Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
Virgin River has been renewed by Netflix for a 7th season. (TV Line)
After only two episodes, the CBS reboot of Matlock, starring Kathy Bates, has been given a second season order. (TV Line)
TV NEWS
The third and final season of Good Omens will consist of just one, 90-minute episode. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of the 5th season of Law & Order: Organized Crime. She’ll have a recurring role, but exact details on her character are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
Laurie Metcalf and Eric McCormack will guest star in upcoming episodes of season two of Elsbeth. Metcalf will play Regina Coburn, the star of a police procedural who yearns for artistic fulfillment after playing a no-nonsense, hardened detective for two decades while McCormack will play Tom Murphy, the charismatic and charming founder of Heiwa Zen Center, an upscale holistic wellness retreat that caters to the one-percent. (Variety)
Season 2 of the Netflix anthology series BEEF will feature Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. The new season will focus on a young couple who witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner. (TV Line)
Hugh Bonneville will guest star in the upcoming Paramount+ with Showtime espionage political thriller series The Agency, playing James Richardson, a British agent who has a long-standing history with Martian. The series will star Michael Fassbender as Martian, 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. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS
Last week I included in my weekly report that Disney was planning a live-action Prince Charming movie. Now it looks like an actor has been possibly chosen. Chris Hemsworth is in talks to play that iconic role, but plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
Reacher star Alan Ritchson will star in the upcoming box office movie Runner which will be about a high-end courier who has three hours to transport an organ to save a seven-year-old girl in need of an immediate transplant. The seemingly simple mission turns deadly when the leader of a notorious crime syndicate becomes hell-bent on claiming the organ. (Deadline)
1923 and It Ends With Us star Brandon Sklenar will join Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfriend in The Housemaid. Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple; but she soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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