Rueben's Ramblings

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

FOX has given the new medical dramedy Best Medicine a second season order. (Deadline)

Apple TV has pulled the plug on the Kristen Wiig comedy Palm Royale after two seasons. (Deadline)

Netflix has already given a second season renewal to the remake of Little House on the Prairie that is set to debut on streaming service on July 9. The streaming service has also given The Night Agent a 4th season renewal. (Variety)

PBS has renewed the period piece drama Miss Scarlet for its 7th and final season. (Deadline)

ABC has renewed 9-1-1 for a 10th season, renewed 9-1-1: Nashville for a second season and High Potential for a third season. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings) will guest star in the final two episodes of the debut season of Best Medicine on FOX. She will play the ex of Dr. Best (series lead Josh Charles). (Deadline)

Actress Cathy Belton and actor Simon Ludders, who play Ivy Potts and Barnabus Potts respectively, in Miss Scarlet on PBS will not be returning for the show’s 7th and final season. (Grand Rapids Herald-Review)

The Netflix sports-themed drama The 99’ers have added more cast members: newcomer Julia McDermott as defender Brandi Chastain; Shaunette Renee Wilson (The Resident) as goalkeeper Briana Scurry; Perry Mattfeld (Chad Powers and In the Dark) as forward/midfielder Michelle Akers; Lizzy Greene (A Million Little Things and Ransom Canyon) as midfielder Kristine Lilly; Isabelle Fuhrman as defender Joy Fawcett and Annabel O’Hagan (Fallout) as 1999 World Cup team captain Carla Overbeck. The series, which already includes Zoey Deutch, Emily Bader and Emilia Jones, will focus on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in 1999, as they defied the odds to emerge victorious in a dramatic penalty kick shootout against China in the World Cup final, under the scorching summer sun and in a stadium filled with 93,000 fans. (Deadline)

Season three of the Netflix series XO, Kitty will find Lana Condor (from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the precursor to this series) reprising her role of older sister Lara Jean Covey. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods) has joined the cast of the upcoming Dan Fogelman (the creator of This Is Us) drama The Land that will air on Hulu. The show will be set inside the world of the NFL and has a generational family component to it. Chris Meloni will play the lead, the team’s head coach Danny. Moynahan is believed to be playing Belinda, Danny’s ex-wife. (Deadline)

Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will take over the lead role recently vacated by Rosa Salazar due to scheduling conflicts alongside Criminal Minds alum Matthew Gray Gubler in the CBS drama Einstein, which will be focused on Albert Einstein’s great-grandson, to be played by Gubler. Fumero will play Teri, a Detective Inspector for the New Jersey State Police. (Deadline)

The Baywatch reboot over on FOX has added to its cast. Jessica Belkin, who will be seen in the Legally Blonde prequel series Elle, has landed the central role of Charlie Vale, the biological daughter of Baywatch captain Hobie Buchannon (Arrow’s Stephen Amell), the child he never knew. Meanwhile, Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone) will play Nat, a former foster kid turned Olympic athlete. And, newcomer Thaddeus LaGrone will play Brad, who served two tours in an elite division of the Marines before returning back home to Venice Beach to care for his ailing father. (Variety)

The Gilded Age has promoted Kelley Curran, who plays Enid “Turner” Winterton to a series regular while adding the following new cast members: Comedian Jim Gaffigan as Grover Cleveland, the 22nd President of the United States, who comes to New York to curry favor with the elite class; Dallas Roberts (Tulsa King and Insatiable) as Daniel Manning, a seasoned politician and Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland and Elizabeth Marvel (Law & Order: SVU and Presumed Innocent) as Nurse Virginia Saville, a kind nurse who works at the Neighborhood Settlement House in the Lower East Side. (Deadline)

Betty Gilpin (G.L.O.W.) has joined the second season of The Lowdown, the Ethan Hawke series on FX. She will play a character named Ginger. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS/COMMISSIONED SERIES

Hilarie Burton Morgan (One Tree Hill) is working with the folks at AMC on a new series development called The New Gothic that will follow the collision of the enterprising Bloom family with the resurrected Mississippi Mafia. (Deadline)

The folks at MGM+ US and Paramount+ UK have commissioned a new 6-part series inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson swashbuckling epic Treasure Island which will star David Oyelowo (box office movie Selma and the TV series Silo) as iconic pirate Long John Silver. Also, Agent Carter star Hayley Atwell will play Bess Hawkins; Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) will play Aaron Graham, Tomer Capone (The Boys) will play Billy Bones and Tom Sweet (Great Expectations) will play the key role of Jim Hawkins. The classic story is set across the Atlantic, in a Caribbean on the brink of revolution and on the terrifying Skeleton Island. (Variety)

PILOT CASTING NEWS

Hope Davis (Your Honor) will co-star alongside 9-1-1 alum Peter Krause in the planned NBC pilot Protection. The show, if picked up to series, will follow what happens when a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Thornhill family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice, even if it means betraying their sworn code.” (Variety)

Jon Beavers (Paradise and One Battle After Another) will star opposite Bones star Emily Deschanel in an untitled drama pilot that is inspired by the work of expert profiler and author Dr. Ann Burgess. The series will follow Professor Georgia Ryan (Deschanel), a trailblazing psychologist who challenges the field of criminology by shifting the investigative focus to the victim rather than just the perpetrator in order to uncover the crucial clues that more traditional methods leave behind. Alongside her team, this pioneering expert consults with the FBI to solve the most baffling and elusive cases. Beavers will play Will Andover, who was the top profiler in his class at Quantico, but then he had a fall from grace. Now at a crossroads in his career, he desperately needs a win. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!