Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Apple TV+ has given a second season renewal to the Jennifer Garner series The Last Thing He Told Me, which was originally announced as a limited series. This 2nd season will be based on the sequel book by Laura Dave. Garner, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Angourie Rice and David Morse will all return for the second season. (TV Line)
Hulu has pulled the plug on the Mandy Patinkin series Death and Other Details after just one season. (TV Line)
Starz has given a 5th season renewal to Power Book III: Raising Kana. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
John Ortiz (Promised Land and Messiah) will have a recurring role in Will Trent, playing Will’s uncle Antonio Miranda. (TV Line)
Kerry Washington and Elisabeth Moss will star in the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Imperfect Women, an adaptation of the novel by Araminta Hall, which is an unconventional, psychological thriller examining a crime that shatters the lives of a decades-long friendship of three women. (Variety)
Noah Wyle will executive produce and star in the new Max medical drama from John Wells called The Pitt, a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh. (TV Line)
John Leguizamo is joining Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett in the upcoming Apple TV+ drama series Firebug, which is loosely based on true events and also draws from events documented in truth.media’s “Firebug” podcast that will follow a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator (Egerton) as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.” Leguizamo will play Esposito, a former policeman with a lot of bad habits and a lot of good instincts. (Variety)
Claire Danes will star inthe Netflix series The Beast in Me from Homeland creator Howard Gordon. The mystery thriller will revolve around acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs, who since the death of her young son has receded from public life, unable to write, a ghost of her former self. But she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Sheldon, a famed and formidable real estate mogul who was once the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance. At once horrified and fascinated by this man, Aggie finds herself compulsively hunting for the truth — chasing his demons while fleeing her own — in a game of cat and mouse that might turn deadly. (The Hollywood Reporter)
The upcoming Netflix medical procedural Pulse, which will star Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell and Justina Machado, has added to its cast, including Jack Bannon (Pennyworth), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys) and Daniela Nieves (Vampire Academy) [among others]. The synopsis of the series is: While the staff of Miami’s busiest Level 1 Trauma Center navigate medical emergencies, young ER doc Danny Simms (Fitzgerald) is unexpectedly promoted to Chief Resident amidst the fallout of her own provocative romantic relationship. Bannon will play Tom Cole, a witty and charming Brit who is a surgical resident while Usher will play Sam Elijah, a third-year emergency medicine resident and Nieves will play Camila Perez, a a third-year medical student who, despite long hours and an endless workload, always manages to stay optimistic. (Deadline)
NEW SERIES NEWS
Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen will star in the Peacock romantic dramedy The Miniature Wife, which is based on the short story written by Manuel Gonzalez. The series is described as a high-concept marital dramedy examining the power (im)balances between spouses, Lindy (Banks) and Les (Macfadyen), who battle each other for supremacy after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis. (The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear and Shameless) is in talks to play Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming narrative feature film about the making of his 1982 album Nebraska. Nothing has been finalized though. (Variety)
Austin Butler (Masters of the Air and Elvis) will star in the new Darren Aronofsky-directed crime thriller Caught Stealing, which be about Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s NYC. (Variety)
Kit Connor (Rocketman and Heartstopper), Cosmo Jarvis (this year’s Shogun), Will Poutler (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country) will star in feature film Warfare, but there are no details about the film nor the roles these actors will play, though. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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