Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

FOX has given a second season renewal to both Alert: Missing Persons Unit and Accused. (TV Line)

Netflix has given a 5th and final season renewal for the drama You. (TV Line)

Grey’s Anatomy has been given a season 20 renewal by ABC. (TV Line)

Showtime has pulled the plug on The L Word: Generation Q after three seasons. (Deadline and TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Michael Chiklis will star alongside Danny Pino in the upcoming crime thriller series Hotel Cocaine that will debut on MGM+ (formerly EPIX). The story will focus on Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban expatriate who fought against Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion and re-made his life in Miami. He is general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians. Chiklis will play Agent Zulio who will stop at nothing to shut down the drug trade, even if it means using innocent civilians to accomplish his ends. (Deadline)

Acclaimed actor Ciaran Hinds will join the cast of the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. His role will be a recurring one, but there is no description on what role he will play, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BROADWAY NEWS

Smash, the NBC musical drama, is finally making its way to Broadway for the 2024-2025 season with Tony-winning director Susan Stroman at the helm with a score by the award-winning duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who wrote over two dozen songs for the television show and Emmy-winning choreographer Joshua Bergasse, who will reprise his role for the stage adaptation. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

The next project for Robert Downey Jr. just might be a remake of the 1958 classic psychological thriller Vertigo. (Variety)

Daveed Diggs (Hamilton and the small screen adaptation of Snowpiercer) has joined the cast of the new live-action film In the Blink of an Eye that will also star Kate McKinnon and Rashida Jones in the film that will follow three storylines spanning thousands of years, pondering hope, connection and the circle of life. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!