Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

CANCELLATIONS/RENEWALS

The Good Doctor has been renewed for a 4th season. (Variety)

Netflix has cancelled Insatiable after two seasons. (TV Line)

Amazon has renewed Bosch for a 7th and final season. (Variety)

Netflix is in talks to pick up Lucifer for another season beyond its upcoming 5th season. (TV Line)

CSI just might be coming back to CBS. The network is eyeing a potential event series revival for the long-running drama. The idea would be to release the new installment in time for the show’s 20th anniversary in October, but no deals are in place as yet. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Disney Plus has ordered an hour-long series based on the Tom Hanks comedy flick Turner & Hooch, starring Disney alum Josh Peck as Scott Turner, an ambitious, buttoned-up U.S. Marshall who inherits a big unruly dog, who soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs. The series has received a 12-episode order. (Variety)

Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw will appear in the Disney Plus streaming series Loki in an undisclosed role opposite Tom Hiddleston. (Variety)

Quite a lot of names have joined the upcoming Kevin Smith animated series Masters of the Universe, including Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Chris Wood and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The series will focus on the unresolved storylines of the iconic characters in the He-Man universe, picking up where they left off decades ago with Hamill voicing villainous Skeletor; Headey playing Skeletor’s right-hand woman, Evil-Lyn. Wood will voice Prince Adam/He-Man while Gellar and Liam Cunningham play He-Man’s cohorts Teela and Man-at-Arms, respectively. Other voices will be provided by Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Alicia Silverstone, Justin Long, Kevin Conroy and Harley Quinn Smith [among others.] (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Actress Zoe Saldana will star in the sports drama Fencer. The film is inspired by Jasmine McGlade’s (writer and director of the film) experiences as a national champion fencer, who lead her Harvard University team to the school’s first-ever NCAA Championship title. (Variety)

Actor Rufus Sewell will play Vernon Presley, Elvis Presley’s reserved and soft-spoken father in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann film Elvis that has Austin Butler in the lead role. (Variety)

Actresses Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley and actor Peter Sarsgaard will appear in The Lost Daughter, the directorial debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film tells the story of a college professor (Colman), whose own psychological trauma begins to resurface after meeting a woman (Johnson) and her young daughter while on summer vacation. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!