Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Good Trouble has been renewed for a third season by Freeform. (Variety)
Cinemax will no longer produce original series, meaning the Carla Gugino drama Jett will come to an end on the network (but it’s being shopped around). (TCA Winter Press Tour Announcement)
Better Call Saul has been renewed for a sixth and final season at AMC. (Variety)
Facebook Watch has cancelled Sorry For Your Loss and Limetown, as the streaming services is scaling back scripted series as the provider pushes more unscripted fare. (Deadline)
Netflix has renewed You for a third season less than three weeks after the release of season two. (Variety)
PICK UP NEWS
The CW has ordered both Superman and Lois, which is set to star Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, and the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot with Jared Padalecki as the lead. (Variety)
Amazon is officially moving ahead with its Jack Reacher series based on the Lee Childs book series. Season 1 will be based on the first Jack Reacher novel, “The Killing Floor.” (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Actor Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star opposite Aquaman himself Jason Momoa in the second season of the Apple TV drama See that takes place in the distant future, after a deadly virus decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Momoa stars as Baba Voss, the father of twins born centuries later with the mythic ability to see, who must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who wants the twins destroyed. (Deadline)
Actor Courtney B. Vance (The Hunt for Red October) will star in the upcoming AMC event series 61st Street, a courtroom drama that will follow Moses Johnson, a promising, black high school athlete, who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system. Taken by the police as a supposed gang member, he finds himself in the eye of the storm as police and prosecutors seek revenge for the death of an officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Vance will play the role of Franklin Roberts, a public defender in the twilight of his career serving the busiest courthouse in America. After promising his wife he’d retire to spend more time with their seventeen-year-old autistic son, Franklin realizes Moses is the case of a lifetime, one that can up end the entire Chicago judicial system, challenging the institutional racism and endemic corruption at its heart. The series has already been given a 2-season order with 8 episodes per season. (Variety)
Actress Gina Gershon (Riverdale) will recur on New Amsterdam as Jeanie Bloom, the alcoholic mother of Dr. Lauren Bloom (series regular Janet Montgomery). (TV Line)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Lifetime is sticking with V.C. Andrews book adaptations, as the network has greenlit a 5-movie series based on the Ruby Landry novels, which will star Australian twins Raechelle and Karina Banno as Ruby and Giselle. Watched over by her loving Grandmère Catherine, Ruby Landry is filled with hope as love blooms with her high school sweetheart Paul Tate. But lingering thoughts of her mysterious father and her mother’s death often creep into Ruby’s mind. As dark family secrets begin to reveal themselves when Paul’s parents forbid him from seeing Ruby, Ruby is further devastated when her beloved Grandmère passes away. Forced to flee to New Orleans from the Bayou, Ruby searches for her estranged father, one of the richest men in the city, as she clings to her memories of Paul and their forbidden love. (Deadline)
The follow-up movie Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, which will air on Peacock, the upcoming NBCU streaming service, has added actors Allison Miller (A Million Little Things, Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World) and Richard Schiff (The West Wing) to its cast. The film focuses on Lassiter (Timothy Olmundson), who is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus (James Roday and Dule Hill) return to Lassie’s side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional and possibly the supernatural. Miller will play Maisie, an entrepreneur with a fat trust fund and a new business idea every week; Chalke is Nurse Dolores, Lassiter’s primary caregiver and protector; Hardison is Wilkerson, a patient at the prestigious Herschel House Recovery Center and Schiff is Dr. Hirsch, the founder of a high-end private medical recovery center. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
