Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

ABC has given renewals to both The Good Doctor and The Rookie. (TV Line)

Hallmark Channel has given Chesapeake Shores a sixth and final season renewal. (TV Line)

CBS has renewed NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS Hawaii for new seasons. (TV Line)

REBOOT PLANS

Netflix is moving forward with a reboot of the action-adventure Spy Kids movie franchise. The still-untitled movie will premiere on a yet-to-be-determined date. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Veteran actor Richard Gant (Greenleaf) will appear as Sam Hanna’s father on the 300th episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. (TV Line)

Ed Speleers (Outlander and Downton Abbey) has landed a series regular role on the upcoming 4th season of You on Netflix. He will play Rhys, an author whose memoir garnered him acclaim and pressure to launch a political career. Born into poverty, Rhys lived a traumatic early life before he came into money, going to Oxford and making all the right friends. Now, he moves easily in any social circle, while also seeing through those around him. (Yahoo Entertainment)

Ella Purnell (Sweetbriar and Yellowjackets) has landed the lead role in the upcoming Amazon series Fallout (based on the video game) 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. She joins previously announced Walton Goggins (Justified and The Unicorn). (Variety)

Rome Flynn (How to Get Away With Murder) is joining Grey’s Anatomy in the recurring role of Wendell Ndugu, the brother of Winston (Anthony Hill), a typical younger sibling with a mischievous sense of humor who he’s hoping to impress with his new sales rep role at a medical technology company. (Variety)

Victoria Pedretti (You and The Haunting of Hill House) will play the lead role in the upcoming Hulu drama Saint X based on the novel by Alexis Schaitkin and is described as a psychological drama told via multiple timelines and perspectives. It’s about how a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth. Pedretti will star as Emily, a sharp and ambitious woman whose carefully constructed, seemingly perfect life begins to crumble. The series has received an eight-episode order at Hulu. (Variety)

Joel Edgerton will star in the 9-episode Apple series Dark Matter, adapted from the Blake Crouch novel. The show will follow Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor, and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life. (Variety)

Carrie Preston (True Blood and Claws) will return as socially-stunted attorney Elsbeth on The Good Fight for the show’s upcoming 6th season. (TV Line)

SEQUEL NEWS

Bridgerton is getting a Queen Charlotte-centric spin-off, that is as-yet untitled. It will focus on young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio from Sex Education) who arrives in London bethrothed to the king only to realize she was not exactly what the royals were expecting. Bridgerton cast members Golda Rosheuval (Queen Charlotte), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Agatha Danbury) and Ruth Gemmell (Lady Violet Bridgerton) will all reprise their roles along with Game of Thrones alum Michelle Fairley as Princess Augusta. (TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!