Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

CANCELLATIONS

The Masterpiece series Endeavour on PBS will come to an end with its 9th season. (TV Line)

The Good Fight will come to an end after its upcoming 6th season. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusthers: Afterlife) has joined the cast of the upcoming Sony film Madame Web that will star Dakota Johnson (Thirty Shades franchise) in the title role. The movie will serve as an origin story for Madame Web, a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself. What role O’Connor will play, however, is being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Shira Haas (Unorthodox) will star in the period musical drama Ethel that tells the true story of Ethel Stark, the groundbreaking conductor who founded the first all-female orchestra in Montreal. Aside from breaking barriers in the music world, Stark has been credited for championing social change across gender, race, language and class starting in the 1940s. (Variety)

The one and only Rita Moreno will appear as the grandmother of Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) in the next Fast and Furious sequel. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Season 4 of the HBO crime anthology True Detective will feature Oscar winner Jode Foster, playing detective Liz Danvers, who, along with fellow detective Evangeline Navarro (yet to be cast) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice. The official title will be True Detective: Night Country, and it will take place in the frigid Arctic regions of Alaska. (TV Line and The Hollywood Reporter)

Two cast members are officially leaving the long-running NBC drama The Blacklist. Amir Arison (who has played Agent Aram Mojtabai since the first season) and Laura Sohn (who has played Agent Alina Park since season 7) bid farewell in the show’s season finale that aired this week. (TV Line)

Alexis Bledel has left the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale ahead of the show’s upcoming 5th season. (TV Line)

Anthony Anderson will not return for the second season of the revival of Law & Order. (Deadline and TV Line)

Jude Law has joined the cast of the Disney+ drama Star Wars: Skeleton Crew that takes place during the post–’Return of the Jedi’ reconstruction that follows the fall of the Empire. (Variety)

Charlotte Spencer, who played Esther in the two seasons of Sanditon will not be returning for the period piece’s upcoming third season, as she will be starring in the new BBC/Paramount+ drama The Gold. (TV Line)

Okieriete Onaodowan (Broadway’s Hamilton) will play the lead in the AMC 6-episode half-hour series Demascus, which is a character-driven exploration of life as an ordinary Black man in America today and revolves around Demascus (Onaodowan), a 33-year-old Black man who goes on a journey of self-discovery using an innovative new technology that allows him to experience different versions of his own life. The series follows these vivid psychological explorations and also features Demascus in his primary reality. (The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!