Hey All,
CANCELLATION
The FX drama Pose will end with its upcoming third season. (Variety)
RENEWAL
After only one episode of Superman & Lois, The CW has given the new superhero series a 2nd season order. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Ray Liotta will star alongside Taron Egerton in the upcoming Apple drama series In With the Devil. The six-episode series is based on the 2010 novel “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin that tells the story of Keene’s real life when he was sentenced to prison but offered his freedom in exchange for coaxing a confession out of a fellow inmate, a suspected serial killer. Egerton will star as Keene while Liotta will play Big Jim, Keene’s father. (Variety)
Timothy Spall will star alongside Lesley Manville in the upcoming adaptation of Magpie Murders. He will play detective Atticus Pünd in the mystery-within-a-mystery, which stars Manville as book editor Susan Ryeland, who sits down to read the latest manuscript written by her popular author, Alan Conway, the writer behind the popular Atticus Pünd mystery series. When she discovers that its final chapter is missing, she goes to Conway’s house only to find his dead body. The story goes back and forth between the cozy case Pünd was trying to crack and Ryeland’s investigation of what happened to Conway. (Variety)
Edie Falco will portray Hillary Clinton in the upcoming FX anthology series Impeachment: American Crime Story that will detail the events surrounding the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Also Beanie Feldstein will star as Monica Lewinsky, while Clive Owen will play Bill Clinton, Sarah Paulson will play Linda Tripp, Margo Martindale will play Lucianne Goldberg, Annaleigh Ashford will play Paula Jones, Billy Eichner will play Matt Drudge and Betty Gilpin will play Ann Coulter. (Variety)
A spin-off of the Amazon TV series Bosch has been ordered to series at IMDb TV that will find Titus Welliver reprising his role of the lead character. Bosch will end with its 7th season this summer. The new series will follow Harry Bosch (Welliver) as he embarks on the next chapter of his career and finds himself working with his one-time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler (Mimi Rogers). With a deep and complicated history between this unlikely pair, they must work together to do what they can agree on – finding justice. (Variety)
Actress Indira Varma (best known for her role on Game of Thrones) has joined the Disney+ drama Obi-Wan Kenobi, but details about what character she will play is being kept under wraps. (Deadline and Variety)
Apple has ordered 8 half-hour episodes of a new anthology series from GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch entitled Roar that will boast cast members Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merrit Weaver and Alison Brie. The anthology series is described as “darkly comic feminist fables” based on Cecilia Ahern’s book of short stories of the same name. (Variety)
Dakota Fanning will play Susan Ford in the upcoming Showtime anthology The First Lady. Susan is the only daughter of Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) and President Gerald Ford (Aaron Eckhart). (Variety)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show) and David Oyelowo will star in The Girl Before, the 4-part psychological thriller from HBO Max and BBC One that is based on the bestselling novel of the same name that follows Jane (Mbatha-Raw), who moves into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect (Oyelowo). There’s just one catch: occupants have to abide by his list of exacting rules. Jane starts to feel the house changing her in unexpected ways but, when she makes the shocking discovery that her predecessor Emma died in the house, she’s forced to confront unnerving similarities. (Variety)
Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience) and Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat) have joined the cast of the Amazon thriller series The Terminal List that stars Chris Pratt as James Reece, who after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission, returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. Keough will play Lauren Reece, an elite triathlete and a warrior in her own right, who has balanced her career with raising their daughter Lucy and providing vital support to other platoon families when her husband James and his SEAL Troop are deployed. While the majority of SEAL marriages fall apart, Lauren and James have made it through on honesty, mental toughness, and undying love. While Wu will play Katie Buranek, a risk-seeking war correspondent who uses her byline to speak truth to power, who left her desk at a prestigious news outlet to pursue high-impact stories on her own terms. Now at a crossroads in her career, she sets out to bring the truth about Reece and the conspiracy he’s fighting against out into the open. (Variety and TV Line)
Sissy Spacek and Ed O’Neill will star in the lead roles of the upcoming Amazon series Lightyears that follows Irene (Spacek) and Franklin (O’Neill) York, a couple who years ago discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when an enigmatic young man enters their lives, the Yorks’ quiet existence is quickly upended and the mysterious chamber they thought they knew so well turns out to be much more than they could ever have imagined. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS
Billy Bob Thornton, Alfre Woodard and Rege-Jean Page (The Duke of Hastings from Bridgerton) will star alongside Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana De Armas in the box office film The Gray Man, which is based on the debut novel by Mark Greaney that focuses on freelance assassin and former CIA operative Court Gentry (Gosling) as he’s hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former cohort at the CIA. (Variety)
Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson and Devon Sawa will appear in the action thriller film Gasoline Alley. Sawa stars as Jimmy Jayne, a bruise-fisted boss-type who becomes implicated in the triple murder of three Hollywood starlets drowned in a luxury hotel pool. As the prime suspect for homicide detectives Freeman (Willis) and Vargas (Wilson), Jimmy takes up his own rogue investigation, bending the law in ways the police can’t in order to clear his name. (Variety)
Young actor Joshua Caleb Johnson (The Good Lord Bird) has landed a key role in the upcoming box office film Bingo. Johnson will play Caleb, a teenager being raised by a single mother and living in his grandmother’s home. He’s torn between his anger at the tough hand he’s been dealt in life, and longs for connection, love and acceptance. (Variety)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Cynthia Erivo have joined the cast of Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of Pinocchio. Gordon-Levitt will provide the voice of Jiminy Cricket while Erivo will play the Blue Fairy. The cast of this film already includes Tom Hanks as Geppetto and Luke Evans as The Coachman. (Variety)
Patricia Clarkson will play Lilly Ledbetter, the fair pay pioneer for whom President Obama named a piece of legislation in 2009. The indie film Lilly will follow one woman’s fight for justice, while also painting a heartbreaking personal story and the tension-filled stakes behind her political achievements. (Variety)
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