Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Netflix has renewed the drama You for a fourth season. (TV Line)

Jack Ryan has been renewed for a 4th season by Amazon. (Variety)

Titans and Doom Patrol have both been given a 4th season renewal by HBO Max. (DC Fandome 2021)

Sweet Tooth officially announced it will be back on Netflix for a second season. (DC Fandome 2021)

Pennyworth has been renewed for a 3rd season and heading to a new home. It will now air on HBO Max (moving over from EPIX). Seasons 1 and 2 will also stream on HBO Max early next year. (TV Line and DC Fandome 2021)

FULL SEASON ORDER

CBS has given full season order to NCIS: Hawai’i and FBI: International, the first broadcast network to do so. (TV Line)

CANCELLATION

Y: The Last Man has ended on FX on Hulu after only one season, but executive producer Eliza Clark hopes the show will find a new outlet. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Will Poulter (Dopesick) has landed the role of Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. (Variety)

Jensen Ackles (Supernatural and The Boys) has joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming Western feature film called Rust that will star Alec Baldwin. The film follows an infamous Western outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin) who has a bounty on his head for as long as he can remember. When his estranged 13-year-old grandson Lucas is convicted of an accidental murder and sentenced to hang, Rust travels to Kansas to break him out of prison. Together, the two fugitives must outrun the legendary U.S. Marshal Wood Helm (Ackles) and bounty-hunter Fenton “Preacher” Lang (Travis Fimmel from Vikings) who are hot on their tail. Deeply buried secrets rise from the ashes and an unexpected familial bond begins to form as the mismatched duo tries to survive the merciless American Frontier. (Deadline)

Jesse Metcalfe (Chesapeake Shores) has joined the cast of the new faith-based family drama On a Wing and a Prayer that will also star Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham. Based on a true story, Quaid stars as Doug White, who’s forced to fly a plane after the pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight. (Variety)

Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) and Rachel Brosnahan (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will play Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan in the upcoming feature film Helen & Teacher. (Variety)

Louis Partridge (from the Netflix film Enola Holmes) will appear in the epic fantasy romance film Ferryman, which is adapted from the best-selling young adult novel trilogy by author Claire McFall that follows Tristan, a mysterious being tasked with leading departed souls through limbo and into the afterlife. When a train crashes in the Scottish Highlands, he meets Dylan, a spirited young woman struggling against her fate. While Tristan’s duty is to protect Dylan from an encroaching darkness, his task and their journey become increasingly perilous as they find themselves falling in love and Dylan refuses to leave Tristan behind. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

It’s official: Mark Harmon is exiting NCIS after 19 long seasons. (TV Line)

Patricia Clarkson (Six Feet Under and Sharp Objects) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones and the Fast & Furious franchise) will star in the espionage thriller series Gray, based on an original concept by best-selling novelist David Baldacci. Clarkson will play CIA spy Cornelia Gray, who is coming in from the cold after 20 years in hiding, dodging the government agents who suspected her of being a traitor. She returns to her old life just as it is discovered that there is a new mole within her old spy network putting her and her network in jeopardy. (Variety)

Starz has announced the recurring cast members for the upcoming original series Gaslit, the untold story of Martha Mitchell’s role in exposing Watergate. Those cast members include Patton Oswalt, Nat Faxon, Raphael Sbarge, Anne Dudek and Reed Diamond [among others]. They join Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, who are the leads, in a modern take on Watergate, which focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, and the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down. (The Futon Critic)

Common (Hell on Wheels) has joined the cast of the Apple TV+ dystopian drama Wool that will also star Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo. The series is set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant underground silo, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. (Deadline)

Kathleen Robertson (Northern Rescue and Murder in the First) has joined the sixth and final season of the Amazon (formerly Syfy) sci-fi drama The Expanse where she will play Rosenfeld Guoliang, a cynic and fierce believer in Belter independence who is a key member of insurgent leader Marco Inaros’ inner circle. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!