Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

AMC has pulled the plug on Talamasca: The Secret Order after only one season. (Variety)

CBS has pulled the plug on the medical drama Watson after two seasons while the new spin-off series CIA has been renewed for a second season. (Variety and Deadline)

Paramount+ has given School Spirits a fourth season renewal while Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will come to an end after its second season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

NBC has renewed Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago P.D. for new seasons. (Deadline)

Disney+ has given Wonder Man a second season renewal. (Variety)

For All Mankind has been renewed for its 6th and final season by Apple TV. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Oscar winner Mahersala Ali has joined the second season of the Mark Ruffalo-led HBO crime drama Task. (Variety)

Will & Grace alum Sean Hayes has joined the cast of The Morning Show for its upcoming 5th season, playing Wyatt, Bro’s (Boyd Holbrook) quick-witted older brother and manager. (Deadline)

Mary McCormack (The West Wing and In Plain Sight) will appear in the second season of the hit medical drama The Pitt on HBO Max. She will play neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Conley. Also, Sara Wyle, the real life wife of star Noah Wyle, will appear as ER patient Ashley Davis. (TV Line)

Chris Lee, who plays tech whiz Randy in the CBS drama Tracker, has been promoted to series regular. (Deadline)

Lost alum Sonya Walger will have the recurring role of Freya in the Amazon Prime live-action TV series God of War. (Variety)

Both Kim Raver and Kevin McKidd will be leaving the long-in-the-tooth ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy at the end of this season. They were informed of their leaving about a month ago, and their last appearances will be on the show’s upcoming season finale. (Deadline)

The MGM+ series Bosch: Start of Watch has added a few familiar faces to its cast, including Once Upon a Time alum Raphael Sbarge, Castle alum Seamus Dever and Chuck alum Ryan McPartlin. This prequel series will be set in 1991 Los Angeles, following 26-year-old Harry Bosch (Shameless’s Cameron Monaghan) during his earliest days as a rookie cop. Sbarge will play Sergeant “Sunshine” Finn, a cold and meticulous sergeant whose rigid, detail-oriented standards spark fear in rookies. Dever will play Officer Hastings, aka “Mr. Fix It”, a blunt, no-nonsense training officer assigned to boots on the brink of not passing probation. And, McPartlin will play Detective Mike Garner, a pigheaded CRASH detective who quickly shuts Bosch down for overstepping. (Deadline)

MOVIE NEWS

Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Wonder Man and Aquaman) will star in the Apple sci-fi action-thriller Liminal, which will take place in a world where a tenth of the population suddenly gains telepathic powers as a result of electromagnetic disturbance. (Deadline)

Tom Hanks will appear in an upcoming box office movie based on the short story The Comebacker by Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers, which will be directed by Marielle Heller for whom Hanks worked with on the 2019 box office movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Rapper Bad Bunny and Emmy winner Colman Domingo are also eyeing roles in the project. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Looks like Netflix is planning a reboot of the Jennifer Garner flick 13 Going on 30 with Lady Jane and People We Meet on Vacation alum Emily Bader and Hunters alum Logan Lerman in the lead roles. Garner will also serve as an executive producer. Plot details for the film reboot are under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Looks like filmmaker Ryan Coogler (the Oscar nominated Sinners) is working on a TV reboot of The X-Files with Himesh Patel (Yesterday and The Franchise) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till) set to star in the production that will focus on the unlikely bond formed when two people are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!