Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Hallmark+ has given a second season renewal to the family drama The Chicken Sisters – and it should also be noted that JAG star David James Elliott will recur next season playing someone from Gus’s (Wendie Malick) past. (TV Line)

AMC has given Mayfair Witches a third season renewal. (Deadline)

Amazon has not given a second season renewal to the sci-fi series The Power. (TV Line)

HBO has given The Last of Us a season three renewal. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Thomas Doherty (Tell Me Lies) has joined the cast of the second season of Paradise over on Hulu in a recurring role, but no other details about what character he will play has been released. (Variety)

CCH Pounder (NCIS: New Orleans) has joined the cast of the Apple TV+ series Cape Fear, based on the box office movie. Pounder joins cast members Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson. The series will focus on the storm that is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison.” (Variety)

Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles and NCIS) has joined the 4th season of the Netflix legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer in the recurring role of FBI Agent Dawn Ruth. (MSN and Variety)

Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine and The Crown), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) and Olivia Colman (The Crown) have been tapped to play Elizabet Bennet, Mr. Darcy and Mrs. Bennet respectively in the upcoming 6-part limited series on Netflix dedicated to Pride and Prejudice. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

AMC is developing a new anthology series based on the iconic novel The Grapes of Wrath, as part of the new Great American Stories that will focus on a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit. The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family, who are forced to abandon their Oklahoma farm due to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, striking out for California in search of a better life.  (Variety)

Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, will executive produce and star in the TV series adaptation of the best-selling novel Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum, which follows a sequence of life shattering events when a body is discovered off the side of the boardwalk, and will be centered on frenemies and master manipulators, Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker. They, alongside their husbands, childhood friends Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island for years, but this summer everything will come to a head as lifelong grudges and secrets are unearthed. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

American Horror Story alum Finn Wittrock and San Andreas star Alexandra Daddario will star in the movie Hershey, one of the most famous chocolate companies in the world with Wittrock playing Milton Hershey while Daddario will play his wife Kitty, who built a candy empire that powered a philanthropic legacy. (Variety)

Lost alum Josh Holloway, who will soon be seen in the MAX 1970’s-set drama Duster, will star in the upcoming box office movie Flint, which is an adaptation of the wesstern novel by Louis L’Amour. Holloway will play the lead role of James Kettleman, a ruthless East Coast businessman who, in returning to the unforgiving New Mexico frontier, adopts the name Flint, which belonged to the notorious killer who raised him. As he becomes entangled in a violent range war, his encounters with a strong-willed rancher, Nancy Kennigan, challenge him to reconsider the legacy he wants to leave behind. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!