Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
CBS has given renewals to the following dramas: NCIS, NCIS: Hawai’i and CSI: Vegas. (TV Line)
AMC has cancelled the sci-fi anthology series Soulmates, reversing the season two renewal it was given previously. (TV Line)
Succession will come to an end after its upcoming 4th season at HBO. (The New Yorker and TV Line)
The Hallmark Channel has given the long-running family friendly series When Calls the Heart an 11th season renewal. (TV Line)
Netflix has pulled the plug on Mindhunter after only two seasons. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Emily in Paris alum Ashley Park will appear in season three of Only Murders in the Building. (Entertainment Weekly)
Supernatural alum Ruth Connell will reprise her role of witch Rowena in the prequel series The Winchesters. (Entertainment Weekly)
Kari Matchett (Covert Affairs) will have a heavy recurring role in the upcoming Netflix thriller The Night Agent, which is based on the Matthew McQuirk best-seller that centers on a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. Matchett will portray the President. (Deadline)
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) and Lydia West will co-star in the new comedy series Big Mood (currently the working title), which will air on Channel 4 in the UK. The series follows the friendship of Maggie (Coughlan) and Eddie (West) who spent their twenties living in each other’s pockets. But as they look forward to the next decade – with all its pressures, career-related and otherwise – Maggie’s bipolar disorder makes an unwelcome return. Suddenly Eddie finds herself questioning their friendship and whether it will survive the future. (Variety)
Margo Martindale and Chris Diamantopoulos will star in the upcoming Amazon series The Sticky, which is inspired by the true story of The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. The series revolves around Ruth Clarke (Martindale), a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to freedom. With the help of Remy Bouchard, a local blockhead and Mike Byrne (Diamantopoulos), a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup. (Variety)
Mary Elizabeth Wintead will star opposite Ewan McGregor in the upcoming Showtime and Paramount+ series A Gentleman in Moscow, which is an adaptation of the Amor Towles novel. The series follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor) who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history. Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent Hotel Metropol, threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold outside the hotel’s doors, Rostov’s reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Winstead will star as Anna Urbanova, a glamorous, independent and self-made film actress, at the height of her fame. (Variety)
Alison Brie and Jake Lacy will star in the upcoming Peacock limited series Apples Never Fall, based on the novel by Liane Moriarty that is already set to star Annette Bening and Sam Neill. The series centers on the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family. Former tennis coaches Joy (Bening) and Stan (Neill) are parents to four adult children. After decades of marriage, they have finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. But after Joy disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh eyes. Brie stars as Amy Delaney, the oldest Delaney child, the black sheep of the family; while Lacy will star as Troy Delaney, the second-oldest Delaney child, a venture capitalist. (Variety)
Jason Clarke will star in the lead role of US Marshal Frank Remnick in the upcoming Apple drama The Last Frontier. The series will focus on Frank, whose jurisdiction is turned upside-down when a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting free dozens of violent inmates. Tasked with protecting the town he’s vowed to keep safe, he begins to suspect the crash wasn’t an accident, but the first step of a well-crafted plan with international political implications. (Variety)
The 4th and final season of The Umbrella Academy will find Nick Offerman, Megan Mullaly and David Cross joining the cast. Offerman and Mullaly, who are married in real life, will star as Drs. Gene and Jean Thibedeau, a married pair of community college professors from New Mexico who wear sensible footwear and suffer from the most extreme case of deja vu this timeline has ever seen. Meanwhile, Cross will play Sy Grossman, an upstanding, shy business owner and family man desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, who will stop at nothing to get her back. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He will join Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Thunderbolts. What role he will play has yet to be announced. (Variety)
It would seem that Warner Bros Pictures is planning to revamp the Lord of the Rings film franchise; a deal has been made to make multiple films based on the beloved J.R.R. Tolkien books. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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