Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
Only Murders in the Building has been renewed for Season 3 at Hulu. (TV Line)
Peacock has renewed Dr. Death for a second season. This time around the series will tell the story of real-life surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, aka “The Miracle Man,” whose professional acclaim is hiding some shocking secrets. (TV Line and Variety)
RETURNING
Criminal Minds is getting a reboot of sorts at Paramount+ with a 10-episode series order. (TV Line)
REBOOT NEWS
It looks like Amazon Prime just might be rebooting the Stargate franchise, bringing back some of the original cast of the long-running franchise TV series along with new actors playing new characters. Nothing is confirmed yet, however. (Giant Freakin’ Robot)
TV CASTING NEWS
FBI: International is losing an original cast member. Christiane Paul, who plays Europol agent Katrin Jaeger, will not be returning for the show’s upcoming 2nd season. Eva-Jane Willis (Amazon’s The Power) will take over in the new role of Europol agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, a street-wise Europol agent with an extensive undercover background who is embedded with The Fly Team and liaises with each host country they inhabit. (TV Line)
Singer-actress Lily Allen and Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who and New Amsterdam) will star in the Sky Original (in the UK) dark comedy Dreamland, which is based on the Sharon Horgan BAFTA-winning short about secrets, lies, loves and aspirations within a family of four sisters that will be set in the sun-drenched British seaside town of Margate, exploring the multi-generational female relationships, and their (somewhat dysfunctional) family dynamics. (Variety)
The Boy’s college-set superhero spin-off will be called Gen V, and will explore the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. The cast will include Jaz Sinclair and Chance Perdomo (both from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Lizze Broadway (Here and Now), Shelley Conn (Bridgerton), Maddie Phillips (Teenage Bounty Hunters), London Thor (Shameless), Derek Luh (Shining Vale), Asa Germann, Patrick Schwarzenegger (The Terminal List), Sean Patrick Thomas (For All Mankind) and Marco Pigossi (Brazil’s Invisible City). Marvel’s Agent Carter‘s Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters serve as showrunners and will executive-produce. (TV Line)
Jonathan Bailey (Anthony on Bridgerton) will star opposite Matt Bomer in the Showtime period-set limited series Fellow Travelers, that is based on the Thomas Mallon novel. The 8-episode drama is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Bailey will play Tim Laughlin, a young Fordham University graduate, earnest about his political and religious convictions and filled with optimism about the post-WWII future. His life is turned upside down when he meets and falls for charismatic and intimacy-avoidant “Hawk” Fuller (Bomer). The pair begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. (TV Line)
Kaci Walfall (The CW’s short-lived superhero series Naomi) will guest star in the final season of Queen Sugar. There are no details what role she will play, but Greenleaf vet Lamman Rucker will also guest star as well as Tracie Thoms (from 9-1-1), who will play Nova’s (Rutina Wetley) long-lost high-school love. (TV Line)
The Resident has promoted Kaley Ronayne, who plays Dr. Cade Sullivan, to a series regular in the FOX medical drama. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Adam Scott (Severance) has joined the cast of the upcoming Sony superhero film Madame Web, which will star Dakota Johnson in the title role. The movie will be an origin story for the character, who served as an ally to Spider-Man in the Marvel comics. There are no details on what character Scott will play, though. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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