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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Actors Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica and Murder in a Small Town) and David Hewlett (Stargate: Atlantis) will have recurring roles in the prequel series Vought Rising opposite Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, but details on the characters they will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

SNL alum Kate McKinnon will have a recurring guest starring role in season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, playing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who can alter her appearance depending on the beholder. (Variety)

The Bosch TV universe is expanding from Amazon over to MGM+ with the prequel series Bosch: Start of Watch that will star Cameron Monaghan from Shameless and Omari Hardwick from Power. Monaghan will play rookie cop Harry Bosch (played by Titus Welliver in the original series) and Hardwick playing Eli Bridges, Bosch’s training officer. The series will be set in 1991 in Los Angeles, following 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his earliest days as a rookie cop. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

George Clooney and Annette Bening will star in the upcoming book adaptation of Amy Bloom’s best-sellilng memoir In Love that is an illuminating, modern love story about two people who make an impossible decision together that honors their enduring commitment to each other. (Deadline)

Young actress Chloe Coleman (Marry Me and the My Spy franchise) will star in the upcoming Taylor Sheridan-written action feature film F.A.S.T. that will star 1923 alum Brandon Sklenar as a former special forces commando, down on his luck after he returns Stateside, who is tapped by the DEA to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers in his town. Coleman will play his daughter while LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke and Sam Claflin round out the cast. (The Hollywood Reporter)

James Norton will play longtime manager Brian Epstein in the upcoming Sam Mendes anthology film The Beatle. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Amazon Prime has a new YA series in development, which will be inspired by the best-selling novel by Krystal Marquis. The Davenports, the Bridgerton-esque romance series, set in 1910 America, will center on one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status thanks to the entrepreneurship of formerly enslaved patriarch William Davenport. Surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, his daughters Olivia and Helen, and their friends, are finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to. (Deadline)

Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star Millie Bobby Brown will star in and executive produce the upcoming new series Prism that is in development at Netflix. She will play Cassie, a woman with the unique ability to communicate with apparitions, who must uncover the cause of a newly discovered phenomenon that causes “visitors” (ghosts) to appear all over the world before it’s too late. Superman star Rachel Brosnahan will also executive produce. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Showtime has announced that Yellowjackets will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season. The cabler has also given Dexter: Resurrection a second season renewal. (Deadline and Variety)

Apple TV+ has given the period piece The Buccaneers a third season pick-up. (Variety)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on both dramas Countdown, which starred Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles, and Butterfly, which starred Lost alum Daniel Dae Kim, after only one season each. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Candor will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the CBS series Elsbeth, playing the much younger girlfriend of a college basketball coach. (Variety)

Actor David Del Rio has been removed from the cast of the reboot of Matlock following an investigation into a sexual assault allegation. According to sources, the alleged incident occurred Sept. 26 and involved fellow Matlock series regular Leah Lewis. (Deadline)

Yellowstone and Teen Wolf alum Ian Bohen has landed a series regular role in season 3 of Lioness, playing Grady, a by-the-book Delta Force operator and primary K9 handler, skilled in battlefield tactics. (Variety)

Millie Brady (The Queen’s Gambit), Blu Hunt (Sherlock & Daughter), James Purefoy (Rome) [among others] have joined the cast of the upcoming FOX Biblical event series The Faithful, which is being described as a faithful dramatization of the Book of Genesis as told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate, yet flawed women whose descendants would shape the future of faith as we know it today. (Variety)

9-1-1: Lone Star alum Rob Lowe will star in the NBC drama The Detail, which is in the works at the network. The project will follow elite agents serving on the president’s protective detail as they attempt to balance life with professional duty while securing the nation and defending against the next imminent threat. (Variety)

Succession star Jeremy Strong will star in and executive producer the newly greenlit limited series 9/12 about ailing 9/11 first responders’ David vs. Goliath legal fight for compensation for Paramount+. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The Summer I Turned Pretty alum Rain Spencer will star in and executive produce the in-development series Genuine Fraud, based on the book by author E. Lockhart that will center on a social chameleon (Spencer) who reinvents herself as the best friend of a wealthy heiress, then assumes her “friend’s” life when she goes missing. (Deadline)

Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons are set to star in the geo-political thriller series Embassy that was being presented to international buyers at Mipcom. The series will focus on what happens when armed mercenaries storm the U.S. embassy in London. Layla (Kendrick), a sharp and resourceful American diplomat, faces an impossible choice: protect the U.S. ambassador (Simmons) or follow his orders to exfiltrate a high value asset being held at the embassy. As a larger conspiracy unfolds, Layla must rely on her instincts—and the reluctant help of her ex-fiancé, a British SAS soldier—in the tense hours before extraction. (Variety)

Julie Plec (executive producer on The Vampire Diaries and We Were Liars) is developing a drama series based on the Alchemy of Secrets novel by Stephanie Garber, which follows Holland St. James, who was informed by a local legend named the Watch Man that she’ll die tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart. Holland plunges into the magical world at the heart of Los Angele s— and into the path of a magnetic stranger. As they chase clues that take them closer to the Alchemical Heart, Holland isn’t sure who to trust and if the Alchemical Heart can save her. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE AND STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Mega-hot actress and singer Lady Gaga will appear in the upcoming sequel The Devil Wears Prada, but details on who she will play have not been released. (Variety)

BAFTA Rising Star Mia McKenna-Bruce and Saoirse Ronan will star in the biopics about The Beatles to be directed by Sam Mendes. Ronan will play Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul McCartney and McKenna-Burce will play Maureen Starkey, the first wife of Ringo Starr. (Deadline and Variety)

Debi Mazar (Younger) and Denis O’Hare (True Blood) have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix thriller The Last Mrs. Parrish, based on the book by Live Constantine. The cast of the film includes Jennifer Lopez, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isabel May and Pierson Fodé. Character details are under wraps, but the film will focus on a con woman who targets a wealthy couple by befriending the wife and seducing the husband with the master plan of becoming the next ‘Mrs. Parrish,’ only to discover that the wife’s life is far more twisted than she could have imagined. (Deadline)

Jessica Matten (Dark Winds) has joined the cast of the upcoming historical indie drama Standing Bear, playing Bird Song, the wife of Chief Standing Bear, which will be played by Twilight alum Chaske Spencer. The film tells the story of the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing forced removal on the Trail of Tears and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, which secured recognition of Native Americans as “persons” under U.S. law, a precedent-setting civil-rights victory too often absent from American history books. (Variety)

Matt Dillon (Crash) will play Frank Stallone Sr., father of Sylvester Stallone in the upcoming movie I Play Rocky. (Deadline)

Ashley Judd will star in and executive produce the upcoming film 21 Down starring as Mari Cox, the mother of Caden Cox, who made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to play and score in a college football game. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Amazon Prime has given the Maggie Q-led drama Ballard a season two renewal. (Deadline)

Great American Family has given the spin-off series When Hope Calls for a third season. The forthcoming season, which comes with a new subtitle Brookfield, is currently in production and is slated to return sometime in 2026. (TV Line)

Showtime will bring the long-running drama The Chi to an end after its upcoming 8th season. (Variety)

The Hulu comedy Mid-Century Modern, which starred Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, the late Linda Lavin and Nathan Lee Graham, has been pulled after only one season. (Variety)

Paramount+ has given the drama series Lioness a third season renewal. (Deadline)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

ABC has given a series order to the new hour-long pilot RJ Decker, which is the current working title, for the drama that will star Felicity alum Scott Speedman as RJ Decker, a disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con who starts over as a private investigator in the colorful-if-crime-filled world of South Florida. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway will star in the Ron Howard-directed flick Alone at Dawn that will be based on the book by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz that is based on an incredible true story. Years after Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman fought to the death to save his fellow soldiers, an intelligence officer strives to prove his valor — leading an investigation that ultimately would secure him the Medal of Honor. (Deadline)

The sequel flick The Beekeeper 2 will find Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi and Jemma Redgrave reprising their roles from the original film while Guardians of the Galaxy alum Pom Klementieff and Haven alum Adam Copeland are joining the cast. Plot details for the sequel and character details for the latter two cast members are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Rami Malek has joined the cast of the upcoming film The Man I Love that will be set in late ‘80s New York that will star Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The movie is being described as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress.” (Variety)

Stephan James (Beacon 23 and Selma) will star as Carl Weathers in the upcoming film I Play Rocky that will star Pixels and Purple Heart actor Anthony Ippolito in the lead role of Sylvester Stallone. (Deadline)

Leverage alum Aldis Hodge will join Jake Gyllenhaal in the upcoming sequel to Road House for Amazon MGM Studios. Plot details for the sequel are being kept under wraps as is the role for which Hodge will play. (Deadline)

Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of the Highlander box office reboot that will star Henry Cavill in the lead role. Irons will play one of the antagonists in the film. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Frances Fisher (Titanic), Will Patton (Armageddon), Lauren Holly (NCIS), and M.C. Gainey (Con Air) will star in the box office film Ruby Road that follows Fisher as Ruby, a former coal-truck and school-bus driver, who when facing a terminal illness sets off in her yellow mini-bus through the Appalachian mountains on a final journey to reconcile with her past and her fractured family. Character details for the others have not been released yet. (Deadline)

Once Upon a Time and The Rainmaker alum Lana Parrilla, Daredevil star Charlie Cox and Haley Bennett (Cyrano and the upcoming The Last Frontier) will star in the upcoming sci-fi thriller flick Synthetic that will be set in the near future, where a retired soldier’s isolated existence is shattered when a runaway female android seeks refuge on his farm, sparking an unexpected bond that forces them to fight for their survival and for each other. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Nicole Beharie (Sleepy Hollow and The Morning Show) has been cast as a series regular in the Netflix thriller All the Sinners Bleed based on the novel S.A. Cosby will follow the story of Titus Crown (Sope Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff in a small Bible Belt county. Haunted by his devout mother’s untimely death, he must lead the hunt for a serial killer that has been preying on his Black community for years in the name of God. Beharie will play Darlene, Titus’ supportive girlfriend. (Deadline)

Brooke Shields will be reprising her role of Charlotte Thornton (mother of the late Jack Thornton) in the upcoming season 13 of the Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart. (Variety)

Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent and House of Cards) has joined the second season of the Netflix series Ransom Canyon. She will play Claire O’Grady, the mother of Quinn (series lead Minka Kelly). (The Hollywood Reporter)

Scott Wolf will be back as Dr. Richard Miller on the FOX medical drama Doc during its current second season, appearing in a multi-episode guest arc and he will also direct an episode early next year. (TV Line)

Harry Potter and Killing Eve alum Fiona Shaw has landed a series regular role in the upcoming 2nd season of the Apple TV+ legal thriller Presumed Innocent where she will play a partner at the law firm featured in the new season. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Eoin Macken and Andrew Liner, who played father and son Davis and Reid Collins, in season 1 of Ransom Canyon will not be returning for the show’s upcoming second season. (Deadline)

Hallmark hunk Kristoffer Polaha has joined the cast of the upcoming MGM+ series American Hostage that will star Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi. The show is a psychological thriller whose ’70s-set first season tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Polaha will star as Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him of being a greedy and cutthroat monster. But the real human being is more complicated than that. (Deadline)

Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford have been promoted to series regulars for the 4th season of The Diplomat on Netflix. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Star Trek: Discovery alum David Ajala has joined the cast of Law & Order, playing an NYPD detective. (The Hollywood Reporter)

24 alum Elisha Cuthbert will star in the Amazon Prime series Every Year After, the series adaptation of the novel by Carley Fortune. She will appear in the recurring role of Sue Florek. Told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay – the quintessential lake town – the series is a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever. (Variety)

Lucy Liu will star in the upcoming Peacock crime drama Superfakes that will focus on a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer (Liu), who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family. (Variety)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

FOX has given a 12-episode straight-to-series order for a reboot to Baywatch for the 2026-2027 season. The new version will remain Southern California, featuring adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown will star as Olympic champion gymnast Kerri Strug in the upcoming box office film Perfect tha will be directed by Gia Coppola. Strug was a member of the 1996 USA gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven.” (Deadline)

The classic 1987 sci-fi parody Spaceballs is getting a sequel, and Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to reprise his role of Lord Dark Helmet alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Mel Brooks as the Yoda-esque being Yogurt, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz. Other cast members of Spaceballs 2 will include Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan. (Variety)

Black-ish alum Yara Shahidi will star opposite Jason Statham in The Beekeeper 2, the sequel to the Miramax hit action movie. Details about her character and what the movie will focus on are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Netflix has given a second season renewal to The Hunting Wives. (Variety)

Apple TV+ has given a fourth season order to Foundation. (Deadline)

Acorn TV has ordered a second season for the drama Irish Blood. (Deadline)

ON INDEFINITE HOLD

It looks like Amazon Prime has pushed back the release of the planned season two of Mr. & Mrs. Smith to an uncertain future. Supposedly, the delay is due to cast issues. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Idris Elba will star in and direct a feature film adaptation of This is How it Goes by Neil LaBute for Apple Original Films. The psychological thriller tells the story of a couple who reconnect with an old school acquaintance, apparently randomly, and offer to take him in but then things turn a bit scarier. (Variety)

Twilight alum and The English star Chaske Spencer (who is also a BAFTA nominee) will play th role of Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader Standing Bear in a film of the same name. The film will chronicle the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing “Trail of Tears” march and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear vs Crook that helped recognize Native Americans as “human beings” under U.S. law. (Deadline)

Hannah John-Kamen (Thunderbolts* and Killjoys) has joined the cast of One Second After, the new thriller flick that will star Lost and Duster alum Josh Holloway. The movie, based on the best-selling novel by William R. Forstchen follows John Matherson (Holloway), a college professor and former military officer charged with protecting his community after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse attack cripples the nation. Set in the hills of North Carolina, the film will find John as he confronts a world suddenly stripped of power, communication, and modern infrastructure, guiding those around him through life-or-death decisions in a fight for survival. John-Kamen will play Makalya, a nurse stranded in Black Mountain following the attack. Partnering with John, Makalya fights to keep the community alive as modern society unravels, offering both medical expertise and emotional resilience in the face of collapse. (Deadline)

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will play the lead role, opposite Jennifer Lopez, in The Last Mrs. Parrish, the anticipated film adaptation of the hit novel by Lynne and Valerie Constantine. Also joining the cast are Isobel May (1883) and Pierson Fodé (The Wrong Paris and The Bold and the Beautiful). The film will center on a twisted con artist who ends up with more than she bargained for in targeting a wealthy couple. Daphne Parrish (Lopez) and Jackson Parrish (Coster-Waldau) have it all on paper, as Amber Patterson (May) looks to befriend the wife and seduce her husband. Daphne’s shoes, Amber learns, are far more complicated to slip into than she expected. (Deadline)

Jessica Chastain will star alongside Oscar-nominee John Hawkes and country singer Carter Faith in the upcoming Netflix mystery thriller film Heartland that will follow Misty Jones (Chastain), a former country star who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece (Faith), herself a rising country musician. She must grapple with her own past and Nashville’s seedy underbelly, and her search uncovers a murky side of Nashville where no one, including Misty, is who they seem. (Deadline)

Shadowhunters co-stars Katherine McNamara (Arrow) and Alberto Rosende (Chicago P.D.) as well as Arden Cho (from the recent hit KPop Demon Hunters and the small screen series Teen Wolf) and Margaret Cho will star with Josh Plasse (The Baxters and Butterfly) in the upcoming indie rom-com flick Cheap AF that will tell the story of Carol, a money-saving influencer (Arden Cho) seeking her big break, who risks losing her wedding and relationships when she goes all out to win Wedding Magazine’s “Best Wedding on a Budget” social media competition. (Deadline)

GREEN LIGHT ORDER

Amazon Prime has given a series order to Bishop, an original thriller drama that will star Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, For All Mankind and Altered Carbon). In this new series, he will play homicide detective Bishop Graves, brilliant, battle-scarred, who will put all of his skills to the test in the hunt for an elusive killer targeting San Francisco’s moneyed class. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

The Bold and the Beautiful actor Victor Rivas Rivers has joined the season two cast of The Pitt where he will play Trent Norris, the CEO of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. (Deadline and TV Line)

Lucifer alum Aimee Garcia has landed a series regular role on The Walking Dead: Dead City for the show’s upcoming third season, playing Renata, a disarmingly charming leader with a natural ability to win people over with her optimism and convivial personality. (Deadline)

New Zealand actress Luciane Buchanan has appeared in not only the first two seasons of The Night Agent but also the Jason Momoa-led Apple TV+ period piece drama Chief of War, but she will not be returning for season three of The Night Agent, as it appears the powers-that-be behind the show have decided to focus solely on FBI agent Peter Sutherland (series lead Gabriel Basso) for the upcoming third season. (Deadline)

Spence Moore (Brilliant Minds and Creed III) and Charlie Mann (The Watchers) have landed the lead roles in the Starz spin-off series Power: Origins, playing Ghost and Tommy, respectively, the younger versions of the characters portrayed by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora in the mothership Power series. In this spin-off Ghost (Moore) and Tommy (Mann) are ambitious young entrepreneurs on the rise, determined to make their mark on the streets of New York City. (Deadline)

Matthew Rhys (The Americans and Perry Mason) will star opposite Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Jack Reynor (On the Basis of Sex and Midsommar) in season two of the Apple TV+ legal drama Presumed Innocent, which will center on an ambitious defense attorney (Brosnahan) who takes on a high-profile case. Rhys will play her husband, the prosecutor on the case while Reynor will play her client, the defendant. (Deadline)

Joshua Malina (Scandal and The West Wing) will guest-star in an upcoming episode of season 25 of Law & Order, playing the managing partner of a prominent law firm. (TV Line)

The cast members for the spin-off series S.W.A.T. Exiles has been announced, including Lucy Barrett (Charmed and Deep Water), Adain Bradley (Warfare and Tarot), Zyra Gorecki (La Brea), Freddy Miyares (When They See Us) and Ronen Rubenstein (9-1-1: Lone Star). Also, Jay Harrington and Patrick St. Esprit will reprise their S.W.A.T. roles of Sergeant David “Deacon” Kay and Commander Robert Hicks (respectively) will make guest appearances. (Variety and Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items from this past week:

RENEWAL

SAS Rogue Heroes has been renewed for a third season by MGM+. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Harry Potter alum Warwick Davis will return as Charms Professor Filius Flitwick in the small screen TV adaptation of the box office films and novels on which they are based. (Variety)

30 Rock alum Jane Krakwoski will guest star in the upcoming 2nd season of Brillian Minds on NBC, appearing as Arianna Burnett, a high-powered businesswoman who fights her conservatorship despite her family’s growing concerns. (Variety)

Amazon Prime is working on a small screen live-action series of Tomb Raider with Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner taking over the lead role of Lara Croft. (Variety)

Veteran actor Ed Harris has joined the cast of The Dutton Ranch, the working title for the Yellowstone spin-off that will focus on Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler (Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser). The series will focus on the couple and their new home – The Dutton Ranch. Harris will play Everett McKinney, a weathered veteran and veterinarian who treats animals with compassion and understanding and possesses a good sense of humor. (Deadline)

Veteran actor Kurt Russell has joined the cast of the other Yellowstone spin-off The Madison that will star Michelle Pfeiffer. This spin-off is a heartfelt exploration of grief and human connection, following a New York City family in the Madison River Valley of central Montana. The role Russell will play is being kept under wraps, but he joins a cast that includes Patrick J. Adams (Suits), Matthew Fox (Lost), Beau Garrett (Firefly Lane) and Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds). (Deadline)

Chicago Med alum Nick Gehlfuss and actress Michael Michele (the Dynasty reboot and ER) have joined the cast of the upcoming FBI spin-off CIA that will center on two unlikely partners – a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent (Gehlfuss) who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength. Michele is believed to be playing the series’ third lead, the head of CIA’s New York Station. (Deadline)

Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy and Poker Face), Ted Levine (Monk) and Margarita Levieva (Daredevil: Born Again and Revenge) have all landed major recurring roles in the upcoming Apple TV+ small screen adaptation of Cape Fear. The drama series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller, examining America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century. In it, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. What roles Perlman, Levine and Levieva are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Aidan Turner (Being Human and Poldark) will play a key recurring guest star role in the upcoming third season of The Diplomat, but details about his character are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Netflix is developing a limited series TV adaptation of The Age of Innocence based on the classic novel by Edith Wharton. The cast of this adaptation will include Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & the Six), Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers), Ben Radcliffe (Masters of the Air) and the one and only Margo Martindale (Justified and The Sticky). The main theme of this classic story is about forbidden love in 19th-century New York. Morrone will play Ellen Olenska, the intelligent and independent cousin of May Welland, who returns to New York after a failed marriage to Count Stanislas Olenski, a Polish nobleman. A free spirit who is playful, intelligent, and strong-willed, yet carries conflict and guilt surrounding her new position in society. Froseth will play the aforementioned May Welland, a kind and genuine woman who is a product of her social class. Traditional, a rule follower and believer in the status quo, but not without rebellion. Radcliffe will play Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it. And, Martindale will play Mrs. Manson-Mingott May and Ellen’s grandmother, who is entertaining, scurrilous, defiant, capricious, and stubborn. (Deadline)

Annabeth Gish (Mayfair Witches) will have a multi-episode guest starring role in the upcoming 14th season of Chicago Fire playing the mayor’s chief of staff, Annette Davis. (TV Insider)

Season 3 of Elsbeth on CBS will see William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) and Annaleigh Ashford (Happy Face) in guest starring roles. Harper will play the founding director of a New York City poetry journal, desperate for funding while Ashford will appear in a special Halloween-themed episode playing Sharon Norman, a murderous suburban housewife. (Deadline)

STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Charles Melton (May December and Riverdale), Rachel Brosnahan (Superman) and Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star in the Netflix flick Saturn Return, a Chicago-set romance that will explore the themes of love, loss and life’s complicated turns in the 10 years between the aspirational young love of college and the complicated realities of adulthood. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Jennifer Taylor (Two and a Half Men) and Hallmark hunk Kristoffer Polaha will star in the faith-based drama flick Between the Lines that will be set in a small town near a military base, focusing on a woman in her late forties who forms an unexpected bond with a young soldier, sparking a journey that challenges her marriage and faith – and ultimately leads her and her husband toward surrender, renewal, and the redemptive power of forgiveness. The cast includes Josh Swickard (General Hospital and A California Christmas) and Mayan Lopez (Co-creator and star of NBC’s Lopez vs Lopez). (Deadline)

Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of the upcoming box office reboot Highlander, starring Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the lead roles. Hounsou will play an immortal warrior from Africa. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) will star in the upcoming box office film Father Of Us, a bittersweet family saga based on a true story, set in 1968 suburbia, following five siblings caught between their magnetic but reckless father and their radiant but overwhelmed mother. Slater will play Bob Olson, the adored but flawed father at the heart of the story. (Deadline)

Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad and The Fate of the Furious) will star opposite Djimon Hounsou and Halle Berry in the upcoming action-thriller flick Red Card that will follow Max Elmi (Hounsou), a veteran ranger battling poachers in Kenya who joins forces with Dane Harris (Eastwood), a tenacious special agent and part of a team led by FBI supervisor Amanda Bruckner (Berry) working with international law enforcement to fight trafficking rings abroad. When Max’s son, a talented soccer player, falls prey to a deceitful sports agent and disappears into the criminal underworld of North Africa, Max will stop at nothing to find his child, and Dane will have to decide how far he’s willing to go. According to the synopsis, their odyssey takes them from the quiet Masai villages of Kenya to the dangerous, simmering streets of Casablanca in Morocco. (Variety)

Walton Goggins (Fallout and The White Lotus) and Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry and Thunderbolts) will star alongside Jessica Biel in the upcoming box office movie Batso that will tell the true story of a trio of trailblazing climbers, who in the early 1970s took on the most difficult route up iconic peak El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Goggins will play Harding while Pullman will play Caldwell and Biel will play Beryl Knauth, a key pillar in the Yosemite climbing community. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

CANCELLATIONS

The YA drama Motorheads has been cancelled after only one season by Amazon Prime, but the producers and the series creator are shopping it around for a new potential home. (Deadline)

Netflix has pulled the plug on the drama The Waterfront after only one season. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Yellowstone alums Gil Birmingham, Mo Brings Plenty and Brecken Merrill will reprise their roles of Thomas Rainwater, Mo and Tate Dutton respectively on the CBS spin-off series Y” Marshals that will focus on youngest son Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes). The series find Kayce joining an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence. Arielle Kebbel (Rescue: Hi-Surf) will star as Belle and veteran actor Brett Cullen will appear as Harry Gifford, the head of the U.S. Marshals in Montana. (Variety)

Nick Gehlfuss will reprise his role of Dr. Will Halstead in a guest-starring role on Chicago Med after leaving the show in 2023. Meanwhile, one of the last three remaining original cast member Marlyne Barrett will not be returning to the medical drama for its upcoming season 11. (Deadline and Variety)

A-lister Annette Bening has joined the cast of the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off that will focus on Bet and Rip. Bening will star as Beulah Jackson, the powerful, cunning, and charming head of a major ranch in Texas. (Variety)

Adam Campbell, who played the younger version of Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard in the mothership series NCIS will reprise that role in the prequel series NCIS: Origins. The episode will also pay tribute to the late David McCallum, who played Ducky for 20 seasons on NCIS. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Guest stars for season two of the FOX drama Murder in a Small Town will include Camryn Manheim (Law and Order), Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time and Lovecraft Country), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries). Manheim will play Jocelyn Tait, an iron-tough, working-class matriarch, who has lived her life in the shadow of a family feud, who comes to Gibsons for a “Romeo and Juliet-style” wedding; Posey will play Ryan, a former party boy turned holistic health aficionado, who is desperate to leave behind a reckless past; Chung will play Lanni Soo, a career-driven and straight-forward, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney General, who approaches Alberg (series lead Rossif Sutherland) with an intriguing case; Reid will reprises his role of Tommy Cummins, the unassuming high school art teacher whose greatest work put him behind bars and Canning will play Mackenzie Rankin, a woman who organizes a memorial gathering following the death of her younger sister. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS/PILOT ORDER NEWS

Hulu has given a pilot order to a series adaptation of the Nash Jenkins novel Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos that will be written and executive produced by uber-producer Greg Berlanti and Bash Doran. The series will be a teen mystery series set at a boarding school on the East Coast that explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals. (Variety)

Warner Bros Television is developing a limited series set around the Karen Read trial, which will follow the trial that captivated the country and turned Read into a household name. When a Boston police officer is found dead in the snow, all eyes are on his girlfriend, Read. The case fractures a community, with some believing she is guilty of first-degree murder, and others that she’s the victim of a sweeping cover-up by state and local law enforcement. This series explores society’s obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions. Elizabeth Banks is on board to play the lead character. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries), Tyler Hoechlin (Superman and Lois) and Virginia Gardner (Runaways) will star in the upcoming rom-com flick It Happened One Summer that will focus on Piper Bellinger, a glamorous LA It Girl whose glittering world comes crashing down after a viral mishap gets her cancelled overnight. Cut off from her wealthy family’s safety net, she’s exiled to a rugged fishing town with one ultimatum: fix up her late father’s dive bar – or lose everything. There, she butts heads with Brendan, a gruff sea captain who has zero patience for influencers. He’s the last person she expected – and exactly what she needs. (Deadline)

Amy Adams and Aaron Pierre will join Ryan Gosling in the upcoming movie Star Wars: Starfighter, an entirely original story set in a period of time never before explored within the franchise. There are no plot or character details though. (Variety)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE CASTING NEWS

The upcoming Hallmark holiday movie A Grand Ole Opry Christmas has added Sharon Lawrence, James Denton, Rob Mayes and Luke Benward to the cast. Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha will lead the film. (Variety)

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RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Netflix has given a second season order to Dept. Q. (Deadline)

Paramount has decided not to bring Dexter: Original Sin for a second season despite the prequel getting a renewal order. (Variety)

MGM+ has given The Institute a second season order. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Amalia Williamson (Sullivan’s Crossing) and Tom Cavanagh (The Flash) will star opposite Brooke Shields in the upcoming crime drama series You’re Killing Me on Acorn TV. The 6-episode series follows bestselling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with Andi, an aspiring writer and podcaster (Williamson) to find the killer of a close friend. Williamson’s Andi is a sassy Girl Wonder who was once an up-and-coming celebrity, until she lost it all. Cavanagh will play Jack, the new lead detective of the Founders Cove Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life. (Deadline)

This Is Us alum Mandy Moore has joined the cast of the Dan Fogelman (the creator of This Is Us) upcoming untitled football drama that will star Law & Order alum Christopher Meloni and William H. Macy. Set inside the world of the NFL, the series has a generational family component to it with Moore set to play Lauren, the daughter of NFL team owner Hank Durkin (Macy) and his heir apparent. Meloni is playing the team’s head coach, Danny Roarke. (Deadline)

Dominic West and Sienna Miller will star in a new legal thriller series at HBO that has already received a two-season commitment with West set to play tech titan Morgan Henderson and Miller his estranged wife, the international film star Carla Duval. Set in the prestigious world of London law, the show opens with a scandalous divorce case that sends shockwaves through boardrooms, bedrooms and courtrooms alike. (Variety)

Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials and Logan) and Saara Chaudry (The Mysterious Benedict Society) have joined the cast of the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, with Keen playing the powerful goddess Artemis and Chaudry playing her fan-favorite lieutenant Zoë Nightshade. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Season 2 of the Disney+ series Rivals has announced that Agent Carter alum Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding) will guest star will Malise Gordon and Helen Gordon, respectively. (Deadline)

LIMITED SERIES NEWS

Alexa Davalos (FBI: Most Wanted), Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow), Tom Payne (The Walking Dead) and Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) have joined the second installment of the upcoming Biblical limited series The Faithful, which is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis told through the eyes of five of the Bible’s most iconic women: Sarah and her former slave Hagar; Sarah’s great-niece Rebekah; and Rebekah’s nieces, sisters Leah and Rachel. The second installment centers on Rebekah, played by Davalos, with Mison playing her husband Isaac, and Payne and Robson portraying their adult sons Jacob and Esau, respectively. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy alum Karen Gillan will star alongside Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Dave Bautista and Marisa Abela in the upcoming box office reboot of Highlander. Gillan will play Heather, MacLeod’s (Cavill) mortal wife and the love of his life. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Blake Lively will star in the rom-com The Survival List that follows a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who is assigned against her wishes to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane. When a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a fraud and knows nothing about survival, leaving her in charge of figuring out how to keep them alive. Forced to work together, they begin to discover an unlikely chemistry. The role of Chopper Lane has yet to be cast. (Variety)

The Night Agent star Gabriel Basso will star in the upcoming romantic drama Love of Your Life alongside Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre and Patrick Schwarzenegger, which tells the story of a young woman (Qualley), suddenly single, who goes on a journey to find a way forward in her life. The script is written by Julia Cox. Character details are being kept under wraps, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the upcoming dramedy film Honeymoon with Harry that follows a man (Gyllenhaal) as he decides to go on a honeymoon with his would-be father-in-law (Costner) after his fiancée dies two days before their wedding. (Deadline)

Duster and Lost alum Josh Holloway will play the lead in the upcoming screen adaptation of One Second After based on the best-selling novel by William R. Forstchen where he will play John Matherson, a college professor and former military officer charged with protecting his community after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse attack cripples the nation. Set in the hills of North Carolina, the film follows John as he confronts a world suddenly stripped of power, communication, and modern infrastructure, guiding those around him through life-or-death decisions in a fight for survival. (Deadline)

Vera Farmiga will star opposite Mark Wahlberg in an untitled film based on the 2023 German language sports comedy-drama that follows a father and his autistic son, who wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide. (Deadline)

The Diplomat alum David Gyasi has landed his first lead film role in the upcoming movie The Bard, which will tell the true story of George Moses Horton, the first Black poet to be published in America while enslaved, a feat punishable by death. Horton wrote love poems and anti-slavery protests and was assisted by the white wife of a UNC Chapel Hill professor, who eventually became an anti-abolitionist. (Variety)

Hailee Steinfeld, Ron Perlman, Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Rhenzy Feliz (The Penguin) will star in the upcoming thriller flick Asteroid that will follow a group of strangers who take the risk of a lifetime to travel to a nearby asteroid for the opportunity to mine for wealth beyond their wildest dreams. (Deadline)

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TV CASTING NEWS

William H. Macy (Shameless) has joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled Hulu drama from Dan Fogelman, This Is Us and Paradise series creator, that will be set inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component. Macy will play Hank Durkin. He joins the previously announced series lead Law & Order alum Christopher Meloni, who will play Danny Roarke, the head coach of an NFL team. (Deadline)

Merrin Dungey (Alias) is among the new cast members of the upcoming Buffy the Vampire reboot, which has a pilot order at Hulu and will find Sarah Michelle Gellar back in her signature role of Buffy Summers as well as working as executive producer. Dungey will play Ms. LaDuca, the College Counselor at New Sunnydale Academy. The baton of the slayer has been passed to Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Skeleton Crew) as an introverted high-school student named Nova. (Deadline)

Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley will star together in the upcoming Hulu limited series Count My Lies, which is based on the recently published novel by Sophie Stava. The series is about what happens when compulsive liar Sloane Caraway (Woodley) fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet (Lohan) and Jay Lockhart, it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode — with potentially catastrophic consequences for all. (Deadline)

The one and only John Malkovich has joined the cast of the upcoming rom-com Apple TV+ series Prodigies that will star The Bear alum Ayo Edebiri as Didi. The series focuses on two ex-child prodigies who have been together since they were children. Now in their early 30s, they are starting to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the extraordinary promise of their childhood. Inevitably, they find themselves asking the same questions of their relationship. Details about Malkovich’s character have not yet been announced, though. (Variety)

NCIS Hawai’i alum Noah Mills has landed a recurring role in the CBS medical drama Watson for the show’s upcoming second season. Mills will play Beck Wythe, who has newly returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh after blowing up a career in Silicon Valley with reckless, risk-seeking behavior. He meets Ingrid Derian (Eve Harlow) in group therapy for people trying to manage their Cluster B personality disorders. The two of them form a bond that may be exactly what they need to rebuild their lives or might be just the latest dangerous indulgence for both. (Deadline)

Corinne Massiah and Elijah M. Cooper, who play May and Harry Grant (respectively) – the grown children of Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) – on 9-1-1 have been promoted to series regulars for the show’s upcoming 9th season. (Deadline)

TV SERIES ORDER

Disney+ and Disney Channel have given a greenlight to Coven Academy, a dramedy about a group of young witches in New Orleans. White Collar alum Tiffani Thiessen will star along with Malina Pauli Weissman (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Malachi Barton (Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires), Louis Thresher (Boarders) and Jordan Leftwich (Family Switch) [among others]. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Maggie Grace (Lost and the Taken movie franchise), Devon Sawa (Nikita and Final Destination), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Ralph Macchio (Cobra Kai) will star in the upcoming indie crime thriller The Girl in the River, which is about a seasoned criminologist and a young female psychologist who are lured to a remote Mississippi town to investigate the murder of a little girl and the disappearance of her twin sister. (Deadline)

Sarah Gadon (Ferrari), Max Martini (The Unit and Castle), Dianna Agron (Glee), Mike Vogel (Under the Dome) and Charles Esten (Outer Banks and Nashville) will star in the indie Western film Flint that will also star Lost and Duster alum Josh Holloway. The film, based on the Louis L’Amour novel, centers on James Kettleman (Holloway), a hardened East Coast businessman who returns to the Montana frontier under the name Flint, the alias of the notorious killer who raised him. As he’s pulled into a violent range war, a chance encounter with a strong-willed rancher forces him to reckon with the man he’s become — and the legacy he hopes to leave behind. Gadon will play Nancy Kennigan, a strong, single woman forced to step into her father’s shoes after his passing to take over his ranch. Martini will play Porter Baldwin, a cutthroat East Coast businessman clawing his way back to respectability through a land swindle in the West. Agron will play Lottie Kettleman, an East Coast socialite who traveled West after being abandoned by her wealthy husband. Vogel will play Buck Dunn, a long-range assassin. And, Esten will play Flint, the hired killer who, in taking young Kettleman in, is forced to become a father figure. Hallmark star Kristoffer Polaha and Bailey Chase (Longmire) also star. (Deadline)

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, Lily Collins (Emily in Paris), Jack Quaid (The Boys) and Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) will star in the upcoming box office film Close Personal Friends. Plot details are being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)

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BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Djimon Hounsou and Halle Berry will star in the Africa-set trafficking thriller Red Card, which is based on real events out of Africa. Hounsou will star as Max Elmi, a veteran ranger battling poachers in Kenya who joins forces with Dane Harris, a tenacious special agent and part of a team led by FBI supervisor Amanda Bruckner (Berry) working with international law enforcement to fight trafficking rings abroad. When Max’s son, a talented soccer player, falls prey to a deceitful sports agent and disappears into the criminal underworld of North Africa, Max will stop at nothing to find his child, and Dane will have to decide how far he’s willing to go. Their odyssey takes them from the quiet Maasai villages of Kenya to the simmering streets of Casablanca. (Deadline)

Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson and Cory Michael Smith will star in an untitled romantic drama that will be set in various locations throughout Alaska. Plot details are under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Doctor Who and House of the Dragon alum Matt Smith will star in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter flick alongside Ryan Gosling. The film is set five years after the events of Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, which concluded the Skywalker saga and currently stands as the final feature chronologically on the Star Wars timeline. Details are vague about who Smith will play, but it is believed he will play one of the villain roles. (Deadline)

Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus and the Harry Potter film franchise) will star alongside Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna in the indie hostage thriller Eleven Days that takes place in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, watching as ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco takes control of the Huntsville Penitentiary. The prison’s priest, Father Joseph O’Brien (Isaacs) joins forces with Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, by entering the eye of the storm and offering himself as a hostage to out-game Carrasco and his men, in an attempt to save the lives of the other hostages that have been taken. (Deadline)

Yellowstone alum Jefferson White, Crispin Glover (Back to the Future franchise), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Teen Wolf alum Tyler Posey are set to star in the upcoming box office movie Death of a Brewer, which will be set against the backdrop of 1884 where a young doctor becomes entangled in a deadly conflict between a brewing empire and a radical temperance movement, forcing him to confront his morals in a world where survival and loyalty are at odds. (Deadline)

Ben Kingsley, Andy Serkis and Grammy winner Joel David Smallbone will star in the presidential origin story Young Washington, which will focus on a young George Washington, chronicling the beginnings of America’s first president. Kingsley will play Robert Dinwiddie, the strong-willed Governor of Virginia who entrusts the young Washington with his first command while Serkis will play General Edward Braddock, an overconfident British officer who gives the defeated Washington another chance at military glory. Meanwhile, Smallbone will play the cunning William Fairfax, a friend and romantic rival to George, who moves effortlessly in the world of the British upper class to which Washington aspires. (Deadline)

Aubrey Plaza (Agatha All Along and Legion) is set to portray the infamous “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss in the upcoming movie about the woman who was busted in the early ‘90s for what was said to be the world’s largest high-end prostitution ring, which implicated Hollywood, politicians and other power figures. (Variety)

Riverdale hunk KJ Apa will star in a biopic about legendary actor Jimmy Stewart, chronicling the beloved actor’s life as a rising star before World War II, during which he served as a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After his return home, he starred in the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Days of Our Lives alum and Great American Family movie star Jen Lilley will play Gloria Stewart, Stewart’s wife while Hallmark star Sarah Drew (Mistletoe Murders) will play famed gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. (People and Entertainment Now)

Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria will star in the upcoming box office movie The Last Sunrise, an adaptation of the bestselling romance novel by After series author Anna Todd. Longoria will play Isolde, the protective mother of Oriah “Ry” Pera, a 22-year-old whose life has been shaped by chronic illness and a well-meaning but overbearing mom. When a summer relocation gives her a taste of freedom, she meets Julián, who draws her into the kind of adventure she’s always longed for. But with a return to the U.S. on the horizon, Ry faces a decision that could change everything. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Logan Marshall-Green (Big Sky and the Netflix movie Carry On) will star opposite Luke Grimes in the CBS Yellowstone spin-off series Y: Marshalls, playing Pete Calvin, a friend from Kayce’s (Grimes) time in the military. The series will focus on Kayce, joining an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence. (Deadline)

Will Trent has promoted Kevin Daniels to series regular for its upcoming 4th season on ABC. (Deadline)

Evil and Luke Cage alum Mike Colter has signed on for a leading role in Cupertino, which comes from Robert and Michelle King – the brains behind the CBS drama Evil. The show is described as a David vs. Goliath legal drama with Colter playing a lawyer fired by a Silicon Valley start-up intending to cheat him out of his stock options. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley. Cupertino has not been greenlit yet, but all signs are pointing to it heading that way. (Variety)

Actress-comedian Amy Sedaris, late night star Andy Richter and Lindsay Mendez (Broadway’s Wicked and All Rise) will make guest appearances in the premiere episode of Elsbeth over on CBS this fall. Sedaris will play Laurel Hammond-Muntz, the headstrong and devoted head writer and executive producer of the popular late-night talk show Way Late. Richter will play Mickey Muntz, the hilarious but long-suffering sidekick to Scotty Bristol (Stephen Colbert), the host of Way Late. He’s also Laurel’s husband. Meanwhile Mendez will play Officer Grace Hackett, a hard-working officer and an aspiring stand-up comic when off the clock. When she teams up with Elsbeth for a case focused on the world of comedy, her knowledge of the business comes in handy. (Deadline)

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