Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
The Amazon drama The Summer I Turned Pretty has been renewed for a second season before the show’s first season has even debuted. (Variety)
Netflix has given the Korean hit Squid Game a second season renewal. (TV Line)
Spectrum Originals has pulled the plug on the drama series Long Slow Exhale after only one season. (Deadline)
Despite getting cancelled by Showtime, the drama series American Rust is getting a second chance via Amazon’s Freevee (formerly known as IMDbTV. (TV Line)
HBO Max has given the drama series Tokyo Vice a second season renewal. (Variety)
Apple TV+ has given the dramedy Schmigadoon a second season renewal. (TV Line) [NOTE: See TV Casting News for more details.]
Only a week into season three and The Boys has already been renewed for a 4th season. (TV Line)
Despite being handed a series order FOUR years ago by HBo, the J.J. Abrams sci-fi drama Demimonde has been scrapped. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Schmigadoon will be back from a second season, and this time around it will find Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) in Schmicago, the world of ’60s and ’70s musicals. The will be joined by new series regulars Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Patrick Page (The Gilded Age) with original cast members Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short and Aaron Tveit returning. (TV Line)
Hulu has ordered a series adaptation of Tiny Beautiful Things based on the Cheryl Strayed best-seller. The series will star Kathryn Hahn as a woman who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar — an anonymous, revered advice columnist — when her own life is falling apart. (Variety)
The new Damon Lindelof drama series Mrs. Davis will stream on Peacock, and it will star Ben Chaplin, Margo Martindale, Betty Gilpin and Jake McDorman. The series is an exploration of faith vs technolog. Gilpin will play the lead character, a nun who takes on an all-powerful artificial intelligence, while McDorman will play her rebellious ex, who also has a vendetta against the algorithm. Details about who Chaplin and Martindale are playing are being kept quiet, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Jesse James Keitel (the new Queer as Folk reboot and ABC’s Big Sky) will have a guest starring role in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, as the nonbinary character Dr. Aspen, who once worked as a Starfleet counselor, but whose experiences on the Federation border prompted them to shift careers and work as a humanitarian aid worker. (Variety)
Jon Hamm, Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh are set in the lead roles of season 5 of the FX anthology series Fargo that will be set in 2019, asking the questions when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours? (Variety)
SMALL SCREEN MOVIE NEWS
The Netflix sequel movie The Old Guard 2 has added Uma Thurman and Crazy Rich Asian hunk Henry Golding to its cast with returning member Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngo and Chiwetel Ejiofor reprising their roles. No word on who Thurman and Golding will be playing, though. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
David Oyelowo will star opposite Kaley Cuoco in the high-concept thriller box office flick Role Play, which centers around a married couple whose life turns upside down when secrets come out about each other’s pasts. Oyelowo will play Cuoco’s husband in the film. (Deadline)
Maria Bakalova (who was the only good thing in the Borat film) has joined the cast of the box office franchise Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. No details have been released on what character she will play, however. (Variety)
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) has been offered to play the lead role in the forthcoming biopic about pop icon Madonna (who will direct the movie). (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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