Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATIONS
The Charlie Hunnam drama Shantaram has been cancelled after only one season by Apple TV+. (TV Line)
Yellowjackets has been renewed for season 3 way ahead of its upcoming second season. (TV Line)
NBC has given the reboot of Quantum Leap a second season renewal. (TV Line)
HBO Max has pulled the plug on the dramedy Minx despite the show having been renewed for a season 2 back in May. (TV Line)
Sanditon will come to a close after its upcoming 3rd season on PBS. The final season will air in the US on PBS starting on March 19. (Deadline and TV Line)
Starz has cancelled the series Step Up, the small screen adaptation of the box office franchise, after three seasons. (TV Line)
Netflix has pulled the plug on Warrior Nun after two seasons. (TV Line)
HBO/ HB) Max has pulled the plug on the period piece series The Nevers, basically cancelling the show halfway through its first season. (Variety)
HBO Max romantic anthology ‘Love Life’ has been cancelled after two installments, will not return for Season 3. (TV Line)
ORDERED TO SERIES
CBS has given a series order to the new drama The Never Game that will star This Is Us hunk Justin Hartley. The series is based on the best-selling novel by Jeffery Deaver. Hartley will play Colter Shaw, a survivalist who roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries all while contending with his own fractured family. The cast also will include Mary McDonnell (Major Crimes and Battlestar Galactica) and Robin Weigert (Jessica Jones and Sons of Anarchy). (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power alum Joseph Mawle has landed a role in the Yellowstone prequel series 1923. He will play Captain Shipley, the captain of a British cargo ship, who has seen a lot during his years at sea. (Variety)
Robert De Niro will star in and executive producer the crime drama Mr. Natural. The series follows Louis “Mr. Natural” Baron (De Niro), who, fresh off a 30 year-stint in federal prison, hits Palm Springs driven by revenge, a dream to reunite with his stolen family and a dangerous scheme to grab a taste of the Salton Sea’s lithium billions. (Variety)
Jack Dylan Grazer (from the Shazam! franchise) has joined the cast of The Spiderwick Chronicles, which is in the works at Disney+. Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the series will follow the Grace family as they leave New York to move to Michigan into their ancestral home, The Spiderwick Estate. Twin brothers Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory and mom Helen, discover that magical creatures like fairies, ogres, trolls, boggarts and more are all real and hiding among us.” Grazer will provide the voice of Thimbletack, a boggart, who lives in the walls of the Spiderwick Estate, a hundreds of years old, Thimbletack is still a teenager amongst his kind, a mischief-maker with an explosive temper. He could be a great help to the Grace children…if only he could learn to control his own larger than life emotions. (Variety)
Eric Szmanda will reprise his role as Greg Sanders during the latter half of the current second season of CSI: Vegas. (TV Line)
Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) have joined the cast of the second season of the Peacock drama Dr. Death, which will star Edgar Ramirez and Mandy Moore. This upcoming season will tell the true story of Paolo Macchiarini (Ramirez), a charming surgeon, renowned for his innovative operations that earn him the nickname ‘Miracle Man.’ When investigative journalist Benita Alexander (Moore) approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever. Kirby will play Dr. Nathan Gamelli, a cardiovascular surgeon working at a world class hospital in Sweden while Madekwe will play Dr. Ana Lasbrey, a doctor at the institute. (Variety)
Disney+ has given a greenlit to a small screen adaptation of Witch Mountain that will star Bryce Dallas Howard in the lead role. The series will have a modern take on the franchise, following two teens that develop strange abilities and discover their sleepy suburb may not be as idyllic as it seems. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing) will play Carole King in the upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical Beautiful. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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