Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
Severence has been renewed by Apple TV+ for a second season. (TV Line)
FOX has renewed The Cleaning Lady for a second season. (TV Line)
Winning Time will be back for another season on HBO. (TV Line)
The Amazon dramedy With Love has been renewed for a second season. (Variety)
COMING TO AN END
Locke & Key will come to an end after its upcoming third season. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Maya Erskine (PEN15) will star opposite Donald Glover in the upcoming Amazon series Mr. and Mrs. Smith that will be based on the Doug Liman feature film. They will play rival spies that discover they have been contracted to assassinate each other. Erkskine takes over the role from Phoebe Waller-Bridge who left the series due to creative differences. (Variety)
Star Trek: The Next Generation alums LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden and Michael Dorn will reprise their roles in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. (TV Line)
Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break and Hightown) and Nathan Owens (Devious Maids and Batwoman) will appear in upcoming episodes of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Nolasco will play Morris, a fellow widower Tommy (series regular Gina Torres) meets in her grief group. He becomes Tommy’s first date since her husband’s death. Meanwhile, Owens will play Tommy’s brother-in-law Julius Vega, a musician with some gigs in Austin, who surprises Tommy by showing up to his nieces’ birthday party. (TV Line)
Tom Hiddleston (Loki and the Avengers franchise) will star in the Apple limited series The White Darkness that will be based on the nonfiction book by David Grann that is inspired by the true life account of Henry Worsley (Hiddleston), a devoted husband and father, a former soldier, a man of deep honor and sacrifice, but also a man deeply obsessed with adventure, manifesting in an epic journey crossing Antarctica on foot. (Variety)
Jessica Alba (L.A.’s Finest and Dark Angel) will star in the series Confessions on the 7:45, based on the book by Lisa Unger, that is currently in development at Netflix. It will be a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life. As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
HBO Max is developing a series version of You Brought Me the Ocean, the young adult graphic novel that is focused on the origins of DC’s Aqualad. The live-action, one-hour dramedy will explore the life of Jackson “Jake” Hyde, a gay teenager living in New Mexico who has had a strange attraction to the water and yearns to escape his desert surroundings for the ocean. As he explores his abilities, including breathing under and controlling water, he also finds himself falling in love with his classmate, high school swim captain Kenny Liu. Charlize Theron will be one of the executive producers. (Variety)
TV NEWS
Jason Momoa will star in, write and executive produce the drama series Chief of War for Apple. The series will follow the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii from an indigenous point of view. Apple has given the show an 8-episode order. (Variety)
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan Downey will be among the executive producers on the TV expansion of the Sherlock Holmes film universe. The potential shows would be set in the world of 2009’s Sherlock Holmes and 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. No details about the characters the projects would focus on have been revealed yet. (Variety)
It looks like Orphan Black will be back with Orphan Black: Echoes, a new series set in the world of the original BBC America cult favorite. The 10-episode first season will be set in the near future, exploring the scientific manipulation of human existence. It will follow a group of women as they weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unraveling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal. (TV Line)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Yet another Hallmark Channel star has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal. This time its actor Jonathan Bennett (who has appeared in The Christmas House franchise movies for the network). (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has joined the cast of Fast and Furious 10. (Variety)
Actress Elizabeth Marvel (The Dropout) has joined the cast of the upcoming musical movie adaptation of The Color Purple. She will play Miss Millie, the unpleasant and overbearing mayor’s wife who hires Sofia (Danielle Brooks) to be her maid. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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