Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
FX has given a 14th season renewal to American Horror Story. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Amazon Prime has given the thriller series Carrie a second season renewal. (The Hollywood Reporter)
REBOOT NEWS
Disney+ and Hulu have officially given the former FOX hit drama Glee a reboot series order with series lead Lea Michele returning as Rachel Berry and cast members Heather Morris, who played ditzy cheerleader Brittany and Chord Overstreet, who played Sam Evans in talks to reprise their roles. (Variety and Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
The 7th season of the Apple TV drama Slow Horses will see Doctor Who alum Varada Sethu, Downton Abbey alum Tuppence Middleton and Battlestar Galactica alum James Callis joining the cast. (Press Release by Apple TV)
The Night Agent star Gabriel Basso has signed on as a series regular for the upcoming Apple TV thriller drama Guilty Creatures that will be set against a backdrop of sex and and murder in the Florida Panhandle, delving into the psyche of a torrid romance and subsequent act of murder between two young, adulterous but God-fearing lovers. Mary-Louise Parker will have a recurring role in the new series too. (Deadline)
Jeff Daniels is set to star in the upcoming AMC drama series Bannerman that will be based on the spy novels by author John R. Maxim. The series will center on the eponymous Paul Bannerman, a lethal covert operative who convinces a group of the world’s most deadly assassins to quit the spy game for a chance to lead normal lives in the suburbs of Connecticut. Old enemies, bad habits, a paranoid government and an unrelenting ex-cop will make retirement their most difficult mission yet. (Deadline)
Star Wars alum Daisy Ridley will have the leading role in the upcoming Paramount+ series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea that is in development at the streaming service. Should the series move forward it will follow brilliant ocean scientist Lee Crane (Ridley), who is pulled into a classified government program after a catastrophic Arctic expedition claims the life of her twin sister. At the center of the program is the USS Seaview, a retro-futuristic submarine found entombed in the ice, marked with symbols from a history that shouldn’t exist, and it powers up only when Lee steps aboard. Thrust into command of a pressure-cooker crew and an uneasy alliance with government power brokers, Lee leads Seaview on daring undersea missions to contain mysterious forces leaking into our world, all while uncovering a hidden truth about the oceans, an erased chapter of human history, and the once-thought mythical city of Atlantis. (Deadline)
Outlander star Sam Heughan will star opposite Viola Davis in the Paramount+ series Ascent, which will be a character-driven thriller set in the dangerous world of global corporate crisis and damage control. Heughan will play Conal, a top agent at Ascent Ventures. Lethally charming and a natural chameleon, Conal uses social cunning and ruthlessness to get the job done and always gets a thrill out of completing a mission. Meanwhile, Davis will play Catriona, an elite corporate fixer, who must weaponize the ruthless skills that have made her indispensable to billion-dollar clients when her estranged daughter is in danger. (Deadline)
The third season of the Netflix drama The Gentlemen will see Once Upon a Time alum Robert Carlyle and The Lord of the Rings alums Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom as well as Ed Speleers (Outlander) and Saffron Burrows (You) joining the cast of the streaming series that stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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