Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

The Netflix comedy series A Man on the Inside starring Cheers and The Good Place alum Ted Dnason has been picked up for a second season. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has given its post-apocalyptic drama Silo a renewal for two more seasons, meaning it’ll be back for a third season and then a fourth and final season. (TV Line)

It’s the end of the road for the streaming series Girls5eva, which aired for two seasons on Peacock and then aired on Netflix for its third season. The show is not being picked up for a fourth. (TV Line and Variety)

Paramount+ has given a fourth season renewal to the Jeremy Renner-led drama Mayor of Kingstown. (TV Line)

The FX drama starring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow, The Old Man, has come to the end of the line as the series is not being picked up for a third season. (TV Line and Deadline)

HBO has given a second season renewal to the prequel series Dune: Prophecy. (TV Line)

Hulu has given a third season renewal to the drama Tell Me Lies. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has pulled the plug on the Rashida Jones-led drama Sunny after one season. (TV Line)

Peacock has given a second season renewal to the Eddie Redmayne-led drama The Day of the Jackal. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Series creator Matt Nix (Burn Notice and The Gifted) is developing the new NBC drama series Vacationland with series creators Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles) and Dan Rosen (The Last Supper and Dead Man’s Curve). The series, if it moves forward, would follow top LAPD detective Grace Chen after she resigns from her job in disgust. She retires to the quirky village of Serenity, Maine, determined to put it all behind her. When Serenity’s Sheriff is murdered, however, Grace finds herself dragged back into crime fighting by Joey, a local veterinarian and amateur sleuth determined to protect the town she loves. Between Grace’s big-city detective skills and Joey’s understanding of Maine, they turn out to be a surprisingly effective team … and a very unlikely pair of friends. (MSN)

MOVIE IN DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like Jessica Fletcher just might be coming to a big screen near you. Universal Pictures is putting together an untitled feature film around the small screen legend from the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote. And, it looks like veteran actress Jamie Lee Curtis just might be taking on the mantle of the mystery writer and crime solver. (MSN)

TV CASTING NEWS

The Resident and Providence alum Melina Kanakaredes will make a guest appearance in an upcoming January episode of the long-running CBS drama NCIS, playing the owner of the favorite bakery of Alden Parker (series regular Gary Cole). (TV Insider)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke, Edgar Ramirez, who just starred in this year’s box office flick Emilia Perez and Poldark cast member Jack Farthing will star in the upcoming box office movie Next Life that tells the love story of Ivy (Clarke), who finds herself confronted with parallel universes in which her life unspools in very different ways set against the modern London jazz scene. (Variety)

This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia will appear in the sequel film I Can Only Imagine 2 that will find John Michael Finley returning in the role of Bart Millard. Other cast members returning will include Dennis Quaid and Trace Adkins. Ventimiglia will appear as singer-songwriter Tim Timmons. (Variety)

Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will star alongside Anne Hathaway in the upcoming film adaptation Verity, based on the best-selling book by Colleen Hoover. Johnson will play Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime — to complete the remaining books in a successful series by best-selling thriller author Verity Crawford (Hathaway). Hartnett will play Verity’s husband Jeremy, who hires Lowen after his wife is unable to finish the books after a mysterious accident. (Variety)

Oscar-winner Jared Leto has joined the cast of the upcoming live-action film Masters of the Universe, based on the animated series. He will play Skeletor, the skull-faced archenemy of Eternia’s greatest warrior, He-Man (Nicholas Galitzine). The cast already includes Alison Brie (GLOW and Community) as Skeletor’s lieutenant, Evil-Lyn; Camila Mendes (Riverdale) as He-Man’s trusted compatriot, Teela; and Idris Elba (Luthor and Hijack) as Teela’s father, Man-at-Arms. (Variety)

LIMTED SERIES NEWS

Peacock has cast Rose Byrne (Physical and Damages) and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus and The Bold Type) to play the lead roles in the upcoming Peacok limited series The Good Daughter, which is based on a Novel by Karin Slaughter. The series will center on two sisters, Charlotte (Fahy) and Samantha (Byrne) Quinn, who have spent the last 28 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. A lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through shocking revelations, and both she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was worth it. (The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!