Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

GLOW has been renewed for a fourth and final season by Netflix. (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Actor Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Apple series Shantaram, based on Gregory David Robert’s novel, that tells the story of Lin (Hunnam), a man on the run from an Australian prison looking to get lost in the teeming city of Bombay. Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in the slums, bars and underworld of India. (Variety)

Actor Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) will star opposite Arrow star Stephen Amell in the upcoming Starz drama Heels that will center around the world of independent professional wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, it follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals, Jack (Amell) and Ace (Ludwig) Spade, war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy (Ludwig) and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel (Amell). But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to — or hard to leave behind. (ComicBook.com and Deadline)

Actor Justin Theroux will star in the Apple adaptation of The Mosquito Coast, which follows an idealist who uproots his family and moves them to Latin America. (Variety)

Actor Kiefer Sutherland (24 and Designated Survivor) will star in the new take on The Fugitive for the new short-form streaming platform Quibi. Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) will also star, playing the wrongfully accused man Sutherland’s detective is trying to track down. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Timothy Olyphant (Justified and Deadwood) has joined the cast of the fourt season of Fargo in the recurring role of Dick “Deafy” Wickware. He will join a cast that includes Chris Rock, Jack Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Uzo Aduba and Amber Midthunder [among others]. (Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Jim Parrack (True Blood and Escape from Dannemora) will star alongside Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler in the spin-off series 9-1-1: One Star that follows Owen (Lowe), a sophisticated New York firefighter who, along with his son, relocates to the Texas capital and must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in his own life. Parrack will play Judd Ryder, a lifelong Texas firefighter marred by tragedy. (Yahoo)

Actress Willa Holland will be coming back to reprise her role of Thea Queen on the final season of Arrow. (TV Line)

Actor Tom Welling and actress Erica Durance, who played Clark Kent and Lois Lane on Smallville will appear in The CW crossover event “Crisis on Infinite Earth.” (TV Line)

Actress Cara Buono (Stranger Things) and actor Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) will have recurring roles on the fifth season of Supergirl. Buono will play Gamemnae, an ancient alien, who with others of her kind, have been safeguarding the Earth from the follies of humanity throughout the ages. Meanwhile, Pileggi will play Rama Khan, an ancient alien who is able to control the four ancient elements — fire, water, earth, and air. Arrogant and willful, Rama Khan has been entrusted to use his powers to protect the Earth from mankind for millions of years but now his agenda puts him at odds with Supergirl as well as Lena Luthor. (Deadline)

Actress Alaina Huffman (Supernatural) will recur on the 7th and final season of The 100, playing a character named Nikki, one of the newly-awakened Eligius IV convicts who is a bank robber and spree-killer who is both unpredictable and fierce. She will take on an unexpected leadership role, advocating for her people in the complicated new world of Sanctum. (Deadline)

Veteran actor Tim Matheson will recur on the upcoming season of This Is Us, playing Rebecca’s (Mandy Moore) father. (Deadline and TV Line)

NEW SHOWS-NEW STREAMING SERVICE

NBC is jumping on the bandwagon by offering a streaming series called Peacock that will feature a reboot of Battlestar Galactica from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Other shows for Peacock wil include Dr Death, based on the true-crime podcast that will star Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time and Fifty Shades franchise), Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater (Mr. Robot); Brave New World, based on the dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley that will star Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Demi Moore; the Queer as Folk reboot; a limited series from Shameless‘ Emmy Rossum; and One of Us Is Lying, based on the New York Times best-selling young adult mystery-thriller. (TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!