Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Netflix has given The Umbrella Academy a fourth and final season. (TV Line)
House of the Dragon has been renewed for a second season already by HBO. (TV Line)
Netflix has pulled the plug on Resident Evil after only one season. (TV Line)
SURPRISE POTENTIAL CHANGE
It looks like NBC just might be looking to eliminate their 10 PM programming block. The idea, which could take effect in the Fall of 2023, would be done as a way to cut costs amid (ever) declining linear ratings. (Wall Street Journal and TV Line)
SERIES ORDER
ABC has given a series order to The Company You Keep, an hour-long drama that will star This Is Us alum Milo Ventimiglia. The official taglin for the show is: A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie (Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer Emma (Catherine Haena Kim from Good Trouble), who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the ‘family business’ so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand, forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences. The cast includes William Fichtner, Sarah Wayne Callies, Polly Draper and James Saito. (TV Line)
TV ORDER
Netflix has ordered a limited series adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel The Perfect Couple, a soapy mystery, that focuses on Celeste Otis, who is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family on Nantucket. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the wedding of the year, suddenly everyone at the party is a suspect. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Sasha Roiz (Grimm) will have a recurring role on Chicago Med this fall, playing Jack Egan, a multimillionaire renaissance man. (TV Line and Deadline)
Kelli Giddish will be leaving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit during the show’s upcoming season 24. The exact timing of her exit remains unclear, but it’s being reported that her final episode will air during the first half of the season. (TV Line)
Barbie Ferreira is leaving the cast of the HBO drama Euphoria before the start of its upcoming third season. (TV Line)
Ewan McGregor will star in A Gentleman in Moscow, the Paramount+ and Showtime adaptation of the Amor Towles novel where he will play Count Alexander Rostov, who finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. (Variety)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural and The Walking Dead) will recur in The Boys for the show’s upcoming 4th season. What role he will play is being kept firmly under wraps, however. (TV Line)
Dania Ramirez (Devious Maids and Sweet Tooth) will have a lead role in the upcoming FOX drama Alert that was ordered to series in May. She will play Nikki, a salt-of-the-earth woman whose life was ripped apart six years ago by the disappearance of her 11-year-old son. She found her calling as the head of the Missing Person’s Unit. Her zeal and personal connection to the victims and their families infuses each and every case, and she helps others find their loved ones even as she couldn’t find her own. (Variety)
The upcoming Amazon series The Power will include Toni Collette and Josh Charles in lead roles. The show is described as our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. The show follows a cast of characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world. Collette will play Margot Cleary-Lopez, the mayor of Seattle; while Charles will play Daniel Dandon, the governor of Washington. The cast will include Auli’i Cravalho, John Leguizamo and Eddie Marsan. (Variety)
Julianna Margulies will be back for the third season of The Morning Show in a recurring capacity, once again playing Laura Peterson, UBA News talking head. (TV Line)
Scott Foley (Scandal and Felicity) has joined the cast of the upcoming HBO Max drama The Girls on the Bus, joining cast member Melissa Benoist (Supergirl). The show will be a comedic character-driven drama that chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way. Foley will play a little-known mayor from Kansas who has joined the presidential race. (Variety)
Paul Rudd will join the cast of Only Murders in the Building for the show’s third season, play8ing the role of Ben Glenroy, who was introduced in the show’s 2nd season finale. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
ABC is developing a spin-off to The Good Doctor. The Good Lawyer would center on Joni, a twentysomething woman who battles obsessive compulsive disorder but is a brilliant lawyer. Casting is currently underway. (TV Line)
COMING TO AN END (MAYBE?)
It looks likely that A Million Little Things will potentially come to an end with its upcoming 5th season on ABC. (TV Line)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
James Denton (Desperate Housewives and Good Witch) and Sherri Saum (The Fosters” will appear in the upcoming Hallmark Channel Perfect Harmony. Denton will play Jack Chandeller, and Saum will play Barrett Woodword, who are like oil and water since they met 10 years prior but when thier mutual friends, Naomi (Julia Benson) and Simon (Peter Benson), are ready to tie the knot, they ask the duo to be Best Man and Maid of Honor. In order to support Naomi and Simon, they agree to set aside their differences. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
The cast of the Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal has added to its cast. Joaquim de Almedia (24), Darren Barnet (Never Have I Ever), JD Pardo (Mayans M.C.) and Kevin Carroll (Let the Right One In) have joined the cast. This version of the movie will follow former UFC fighter (Gyllenhaal) who takes a job as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise. (Deadline)
Billy Zane and rapper/singer Quavo will star in the action thriller flick Takeover. Zane will play Gamal Akopyan, the leader of an international heist ring, who uses street takeovers to get away with mass robberies. When his latest heist goes awry, he must do whatever it takes to escape the Atlanta takeover scene alive – with nine figures worth of diamonds. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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