Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Apple TV+ has given For All Mankind a fifth season renewal. And, the streamer has also ordered a spin-off titled Star City that will take viewers back to a key moment in For All Mankind‘s retelling of the space race: when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon, exploring the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward. (TV Line)
Only 8 days after Fallout debuted online on Amazon Prime, the series has been given a season two order. (TV Line)
CBS has renewed Elsbeth for a second season, but the network has pulled the plug on So Help Me Todd after two seasons and on CSI: Vegas after four seasons. (TV Line)
A 5th and final season of The Witcher has been announced by Netflix. (TV Line)
ABC has given The Rookie a season 7 renewal order. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Tom Durant Pritchard (This Is Going to Hurt and Feel Good) has joined the now named Miss Scarlet (formerly Miss Scarlet and the Duke) as Alexander Blake, a handsome former soldier and respected detective inspector, who joins the force at Scotland Yard to replace William “The Duke” Wellington who has gone to America. (TV Line)
Veteran actor John Amos (Good Times and Roots), Victoria Justice (Victorious) and Kevin Weisman (Alias) will make guest appearances in the spin-off (of sorts) series Suits: L.A. that will center on Ted Black (Stephen Amell from Arrow), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles after joining forces with his old buddy Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt from The Walking Dead) to build Black Lane Law, which specializes in criminal and entertainment law. Amos will play himself while Justice will play Dylan Pryor, a young movie star and Weisman will play Lester Thompson, a smart and powerful man who has been charged with murder. (Deadline)
Robert Taylor (Longmire) will step into the shoes of Jackson Gibbs (played by the late Ralph Waite) in the upcoming prequel series NCIS: Origins. (TV Line)
Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of season 2 of Wednesday at Netflix, but exactly who he will be playing is being kept under wraps, but some sources believe he will play the new principal of Nevermore Academy. (Variety)
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are set to star in the Apple TV+ series adaptation of Down Cemetery Road based on the book series by Mick Herron. The official logline for the series is: When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Tucker (Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. (Variety)
Manifest alum Melissa Roxburgh will play Dory, the sister of Colter Shaw in the next CBS hit series Tracker. (TV Line)
Phillipa Soo (the original cast of the Broadway hit Hamilton) has joined the cast of the upcoming Ryan Murphy ABC series Dr. Odyssey that will star Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson. This series is anticipated to be a medical procedural set on a cruise ship, but details on who Soo, Jackson and Johnson will be portraying is being kept under wraps. (Variety)
Varada Sethu (Andor and Jurassic World Dominion) will be joining Doctor Who as a new companion. (BBC)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Hallmark alums Lacey Chabert and Kristoffer Polaha will star in the upcoming Hallmark holiday movie The Christmas Quest. (People)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Looks like CBS just might be rebooting the TV series Cold Case, which aired for seven seasons from 2003 to 2010. This new iteration would follow an entirely different group of detectives dedicated to investigating unsolved crimes. (Deadline and TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are expected to star in the upcoming murder mystery film The Thursday Murder Club, which will be directed by Harry Potter director Chris Columbus. The film will be based on the book by Richard Osman that follows a group of four elderly friends living in a retirement home in the United Kingdom. In their spare time, the group solves cold case mysteries for fun. However, they find themselves launched into a case that hits close to home when a local property manager is murdered, launching an effort to find the culprit. Mirren, Brosnan, and Kingsley would play three of the four elderly mystery solvers. (Collider)
Lily Rabe (American Horror Story), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim and The Last Ship) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) will star in the box office film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, which will star Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but is described as an imaginative tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them. (Deadline)
Pruitt Taylor Vince has joined the cast of the latest incarnation of Superman, playing the role of Jonathan Kent. (The Wrap)
Keanu Reeves will provide his voice to the character Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. (Variety)
It looks like Bridgerton alum Jonathan Bailey just might be joining Scarlett Johansson in Universal’s new take on Jurassic World. (The Hollywood Reporter)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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