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The entertainment news is few and far between because of the strikes, but what follows are the few news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Alexa Davalos, who played Agent Kristin Gaines in FBI: Most Wanted will not be returning for the show’s upcoming 5th season. Supposedly it was an “amicable” departure. (TV Line)

Jodi Balfour, who played NASA astronaut-turned-President Ellen Waverly, will not be returning as a series regular for season 4 of For All Mankind, but she will appear in “some capacity, bringing closure to her storyline.” (TV Line)

SERIES GREENLIGHT

HBO has given a greenlight to the half-hour comedy series The Franchise that will go behind-the-scenes of a fictional struggling superhero movie. The official description is: “The crew of an unloved franchise movie fight for their place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe. The Franchise shines a light on the secret chaos inside the world of superhero moviemaking, to ask the question — how exactly does the cinematic sausage get made? Because every fuck-up has an origin story.” The series will star Himesh Patel (Yesterday) and Aya Cash (The Boys) along with Billy Magnussen, Richard E. Grant and Daniel Brühl [among others]. (The Hollywood Reporter)

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There were no major news items for the week of July 24 through July 30; and the following are the few new items from this past week.

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Apple TV+ has pulled the plug on the crime drama City on Fire after only one season. The streamer has also pulled the plug on the crime thriller Suspicion after only one season, which aired nearly 18 months ago. (Deadline and TV Line)

Amazon has renewed the young-adult drama The Summer I Turned Pretty for a 10-episode third season. (TV Line)

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Hey All,

Here are the few entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

AMC has given both The Walking Dead: Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon second season renewals. Dead CIty just came to an end recently and Daryl Dixon hasn’t even debuted its first season yet. (TV Line)

COMIC CON ANNOUNCEMENT

In more The Walking Dead news, the long-awaited spin-off that is set to reunite Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira has been given a title: The Walking Dead: The ONes Who Live. The series is slated to premiere sometime next year. (Comic Con International)

TV CASTING NEWS

Manifest alum Melissa Roxburgh will guest star in the second season premiere of Quantum Leap this fall on NBC. Francois Arnaud (Midnight Texas), Aaron Abrams (Hannibal and Blindspot), and P.J. Byrne (The Boys) will also appear in the episode. (TV Line)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

ANNOUNCEMENT

SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike, joining the WGA in their 3-month-plus-long strike against the studios.

TV VIEWING

ABC will debut the full season of the Disney+ Marvel-based series Ms. Marvel this summer. The first 3 episodes will air on August 5 and the final 3 episodes on August 6, running from 8 PM to 11 PM each night. (Laughing Place and TheDirect.com)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Additional cast members have been added to the box office movie Superman: Legacy that will star David Corenswet as Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. Castle and The Rookie star Nathan Fillion will play Guy Gardner, one of the figures known as Green Lantern, Isabela Merced from Dora and the Lost City of Gold will play Hawkgirl and Edi Gathegi from X-Men: First Class will play Mister Terrific. Also Anthony Carrigan (Barry) will play Metamorpho, whose alter ego is the archeologist Rex Mason. (Variety)

Sarah Desjardins, who plays Melanie Lynskey’s character’s daughter in Yellowjackets and Cameron Monaghan from Shameless have both joined the cast of Tron: Ares that will feature Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee and Jared Leto. Details on what character either will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Current Grantchester series lead Tom Brittney is leaving the show after its upcoming 9th sason. English actor Rishi Nair from the British soap Hollyoaks, in his breakout role in America, will take over as the new vicar, Alphy Kotteram. (TV Line)

Nathan Lane will not appear in the 3rd season of the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. (Deadline and TV Line)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week, few though they are because of the holiday and the ongoing writer’s strike:

TV CASTING NEWS

The Maze Runner franchise movies star Kaya Scodelario has joined the cast of the limited series Senna, which is about Brazilian Formula One champ Ayrton Senna. The series will tell the story of the adventure and triumph of the man who became a Brazilian national hero and conquered the world’s attention both on and off the Formula 1 track. (Variety)

Janet Hubert (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum) will guest star in the upcoming season three of Sweet Magnolias on Netflix. She will play Bev Decatur, the mother of Helen (series lead Heather Headley). (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Jennifer Garner is set to reprise her role of superhero Elektra in the upcoming box office movie Deadpool 3. (Variety)

Actress Robin Wright will direct actress Patricia Clarkson in the new film Bingo, a modernized, beautiful take on May-December romance. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

MGM+ (formerly EPIX) has given the thriller series From a third season renewal. (Variety)

Apple TV+ has cancelled the Patricia Arquette-led dramedy High Desert after only one season. (TV Line)

The half-hour dramedy Reservation Dogs will come to an end on FX after its soon-to-air third season, which will be back on August 2. (TV Line)

Freeform has pulled the plug on the psychology thriller series The Watchful Eye after only one season. (TV Line)

TV SURPRISE

Netflix cancelled the fantasy series Warrior Nun after two seasons six months ago, but the show’s creator and showrunner went on social media earlier this week to say that the series will be back “somewhere, some way.” No deals are in place – yet – but discussions are underway to revive the series through a standalone movie or a shortened final season. It will not be on Netflix though. (TV Line)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Party of Five alums Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf will reunite for an upcoming Hallmark Channel holiday movie – A Merry Scottish Christmas – playing estranged siblings, who travel to Scotland to reunite with their mother. (Deadline)

Nearly a year after leaving Hallmark, actor Luke Macfarlane has confirmed recent rumors about his return to the network. (Heavy.com)

TV NEWS

Gillian Anderson will star in Kurt Sutter’s upcoming Western series The Abandons that will debut on Netflix. She will join Lena Headey in the series. The tagline for the show is: As a group of diverse, outlier families pursue their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back. In this bloody process, “justice” is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law. (Variety)

Film legend Kevin Bacon will star in the lead role in the straight-to-series thriller The Bondsman at Amazon’s Prime Video. The series centers on Hub Halloran (Bacon), a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

DC Studios has announced the latest actors to play Clark Kent and Lois Lane. They are David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. This version of the classic story will largely be a workplace origin story. (Variety)

Jared Leto will star in the next movie in the Tron franchise: Tron: Ares. He will be joined by Evan Peters (X-Men franchise and American Horror Story) and Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship and the box office movie Queen & Slim). Leto will play Ares, the manifestation of a program that becomes sentient and crosses over into the human world,. Additional plot details, including specifics on Peters’ and Turner-Smith’s roles, are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Bones alum Emily Deschanel, True Blood alum Sam Trammell and Noma Dumezweni (who was just seen in the box office movie The Little Mermaid) will stary in the sci-fi romance flick ReEntry. Deschanel will play Elenore, a woman grappling with the disappearance of her husband (Trammell), after he enlists in a scientific experiment run by Dumezweni’s character. But, a year later he returns, and she learns he’s from a parallel dimension. She soon has to decide whether to pursue the man who is 99% of the husband she married or wait for the return of the man she once knew. (Variety)

GAME SHOW NEWS

Just as rumored Ryan Seacrest will be taking over for host Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune. (TV Line)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Hulu made a surprise announcement giving the streamer’s limited series Nine Perfect Strangers a second season renewal. (TV Line)

Unfortunately, Paramount+ has pulled the plug on Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies after only one season. (TV Line)

First the reboot of Magnum P.I. was canceled by CBS only to be picked up by the folks over at NBC. Now NBC has pulled the plug on the show with the upcoming second half of the show’s season 5 being its last. (Deadline and TV Line)

COMING TO AN END

Disney+ has pulled the plug on the small screen version of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The show will come to a close at the end of its upcoming fourth season that is set to air 8 episodes on August 9. (TV Line)

PULLED FROM THE LINE-UP

The Australian surfing drama Barons, which had been airing on The CW has been pulled from the line-up after only four episodes. It will be replaced by repeats of Nancy Drew on Monday nights at 9 PM. (TV Line)

INTERNATIONAL TV NEWS

Emma Myers, who plays Enid Sinclar, the werewolf roommate of Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday has landed the lead in the BBC adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, playing Pip Fitz-Amobi. The tagline for the series is: Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh, but if Sal isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from learning the truth? (Deadline)

MOVIE NEWS

Lucas Bravo, who plays hunky chef Gabriel in the Netflix series Emily in Paris, has landed the lead role in the new movie Sulak. The movie will focus on Bruno Sulak, a real-life French criminal who earned a notorious reputation in the 1980s for his non-violent heists on multiple jewelry stores. While Sulak was sent to prison for his crimes, he managed to escape several times to reunite with his lover and accomplice. This led to him becoming public enemy number one in the process. (Screen Daily and Digital Spy)

The third film in the franchise – Paddington in Peru – will find Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Rachel Zegler and Emily Mortimer (most likely) starring in the movie. They will join returning cast member Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin. Ben Whishaw and Imelda Staunton will also be back as the voices of Paddington and Aunt Lucy, respectively. The story will follow Paddington returning to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. Paddington and the Brown Family embark on an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru. This third installment will see Mortimer taking over from Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Brown, but no other details are available on the other characters. (Variety)

STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

The Flash actor Grant Gustin and Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale will star in the upcoming Freevee original movie Puppy Love, which will center on wild-child Nicole (Hale) and socially anxious Max (Gustin), who, after a disastrous first date, vow to lose each other’s numbers until they learn that their dogs have found a love match, and now puppies are on the way. Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) will co-star. (TV Line)

CONVENTION NEWS

TV Line has confirmed that in addition to Marvel skipping next month’s San Diego Comic Con, Netflix, HBO, Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures will all also not be attending the fete. (Variety and TV Line)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

The CW has given a season three renewal to All American: Homecoming, but the network has pulled the plug on the DC-based series Gotham Knights after only one season, which hasn’t even come to an end yet. Also, Superman & Lois has been given a 4th season, 10-episode renewal, but with a major change to the series: 7 cast members have been cut, including Dylan Walsh (General Sam Lane), Emmanuelle Chriqui (Mayor Lana Lang), Erik Valdez (Lana’s ex-husband Kyle Cushing), Inde Navarrette (Lana and Kyle’s daughter Sarah), Wolé Parks (Superman’s ally John Henry Irons), Tayler Buck (John Henry’s daughter Natalie) and Sofia Hasmik (Smallville Gazette editor-in-chief Chrissy Beppo), leaving only Tyler Hoechlin (Clark Kent/Superman), Elizabeth Tulloch (Lois Lane) and Alex Garfin and Michael Bishop (Clark and Lois’ twin sons, Jordan and Jonathan Kent, respectively) as part of the series regular cast. In addition, Michael Cudlitz, who will play Lex Luthor, has been promoted to series regular for next season. (Deadline and TV Line)

Netflix has given a second season renewal to XO, Kitty the spin-off series from To All the Boys franchise. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has given a second season renewal to the sci-fi drama Silo. (TV Line)

Netflix has renewed Fubar for a second season. (TV Insider)

TV CASTING NEWS

Paramount+ will air NCIS: Sydney, the latest spin-off of the franchise, exclusively in Australia. The tagline for the series is: As international tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national task force, to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet. The cast will be led by Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as Special Agent Michelle Mackey along with Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned) and Sean Sagar (Fate: The Winx Saga) [among others]. (TV Line)

It has been announced by Netflix that Linda Hamilton will be joining season 5 of Stranger Things, but exact details about what role she will play is being kept under wraps. (Variety)

STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Netflix has also announced that Chris Hemsworth will return as Tyler Rake for Extraction 3, the third adventure in the hit action film franchise. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Perry Mason” has been canceled at HBO after two seasons. (Variety)

The CW has given an early renewal order to one of the network’s new fall series – the Canadian drama Sullivan’s Crossing, a family drama starring Morgan Kohan (When Hope Calls) and former CW alums Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls) and Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill), which is based on the novels by Robyn Carr (who is also the author of the books on which the Netflix series Virgin River are based. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Looks like Dick Wolf is expanding the world of Law & Order to Canada. Citytv has given an order for Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, the 10-episdoe drama that will follow an elite squad of detectives who investigate high-profile crime and corruption in Toronto. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV CASTING NEWS

Sean Bean and Miranda Richardson will star opposite John Malkovich in a biopic that will be about Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache. Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief) is taking over from Rupert Friend, who had to bow out due to scheduling difficulties. The movie, set to be called, The Yellow Tie will tell the story of controversial classical conductor Sergiu Celibidache, one of Romania’s best known classical music artists. He battled homelessness and prejudice before becoming the youngest ever conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. (Variety)

The Amazon small screen adaptation of Cruel Intentions will be saying goodbye to Broadway star Laura Benanti, who was to recur on the series, but has to bow out due to scheduling conflicts. (Variety)

Mo Brings Plenty from Yellowstone has joined the cast of the 1883 offshoot Lawmen: Bass Reeves, playing Minco Dodge, a Choctaw Native American who is friends with the title character, who will be played by David Oyelowo. (TV Line)

Mark Ruffalo has landed the lead role in the untitled upcoming HBO limited series from Brad Ingelsby that will follow a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are trying to apprehend. (Variety)

Details have leaked for the HBO big budget Harry Potter series, including the following cast members: Lesley Manville who will play Professor McGonegal; Liam Cunningham who will play Dumbledore; Andy Serkis who will play Hagrid and Christopher Eccleston playing Profesor Snape. It’s also been rumored that David Tennant is the top choice for Tom Riddle/Voldermort and Ruth Wilson in talks for a major villain role. (Fan Fest Online)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Paris Christmas Waltz is the sequel movie to The Christmas Waltz BUT the sequel will air on Great American Family while the original movie aired on the Hallmark Channel. The sequel will star Glee alum Matthew Morrison and soap star Jen Lilley. (Deadline)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for the past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Amazon has announced the main cast for the small-screen adaptation of the box office movie Cruel Intentions, including Sarah Catherine Hook (Netflix’s short-lived First Kill), newcomer Zac Burgess and Khobe Clarke (Firefly Lane and Yellowjackets) [among others] as well as Sean Patrick Thomas (who starred in the original film) and John Harlan Kim (The Librarians and 9-1-1). Broadway vet Laura Benanti and The Closer alum Jon Tenney will have recurring roles. It is unclear at this time if the series will air on Amazon Prime or Freevee. (Variety)

Captain Marvel and No Time to Die actress Lashanna Lynch will star opposite Eddie Redmayne in the Peacock series The Day of the Jackal, which is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel. It will be a modern reimagining telling the story of a chameleon-like anti-hero. Redmayne will play notorious assassin The Jackal, while Lynch will play Bianca, a tenacious law enforcement agent determined to catch The Jackal. (Variety)

The impossible has happened: Kim Cattrall will reprise her role of Samantha Jones in the upcoming second season of the Max sequel series And Just Like That…in a one-off cameo. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Outlander alum Tobias Menzies will star alongside Kerry Condon and Damson Idris in the as yet untitled Formula One racing feature film that will star Brad Pitt as a former driver who returns to the sport. What role Menzies will play is being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Dwayne Johnson will be back as Luke Hobbs in a new standalone movie within the Fast and Furious franchise. The film has yet to be given a title and no plot details are available, though. (Variety)

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