Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Amazon has given a 6th and final season order to The Expanse. The show’s 5th season will premiere on Amazon on December 16. (TV Line)
Amazon has cancelled Gillian Flynn’s apocalyptic conspiracy thriller ‘Utopia’ after one season. (TV Line)
CASTING NEWS
Actor John Barrowman will be reprising his role of Captain Jack Harkness in the upcoming Doctor Who holiday special “Revolution of the Daleks. He will be “on hand to help ‘the fam’ as they discover a disturbing plan involving one of the Doctor’s most feared and dangerous enemies, the Daleks.” (TV Line)
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptise (Blindspot and Without a Trace) will join the cast of the third season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon. She will play Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actor Xavier de Guzman (the Netflix movie Operation Christmas Drop and The 100) has joined the cast of the Netflix series Maid, inspired by the best-selling memoir by Stephanie Land that centers on Alex (Margaret Qualley), a single mother who turned to housekeeping to make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness and bureaucracy. The cast also includes Nick Robinson. (Deadline)
Actor Nic Bishop (Body of Proof) will guest star in an upcoming episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow where the show will riff on Dr. Strangelove, an homage to the dark 1964 feature comedy. In the episode: Nate (Nick Zano) and Zari (Tala Ashe) must infiltrate the Kennedy White House to stop Bishop’s warmongering General Kilgore from steering JFK to start WWIII when an alien begins wreaking havoc in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1962. (TV Line)
Actor Anthony Konechny (Supergirl and Witches of East End) will recur as the younger version of Billy (Denis Leary) in the TNT series Animal Kingdom for the show’s upcoming 5th season. (The Futon Critic and Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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