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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATIONS

The Testaments has been given a second season renewal by Hulu. (Deadline)

Starz has pulled the plug on Spartacus: House of Ashur after only one season. (Deadline)

Emily in Paris will come to a close after its upcoming sixth season on Netflix. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Sullivan’s Crossing star Chad Michael Murray will star in the upcoming drama flick Disconnecting Peter that will center on a fractured family grappling with unresolved trauma stemming from a past tragedy. Peter Ruck (Murray), a troubled husband and father, finds himself trapped by his own destructive habits, threatening to unravel the family unit. His wife, Elizabeth, fights to hold things together at all costs, while their daughter, Jenna, confronts the collapse of her aspirations to attend Juilliard. As tensions mount, the family must decide whether to confront their pain or succumb to the chaos. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Kerry Washington is set to star in and executive produce What Remains, a thriller drama for Hulu that is currently in development. The series will be based on the 2023 novel by Wendy Walker that will focus on Detective Elise Sutton (Washington), a devoted wife, loving mother, and cold case specialist, who relies from the guilt of her action after taking the life of a disturbed man in the line of duty. To convince herself that she did the right thing, she makes contact with a mysterious man that she saved that day, only to discover that he’s not at all what he seems. She’s soon caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, following the clues he leaves for her and realizing that the only person who can stop him is her. (Deadline)

It looks like Disney+ is working on a series adaptation of the 2004 box office movie Ella Enchanted with the movie’s original star, Anne Hathaway, coming on board as an executive producer. The series will keep the basic premise of the movie and the book on which it was loosely based, centering on the eponymous teen girl stuck with the unfortunate “gift” of obedience, but – unlike the movie – it will “pull away” from being largely a Cinderella retelling romantic fantasy by giving the story a coming-of-age feel with a boarding school setting. (Deadline)

TV SERIES ORDERS

FX has given a series order to Very Young Frankenstein, inspired by the classic Mel Brooks-Gene Wilder comedy film Young Frankenstein but exact details are still under wraps. (Variety)

ABC has given a greenlight to a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff for the 2026-2027 TV season. The currently untitled one-hour series will be an edgy drama about a team at a West Texas rural medical center, the last chance for care before miles of nowhere. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Luke Kirby will be taking over for Aden Young in the Canadian series Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Tom Hardy will not appear in the third season of the Paramount+ crime drama Mobland, as he was asked not to return to the series following onset issues with one of the show’s executive producers. How his character would be written out of the series remains to be seen. (Variety)

Harry Potter alum Harry Melling and 1923 cast member Aminah Nieves have joined the cast of the HBO crime dramaTask for its upcoming second season. Melling will play Brennan Boylan, a powder-keg DEA agent while Nieves will play Nataly Zamora, a no-nonsense FBI agent and dedicated young mother who fights hard to protect the community that raised her. (Deadline)

Heels co-star Kelli Berglund has joined the cast of the upcoming Prison Break reboot over on Hulu. This time around the story will focus on a soldier-turned-corrections officer, who takes a job at one of the deadliest prisons in America to prove just how far she’ll go for someone she loves. Berglund will play Cheyenne, a female inmate at that prison. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!