Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Believe it or not, but ABC has renewed Grey’s Anatomy for a 23rd season. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Twilight alum Xavier Samuel has joined the cast of the upcoming Amzon Prime thriller drama Bishop that will star Altered Carbon and For All Man Kind alum Joel Kinnaman as homicide detective Bishop Graves, brilliant but battle-scarred, who will put all of his skills to the test in the hunt for an elusive killer targeting San Francisco’s moneyed class. As this increasingly audacious killer develops a devoted following among the city’s powerless, Bishop becomes convinced these murders connect back to SF’s most powerful man, his own father, Lincoln Graves (John Malkovich). Samuel will play Anthony ‘Ant’ Graves, Bishop Graves’ younger brother. (Deadline)

Look like Netflix is working on a new Peaky Blinders series with Jamie Bell (Washington’s Spies and Rocketman) taking over the role of Duke Shelby, the eldest son of Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy) [played by Conrad Khan in the final season of the original series and Barry Keoghan in the follow-up movie). (Deadline)

The Pitt will see some changes as Supriya Ganesh, who plays senior resident Dr. Samira Mohan, will be leaving the show at the end of the show’s current second season while Ayesha Harris, who plays senior night shift resident Dr. Parker Ellis, has been promoted to series regular for the show’s upcoming third season. (Variety)

Succession veteran actor Brian Cox has joined the second season of Dexter: Resurrection where he will play the series regular role of The New York Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized the City years ago. Though no longer active as a killer, he’s found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree. (Deadline)

The Boys prequel series Vough Rising that will air on Amazon Prime has added some new cast members including James Wolk (Zoo and Ordindary Joe), Josh Randall (Ed and Station 19), Dylan Arnold (Lady in the Lake) and Chad Willett (Beyond and the upcoming series Off Campus). The series will feature Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Stormfront, but there are no details about what roles any of these actors will play in the prequel, though. (Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

The streaming service Tubi has a spooky teen movie coming up based on the 1989 Christopher Pike young adult novel Remember Me that will star Brec Bassinger (Stargirl) and Charlie Gillespie (Julie and the Phantoms). Bassinger will play Shari Cooper, who is dead. Like, fell from the top of a high-rise to the street below, dead. And one of her friends is her killer. Now she has to solve her own murder from beyond the grave, before the relentless, soul-sucking Shadow that’s stalking her gets to her first.” (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!