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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Showtime has announced that Yellowjackets will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season. The cabler has also given Dexter: Resurrection a second season renewal. (Deadline and Variety)

Apple TV+ has given the period piece The Buccaneers a third season pick-up. (Variety)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on both dramas Countdown, which starred Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles, and Butterfly, which starred Lost alum Daniel Dae Kim, after only one season each. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Candor will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the CBS series Elsbeth, playing the much younger girlfriend of a college basketball coach. (Variety)

Actor David Del Rio has been removed from the cast of the reboot of Matlock following an investigation into a sexual assault allegation. According to sources, the alleged incident occurred Sept. 26 and involved fellow Matlock series regular Leah Lewis. (Deadline)

Yellowstone and Teen Wolf alum Ian Bohen has landed a series regular role in season 3 of Lioness, playing Grady, a by-the-book Delta Force operator and primary K9 handler, skilled in battlefield tactics. (Variety)

Millie Brady (The Queen’s Gambit), Blu Hunt (Sherlock & Daughter), James Purefoy (Rome) [among others] have joined the cast of the upcoming FOX Biblical event series The Faithful, which is being described as a faithful dramatization of the Book of Genesis as told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate, yet flawed women whose descendants would shape the future of faith as we know it today. (Variety)

9-1-1: Lone Star alum Rob Lowe will star in the NBC drama The Detail, which is in the works at the network. The project will follow elite agents serving on the president’s protective detail as they attempt to balance life with professional duty while securing the nation and defending against the next imminent threat. (Variety)

Succession star Jeremy Strong will star in and executive producer the newly greenlit limited series 9/12 about ailing 9/11 first responders’ David vs. Goliath legal fight for compensation for Paramount+. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The Summer I Turned Pretty alum Rain Spencer will star in and executive produce the in-development series Genuine Fraud, based on the book by author E. Lockhart that will center on a social chameleon (Spencer) who reinvents herself as the best friend of a wealthy heiress, then assumes her “friend’s” life when she goes missing. (Deadline)

Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons are set to star in the geo-political thriller series Embassy that was being presented to international buyers at Mipcom. The series will focus on what happens when armed mercenaries storm the U.S. embassy in London. Layla (Kendrick), a sharp and resourceful American diplomat, faces an impossible choice: protect the U.S. ambassador (Simmons) or follow his orders to exfiltrate a high value asset being held at the embassy. As a larger conspiracy unfolds, Layla must rely on her instincts—and the reluctant help of her ex-fiancé, a British SAS soldier—in the tense hours before extraction. (Variety)

Julie Plec (executive producer on The Vampire Diaries and We Were Liars) is developing a drama series based on the Alchemy of Secrets novel by Stephanie Garber, which follows Holland St. James, who was informed by a local legend named the Watch Man that she’ll die tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart. Holland plunges into the magical world at the heart of Los Angele s— and into the path of a magnetic stranger. As they chase clues that take them closer to the Alchemical Heart, Holland isn’t sure who to trust and if the Alchemical Heart can save her. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE AND STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Mega-hot actress and singer Lady Gaga will appear in the upcoming sequel The Devil Wears Prada, but details on who she will play have not been released. (Variety)

BAFTA Rising Star Mia McKenna-Bruce and Saoirse Ronan will star in the biopics about The Beatles to be directed by Sam Mendes. Ronan will play Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul McCartney and McKenna-Burce will play Maureen Starkey, the first wife of Ringo Starr. (Deadline and Variety)

Debi Mazar (Younger) and Denis O’Hare (True Blood) have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix thriller The Last Mrs. Parrish, based on the book by Live Constantine. The cast of the film includes Jennifer Lopez, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isabel May and Pierson Fodé. Character details are under wraps, but the film will focus on a con woman who targets a wealthy couple by befriending the wife and seducing the husband with the master plan of becoming the next ‘Mrs. Parrish,’ only to discover that the wife’s life is far more twisted than she could have imagined. (Deadline)

Jessica Matten (Dark Winds) has joined the cast of the upcoming historical indie drama Standing Bear, playing Bird Song, the wife of Chief Standing Bear, which will be played by Twilight alum Chaske Spencer. The film tells the story of the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing forced removal on the Trail of Tears and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, which secured recognition of Native Americans as “persons” under U.S. law, a precedent-setting civil-rights victory too often absent from American history books. (Variety)

Matt Dillon (Crash) will play Frank Stallone Sr., father of Sylvester Stallone in the upcoming movie I Play Rocky. (Deadline)

Ashley Judd will star in and executive produce the upcoming film 21 Down starring as Mari Cox, the mother of Caden Cox, who made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to play and score in a college football game. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!