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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Hulu has renewed Only Murder in the Building for a 6th season. (Hulu)

TV SERIES NEWS

The truth has come out. Disney+ is officially exiting Doctor Who after only a two-year partnership with the BBC. The British network will be moving forward with a new Christmas special next year, but it remains to be seen as to who will actually be playing the iconic Doctor since current lead actor Ncuti Gatwa has left the series. (Variety)

Michael Michele has dropped out of the cast for the FBI spin-off series CIA. (Deadline)

Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) has joined the cast of the Netflix comedy-drama The Four Seasons for its second season. He will play Mark Brett, a new friend who meets the gang at the Jersey shore during their summer vacation. (Deadline)

Betsy Brandt has joined the cast of Mayfair Witches for its upcoming third season. She will play a character named Katherine, but any other plot details are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Twin Peaks alum Madchen Amick will not only guest star in but also direct an episode of Brilliant Minds on NBC. She will direct episode 7 that is set to air on November 3, and she will guest star in the November 24 episode, playing Alicia Ramati, a strong-willed woman who wears her emotions on her sleeve, especially when it comes to her firefighting ex-husband, Matthew (Eric Dane from Grey’s Anatomy). She’s not afraid to state her opinion and care for the ones she loves.” (Variety)

Mark Harmon will actually appear as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in another episode of NCIS: Origins, his first on-screen appearance since the new show’s series premiere. (Variety)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Netflix has locked in the cast for the next Christmas movie – that will actually air next year, including Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Jennifer Tilly and Mary Steenburgen. A Dog’s Perfect Christmas follows a family in crisis where a teenager, her grandfather, and his trusty basset hound struggle to keep the household together at Christmas. Character details for the cast have not yet been disclosed. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster will appear in the box office movie Raven along with Ron Livingston. The movie follows Fay Darrow (Schreiber), a former Detroit cop turned hitman for the New Jersey mob, who is ready to walk away from a life of violence. But when his final job goes sideways, a volatile mob underling with something to prove (Mackie) and a ruthless enforcer known as the Taxman (Foster) are sent to kill him. Fay survives only for the mob’s retaliation to take his girlfriend and destroy his chance at a new life. With nothing left to lose, he launches a brutal campaign of revenge. (Deadline)

Jason Statham will star in the next Guy Ritchie film Viva La Madness. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie is based on the J.J. Connolly novel. (Variety)

Brendan Hines, Cush Jumbo, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville and Tatiana Maslany will join Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Nico Parker for the upcoming box office movie The Young People. Plot details are currently under wraps. (Deadline)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Bear) and Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film A Long Winter, which will be set in the mountains as fall comes to an end, and a family prepares for the long winter ahead. (Variety)

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Twisters) and Emilia Jones (CODA) will star in the box office movie Bad Bridgets, which will be set in the 19th century against the backdrop of a famine-ravaged Ireland, the story focuses on two sisters who make a treacherous journey to America to escape an abusive father, poverty and hunger. Once in New York, they join the ranks of Irish so-called “Bridgets” creating mayhem in the city. (Variety)

Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Jodie Turner-Smith (Tron: Ares) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) have joined the cast of the upcoming box offic emovie The Turning Door, which follows a young girl called Ariadlyn, who is sent to bed as a party rages downstairs. Escaping her bedtime, she slips into her parents’ room, where she discovers an ornate wooden box, opening a door to a magical world called The Turning. To find her way back home and save her parents — now frozen in the real world — Ariadlyn must seek out a sorceress and her crystal vial. Along the way, she will encounter giants, whales, armies, shapeshifters and acrobatic monkeys as she discovers what it means to grow up. (Variety)

Ryan Kiera Armstrong (who will be seen in the reboot of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer alongside returning lead cast member Sarah Michelle Gellar) will star with Gellar’s real-life husband Freddie Prinze Jr. in the upcoming movie Road to Receovery. The movie follows a father and his terminally ill daughter who embark on a cross-country trip to find the boy she loves. Along the way, the two are forced to confront their shared grief and redefine what it means to hold on and let go. (Deadline)

That’s it! Enjoy!