Rueben's Ramblings

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Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Emily in Paris has been renewed for seasons 3 and 4 at Netflix. (TV Line)

Grey’s Anatomy has been renewed for season 19 and Station 19 has been renewed for a 6th season by ABC. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has renewed The Morning Show for a third season. (TV Line)

Hulu has given The Great a season 3 renewal. (Variety)

EPIX has given Godfarther of Harlem a 3rd season renewal. (Variety)

Peacock has given a second season order to the teen mystery drama One of Us Is Lying. (TV Line)

REBOOT NEWS

Looks like Timothy Olyphant will be reprising his role of Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval, a follow-up limited series to the original FX drama Justified. The reboot will find Raylan still living in Miami where he relocated to as seen in the series finale. A walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of his 14-year-old daughter with Winona. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway leads him to Detroit, where he crosses paths with Clement Mansell aka “The Oklahoma Wildman,” a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. (TV Line)

Disney+ has ordered a limited series small screen adaptation of The Santa Clause box office movie franchise. Tim Allen will return as Scott Calvin, who, on the brink of his 65th birthday, realizes that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s starting to lose a step in his Santa duties, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the Pole. With a lot of elves, children, and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole. (Variety)

PILOT ORDER

Kellie Martin will be back on the small screen on NBC via a sequel to her 80’s TV show Life Goes On that has been given a put-pilot order (which is basically one step shy of the network officially ordering a pilot to be produced/filmed) that will find her back as Becca Thatcher. The series will revisit grown-up Becca Thatcher, now an accomplished doctor, and her extended family as she returns to her hometown. (TV Line)

It looks like NBC is working on a reboot of Quantum Leap that would pick up 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) stepped into the Quantum accelerator and vanished. Now whether Bakula will be involved in the new project is “to be determined” a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Andrew Burnap, who won a Tony Award for his role in The Inheritance, has landed the male lead in the upcoming Disney live-action film based on the classic animated story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that will find West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler in the title lead and Wonder Woman Gal Gadot playing the Evil Queen. Burnap will play a new male character created for the film. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Emeraude Toubia (Shadowhunters and With Love) will executive produce and star in the rom-com The Redo that follows three female best friends who, upon realizing they’re not getting the love they deserve, make a pact to reconnect with their biggest “almost” from their romantic pasts. Toubia will play Cara, an underpaid but ambitious lackey at a record label, who decides to lean into her infatuation with one of her boss’s clients. (Deadline)

JUMPING SHIP

It looks like another Hallmark alum has signed a contract with competitor GAC Family. Jen Lilley has signed a two-year contract, and it looks like she won’t be making Hallmark movies during that time. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie have joinced the cast of the upcoming Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See that is based on the best-selling novel by Anthony Doerr that stars newcomer Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure, a blind teenager at the heart of the story. Marie-Laure’s path collides with Werner, a German soldier, as they both try to survive the devastation of World War II in occupied France. Ruffalo will play Marie-Laure’s father, Daniel LeBlanc, the principal locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris; while Laurie will play Etienne LeBlanc, an eccentric and reclusive World War I hero suffering from PTSD. (Variety)

Mahershala Ali will executive produce and star in the Hulu limited series The Plot based on the Jean Hanff Korelitz novel. He will play Jake, a struggling author who is primed to take advantage of any opportunity that might help revive his career. When a once in a lifetime opportunity presents itself, Jake commits an act of literary theft that changes his life. (Variety)

Sendhil Ramamurthy has landed a recurring role on the new CBS medical drama Good Sam, playing Asher Pyne, the new spouse of Vivian (cast member Wendy Crewson), who is also a licensed therapist. (TV Line)

TV DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FX has ordered a TV adaptation of the Octavia E. Butler novel Kindred. The 8-episode sci-fi series centers on Dana (newcomer Mallori Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. An interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the ties that bind. The cast includes True Blood alum Ryan Kwanten. (Variety)

FOX has a series adaptation of the box office film Hell or High Water in the works. The series version will focus on what happens when a ruthless oil tycoon attempts to plunder a West Texas ranching community, finding two local brothers dodging a zealous Texas Ranger and fighting to keep what’s theirs, one bank robbery at a time. (Variety)

HBO Max has ordered a reboot of Degrassi, the popular Canadian series, for 10 hour-long episodes that will premiere in 2023. The series will focus on a new group of teenagers and school faculty living in the shadow of events that both bind them together and tear them apart. (TV Line)

Arrow alum David Ramsey could be back playing John Diggle in a stand-along series at The CW. Justice U is a drama series currently in development that would find Diggle, after spending years fighting alongside masked heroes, embarking on a new mission to recruit five young meta-humans to live undercover as freshmen at a prestigious university. There he will oversee their education and train them to become the heroes of tomorrow. The show is based on characters from the DC pantheon. (Variety)

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and his sister writer-director Rebecca Rodriguez are developing a gender-swapped version of Zorro for The CW that will follow a young Latino woman looking for vengeance for her father’s murder. In her mission, she joins a secret society and takes on the outlaw persona of Zorro. Meanwhile, Disney is working on a new Zorro series set to star Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS) in the title role. (Deadline and TV Insider)

That’s it. Enjoy!