Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATION/RENEWALS
Hawaii Five-0 is finally coming to an end after 10 seasons, airing its two-hour series finale on CBS on April 3. (Variety)
NBC has given Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and all three One Chicago dramas: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., three additional seasons each. (Variety)
TV RELOCATION
The planned Love, Simon TV series will be moving from Disney Plus over to Hulu and will now be called Love, Victor. The series, based on the box office movie, focuses on Victor (Michael Cimino), a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. The 10-episode first season will debut in June. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Actor Mekai Curtis will take on the lead role of Kanan Stark (played by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in the recently defunct series Power) in the spin-off series Power Book III: Raising Kanan. The series revolves around his mother, Raq (Patina Miller), who raised him by herself. She is his everything. At the same time, he is beginning to get a sense of not only the world around him, but his place in said world. Kanan wants to be just like his mother and that’s the problem. He’s young and wide-eyed and doesn’t know how the hustle works. And even more importantly, his mother is not nearly as keen as he is for him to follow in her footsteps. (Variety)
Actor Coby Bell (Burn Notice and The Gifted) has joined the cast of the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot that will star Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki in the lead role. Bell will play Larry James, a Texas Ranger Captain, who is a trailblazer in his division, as the only African American man in the Austin headquarters and one of only a few in the entire Ranger division. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actor Rick Hoffman (Suits) will recur in the new season of Billions that is set to begin on Showtime on May 3. He will play Dr. Swerdlow, a medical man with unorthodox methods. (TV Line and Deadline)
Actress Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle) and Toni Collette (Unbelievable) will star in the upcoming Netflix series Pieces of Her based on the best-selling book by Karin Slaugther. The 8-episode series is about an act of violence that rocks a sleepy Georgia town as well as the bond between a mother and her daughter (Heatchote and Collette) (Deadline and Twitter)
Actress Ryan Michelle Bathe (Army Wives and This Is Us and Mrs. Sterling K. Brown) will recur on All Rise as Rachel Audubon, a brilliant and fearless high-profile, take-no-prisoners litigation attorney whose charm is her superpower. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actress Juliet Landau (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Bosch) will play in the 4th and final season of Claws, playing Cordelia, a socialite in the community and protective of her father’s wealth. (Deadline)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Live Schreiber and Susie Abromeit will star in the Will Smith bio-pic King Richard that tells the story of Richard Williams, the father of tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams, who will be played by Saniyya Sidney (Fences and Hidden Figures) and Demi Singleton (Godfather of Harlem), respectively. Schreiber will play tennis coach and Abromeit will play a New York Times reporter. The movie is the true story of the hardscrabble but iron-willed father of Venus and Serena Williams, who had a plan to make his daughters the greatest tennis players in the world. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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