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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

UPtv has given its new drama Blue Skies a second season renewal. (UPtv Press Release)

FOX has given the new Patrick Dempsey-led drama Memory of a Killer a second season renewal. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Amanda Arcuri, who plays the daughter of Sheriff Mickey Fox and Ian Quinlan who plays Hank Iglesias on Sheriff Country have been promoted to series regulars for its second season, which will happen this fall on CBS. (Deadline)

Lost alum Nester Carbonell has joined the season 5 cast of the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown, where he will play the recurring role of Enrique Molina, a boss who comes to Kingstown to avenge a relative who has gone missing. (Variety)

Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey, Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy and James Lance from Ted Lasso have joined the season 3 cast of the Netflix hit series Wednesday in guest starring roles which are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Emmy winner Peter Dinklage has joined the second season cast of the FX thriller series Alien: Earth, but details on what role he will be playing are kept tightly under wraps. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Nobody Wants This series creator, and actress herself, Erin Foster will have a recurring role in the third season of the popular dramedy, playing Nicole, a terminally single and chaotic mess along with other new recurring cast members that will include comedian-actress Sarah Silverman, playing Rabbi Eden, who teaches an intro to Judaism course and Broadway alum Andrew Rannells as Sebastien, Joanne’s nemesis in her conversion class. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Bridgerton has added three new cast members to the show’s upcoming 5th season which will focus on the love affair between Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling. Those new cast members are: Tega Alexander (The Sandman) will play Christopher Anderson, the adult son of Lord Marcus Anderson; Jacqueline Boatswain (Carnival Row) as Helen Stirling, Michaela’s mother and the very source of her spirit; and Gemma Knight Jones (Mobland) as Lady Elizabeth Ashworth, an old friend of Michaela’s who serves as her confidante and London guide. (Variety)

The Pitt alum Katherine LaNasa and Lou Diamond Phillips will star alongside Shailene Woodley in the upcoming Hulu limited series Count My Lies which will focus on what happens when compulsive liar Sloane Caraway (Woodley) fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet (Lindsay Lohan) and Jay Lockhart (Kit Harington). It seems she’s finally landed her dream job, but little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode, with potentially catastrophic consequences for all. LaNasa will play Sloane’s mom Tracy and Phillips will play Tracy’s boyfriend Paul. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin will all appear in the feature film Kockroach that will be a New York-set crime pic, based on the William Lashner novel, about a mysterious stranger who takes on the city’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life boss in a city where power is everything. (Deadline)

Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits will lend their voices to the upcoming Brad Bird-directed animated film Ray Gunn, which will be set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. (Variety)

Amanda Seyfried will provide her voice, playing Cinderella in the Netflix animated feature Steps that will be a twist on Cinderella’s evil stepsisters, following Lilith, who is blamed for hijacking the Royal Ball with a stolen magic wand. She accidentally turns her sister, Margot, into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a prince-obsessed mean girl. Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella, and a surprisingly dreamy troll, to save the kingdom, repair the fractured fairytale and prove that even so-called “villains” deserve a shot at happily-ever-after. (Variety)

Captain America’s Anthony Mackie and Logan alum Dafne Keen will star in the action-thriller flick Barracuda that will focus on what happens when Karl (Mackie), a former smuggler with a haunted past, storms a nightclub in Mexico to rescue Jodie (Keen), a kidnapped teenage girl. He ignites a chain reaction of blood and bullets that burns across 100 miles of deadly roads toward the U.S. border. The breakout turns into a high-speed race when Karl kills the brother of the ruthless club owner and steals his prized 1973 Plymouth Barracuda. Now hunted by relentless criminals, Karl and Jodie tear across the desert with no way to slow down. (Deadline)

The upcoming thriller film Ally Clark will include among its cast Viola Davis, Jason Clarke and Benjamin Bratt as well as Jefferson White (Yellowstone), Chris Sullivan (This Is Us), Lily Santiago (La Brea), Peter Macon (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), Alice Halsey (Netflix’s upcoming Little House on the Prairie), and Sydney Lemmon (Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette). THe movie will take viewers from the towering skyscrapers of New York City to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following an investigator of the same name, played by Davis, as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!