Hey All,
Here are the news items for the past couple of weeks:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
The Starz drama Hightown has been given a second season order. (Variety)
NBC has given Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a second season renewal. (Variety)
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector has been cancelled after only one season on NBC. (TV Line)
HBO Max has renewed its first original scripted series Love Life for a second season. The first season starred Anna Kendrick, who will make occasional appearances in the 2nd season, which will explore what happens when you’ve lived your whole life knowing who your soulmate is, only to find out years into a marriage that it’s not the right fit at all. (Variety)
PRODUCTION PLANS
Walt Disney Studios is developing an original movie musical (think Mamma Mia) based on the songs by Lionel Richie, tentatively titled All Night Long. (Variety)
CONGRATS
The following shows are among the Peabody Award winners for this year: Chernobyl, Dickinson, Stranger Things, Succession, Watchmen and When They See Us. (Variety)
MOVIE NEWS
Downton Abbey and Cinderella star Lily James is set to star in the true-crime love story Peggy Jo, which will be loosely based on the true story of the life of Texan Peggy Jo Tallas, a beautiful woman, prone to be romantically lost in books and films; who she is not the sort of person who lets life and people get the better of her. When her latest beau turns out to be married to his bank co-worker, she takes matters into her own hands, robbing his bank disguised as a man with a big beard and a back-to-front cowboy hat. (Variety)
It looks like Henry Cavill isn’t done playing Clark Kent after all, as he is in talks to return in an upcoming DC Comics movie. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actor Hartley Sawyer has been fired from The Flash due to a collection of racist and misogynistic tweets he posted prior to joining the show. (Variety)
Actress Cush Jumbo is leaving The Good Fight ahead of the recently ordered fifth season. (TV Line)
As announced previously, actress Ruby Rose has left Batwoman not returning as lead character Kate Kane for the show’s second season; but instead of merely replacing her with another actress the network announced a new character will take on the mantle of the female caped crusader. The new character will be Ryan Wilder, an out lesbian in her mid-20s who is likable, messy, a little goofy and untamed. She spent years as a drug-runner, dodging the GCPD and masking her pain with bad habits. She is highly skilled and wildly undisciplined. (TV Line)
CHANGE OF PLANS
The Gal Gadot-led series about film legend Hedy Lamarr is moving from Showtime to a straight-to-series order at Apple. The series will follow the true story of the Hollywood glamour girl, spanning 30 years from Lamarr’s escape from pre-war Vienna to her meteoric rise in the Golden Age of Hollywood to her fall and eventual disgrace at the dawn of the Cold War. The show will also go into Lamarr’s life as an inventor, including one invention that became the basis for spread spectrum technology used today. (Variety)
LINE-UP ADDITION
The CW is adding another acquired series to its fall 2020 line-up. That series is Devils, an international thriller that follows Massimo Ruggero (Alessandro Borghi), the charismatic yet ruthless Head of Trading at NYL, one of the world’s most important investment banks, and his mentor, NYL’s CEO Dominic Morgan (Patrick Dempsey). After Dominic appoints another colleague over Massimo following a bitter promotion battle, Massimo finds himself named prime suspect in a murder investigation. Fighting to clear his name, Massimo becomes involved in an intercontinental financial war and is forced to choose between supporting Dominic or going up against him. Devils will air on Wednesday night at 8 PM followed by the acquired series Coroner, taking the place of the acquired series Dead Pixels, which is likely going to air this summer. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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