Hey All,
Here is the latest news for the past week?
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
CBS has given Blue Bloods a 14th season renewal. (TV Line)
Netflix has given a second season renewal to their new series The Night Agent, a mere six days after its debut. (TV Line)(TV Line)
Paramount+ has given a 3rd season renewal to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. (TV Line)
Billions will come to an end on Showtime after its upcoming 7th season.
EPISODE REDUCTION
The second season of House of the Dragon will consist of only 8 episodes, two fewer than the show’s debut season. (Deadline and TV Line)
REVIVAL NEWS
Director Ryan Coogler is developing a diverse reboot of the The X-Files. (TV Line)
NEW SERIES NEWS
Paramount+ is expanding the Star Trek Universe. A series order has been given to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy that will be run by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. (TV Line)
Barrett Foa (NCIS: Los Angeles) will have a recurring role in the upcoming Netflix murder-mystery drama The Residence, which stars Uzo Aduba in the lead role. The 8-episode series is being described as a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and back stairs of the White House. Foa will play Elliot Morgan, “the first gentleman” of the White House. The cast includes Randall Park, Andre Braugher, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ken Marino, Jason Lee, Bronson Pinchot [among others]. (Deadline)
Poldark alum Eleanor Tomlinson and Outlander star Sam Heughan will star in the Starz and Channel 4 on British TV have given a greenlight to the thriller The Couple Next Door that follows Evie (Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch from Harry Potter), who move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny (Heughan) and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka (Jessica De Gouw), but after Danny and Evie share a passionate night together, there is trouble ahead. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
It looks like actress Bailey Bass has left the cast of Interview With the Vampire for the show’s second season. Delainey Hayles will take over the role of Claudia for the sophomore season. (TV Line)
Demetrius Grosse (Fear the Walking Dead and Swagger) has signed on to play Eric Williams, the brother of Simon Williams aka Wonder Man (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) in the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man that is about a gifted engineer who gains superhuman abilities and becomes an enemy of The Avengers. (TV Line)
Jessica Chastain will star in the 8-episode limited series The Savant at Apple TV+. The series is inspired by a true story published in Cosmopolitan in August 2019; however, exact plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of The Abandons, from creator Kurt Sutter. The series will focus on a group of diverse, outlier families pursuing their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon. Headey will play Fiona, a strong, devout matriarch who, unable to have her own children, took in four orphans to create her own family. (Variety)
Chris Chalk (Perry Mason) will star as James Baldwin in the latest installment of the Feud franchise from Ryan Murphy: Feud: Capote’s Women. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession and Pride & Prejudice) has joined the cast of Deadpool 3. (Variety)
Liv Tyler is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 16 years after her last appearance. She will appear in next year’s Captain America: New World Order, reprising her role as Betty Ross from The Incredible Hulk. New World Order will star Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, who took on the mantle of Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with the blessing — and the supposed off-screen death — of Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers. Carl Lumbly, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas and Tim Blake Nelson also star. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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