Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

CANCELLATION

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on The Boys spin-off series Gen V after only two seasons. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Julianna Margulies has joined season three of the Hulu drama Paradise, but details on the role she will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Ryan Phillippe will join season two of the ABC drama 9-1-1: Nashville, playing a brilliant, iconoclastic detective who moves to Nashville from New York. A seductive bad boy with a past, he’ll stir up all kinds of juicy drama with our first responders while leading an investigation into a mysterious criminal tormenting Nashville on a biblical scale. (Deadline)

David Lyons and Tobias Menzies will join Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas in the upcoming Apple TV thriller Safe Houses that is inspired by the espionage novel by Dan Fesperman, that will be set in the aftermath of the killing of a high-ranking CIA officer in Madrid. The show follows Sofia Jiménez (De Armas), a fugitive agent accused of the crime, and Ambassador Elizabeth Winters (Connelly), his widow, as they each investigate the murder from opposite sides, unraveling a vast conspiracy that could upend the balance of global power. Lyons will play Kevin Garvey, a special ops CIA agent while Menzies will play Elizabeth’s husband, Clarke Winters. (Deadline)

NEW DRAMA ANNOUNCEMENT

Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.K. Simmons will star in the upcoming Amazon Prime action-thriller series Embassy that will air in UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand. The series follows Layla (Kendrick), a sharp and resourceful American diplomat who faces an impossible choice to protect the U.S. Ambassador (Simmons) or follow his orders to exfiltrate a high-value asset when armed mercenaries storm the U.S. Embassy in London. She’s forced to rely on her instincts and the reluctant help of her battle-hardened ex-fiancé, Connor Wright (Heughan), in the tense hours before extraction. The cast will also include Katie McGrath and Natalie Mendoza. (Deadline)

Luke Kleintank, moving on from FBI: International, will star opposite Stephen Fry in the upcoming FOX drama The Interrogator that has been given a straight-to-series order for the 2026-2027 TV season. The series will center on former MI6 agent Conrad Henry (Fry) and his elite team. When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Kleintank will play Voss, a member of Henry’s small circle of analyst-advisors. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!