Actress Ksenia Solo (Lost Girl and Turn: Washington’s Spies) will be a series regular in the upcoming History Channel drama series Blue Book which will chronicle the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.” The series follows Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen), a brilliant college professor recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead this clandestine operation that researched thousands of cases, many of which were never solved. Solo will portray Susie, a stylish, eye-catching young woman with an alluring confidence to envy. (Deadline)
Actor Breckin Meyer (Franklin & Bash) has landed a recurring role on Designated Survivor, playing Trey Kirkman, the polar opposite of his older brother, Tom Kirkman (series lead Kiefer Sutherland), in temperament and life choices. (Deadline)
Actor Michael Rady (UnREAL and Jane the Virgin) will have a recurring role on the NBC time-travel drama Timeless, playing Nicholas Keynes, an American soldier in World War I who, after getting badly injured during battle, is carried to a farmhouse, where he is cared for by Emma (Annie Wersching) and Carol (Susanna Thompson), who want to save his life. Though he seems helpless at first, Keynes is much more formidable than he initially appears. (TV Line)
Actress Arden Cho (Teen Wolf) will recur on Chicago Med as Emily, the party-girl adopted sister of Dr. Ethan Choi; a semi-professional gambler who bankrolls her high-stakes betting by cozying up to rich men. (TV Line)
Actor Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies and True Blood) will star opposite Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) in the small screen adaptation of John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl, which is a co-production between AMC, BBC One and The Ink Factory. The 6-part mini-series will follow Charlie, a brilliant young actress, as she strikes up an acquaintance with Becker, an intriguing stranger, while on holiday in Greece. (TV Line)
Actress Shantel VanSanten (Shooter) will recur on Scorpion as Toby’s onetime fiancée, Amy, who is now married to his nemesis, pop-psychologist Quincy Berkstead (Jeff Galfer). (TV Line)
Nashville is being cancelled, again. The show aired for four season on ABC before being cancelled. But it was saved by CMT; except the cable network has announced that the musical drama will come to an end after its upcoming sixth season. (TV Line)
CBS has given a full season order to freshman drama S.W.A.T. (Variety)
The new Stana Katic (Castle) series Absentia has found its U.S. home: Amazon. The series is slated to debut in 2018. The show centers on FBI agent Emily Byrne (Katic), who – while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers – disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, Emily is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive, and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of murders. (Deadline)
Amazon is also moving forward with a Lord of the Rings TV series, which will explore new storylines preceding “The Fellowship of the Ring.” (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actress Skyler Samuels (Scream Queens and The Nine Lives of Chloe King) has landed a recurring role in The Gifted. She will play a refugee mutant with telepathic abilities and a mysterious past. (Deadline)
Actress Carmen Ejogo (The Girlfriend Experience) will star opposite actor Mahershala Ali (Luke Cage and The 4400) in the new installment of the HBO anthology drama True Detective. She will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980. Ali will play Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. The new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. (Variety)
Actor Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge (Leverage and Underground) will star in the Showtime pilot City on a Hill, a fictional account of a real time in Boston history that came to be called the “Boston Miracle.” District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) comes from Brooklyn and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran Jackie Rhodes (Bacon), who is deeply invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system. (Variety)
Actresses Marlee Matlin (Switched at Birth) and Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and actors Zach Gilford (Kingdom and Friday Night Lights) and Colt Prattes (the Dirty Dancing small-screen remake) will star in the Sundance Now upcoming series This Close, which is based on a series of shorts featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s Short Form Episodic Showcase, created, written and starring actress Shoshannah Stern (Jericho and Supernatural) and Josh Feldman, both of whom are deaf. The show will explore the relationship between best friends Kate (Stern), who is newly engaged, and Michael (Feldman), who is attempting to move on from his ex-fiancé. Gilford will play Danny, Kate’s fiancé; Hines will play Stella, a PR maven and Kate’s boss; Prattes will play Ryan, Michael’s (Feldman) ex and Matlin will play Michael’s mother, Annie, a recovering alcoholic trying to reconnect with her son. (The Futon Critic)
Actor Nathan Lane will appear in the 100th episode of The Blacklist, playing criminal Abraham Stern, who manipulates the desperate into committing illegal and immoral acts so that he can claim his birthright fortune. (TV Line)
Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope and currently recurring on The Gifted) and actress Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) have both landed series regular roles in the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead. Details on the roles they will play are being kept under wraps though. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Ellen Page has been cast in the upcoming Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, which is the small screen adaptation of the popular comics and graphic novel of the same name. The live action series will follow the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes (The Umbrella Academy) – Luther, Diego, Allison, Vanya, Klaus and Number Five – as they work together to solve their father’s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their divergent personalities and abilities. Page will play Vanya, the black sheep of her family. (Variety)
Actresses Felicia Day (The Guild) and Jaime Ray Newman (Grimm and Eastwick) will both appear in the third season of The Magicians, which is slated to return to Syfy in January. Day will play Poppy, a dragon expert while Newman will play Irene McAllistair, a member of Brakebills’ Board of Trustees. (TV Line and Nerdist)
Actor Vincent Ventresca (The Invisible Man and Prey) has landed a recurring role on the Freeform drama The Fosters, playing Henry Mullen, Grace’s (Brandon’s current girlfriend) father, an absentee dad, who is determined to visit his daughter despite copious amounts of friction with his ex-wife. (Deadline)
Singing legend Patti LaBelle and actress-singer Brandy Norwood will both appear in multi-episodes of Star with LaBelle playing Carlotta Brown’s (series lead Queen Latifah) tough but loving mother, Christine; and Norwood play Carlotta’s younger sister, Cassie. (Deadline)
Actor Eric Winter (Witches of East End) has landed a recurring role on The Good Doctor, playing Dr. Matt Coyle, a young and charming doctor, who initially impresses members of the hospital’s surgical team, but whose true character puts one of the team members in an awkward position at work. (Deadline)
Actor Stephan James (Shots Fired) has landed the lead role opposite Julia Roberts in the Amazon straight-to-series half-hour drama Homecoming, a psychological thriller centering on Heidi (Roberts), a caseworker at a secret government facility, and a soldier (James) eager to rejoin civilian life. (Deadline)
Actress Laura Mennell (Alphas) will star opposite Aidan Gillen in the History Channel’s upcoming 10-episode drama series Blue Book, which chronicles the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.” Gillen plays Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant astrophysicist, family man, and UFO skeptic who is recruited as the Chief Scientific Advisor to “Project Blue Book.” Meanwhile, Mennell will play Allen’s wife, Mimi Hynek, who is seemingly a content stay-at-home housewife but has plans to become much more. (Deadline)
Actress Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) and actor Jesse Rath (Defiance) will both be appearing the Supergirl. Metcalf will play the estranged mother of Winn Schott (series regular Jeremy Jordan) while Rath will have the recurring role of Brainiac 5. Half computer, half organic life and boasting a 12-level intellect, Brainiac 5 is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes who travels to National City from the 31st Century to help Supergirl and the DEO battle Reign, the villain that L-Corp CEO Samantha Arias (recurring guest star Odette Annable) is on track to becoming. (Vanity Fair Feature and TV Line)
Actor James Tupper (Men in Trees and Revenge) will appear opposite his real-life wife Anne Heche in the NBC military drama The Brave, playing Alex Hoffman, a brilliant CIA field officer who in the past formed a partnership of opportunity with Patricia (Heche’s character) as they rose through the ranks together. (TV Line)
Actress Kim Raver (24 and Grey’s Anatomy) will reunite with her former 24 co-star Kiefer Sutherland in Designated Survivor where she will play Andrea Frost, a wunderkind engineer and entrepreneur whose company, Apache Aerospace, is at the apex of high-tech industry. This casting announcement comes just weeks after word leaked that leading lady Natascha McElhone (she plays Kiefer’s wife in the series) will exit at mid-season. (TV Line)
Actor-singer Josh Groban will star opposite Tony Danza (Who’s the Boss) in the upcoming Netflix series The Good Cop, playing the role of Tony Jr., an earnest, obsessively honest NYPD detective who makes a point of always following the rules. Tony Jr. is son to Tony Sr. (Danza), a disgraced, former NYPD officer who never followed the rules. They become unofficial partners as Tony Sr. offers his overly-cautious son blunt, street-wise advice on everything from handling suspects to handling women. (Variety)
Actors Russell Hornsby (Grimm) and Tim Matheson (Hart of Dixie) as well as actress Dina Meyer (Kingdom) will appear in the upcoming 4th season of The Affair on Showtime. Hornsby will play Carl Gatewood, Janelle’s (Sanaa Lathan) ex-husband and Noah’s (West) rival for her affection. Matheson and Meyer will play a couple from Alison’s (Wilson) past, who have shocking information to share about who she is and where she comes from. (Deadline)
Actor Jocko Sims (The Last Ship) will have a recurring role on the new FOX medical drama The Resident that will center on a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Sims will play Dr. Ben Wilmot, a cocky and controlling doctor of internal medicine who takes interest in a patient with hopes of solving a decade-long medical mystery. The series includes Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal, Merrin Dungey Melina Kanakaredes and Bruce Greenwood. (Deadline)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Young actor Asher Angel (the Disney Channel series Andi Mack) has been cast as Billy Batson opposite Zachary Levi (Chuck) in the DC superhero movie Shazam!, which follows a boy (Angel) who can transform into an adult superhero by uttering the magic word “Shazam!” The name is an acronym of the ancient gods and historical figures Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury. (Variety)
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
There will be another small screen adaptation of a John le Carre novel. This time it’s the 1983 box The Little Drummer Girl [coming from the same folks who did The Night Manager]. Actress Florence Pugh (from the 2016 box office film Lady MacBeth) will have the lead role. The six-part drama will be set in the 1970s, following a young, brilliant actress as she prepares for her ultimate role in the theater of the real, and against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Middle East. (Deadline)
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
The CW has given a full season order to Dynasty (why?!) but has not opted to pick up any additional episodes (beyond 13 episodes) for the new military series Valor. (Variety and Deadline)
FOX has renewed The Orville for a second season. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Hip-hop/R&B artist Romeo Miller (aka Lil’ Romeo) will recur in the second season of the Freeform series Famous in Love, playing Pablo $$ (pronounced “Pablo Money). (TV Line)
Actress Peyton List (Frequency and The Flash) will take over the role of Ivy Pepper/Poison Ivy on Gotham in early 2018. (TV Line)
Actress Tiera Skovbye (Polly Cooper on Riverdale) has landed a recurring role on Once Upon a Time as the grown up Robin, daughter of Zelena and Robin Hood. She will debut in the 10th episode of the show’s current season. Also, actor Nathan Parsons (The Originals, True Blood and Bunheads) has booked a recurring role on the show, playing Nick, a charismatic slacker-turned-successful lawyer, who might be a potential love interest for one of the regular characters. (TV Line and Entertainment Weekly)
Veteran actor Bruce McGill will appear in MacGyver, but he won’t be reprising his role of Jack Dalton (from the original series). He will play Detective Greer, a seasoned LAPD veteran who reads MacGyver his Miranda Rights for a murder. (Deadline)
Actress Paula Malcomson (Ray Donovan) will have a guest-starring role and actor Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) has been added as a series regular on the upcoming Superman prequel series Krypton that is set to premiere in 2018 on Syfy. The series is set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, following Superman’s grandfather (relative newcomer Cameron Cuffe), whose House of El was ostracized and shamed, as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos. Malcomson will play Charys, the matriarch of House El while Ritson will play Brainiac, a parasitic, hyper-advanced alien android of immense intelligence, Brainiac is one of Superman’s oldest and most dangerous foes. (Deadline)
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has added some new cast members for its upcoming 5th season, including Eve Harlow (The 100), who will play Tess, a resourceful young woman striving to be self-sufficient in very desperate circumstances and Pruitt Taylor Vince (The Mentalist), who will play Grill, a gruff taskmaster, who lords over those under his command with an unforgiving temperament. He is not easily fooled, nor crossed [among others]. (TV Line)
The Grey’s Anatomy fire fighters spin-off has announced its premise and cast. The 10-episode series will be set in Seattle, focusing on firefighters from the captain down the ranks to the newest recruit in their personal and professional lives. The cast includes Jaina Lee Ortiz (Rosewood), Jason George (Grey’s Anatomy) Miguel Sandoval, Danielle Savre (Too Close to Home), Jay Hayden (The Catch) [among others]. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy) has joined the cast of Madam Secretary, playing Kat Sandoval, a brilliant political strategist, legendary in D.C. for her talent and for abruptly dropping out of politics until Elizabeth (Tea Leoni) manages to coax her back into the State Department. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise his role as Wilson Fisk on the Netflix series Marvel’s Daredevils when it returns for season 3, which will air in 2018. (The Futon Critic)
Actor Yancey Arias (Bosch) has been promoted to series regular on Queen of the South. (Deadline)
Actress Hannah Ware (Betrayal) has landed a role in the Hulu/U.K.’s Channel 4 series The First that will follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth. Her role is being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)
Actress Tamlyn Tomita (The Good Doctor) has landed a recurring role in The Man in the High Castle for its upcoming 3rd season. She will play Tamiko, an Okinawan-American woman born in Hawaii who was an American citizen before the war. Now living in San Francisco, she is Tagomi’s (series lead Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa) neighbor. (Deadline)
Actor Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls) has booked a recurring role on the 6th and final season of The Americans. He will play Glenn Haskard, a member of a State Department negotiating team that Russian secret agent Elizabeth Jennings is covertly working against. (The Hollywood Reporter and TV Line)
Actress Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill) has landed a role in Grey’s Anatomy for the show’s current season in an as yet-to-be-announced role. (The Hollywood Reporter and The Futon Critic)
Actress Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) will play Queen Elizabeth in season three and season four of Netflix’s The Crown, taking over the role from Claire Foy. The second season is set to debut on December 8th on Netflix. Seasons 3 and 4 have not been officially ordered, but early production is said to be underway. (Variety)
Actor Nathan Fillion (Castle) will star in the ABC straight-to-series ordered series The Rookie, which focuses on John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. At an age where most are at the peak of their career, Nolan cast aside his comfortable, small town life and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream of being a cop. Now, surrounded by rookies twenty years his junior, Nolan must navigate the dangerous, humorous and unpredictable world of a “young” cop, determined to make his second shot at life count. (Deadline and TV Line)
Ryan Murphy – the man behind Glee and American Horror Story – has another new series coming to FX: Pose, which will examine everything from New York City’s art and ballroom scene to the late-’80s financial boom. The cast will include Evan Peters (a mainstay on American Horror Story), James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) [among others]. (TV Line)
RENEWALS/CANCELLATION
Zoo has been canceled after three seasons on CBS. (Variety)
Ray Donovan has been renewed for a sixth season by Showtime. (Variety)
Star Trek: Discovery has been renewed for a second season by CBS All Access. (Variety)
AMC has renewed Preacher for a third season. (Variety)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Zachary Levi (Chuck) will play the title character in the New Line and DC Entertainment’s film Shazam! that follows a boy named Billy Batson who can transform into an adult superhero by uttering the magic word Shazam!, the name is an acronym of the ancient gods and historical figures Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury, from whom Batson derives his heroic attributes from when in adult form. (Variety)
Facebook is pushing its way into scripted programming. The latest project is called Five Points set on the South Side of Chicago, taking a look at high school students from five unique points of view. When a life changing event occurs, all of these different perspectives will be necessary to understand the truth. One of the executive producers will be Scandal star Kerry Washington and cast currently includes Hayley Kiyoko (CSI: Cyber) and model Madison Pettis. It will air on Watch, Facebook’s new platform for original shows. The series has a 10-episode order. (Variety)
The CBS summer drama Salvation has been given a second season order. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Three new series regulars have been added to the latest season of Doctor Who that will boast the first female doctor in actress Jodie Whittaker. Those include Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK and Coronation Street), Tosin Cole (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Mandip Gill (Hollyoaks). Season 11 will also consist of ten 50-minute episodes with a “feature-length” premiere. (TV Line)
Actress Marsha Thomason (White Collar) will have a guest starring role on ABC’s new medical drama The Good Doctor, playing Isabel Barnes, the wife of Marcus Barnes (Hill Harper), the head of surgery at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. (Deadline)
Actor Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) has been cast as a lead opposite Brenton Thwaites, Anna Diop and Teagan Croft in the new live-action series Titans, which is slated to premiere in 2018 as part of the slate of a new DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service. Potter will play the series regular role of Garfield “Gar” Logan (aka Beast Boy). (Deadline)
Veteran actor Malcolm McDowell will guest star in an episode of Chicago Med as Dr. Jaffrey, a world-renowned heart surgeon who is the mentor of Dr. Rhodes’ new rival, Dr. Bekkar (Norma Kuhling). Chicago Med returns Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 10/9c on NBC. (TV Line and The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Peter Facinelli (Supergirl) will have a recurring role on the upcoming drama S.W.A.T., playing Michael Plank, a confident, powerful businessman who also volunteers as a civilian police commissioner and head of the police board. S.W.A.T. will debut on November 2 on CBS. (TV Line and Deadline)
Actress Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings franchise) has joined the Hulu streaming series Harlots for its upcoming second season. She will play Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam, the aristocratic social butterfly whose long-held secrets keep her in the thrall of Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville). (The Hollywood Reporter)
The new military drama SEAL Team has been given a full season order by CBS. (Variety)
The NBC summer series The Night Shift has been cancelled after four season. (Variety)
CBS has renewed the summer drama Ransom for a 13-episode second season. (Variety)
DirecTV (specifically AT&T’s Audience Network) has given Mr. Mercedes a 10-episode second season order. (The Hollywood Reporter)
The BET series Being Mary Jane will come to an end in 2018 with a two-hour finale movie. (Variety)
REBOOT NEWS
The WB series Roswell is being rebooted at The CW. The series would follow the daughter of undocumented immigrants who reluctantly returns to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico. There she discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actors Oliver Stark (Into the Badlands), Kenneth Choi (American Crime Story) and Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break) and actress Aisha Hinds (Under the Dome and Underground have joined the cast of the upcoming FOX drama 9-1-1 that comes from Ryan Murphy. The cast also includes Angela Bassett and Peter Krause. The series will explore the high-pressure experiences of police, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives. (The Futon Critic)
Actor Victor Garber will be exiting his series regular role of Martin Stein on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow as he plans to return to Broadway, starring opposite Bernadette Peters in the revival of Hello, Dolly! (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Miguel Sandoval (Medium) has landed a series regular role in the planned Grey’s Anatomy firefighter spin-off. He will play Capt. Pruitt in the series that will be set in Seattle, focusing on firefighters from the captain down the ranks to the newest recruit in their personal and professional lives. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Anna Hopkins (Arrow and Defiance) – who will be seen as “baddie” Lilith in Shadowhunters next year – will also have a recurring role in the third season of the Syfy series The Expanse, playing Monica, a charming and savvy journalist who has a way of convincing her subjects to let their guard down. (TV Line)
Actress Ellie Gall (Australia’s A Place to Call Home) has landed the lead role of Catherine Langford in the upcoming premium digital series Stargate Origins. The series will dive deep into the adventures that provide additional context to Catherine’s lifelong fascination with the ancient artifact her father uncovered in the Egyptian desert, revealing a story that sits at the heart of the entire Stargate saga. Actor Connor Trinneer (Stargate: Atlantis alum) will take on the role of Professor Paul Langford, the man whose archaeological dig uncovered the stargate back in 1929. (Stargate Command Press Release)
TRAILERS
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer
Longmire The Final Season: Official Trailer [HD]
NOTE: This will be the sixth and final season of the series.
The first new fall drama to receive a full-season order is The Good Doctor on ABC. (Variety)
The TNT crime drama Major Crimes will come to an end after the upcoming sixth season. (Deadline)
Freeform has renewed The Bold Type for two more season and has landed a new showrunner. Each new season will consist of 10 one-hour episodes and Amanda Lasher (Sweet/Vicious and Togetherness) will be the new showrunner. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actress Connie Britton (Nashville) has landed a lead role in the upcoming FOX drama 9-1-1 from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. She joins Angela Bassett and Peter Krause in the show that will explore the high-pressure experiences of police, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives. (Variety)
Pauley Perrette will be leaving her role of Abby Sciuto at NCIS at the end of the long-running show’s current season. (Variety)
Actress Natalia Cordova-Buckley has been promoted to series regular on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which will air its two-hour fifth season premiere on December 1. (Deadline)
Actor Zach Appleman (Sleepy Hollow) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Chicago P.D. as federal prosecutor Matt Miller, the recently referenced new boyfriend of Intelligence rookie Kim Burgess. (TV Line)
Broadway star Javier Munoz (Hamilton) and actress Anna Hopkins (Arrow) will guest star in Shadowhunters as two new adversaries; in fact they will be this season’s main villain. Hopkins will play Lilith, while Munoz will play a rival warlock of Magnus Bane. (The Futon Critic)
TRAILERS
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams – Official Trailer [HD] | Amazon Video
Marvel’s Runaways Teaser (Official) • A Hulu Original
New York Comic Con 2017 Trailer | Season 3 | Shadowhunters
Beyond Season 2 Trailer | New York Comic Con 2017 | Freeform
JUSTICE LEAGUE – Official Heroes Trailer
BLINDSPOT S3 Sneak Peek New York Comic Con 2017
New York Comic Con 2017 | Sneak Peek: Season 1 | Siren
Actress Archie Panjabi (The Good wife) will have a guest appearance in an upcoming episode of Bull, playing Arti Cander, a trial scientist as well. (TV Line)
Actress Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies and Alias) has been added to the cast of the upcoming FOX medical drama The Resident that centers on a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Dungey will play the hospital’s tough and pragmatic CEO Claire Thorpe. The cast of the series includes Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife and Gilmore Girls), Emily VanCamp (Revenge) [among others]. (Deadline)
Actor Matthew Del Negro (Scandal and Teen Wolf) will have a key recurring role in the upcoming second season of the Amazon original series Goliath, playing Danny Loomis, a charismatic yet devious political operator and consiglieri to the city’s power elite under the guise of being a “financial analyst.” (Deadline)
Actress Lindsey Gort (The Carrie Diaries) has joined the cast of the upcoming digital series Titans, the DC Comics live-action adaptation, which will follow Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites from the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film) as he emerges from Batman’s shadow to become the leader of a fearless band of young, soon-to-be superheroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. The cast includes Anna Diop (24: Legacy), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) and Alan Ritchson (Blood Drive). (TV Line)
Legendary actress Betty Buckley (Eight Is Enough) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Supergirl as the adoptive mother of Samantha aka Reign (Odette Annable from Pure Genius and Banshee). (TV Line)
Newcomer Yadira Guevara-Prip (from the Amazon series Mad Dogs) has been added to the cast of the Supernatural spin-off The Wayward Sisters that will follow Sheriff Jody Mills (recurring Supernatural guest star Kim Rhodes) and a group of troubled young women orphaned by supernatural tragedy. Guevara-Prip will play flinty and haunted Kaia, who lost her family at a young age. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)
CANCELLATION
SpikeTV has cancelled the drama series The Mist after only one season. (Variety)
Actor Erik Palladino (Suits and NCIS: Los Angeles) will have a recurring role in season two of the History Channel series Six, playing Commander Hughes, a hard-charging commander of Seal Team Six, a man with legendary battle scars and swagger. (Deadline)
MOVIE NEWS
It would seem that James Cameron has plans for a trilogy of new Terminator movies that will find not only Linda Hamilton coming back to that cinematic universe but also the man himself Arnold Schwarzenegger. The films are expected to be directed by Tim Miller (the man who directed the Deadpool movie) with a writers’ room that would include David Goyer, Chris Eglee, Justin Rhodes and Josh Friedman. The films will reportedly properly finish the ahead of its time Humans vs Skynet storyline. (Deadline)
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