Man, based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Perry, centering on Dan Chase (Bridges), who absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past. (Variety)

Actress Julee Cerda (The Loudest Voice) will have a recurring role in Blindspot, playing Ivy Sands, but further character details are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Actor Keir O’Donnell (Sun Records and Ray Donovan) has landed a recurring role in the History Channel drama Project Blue Book. He will play Even William Blake, a charmingly eccentric alien enthusiast with a religious dedication to his weekly U.F.O meetings. He takes a liking to Hynek and, thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge of everything extraterrestrial, quickly becomes friend, confidant, and premier informer to Project Blue Book’s best behind-the-scenes agent. (Deadline)

Actor Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) has taken over the role, played by David Denman, in the new FOX drama Filthy Rich, starring opposite Kim Cattrall. The series is a southern Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results. When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune. Pasquale will play Reverend Paul Luke Thomas, the beloved, popular, influential and ambitious minister at the Sunshine Network. (Deadline)

Actress Afton Williamson will not be returning for the second season of The Rookie on ABC in the fall. She played TO Talia Bishop. (TV Line)

TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Sofia Carson (Disney’s Descendants franchise and Freeform’s PLL: The Perfectionists) will star in the Netflix dance film Feel the Beat that will follow April (Carson), who, after failing to find success on Broadway, returns to her small hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition. The cast will include Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars), Wolfgang Novogratz (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) [among others]. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!