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Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Succession has been renewed for a third season by HBO. (TV Line)

CASTING NEWS

Actress Liza Weil (How to Get Away With Murder and Gilmore Girls) will appear in the third season of the streaming series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in a hush-hush role. (TV Line)

Actor Stephen Amell (Arrow) has landed his first post-Arrow gig on the upcoming Starz drama Heels, about the men and women who chase their dreams in the world of small-town pro wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, Heels follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel. But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to (and just as hard to leave behind). Amell will star as Jack, the charismatic villain — or heel — of the Duffy Wrestling Association. Outside the ring, he’s its hard-working owner, a husband and father trying to make ends meet while fighting to realize his impossible dreams. He has the mind of an artist in the body of a warrior, and a Steve Jobs-ian need for perfection — and for control. He says he’ll do whatever it takes to build the DWA into an empire. The series has an 8-episode order with the network. (TV Line)

Actor Reggie Lee (Grimm) has landed a recurring role in the upcoming CBS legal drama All Rise, playing Thomas Choi, the new Head Deputy District Attorney in the downtown courthouse and the new boss of DDA Mark Callan (series regular Wilson Bethel). (The Futon Critic and Deadline)

Actor Eddie Cahill (CSI: NY) will appear in a multi-episode arc on NCIS: New Orleans. His as yet named character will have a connection with some trouble that Lasalle’s (series regular Lucas Black) brother Cade finds himself in during the show’s upcoming new season. (Parade and The Futon Critic)

Lost alum Terry O’Quinn will recur on the new ABC drama Emergence, playing Richard Kindred, the head of Augur Industries, a diversified far-reaching tech holding company. He is a self-made billionaire with countless professional and personal casualties in his wake, who will go to great lengths to protect his company and reputation. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)

Actor Brandon Routh and his real-life wife actress Courtney Ford will be leaving The CW series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow during the show’s upcoming 5th season. (Deadline)

Actress Bianca Santos (The Fosters) will have a pivotal recurring role in the upcoming 2nd season of Legacies on The CW, playing Maya, a sharp-tongued and flirtatious new student at Mystic Falls High. (Deadline)

Actor William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) will star in the Amazon streaming series The Underground Railroad, based on the best-selling novel by Colson Whitehead, which tells the story of young slave Cora, who’s an outcast on her Georgia cotton plantation. When she hears about the Underground Railroad and its promise of freedom, she decides to risk her life and escape. Harper will play Royal, a freeborn black man who meets Cora during her journey. The cast includes Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty), who will play a slave catcher named Ridgeway. (TV Line and Deadline)

Actor Michael Beach (The 100 and Aquaman) will recur in the upcoming season of Chicago P.D., playing Darius Walker, a Chicago crime boss who’s working to revitalize his African American community. (Deadline)

Actress Yasha Jackson (Blue Bloods) will recur in the 2nd season of Manifest on NBC this fall, playing Suzanne, a dean at Astoria University and ex-girlfriend of Ben Stone (series regular Josh Dallas). (Deadline and TV Line)

Actress Ming-Na Wen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has joined the cast of The Mandalorian that will debut on the new streaming service Disney+. It has not been announced yet who she will be playing, but the series set in the world of Star Wars will star Pedro Pascal as the bounty hunter, gunfighter and native of Mandalore, known in the Star Wars universe as the home planet of bounty hunter Boba Fett and Jango Fett. The cast already includes Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, Werner Herzog and Nick Nolte. Disney+ launches on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Deadline)

Actress Emily VanCamp (Revenge) will reprise her role of Sharon Carter (Peggy Carter’s grand-niece) in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Solider that will star Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan in the title roles. Also, actor Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49) will play John Walker, who in comic book lore adopts the alter egos of U.S. Agent or Super-Patriot, an adversary to Captain America. Disney+ launches on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (TV Line)

MOVIE NEWS

Actor Chris Pine (Wonder Woman and Star Trek) will star in a movie from Amazon Studios, starring as John Dean, a pivotal figure in the Watergate scandal. The film, which has yet to have a title, will follow the life and political saga of Dean, who served as White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 through April 1973. (Variety)

It looks like director Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss will be re-entering the Matrix, as a fourth film in the franchise is set to happen. (Variety)

Actress Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) will star in the Netflix superhero movie We Can Be Heroes that will directed by Robert Rodriquez (Spy Kids and Sin City). The film revolves around a group of aliens who invade earth and kidnap its superheroes, leaving it to the heroes’ kids to join forces, rescue their parents, and save the planet on their own. The cast will also include Christian Slater (Mr. Robot), Akira Akbar (Captain Marvel) and Pedro Pascal (Narcos). (The Hollywood Reporter and Screen Rant)

Actor Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office movie The Eternals, about an immortal alien race, created by the Celestials, who are sent to Earth to protect humanity from their evil counterparts, the Deviants. Harington will play Dane Whitman (also known as the Black Knight). The cast also includes Angelia Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, Brian Tyree Henry and Gemma Chan [among others]. (Variety)

It was announced at D23 (the Disney Expo) that actor Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) and actress Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) will provide voices in the animated sequel Frozen II. Brown will voice Lieutenant Matthias while Wood will voice Queen Iduna. (Vital Thrills)

It looks like actor Nathan Fillion (The Rookie, Castle and Firefly) will be joining the cast of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, but details on what role he will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!

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