Actress Yvonne Strahovksi (The Handmaid’s Tale and Chuck) is expected to join Chris Pratt in the upcoming sci-fi movie Ghost Draft, which will be about a man drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront his past. Strahovski will play a character Pratt meets in the future who has a connection to his past. (Variety)
Actor Austin Butler (The Shannara Chronicles and Switched at Birth) is set to play the one and only Elvis Presley in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann biopic about the king of rock-n-roll. Tom Hanks will play Col. Tom Parker. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Actress Jaskia Nicole has been promoted to a series regular on the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor. (TV Line)
Actress Andrea Brooks has been promoted to series regular on Supergirl, and it was announced that former co-star Jeremy Jordan will be back to reprise his role of Winn Schott in season 5. (TV Line)
Actor Paul Adelstein (Prison Break) will have a recurring role on Chicago P.D., playing Interim Superintendent Jason Crawford, filling the void left by John C. McGinley’s Brian Kelton, who was murdered in the Season 6 finale. (TV Line)
Actor Josh Charles (The Good Wife) will play the good husband opposite Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the upcoming Netflix drama Away, which centers on Emma Logan (Swank), an American astronaut who must leave her NASA engineer husband (Charles) and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission to Mars. Away‘s 10-episode first season is slated to bow in 2020. (TV Line)
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Fear the Walking Dead has been renewed for season 6 by AMC. The network has also renewed NOS4A2 for a second season. (Variety)
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will end after the 7th season, which will air sometime next year on ABC. (Deadline and TV Line)
DC Universe has renewed Doom Patrol for a second season. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Amazon has won the rights to develop a series based on Jack Reacher, the protagonist from Lee Child’s novels. (Variety)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress-singer Lea Michele (Glee) will appear in the upcoming ABC holiday film Same Time, Next Christmas. Michele will play the lead role of Olivia Henderson, a young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaii resort years later and the old chemistry between them flares up anew – but circumstances conspire to keep them apart. (Deadline)
The 50th Annual Comic Con came to a close in San Diego today with a few TV shows being highlighted, primarily the very last – EVER – panel for Supernatural.
Supernatural (The CW)
Given that this is the LAST time these guys will be on stage, and after 15 years, I wanted to provide several articles about their very last appearance at the convention.
You can also see a special video called “Restoring the Winchesters’ Impala” below:
There was also a BIG sizzle reel shown at this panel focusing on the past 14 years of the show. I hope that sizzle reel will be available for mass consumption soon.
It was a very low key kind of day at the convention for Roz, as she skipped all the panels, but did go see Chef Justin Warner (@eatfellowhumans), who worked all weekend with the Marvel staff, but was very sweet in between live streams today.
Roz and Chef Justin Warner
[Photo Credit: Roz Foster]
At the end of the con, she met up with some friends and their friends, and among those friends was C.B. Lee, the author of the Sidekick Squad series.
COSPLAYERS
Photo Credit: TQ Gaskins
Alf
Emma Frost
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Game of Bones
[Photo Credit: i09-Gizmodo]
Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
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Photo Credit: Drew A. Kelley-Daily Breeze
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Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
Photo Credit: K.C. Alfred-The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
Photo Credit: Drew A. Kelley-Daily Breeze
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Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
Photo Credit: K.C. Alfred-San Diego Union-Tribune
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Photo Credit: K.C. Alfred-San Diego Union-Tribune
Photo Credit: Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin-SCNG
On July 25, the new Netflix drama Another Life will debut online.
Show Synopsis: The series centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff of Battlestar Galactica fame) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. As she leads a young crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission. Selma Blair will play Harper Glass, a 21st-century influencer who uses journalism, social media and keen intelligence in an attempt to break one of the biggest stories in human history.
The cast also includes Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl and Teen Wolf), Justin Chatwin (Shameless), Jessica Camacho (The Flash), Elizabeth Faith Ludlow (The Walking Dead) Alex Ozerov (Orphan Black), Jake Abel (Supernatural) and Barbara Williams (Rookie Blue).
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
5:55 PM: Taken movie on AMC
6:30 PM: Columbiana movie on Sundance TV Doctor Strange movie on TNT
6:45 PM: The Incredibles (animated) movie on Freeform
7 PM: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement movie on CMT Downton Abbey on PBS (Reair) A League of Their Own movie on TCM
7:06 PM: The Rook on Starz (Encore)
8 PM: Burden of Truth on The CW (NEW – Finale) The Rook on Starz (NEW) Christmas at Graceland movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair) Poldark on PBS (Reair) Mrs. Doubtfire movie on CMT
9 PM: Instinct on CBS (NEW) Grantchester on PBS (NEW) Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore) A Dog’s Purpose movie on FXM
9:27 PM: The Rook on Starz (Encore)
10 PM: Mingle All the Way movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
NOTE: The latest crossover – “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – between the DC shows will be a 5-parter, involving Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman with the first 3 parts set to air in December and the last 2 set to air after the mid-season break in early 2020. It was also announced that Brandon Routh and Tyler Hoechlin will both don the Superman cape in the crossover with Tyler reprising his role as Clark/Superman and Brandon playing Kingdom Come Superman.
Check out this cool Comics Come to Life Video:
Wynonna Earp (Syfy)
Here is a video interview with the cast courtesy of Entertainment Weekly:
Check out this season 4 teaser trailer, which features bloopers:
After all the excitement Roz had yesterday (it was Veronica Mars day yesterday after all), today was a bit more low key for her; but she did have a great time at the panel for The Good Place (which she will miss when it ends next year). She snapped a few pics of the panel, which you can find below:
[Photo Credit: Roz Foster]
She also sat in on the panel for The Expanse, which is reaping the financial benefits of all that Amazon money because the show has some amazing visuals. You can see her picture of the panel below:
[Photo Credit: Roz Foster]
Her day ended with a visit to Conanfor some sneak peeks at the new fantasy series Carnival Row and then a low-key meet up for the podcast Fansplaining where authors Britta Lundin (“Ship It”) and Rainbow Rowell (“Wayward Son”) made an appearance.
The Falcon & Winter Solider Disney+ series will be set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. Mackie even came on stage holding the iconic Captain America shield. Emily VanCamp and Daniel Bruhl will reprise their film roles too. Disney+ is set to launch on November 12.
Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige made the announcement that Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) will take over the role of Blade in a reboot of the franchise.
It was announced that Canadian actor Simu Liu (The Expanse) and Awkwafina (Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians) will star in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The original Marvel Comics follows Shang, a half-Chinese, half-American superhero; a master of numerous unarmed and weaponry-based wushu styles, including the use of the gun, nunchaku, and jian.
It was revealed that the cast of the upcoming Marvel movie The Eternals will include Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Richard Madden (Game of Thrones and Bodyguard), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) and Kumail Nanjiami (The Big Sick). The movie should be out in theatres on November 6, 2020.
The MCU will get its first LGBTQ superhero in Thor: Love and Thunder, and that will be Valkyrie (played by Tessa Thompson); and it was revealed that as Asgard’s new ruler she will seek out a Queen to rule alongside her.
COSPLAYERS
Peggy Carter [Photo Credit: Game Spot-Valeriecosplay]
Black Panther and Shuri [Photo Credit: Game Spot-Darthpool20bby]
Valkyrie [Photo Credit: Game Spot-King_kosplay]
Daredevil {Photo Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer-Getty Images]
Scarlet Witch [Photo Credit: Game Spot-Ladytoxie]
Wasp and Ant-Man [Photo Credit: Game Spot-Iamwintermute]
Photo Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer-Getty Images
TOMORROW: Day Four, Comic Con 2019 [Final Day of Convention]
Q&A with Nathan Fillion and Alexi Hawley (The Rookie – ABC)
While there wasn’t a panel (per se) for the cast of The Rookie, the cast was at the con, sitting down with Entertainment Weekly to talk about the show. Here is that video interview:
TV Guide Fan Favorites
This year’s panel included Ben Feldman and Lauren Ash from NBC’s Superstore; William Jackson Harper from NBC’s The Good Place; Candice Patton from The CW’s The Flash; Caity Lotz from The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow; Matt Davis from The CW’s Legacies; newlyweds Bob Morley and Eliza Taylor from The CW’s The 100; Brittany Curran from Syfy’s The Magicians; Clark Gregg from ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Yetide Badaki from Starz’s American Gods with a surprise visit from Stephen Amell, star of The CW’s Arrow.
Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash and Matt Davis
Clare Gregg, Candice Patton and Caity Lotz
Eliza Taylor and Bob Morley
Full Panel
Stephen Amell
Yetide Badaki, Brittany Curran and William Jackson Harper
[Photo Credit: Zimbio-Getty Images North America]
nExt (FOX)
This new FOX drama that hits a bit TOO close to home will debut in 2020. Here is the albeit long synopsis of the show:
nexXt is propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that asks us to look closely not only at our relationship to technology, but to one another. Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery, Mad Men) built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up, while ignoring and alienating the people around him, including his own daughter, Abby (Elizabeth Cappucino, Jessica Jones), and his short-sighted younger brother, Ted (Jason Butler Harner, Ozark), who now runs Paul’s company.
After discovering that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. called neXt – might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world.
When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade, The First). Having escaped crime, poverty and a deadly criminal father to remake herself as a force for good, Salazar’s strict moral code and sense of duty have earned her the respect of her team – a talented but contentious group held together by her faith in their ability to defy expectations and transcend their differences, including Gina (Eve Harlow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a high-strung cybercrime agent; Ben (Aaron Moten, Mozart in the Jungle), a straight-laced, buttoned-up hard worker, who is boring to the point of being interesting; and CM (Michael Mosley, Seven Seconds), an ex-con hacker with a genius IQ. But the demands of Shea’s challenging job have taken their toll on her home life, where Salazar’s young son, Owen (Evan Whitten, The Resident), has been raised primarily by his father, Ty (Gerardo Celasco, The Haves and the Have Nots), a recovering alcoholic.
Now, LeBlanc and Salazar are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe, fighting an emergent super-intelligence that, instead of launching missiles, will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data all around us to recruit allies, turn people against each other and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth.
Here is a poster for neXt that was part of a giveaway at the con:
Watch as some of the cast of Pandora talk about the sci-fi series:
Batman: Hush (DC Universe Animated Film)
This direct-to-video animated superhero film based on the comic book story arc of the same name is the 13th installment of the DC animated movie universe that focuses on a mysterious criminal known as Hush (voiced by Geoffrey Arend), determined to destroy both the crime-fighting career and personal life of Batman (voice by Jason O’Mara), which has already been complicated by a relationship with Catwoman (voice by Jennifer Morrison).
Other voice actors include Jerry O’Connell (Superman), Rebecca Romijn (Lois Lane), Maury Sterling (Thomas Elliot), Rainn Wilson (Lex Luthor), Sean Maher (Dick Grayson/Nightwing), Peyton List (Barbara Gordon/Batgirl), Bruce Thomas (James Gordon), Stuart Allan (Damian Wayne/Robin), James Garnett (Alfred), Vanessa Williams (Amanda Waller) and Geoffrey Arend (also as Edward Nygma/The Riddler).
Check out this video interview with some of the actors who will voice characters in the animated series based on the graphic novel, courtesy of IGN:
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
5:30 PM: The Legend of Tarzan movie on TNT
5:57 PM: The Equalizer 2 movie on Starz
6 PM: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie on Syfy Sweet Home Alabama movie on USA Network
6:35 PM: The Lion King (animated) movie on Freeform
7 PM: Frankie Drake Mysteries on Ovation (NEW) Jett on Cinemax (Encore) Welcome to Christmas Town movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair) Forrest Gump movie on CMT
8 PM: Frankie Drake Mysteries on Ovation (NEW) A Shoe Addict’s Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair) Mission Impossible: Fallout movie on EPIX
9 PM: Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair) A Million Little Things on ABC (Reair)
9:25 PM: The Longest Ride movie on FXM
10 PM: The Rookie on ABC (Reair)
10:30 PM: Reunited at Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Day two of San Diego Comic Con 2019 was jam-packed with LOTS and LOTS of TV show panels and so much more.
Let’s take a look at just some of the TV shows that were on tap today. [There will be more coverage on day two of Comic Con sometime tomorrow.]
Veronica Mars (Hulu)
Hulu has made season 4 available NOW rather than on July 26 as originally planned. You can now binge-watch all 8 episodes. What are you waiting for?!! Seriously, get over to Hulu and watch.
Best of all, our very own Roz dedicated a lot of her day today to the show, getting a chance to pose for quick selfies with some of the cast. Check out her great photos below:
Roz with Kristen Bell
Roz with Jason Dohring
Roz with Percy Daggs
Roz with Ryan Hansen
[Photo Credit: Roz Foster]
Also, Kristen Bell got to meet Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton himself – for the first time EVER – and it was swoon worthy.
You can see her reaction video here and then check out the picture of the two of them courtesy of Entertainment Weekly:
[Photo Credit: Eric Ray Davidson/Entertainment Weekly]
On the panel this year were actors John Bradley (Game of Thrones), Cameron Cuffe (Krypton), Michael Emerson (soon to be seen in CBS’s Evil), Aiden Gillen (Project Blue Book and formerly of Game of Thrones), Cress Williams (Black Lightning) and William Zabka (Cobra Kai).
Henry Cavill shared during the panel that he “is a big gamer. I’ve played the games a lot. There was something about Geralt that struck a chord with me.” He also shared that he did his own stunts. “It’s very important for me that you know it’s Geralt and it’s not some guy doing Geralt’s stuff but it’s me in there.”
In fact, he learned how to wield two swords – one silver for monsters and one steel for people. And, there is some speculation that perhaps The Witcher just MIGHT take over the mantel of Game of Thrones.
In short the series is about the witcher, Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, who struggles to find his place in a world where people prove more wicked than beasts.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Norman Reedus (Negan and Daryl of The Walking Dead) also appeared on Conan yesterday – it wasn’t just Tom Cruise – pretending to be two 16-year-old girls who are cosplayers.
Check out the video here:
OTHER TIDBITS
It should also be noted that there will be TWO more Halloween movies, they will be sequels to the 2018 Halloween movie. It was stated by Blumhouse, “the saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode isn’t over.”
One of my fellow NiceGirls TV staff, Lisa, had the chance to not only meet Orlando Jones (American God and Sleepy Hollow) – you can see the picture below – but she also got to sing with him on the karaoke bus that was winding its way around San Diego during the con. I hope to have video of that soon.
[Photo Credit: Lisa Harrison]
COSPLAYERS
Captain Marvel
Cruella de Vil
Doctor Strange
Fantastic Beasts
Harley Quinn
Captain Hook and Tinkerbell
Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast
The Riddler
Spock
The Tethered from Us
Scarface
Magneto
[Photo Credit: Pop Sugar]
Chewie’s Angels (Courtesy of Imgur):
TOMORROW: Day Two, Part 2 and Day Three – Comic Con 2019
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