Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
Fargo has been renewed for a 5th season by FX. (TV Line)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will end after its newly ordered fifth season on Amazon. (TV Line)
Stranger Things has been given a fifth season renewal in advance of its 4th season premiere; but that 5th season will be the show’s last season on Netflix. (TV Line)
HBO has given The Gilded Age a second season renewal after only 3 episodes of the debut season having aired. (Variety)
Billions has been renewed for a 7th season by Showtime. (Variety)
Paramount+ has given a second season renewal to the Halo, the small screen adaptation of the popular video game, in advance of the show’s upcoming debut). (Variety)
Peacemaker has been given a second season renewal by HBO Max. (TV Line)
The anthology series Super Pumped has been given a second season renewal in advance of its upcoming series debut on Showtime. (Variety)
Paramount+ has also given a second season order to the Yellowstone prequel series 1883. (Variety)
The Canadian medical drama Transplant has been given a 3rd season renewal. Season 2 of the series will premiere here in the US on NBC starting on March 6. (TV Insider)
SERIES ORDER
Paramount+ has given a series order to a live action adaptation of Dora the Explorer. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
NCIS is heading to Australia. NCIS: Sydney will debut in 2023 in the land down under, featuring local stories with Australia actors and producers. (Variety)
SERIES ORDER NEWS
The new drama series The Girls on the Bus that includes Julie Plec (of The Vampire Diaries fame) as one of its executive producers is moving from The CW to HBO Max. The show will be a comedic character-driven drama chronicling four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way. AND, Melissa Benoist (Supergirl and Glee) is nearing a deal to star in this new drama. (Variety and TV Line)
TV MOVIE NEWS
Paramount+ has announced there will be a SEAL Team movie coming up. Also, the streamer has announced that the upcoming Teen Wolf: The Movie will find original series cast members Tyler Posey (Scott McCall), Holland Roden (Lydia Martin), Shelley Hennig (Malia), Crystal Reed (Allison Argent), Orny Adams (Coach Bobby Finstock), Linden Ashby (Sheriff Noah Stilinski), JR Bourne (Chris Argent), Seth Gilliam (Dr. Alan Deaton), Colton Haynes (Jackson Whittemore), Ryan Kelley (Deputy Jordan Parrish), Melissa Ponzio (Melissa McCall) and Dylan Sprayberry (Liam Dunbar) all returning FIVE years after the thriller went off the air. Missing from the cast list include Dylan O’Brien (Stiles), Superman and Lois‘ Tyler Hoechlin (Derek) and Arden Cho (Kira). The movie, which will be written by franchise creator Jeff Davis, will find a full moon rising in Beacon Hills along with a terrifying evil emerging. The wolves are howling once again, calling for the return of banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes and every other shapeshifter in the night. But only a werewolf like Scott McCall (Posey), no longer a teenager yet still an alpha, can gather both new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy they’ve ever faced. (Deadline; TV Line and Variety)
Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor will not only star in but also executive produce a new feature film at Amazon Studios. The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne will be a futuristic thriller set in a fragmented future England where gunfights and monsters collide, and where the formidable outlaw Scarlett McCain fights daily against the odds. When she discovers a wrecked coach on a lonely road, there is only one survivor: the seemingly hapless youth Albert Browne. Soon, new and implacable enemies are on their heels and a relentless pursuit continues across the broken landscape of England. Scarlett must fight to uncover the secrets of Albert’s past — and come to terms with the implications of her own. (Variety)
ANOTHER ONE JUMPS THE SHIP
Another Hallmark actor is jumping ship to rival network GAC Family. Jessica Lowndes has signed a four-picture deal where she will not only star in and write but also direct and executive produce original movies for the network. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
The Young and the Restless alum Victoria Rowell will play a key recurring role on the new CBS medical drama Good Sam, playing Tina Kingsley, a high-powered, sophisticated, chairwoman of the hospital board with the kind of power that does not assert itself. Alienated from her son Malcolm (Edwin Hodge), Tina possesses a strong will to take what’s in her sights, even when it means navigating complicated relationships from her past. (Deadline)
Walton Goggins will star in the small screen adaptation of the video game Fallout that is set in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. There is no confirmation on what character he will play, but is possible he MIGHT play a ghoul, humans who have been horribly disfigured due to exposure to radiation, but are also largely immune to radiation and nuclear fallout as a result. (Variety)
Actress Caitlin Carver (The Fosters and Dear White People) will recur on Chicago Fire during the second half of season 10 playing a paramedic Emma. (TV Line)
Amanda Seyfried will star opposite Tom Holland in the upcoming Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room that will explore inspirational stories of people who have struggled and learned to successfully live with mental illness. Seyfried will play Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career. She cannot help but put her patients first, all the while trying to balance her life as a single mother. (Variety)
Keri Russell (Felicity and The Americans) has landed the lead role in the upcoming Netflix series The Diplomat. In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat (Russell) lands in a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future. (Variety)
Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series The Mosquito Coast has added new season regulars to its upcoming second season. Natalia Cordova-Buckley (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and Mayans M.C.), Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials and Carnival Row) and Ian Hart (Harry Potter franchise and The Last Kingdom) will join returning stars Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish, and Gabriel Bateman. There are no details what characters they will be portraying, however. (Deadline)
Peacock has made a straight-to-series order for the scripted drama A Friend of the Family. The true crime drama will focus on the harrowing story of the Broberg family, whose daughter was kidnapped multiple times. The cast will include Anna Paquin (True Blood) as Mary Ann Broberg, a mother of three who realized too late that she missed warning signs and became close to her charismatic neighbor, Robert Berchtold, and trusted him around her oldest daughter, Jan; Jake Lacy (The White Lotus and Being the Ricardos) as Robert, a businessman, Mormon father, husband and expert manipulator who plots the abduction of Jan; and Colin Hanks as Bob Broberg, Mary Ann’s husband, who begins to fear that something is amiss with their neighbor. (The Hollywood Reporter)
TV CRITICS ASSOCIATION WINTER PRESS TOUR NEWS
Paramount+ has ordered another Taylor Sheridan-created origin-story following the Dutton Family from Yellowstone and 1883. This series entitled simply 1932 will follow a new generation of Duttons during the time of western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. The streaming service also has the new series Lioness on tap to debut in 2023. The series, which will star Zoe Saldana, is based on a real-life CIA program, following a marine recruited to befriend the daughter of a terrorist to bring the organization down from within. Saldana will play Joe, a strong-willed, hard-nosed, station chief of the CIA’s Lioness Program, tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives working to assassinate the world’s most dangerous terrorists. Among the executive producers on the show are box office veteran Nicole Kidman and Hallmark alum Jill Wagner. The streamer is also still developing a series, potentially slated for a 2022 start, on Bass Reeves, the legendary lawman of the wild west who is believed to be the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Box office actor David Oyelowo is attached to star as the title character as well as serve as one of the executive producers. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Tom Welling (Smallville and Lucifer) will star in the action-thriller film Deep Six in which he will star as Terry, who is released early from prison only to be forced to go undercover to take down the Cosa Nostra in Italy. On his first day, his fellow six-man undercover unit is taken out. Terry must then ride shotgun all day with a psychopath killer who may know he is working for the police. Cam Gigandet (the original Twilight film and Without Remorse) will co-star. (Deadline)
The 4th film in the reboot of the Star Trek franchise expects to see cast members Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg [hopefully] reprising their roles. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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