Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week.
CANCELLATION
Ambitions has been cancelled by OWN after only one season. (Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Baby Cow Productions is planning to make a TV drama based on the Gill Hornby highly anticipated new novel Miss Austen, which is a fictional story about the lives and loves of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra, inspired by Cassandra’s infamous burning of Jane’s lettter. (Deadline)
Amazon has put a series based on the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson into development. (Deadline)
MOVIE NEWS
Disney Marvel Studios has officially announced that a Captain Marvel sequel is in development. (Deadline)
CASTING NEWS
Actor Orlando Jones (American Gods) has landed a recurring role in Spectrum’s L.A. Finest, which stars Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba. He will play Marshawn Davis, a veteran of the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division who is brought in to question Syd Burnett (Union) after an investigation turns deadly. (Deadline)
Actress Priscilla Quintana (Pandora) is joining Good Trouble in the recurring role of Isabella, a sexy, charming, outgoing aspiring actress/model who seems very confident but is really desperate to be liked. (Deadline)
Actor Noah Mills (The Enemy Within and The Brave) has joined the cast of the upcoming Disney+ Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Solider that will find Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan reprising their movie roles to the small screen series adaptation as well as Daniel Bruhl and Emily VanCamp reprising their roles of Baron Zemo and Sharon Carter. Specific details about his role or the details of the series are being kepty under wraps. The series is slated to premiere in August. (Deadline)
Actor Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan) will star opposite Leslie Mann in the Amazon global thriller The Power that is based on Naomi Alderman’s sci-fi book. The series focuses on what happens when all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It’s hereditary, it’s inbuilt, and it can’t be taken away from them. Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or even kill by releasing electrical jolts from their fingertips, they rapidly learn they can awaken the Power in older women. Soon enough nearly every woman in the world can do it. And then everything is different. (Deadline)
Actor Tosin Cole (Doctor Who) will star opposite Courtney B. Vance in the upcoming AMC courtroom drama 61st Street that is slated to debut in 2021. The series follows Moses Johnson (Cole), a promising black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system. Taken by the police as a supposed gang member, he finds himself in the eye of the storm as cops and prosecutors seek revenge for the death of an officer during a drug bust gone wrong. (Deadline)
Actress Betty Gilpin (GLOW) will play conservative media pundit Ann Coulter in the upcoming FX limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that is set to debut in later 2020 or early 2021. (Deadline)
Actor Philip Anthony-Rodriguez (The Morning Show and Jake 2.0) will have a recurring role in the upcoming CBS drama Tommy, which stars The Sopranos alum Edie Falco in the lead role of Abigail “Tommy” Thomas, a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles. He will play Rascal Santos, a wary, smart and dedicated Vice Squad Commander, who works closely with Tommy when one of his operations might be compromised. (Deadline)
Actress Lauren Bowles (True Blood) will appear in a multi-episode arc of the final season of How to Get Away With Murder, playing Assistant U.S. Attorney Montes, who faces off against Connor (Jack Falahee) and Michaela (Aja Naomi King) in court following their arrest. The show returns for the rest of its final episodes starting on April 2. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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