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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Tonight’s episode of The Equalizer will actually serve as the series finale since CBS has decided to pull the plug on the drama after 5 seasons. (Variety)

The Canadian series Wild Cards has been renewed for two more seasons, but there is no confirmation on whether the CW will air either of those seasons in the US just yet. (Collider)

FX is giving Shogun a second season with Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis reprising their roles of Lord Toranaga and John Blackthorne respectively. (TV Line)

The Netflix comedy North of North has been renewed for a second season. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Scandal alum Kerry Washington and her production company Simpson Street is currently working on a reboot of the once-popular ABC drama Desperate Housewives – or more to the point – an offshoot series based on that dramedy to be called Wisteria Lane. The series would be set among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane. On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream: beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway. But behind those white-picket fences and smiling Insta posts are secrets. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

CBS recently picked up the drama series Einstein to series, but the network has decided not to air the drama until the 2026-2027 TV season; and in doing so, female lead Rosa Salazar has asked the network not to pick up her option, which basically means she will not be starring in the show after all. (Deadline)

Netflix is working on a new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie, casting Lessons in Chemistry young actress Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls Wilder, Luke Bracey (Hacksaw Ridge) and Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale) as Charles and Caroline Ingalls respectively and Skywalker Hughes (Joe Pickett) as Mary Ingalls. (Variety)

Friday Night Lights alum Matt Lauria has joined the cast of the spin-off series Sheriff Country that will debut this fall on CBS, starring Firefly and Homeland alum Morena Baccarin. Lauria will play Boone, Mickey’s (Baccarin) longtime partner, a smart, tough and capable deputy with a different style of law enforcement, being from Oakland. (Variety)

Stephen Root (Barry) will guest star in the upcoming 4th season of Resident Alien, playing the father of Harry (series lead Alan Tudyk). (Variety)

Brat Packer Anthony Michael Hall will appear in season two of Wednesday on Netflix in an undisclosed role. This role will mark a reunion for him and series director and executive producer Tim Burton, as they worked on the 1990 classic Edward Scissorhands together. (Variety)

1883 alum Sam Elliott has joined the cast of season two of the Paramount+ Taylor Sheridan drama Landman, but details about what character he will play is being kept under wraps. (TV Line)

As revealed in the season two finale of Elsbeth on CBS, Carra Patterson, who has played NYPD Officer Kaya Blanke since the pilot episode, is leaving the show. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and Mattias Schoenaerts (The Regime) will star in the World War II thriller Ruin that will be set in post-war Germany, following a recently released camp prisoner (Gadot) who is forced to make an unlikely alliance with a German soldier (Schoenaerts) in a mutual quest to exact revenge on a Nazi SS squad. (Variety)

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock will be starring opposite each other in a romantic thriller that is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, but plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Snow White star Rachel Zegler and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will star in the comedy drama flick She Gets It From Me that will follow Nicky (Zegler), whose engagement celebration turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother, Charlotte (Tomei). Together, the two embark on an anarchic mother-and-daughter journey to reconnect. (Variety)

The upcoming thriller flick Billion Dollar Spy, based on the true story of Soviet spy Adolf Tolkachev will star Russell Crowe as Tolkachev, Vera Farmiga as his wife Natasha and Willa Fitzgerald (Pulse) as Mae Lenihan. Additionally, Scandal star Tony Goldwyn, The Diplomat star Rufus Sewell and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actor Justin Theroux will also appear in the film. Adolf Tolkachev was among the CIA’s most invaluable assets during the Cold War. Disillusioned with the Soviet regime, he risked his life to pass thousands of pages of top-secret intelligence to the United States. (Variety)

Chris Hemsworth is set to star in the submarine action flick Subversion that will follow a once-promising Naval commander (Hemsworth) who is blackmailed by a cartel-like operation into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international waters, thrusting him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, outmaneuvering blockades, and navigating perilous threats both in and outside of the submarine. The cast is set to include Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry and Monica Barbaro. (Deadline)

Dark Angel alum Jessica Alba is set to lead the action thriller The Mark, playing Eden, an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission, who pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage. (Deadline)

Pam & Tommy star Lily James will star in and produce the emotional thriller Photo Booth that is being described as a gripping emotional thriller that confronts the most primal choices we make about love, ambition, and building a family. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!