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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATIONS

The CW has given an 8th and final season renewal to All American. (TV Line)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on the Amy Sherman-Palladino’s drama Etoile after only one season. (Deadline and TV Line)

FOX has pulled the plug on both dramas The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit. (TV Line)

SERIES DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like a spin-off of Tulsa King, the aptly titled NOLA King, is in the works at Paramount+ with Samuel L. Jackson attached to star, but exact details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

REBOOT NEWS

The Prison Break reboot pilot set for Hulu has added Ray McKinnon (Deadwood and Mayans MC), Margo Martindale (Justified), Donal Logue (The Equalizer and Sons of Anarchy) and Lily Taylor (Outer Range) in guest starring roles. Exact details about the pilot are being kept under wraps, but it’s said it will feature new characters and a new storyline.  (Variety)

The pilot, which hails from writer Elgin James, will be set within the same world as the original Fox series but will feature new characters and a new storyline. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Cobie Smulders will appear in the upcoming fourth season of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, but exact details on her character are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Maggie Lawson (Psych) has joined the cast of the Blue Bloods spin-off Boston Blue, playing Sarah Silver, the strong willed and decisive Superintendent in the Boston Police Department who is Lena’s (series star Sonequa Martin-Green) stepsister. (Deadline)

Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek and 12 Monkeys) has joined the cast of the MCU series Vision, playing E.D.I.T.H., the Stark Industries artificial intelligence. (Variety)

Hamilton alum Leslie Odom Jr. has joined the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ series adaptation of Imperfect Women, based on the novel by Araminta Hall, that already stars Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, Kate Mara, Joel Kinnaman, and Corey Stoll. It is a psychological thriller, examining a crime that shatters the lives of a decades-long friendship of three women. (Variety)

Regina Hall will star opposite Jennifer Garner in the upcoming Peacock series adaptation of The Five-Star Weekend, which is based on the Elin Hilderbrand novel. The show focuses on Hollis Shaw (Garner), a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor suffers a devastating loss. Hall will play the series regular role of Dru-Ann Jones. (Variety)

STREAMING MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis will star in Unabom, the upcoming new thriller flick at Netflix that will focus on domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (who will be played by Tremblay). The movie will show the transformation of Kaczynski from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber, who carried out a nationwide bombing campaign in the U.S. from 1978-95, killing three people and injuring 23. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray (Crowe), Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces decades later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller (Woodley), brings to light the chilling consequences of ambition and isolation. (Deadline)

Amazon MGM Studios is developing Ally Clark, a new thriller movie that will star Oscar winner Viola Davis. The show will take viewers from the marble halls of Washington, D.C. to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark (Davis) as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!