Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
HBO has given the drama Industry a third season renewal. (Variety)
Starz has given the period piece drama The Serpent Queen a second season renewal. (Variety)
The CW has pulled the plug on the drama Nancy Drew, which will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season. A premiere date will be announced at a later time. (TV Line)
Showtime has cancelled the drama City on a Hill after three seasons. (TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Disney+ has a WandaVision spin-off, currently titled Vision Quest, centered on the character Vision in development. Exact plot details are currently under wraps, but it is believed the show would follow the newly-created Vision as he tries to regain his memories. (Variety)
RELOCATING
The Peacock comedy Girls5eva will move over to Netflix for its upcoming third season. Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Philipps are all set to return, which is expected to debut next year. The first two seasons will also be available to stream on Netflix as well as on Peacock. (TV Line)
SERIES GREENLIT
FX has given a greenlight to the drama series Never Let Me Go, inspired by the 2005 sci-fi novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The thriller series will follow Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human. The cast will include Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald [among others]. (Variety)
Aldis Hodge (Black Adam, City on a Hill and Leverage) will star as the titular detective Alex Cross in the Amazon Prime small screen adaptation of the legendary James Patterson books. In this version Cross is a detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify — and ultimately capture — the murderers. (TV Line)
ANOTHER DEAL MADE
Erin Cahill and Will Kemp are the latest talent to sign multi-picture deals with Hallmark Media (aka the Hallmark Channel). (Deadline and Variety)
TV NEWS
It looks like the Yellowstone prequel 1923 will actually be extended to two seasons (rather than just one). Series creator Taylor Sheridan has decided he needs two eight-episode seasons in order to tell the epic story he has in mind. Producers are in negotiations now to bring the cast back for Season 2. (Deadline and TV Guide)
TV CASTING NEWS
There is a major shake-up happening at the Netflix fantasy drama The Witcher. Henry Cavill is leaving the lead role of Geralt of Rivia. The role will be taking over by Liam Hemsworth. (TV Line)
Jon Cor, who has recurred as Blaine (aka Chillblaine) on The Flash has been promoted to series regular for the show’s 9th and final season on The CW. (Deadline)
The Hulu drama Interior Chinatown, currently in the works, has added Chloe Bennet (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD) and Ronny Chieng (Crazy Rich Asians) to the cast. The show is based on the book by Charles Yu and it follows the story of Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang, also from Crazy Rich Asians), a background character trapped in a police procedural trying to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family’s buried history. Bennet will play Detective Lana Lee, a new lead making her debut appearance in the procedural cop show ‘Black & White’ while Chieng will play Fatty Choi, Willis’ best friend. (Variety)
Jesse Williams will be joining the third season of Hulu’s comedic murder-mystery series Only Murders In the Building in a recurring role, playing a documentarian with a particular interest in the case. (Deadline and Entertainment Weekly)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
It’s being rumored that William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) will appear in the box office movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, though his role remains a closely guarded secret. (Variety)
Garrett Hedlund (Mudbount) and Mel Gibson (Braveheart) will star in the upcoming box office thriller Desperation Road that tells the story of ex-con Russell Gaines (Hedlund) who attempts to rebuild his life with help from his father Mitchell (Gibson). (Variety)
Paul Mescal (Normal People) will star in the modern espionage thriller A Spy By Nature, an adaptation of the first novel in the Charles Cumming best-selling Alec Milius spy series, that will follow Milius, a disillusioned twenty-something whose gift for deception catches the eye of MI6. Caught up in the thrusts of a geopolitical war on commodities involving the British and the Americans, at home he struggles to preserve his relationship with his girlfriend and build a future together. As his web of lies grows, Milius is forced to confront his own nature – whether he can be a good man as well as a good spy. (Variety)
Guy Pearce and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will appear in the box office movie Neponset Circle, a dark and gritty crime thriller based on a real-life murder that shook the Boston area and remains unsolved to this day. (Variety)
It looks like Jeff Goldblum just might be joining the cast of the two-part box office movie Wicked that will star Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in the lead roles along with Bridgerton hunk Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero. Goldblum is slated to play the Wizard. (Variety)
Henry Cavill and Eiza Gonzalez (Ambulance) will star in the Guy Ritchie World War II action spy movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warface. The movie, inspired by real events, will chart UK PM Winston Churchill’s and James Bond scribe Ian Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. The clandestine squad’s unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis helped change the course of the war and in part gave birth to the modern Black Ops unit. Cavill will play the leader of the secret combat organization while González will play a military sniper with extraordinary spy-craft abilities. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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