Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Star Trek: Discovery will end with its upcoming 5th season, which is set to arrive in early 2014. (TV Line)
The Hallmark Channel has given a second season renewal to The Way Home. (TV Line)
ORDERED TO SERIES
The Netflix limited series, political thriller Zero Day, that is set to star Robert De Niro, has been ordered to series. The series will focus on how to find truth in a world in crisis. De Niro is reportedly playing a former President of the United States. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Veteran actor Clancy Brown has joined the HBO Max spin-off series The Penguin (a spin-off of The Batman box office film). He will have the recurring role of Salvatore Maroni, a notorious Gotham City crime boss. (Variety)
Demi Singleton (King Richard and Godfather of Harlem) has joined the cast of the upcoming Paramount+ series Bass Reeves, that will star David Oyelowo in the title role. Singleton will play Sally, the daughter of Bass Reeves and Jennie (Lauren E. Banks). (Variety)
Damian Lewis will be back in the role of Axe in the Showtime series Billions. He left at the end of Season 5. (Variety)
Jamie Dornan will be back as Elliott and Danielle Macdonald will be back as Helen Chambers in the off-beat thriller The Tourist. (Variety)
The Shondaland Netflix series The Residence has added new cast members. Among those new members are Andre Braugher, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Bronson Pinchot and Susan Kelechi Watson. The series will be a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs and backstairs of the White House. (Variety)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove and Benjamin Bratt will star in the new rom-com Netflix movie Mother of the Bride, which will be a generational comedy of errors. When Lana’s daughter Emma returns from a year abroad in London, she drops a bombshell on her mother: she’s getting married. On an island. Next month. Things only get worse when Lana discovers that the mystery man who stole her daughter’s heart just so happens to be the son of the man who broke hers years ago. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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