Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
Paramount+ has given the thriller series Evil a 4th season renewal. (TV Line)
Amazon Prime Video has pulled the plug on the sci-fi series Night Sky after only one season. (TV Line)
HBO has cancelled Gentleman Jack after two seasons. (TV Line)
The Showtime legal drama Your Honor, that stars Bryan Cranston, will end after its upcoming 2nd season. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
The CW series Kung Fu will welcom Yvonne Chapman back as a series regular for the show’s third season along with JB Tadena being promoted to a series regular. (TV Line)
Ella Jay Basco (Grey’s Anatomy and the box office movie Birds of Prey) has landed a recurring role in the upcoming Peacock limited series A Friend of the Family that is based on the true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan (Hendrix Yancey) was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by Robert “B” Berchtold (Jake Lacy), a charismatic, obsessed family “friend.” The Brobergs — devoted to their faith, family and community — were utterly unprepared for the sophisticated tactics their neighbor used to exploit their vulnerabilities, drive them apart and turn their daughter against them. “A Friend of the Family” follows how their lives were permanently altered and how they survived. (Variety)
Megan Boone (The Blacklist) will appear in the upcoming FOX anthology series Accused, based on the British show, that opens in a courtroom with a defendant being accused of a crime, then backtracks to reveal how these people got caught up in the extraordinary situations in which they find themselves. (TV Line and Deadline)
Michael Cimino (Love, Victor) has joined the cast of the 4th and final season of the Netflix series Never Have I Ever where he will play Ethan, a skater and new heartthrob at Sherman Oaks High. And, he will star opposite Peyton List (from Cobra Kai) in the HBO Max romantic special B-Loved. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Michael Raymond-James (Lost and Terriors) will play the key role of mob boss Joe Colombo opposite Forrest Whitaker in the upcoming third season of Godfather of Harlem on EPIX. (Deadline)
Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) has joined the cast of the Netflix romantic drama series One Day, playing Sylvie. The series charts a series of intense personal encounters between Emma and Dexter that begin on their university graduation day on July 15, 1988. Every episode wthill follow them on that one particular day as they grow and change, move together and apart, and experience joy and heartbreak. (Deadline)
TV NEWS
A crossover involving all three Law & Order series is being eyed to launch the show’s respective new season this fall. (TV Line)
TV MOVIE NEWS
ABC has announced its next live-action, animation hybrid movie will be Beauty and the Beast set to debut on December 15 in celebration of the film’s 30th(ish) anniversary. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Steven Yeun (Minari and The Walking Dead) will star alongside Robert Pattinson in an upcoming sci-fi movie from Bong Joon Ho that follows an “expendable” — a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim — who refuses to let his replacement clone, dubbed Mickey8, take his place. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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