Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
CANCELLATION
Halo has been cancelled after two seasons on Paramount+. (TV Line)
IN DEVELOPMENT
Looks like FOX just might be doing a movie adaptation of their hit series 24, which is in early development at 20th Century Studios, but there is no word if lead star Keifer Sutherland will be involved. (Variety and TV Line)
ORDERED TO SERIES
NBC has done it. They have given a series order to Suits: L.A., the spin-off series that will star Arrow alum Stephen Amell in the lead role. The network has also picked up the series Grosse Pointe Garden Society that will star Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Aja Naomi King, Nancy Travis and Felix Avitia. The drama will tell the story of four suburban garden club members with diverse backgrounds who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
The new, upcoming NBC medical drama Brillian Minds that will star Heroes alum Zachary Quinto as a revolutionary neurologist, inspired by a true story, has added Mandy Patinkin in a recurring role and Steve Howey and Andre De Shields as guest stars. Patinkin will play an esteemed family doctor who joins the staff of Bronx General Hospital; while Howey will play a rugged motorcycle mechanic, who comes to Dr. Wolf (Quinto’s character) looking for help with a gunshot wound and De Shields will play an Alzheimer’s patient in an end-of-life care facility. (Variety)
Season 2 of the Peacock drama Poker Face has added to its guest star roster, including Giancarlo Esposito, Katie Holmes, Gaby Hoffmann and Kumail Nanjiani. (Variety)
Colin Firth has joined the cast of the upcoming Amazon Prime series Young Sherlock, which will star Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the lead role. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever. Firth will play Sir Bucephalus Hodge. (Variety)
Jodie Turner-Smith has joined the cast of the upcoming Paramount+ with Showtime espionage drama The Agency that will star Michael Fassbender in the lead role. The series follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage. Turner-Smith will play Sami Zahir, a professor of social anthropology who is said to have a history with Martian. Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere will co-star. (Variety)
In the category of “that didn’t take long,” Halle Berry is no longer attached to star in and executive produce the upcoming Hulu legal drama All’s Fair due to a scheduling conflict. (Variety)
Dan Stevens (Legion and Downton Abbey) will star in the third season of the AMC thriller series The Terror, which will premiere in 2025. Stevens will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him. (Variety)
S.W.A.T. has promoted Niko Pepaj to series regular and Chicago Fire alum Annie Ilonzeh will join the team in the recurring role of Devin Gamble. (Deadline and Collider)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Emilia Clarke, Gerard Butler and Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley will lend their voices to the upcoming animated musical movie The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland with Butler set to voice St. Nick while Clarke will voice the Queen of Hearts and Ashley will voice Alice. The synopsis of the movie is: This time, it’s St Nick’s turn for an adventure down the rabbit hole. There he meets the Mad Hatter, recast as a high-fashion, reindeer-loving tea party host; the White Rabbit, an endearingly scatty and forgetful character; the Queen of Hearts, a Scrooge-esque tinsel-hater, her antagonistic sidekick, the Cheshire Cat and Alice herself, whose kindness helps St. Nick save Christmas. (Variety)
Will Reeve, son of the late, great Christopher Reeve (Superman himself) will have a special cameo in the upcoming James Gunn-directed box office movie Superman, which is set to debut in theatres sometime in 2025. (Entertainment Weekly)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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