Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Netflix has renewed My Life With the Walter Boys for a second season. (Variety)

The Buccaneers has been renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+. (TV Line)

HBO has renewed The Gilded Age for a third season. (TV Line)

MGM+ (formerly EPIX) has renewed Beacon 23 for a second season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

The martial arts/crime drama Warrior has been cancelled and will not return for a fourth season on Max. (Deadline and TV Line)

NEW TO THE LINE-UP

The now defunct Hallmark Channel drama Ride will get a second lease of life over on The CW, which will air the 10-episode first season of the series starting on January 22. There will not be a second season, though. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Pride & Prejudice star Jennifer Ehle will appear in the queer indie film In Transit that tells the story of a small town bartender called Lucy who agrees to model for painter Ilse (Ehle), who is existentially floundering as she seeks solitude away from her career and complicated personal life while on an artists retreat. “Through their relationship, both women must confront their preconceptions of what makes a good life,” reads the logline. Alex Sarrigeorgiou (who also wrote the film) will play Lucy while Francois Arnaud will play Lucy’s boyfriend Tom, a local chef. (Variety)

After being convicted last week of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault, Jonathan Majors has not been booted out of Marvel Studios and fired as Kang, the central antagonist in the Multiverse Saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer will star in the untitled action-adventure series for Amazon Prime. Waddingham will play Judith, who has secretly been working as a highly trained assassin. That’s a double life that Judith’s best friend Debbie (Spencer) knows nothing about — until a hit goes wrong. Now Judith and Debbie are on the run, aiming to stay one step ahead of a mysterious enemy. And while they try to figure out what’s going on, they also have to fix their now-ruptured friendship. (Variety)

An untitled HBO project will star Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Thuso Mbedu [among others] as well as Fabien Frankel and Alison Oliver. The series will be set in the working-class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, where an FBI agent named Tom (Ruffalo) heads a task force to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. Frankel will play Anthony, an integral member of Tom’s task force, while Oliver will play Lizzie, an underperforming state police officer who is added to Tom’s team. (Variety)

Molly Parker will star in the upcoming FOX medical drama Doc, based on the hit Italian series Doc – Nelle tue mani. Parker will play Dr. Amy Elias, the chief of internal and family medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis, who must pick up her professional and personal pieces after she loses the memory of the last eight years. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!