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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

AMC has renewed The Walking Dead: Dead City for a third season. (TV Line)

The CW has announced they will air the 4th season of the Canadian drama Sullivan’s Crossing. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

It would seem that the CBS hit series Tracker is going to be down two more series regulars as Eric Graise and Abby McEnany are leaving the show before the start of the drama’s upcoming third season. That leaves only Justin Hartley in the lead role and Fiona Rene, who plays Reenie Green as series regulars. (TV Line)

Marvel star Brie Larson will star opposite Olivia Colman in the upcoming limited series Cry Wolf at FX that will be a psychological family thriller following a social worker (Colman) and a mother (Larson) who are thrust into crisis when the mother’s teenage daughter alleges abuse, pushing both women to their limits as they navigate an impossible situation. (Variety)

Minnie Driver (Speechless and The Riches), Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) and Natacha Karam (9-1-1: Lone Star) will appear in the first installment of the FOX Biblical limited series The Faithful, which is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis, told through the eyes of five of The Bible’s most iconic women. Driver will play Sarah, Donovan will play Abraham and Karam will play Hagar. (Deadline)

Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill) has joined the cast of the popular Netflix series Virgin River, but details about his character remain under wraps for now. (TV Line)

Former Supergirl star Mehcad Brooks is leaving Law & Order after three seasons, as the actor wants to explore other acting opportunities. (Deadline)

The 100 alum Richard Harmon has joined the cast of the upcoming FOX drama Memory of a Killer that will star Patrick Dempsey as Angelo Ledda (Patrick Dempsey), a hit man who has developed early onset Alzheimer’s. Harmon will play Joe, a hit man who works for Angelo and Dutch (Michael Imperioli). Harmon will play a character named Joe, who gets stuck with the grunt work – gathering recon and sorting getaway plans – but that puts him in prime position to witness Angelo’s Alzheimer’s decline. Joe knows he could make or break Angelo, but he also knows that choice could cost him everything. (Variety)

Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) will star in the Netflix drama Unaccustomed Earth that is inspired by the short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. The series will be an epic, soapy, and culturally vibrant about a tight-knit Indian American community navigating love, desire, and belonging. Rich with nuance, passion, and unforgettable characters, the series invites you into the elite and insular Indian-American community of Cambridge, MA. When a star-crossed romance between a devoted wife and her long-lost love comes to light, a scandalous affair is born and new battle lines are drawn in this intensely interconnected immigrant community. Pinto will play a character name Parul Chaudhury. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Esmé Creed-Miles (the title lead in the small screen adaptation of Hanna) will play Marianne Dashwood in the upcoming film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility that will star Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing and Twisters) as Elinor Dashwood. (Variety)

Andor star Diego Luna has joined the cast of the indie thriller Eleven Days where he will star opposite Taylor Kitsch in a story that will be set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, when ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, after taking over Huntsville Penitentiary and holding dozens hostage when his pre-planned escape goes awry. Lines between captor and captive, and justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days. (Deadline)

Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) will star in the surrealist relationship comedy movie Wishful Thinking that will focus on a volatile couple who discover their emotional state has supernatural consequences on the world around them. The pair must decide whether to fight for their relationship or accept that their powerful connection might be doing more harm than good. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!