Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

EPIX has renewed Pennyworth for a second season. (TV Line)

AMC has cancelled Lodge 49 after two seasons. (Variety)

NBC has cancelled The InBetween after only one season. (Variety)

The USA Network has pulled the plug on the Suits spin-off series Pearson after one season. (Variety)

The Netflix sci-fi series Another Life has been given a second season order. (Vital Thrills)

ABC has given a full season order to both the new series Stumptown and the second season of The Rookie. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

HBO has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon that will be set 300 years before the events of the original series, telling the story of House Targaryen. (Variety)

A new series at Netflix from Shonda Rhimes about con artist Anna Delvey has been given 10-episode order. The show will follow a a journalist (Anna Chlumsky) with a lot to prove who investigates the case of Anna Delvey (Julia Garner), the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well. Anna and the reporter form a love-hate bond as Anna awaits trial and the reporter fights the clock to answer the biggest question in NYC: who is Anna Delvey? The cast will incoude Laverne Cox and Katie Lowes. (Variety)

The new dramedy Big Shots from David E. Kelley is expected to air on Disney+, starring John Stamos as a tempermental college basketball coach, who gets fired from his job and must take a teaching and coaching job at an elite all-girls private high school. Also part of the cast is Shiri Appleby (Roswell and UnReal) as Holly, the good-humored and down-to-earth assistant basketball coach and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) as Sherilyn, the no nonsense dean of Westbrook School for Girls. (Variety)

HBO Max has picked up a serialized sci-fi series from Ridley Scott called Raised by Wovles that will star Travis Fimmel (Vikings), which centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task. The series was originally set up at TNT. (Deadline)

The CW is developing a new series about Superman and Lois Lane that would star Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, who have been playing those roles in Supergirl. The potential series would follow the world’s most famous super hero and comic books’ most famous journalist as they deal with all the stress, pressures, and complexities that come with being working parents in today’s society. (Variety)

Netlix is working on a romantic drama based on the best-selling novel The Last Letters From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes, which follows Ellie (Feliciy Jones), a young journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters recounting a star-crossed affair in the 1960s. That romance between Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner) is so intense that Ellie becomes obsessed with finding the couple and discovering how their story ended. (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Actress Emily Bett Rickards will be back on Arrow for the show’s series finale. (TV Line)

As viewers of A Million Little Things saw in Thursday’s episode, actress Sutton Foster (Younger) will guest star as Chloe, the deceased fiance of Eric (Jason Ritter). (TV Line)

Actress Annie Wersching (24, Marvel’s Runaways and Timeless) will show up on The Rookie as Rosalind Dyer, a serial killer on death row who takes a special interest in Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion). (TV Line)

Actor Malcolm Barnett (Timeless) will star alongside Broadway star Cynthia Erivo, who is also the star of the box office movie Harriet, in the upcoming National Geographic anthology series Genius, which will focus Aretha Franklin. Erivo will play the legendary singer while Barnett will play Franklin’s first husband and business manager Ted White. Genius will premiere in spring of 2020. (TV Line)

Actress Poppy Drayton (The Shannara Chronicles) is joining the cast of the second season of Charmed, playing a powerful and mysterious witch named Abigael. (TV Line)

Actress Elaine Hendrix is stepping into the role of Alexis Carrington on The CW reboot of Dynasty. Hendrix will star alongside Elizabeth Gillies, who was her co-star in the FX series Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. (TV Line)

Netlfix has announced another new series: the 8-episode The Stranger, adapted from the Harlan Coben book about the power and damage secrets can unleash, which will star Richard Armitage and Hannah John-Kamen (among others). (The Futon Critic)

STREAMING SERVICE MOVIE NEWS

Netflix has given the green light to a sequel to the 2018 film The Princess Switch that will find actress Vanessa Hudgens reprising her roles of Duchess Margaret and her lookalike Stacy as well as another lookalike Fiona. The sequel – The Prince Switch: Switched Again – finds Duchess Margaret unexpectedly inheriting the throne and hitting a rough patch with Kevin; so it’s up to Stacy to save the day before a new lookalike — party girl Fiona — foils their plans. (TV Guide)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Actress Rachel Weisz will star as Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming film A Special Relationship that will explore Taylor’s journey from actress to activist, told through the lens of Taylor’s friendship with her assistant Roger Wall. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!