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Here are the news items for the past week:

CASTING NEWS

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)

TRAILER

The Crown Season 2

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Here are the news items for the past week:

RENEWAL

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)

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Here are the news items for this past week:

CASTING NEWS

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)

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Here are the news items for the past week:

SERIES PICK-UPS/RENEWALS

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)

TRAILER

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther – Official Trailer

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

PICK-UP ORDERS/CANCELLATIONS

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.

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Here are the news items for the past week:

PICK-UP/CANCELLATION/RENEWAL NEWS

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

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CASTING NEWS

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)

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Here are the few news items for this past week:

CASTING NEWS

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)

TRAILERS

Marvel’s The Punisher

Tomb Raider

The Maze Runner: The Death Cure

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TV CASTING NEWS

Actor Shaun Sipos (The Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place) has landed a series regular role on the upcoming Syfy Superman prequel Krypton that is set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet. The show follows Superman’s grandfather (British actor 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. Sipos will play Adam Strange, a world-weary human, who finds himself stranded on Krypton as the unlikely mentor to Seg-El, Superman’s grandfather. (Deadline)

Actor Jacob Artist (Glee) has landed a recurring role on the second season of The Arrangement on E! He will play Wes Blaker, a charming young man with a sharp sense of humor and a dark side. (Deadline)

Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope) will have a recurring role on the upcoming FOX drama The Gifted, playing Roderick Campbell, a mutant researcher contracted by the Sentinel Services. (Deadline)

Actor Riley Smith (Frequency) has landed a recurring role in the upcoming drama Life Sentence that will air on The CW. The series centers on Stella (Lucy Hale from Pretty Little Liars), a young woman diagnosed with terminal cancer. When she finds out that she’s not dying after all, she has to learn to live with the choices she made when she decided to “live like she was dying. Smith will play Dr. Will Grant, a rough-around-the-edges oncologist with a secret soft spot for his patients. (Deadline)

Actor-Director Chad Lowe will guest-star in an episode of Supergirl, playing Thomas Coville, the charismatic religious leader of a group that worships the Girl of Steel. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

The History Channel has renewed their series Vikings for a sixth season ahead of the show’s upcoming fifth season premiere. (Variety)

Sadly, Freeform has cancelled the sci-fi drama Stitchers after three seasons, leaving the fans with a great big cliffhanger. (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Here are the news items for this past week:

CASTING NEWS

The young version of Kara and Alex on Supergirl will now be played by different actresses. Izabela Vidovic (The Fosters) has taken over the young Kara role from Malina Weissman, who now stars on the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events while Olivia Nikkanen (The Americans) will take over young Alex. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide)

Film star Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in the second season of the National Geographic series Genius. (Variety)

Actresses Kristina Reyes (Shades of Blue) and Tori Anderson (No Tomorrow) will both have recurring roles on Blindspot. Reyes will play Avery, a socialite with a complicated past who crosses paths with Weller (series lead Stapleton Sullivan), while Anderson will play a potential love interest for Roman (series regular Luke Mitchell). (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)

Veteran actress Bonnie Bedelia will have a recurring role in the second season of Designated Survivor, playing Eva Booker, the President’s (series lead Kiefer Sutherland) mother-in-law. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)

Actor Nick Blood will reprise his role of Lance Hunter in the upcoming 5th season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Deadline and Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Meegan Warner (TURN) will guest star in Once Upon a time as a new version of Rapunzel. (Deadline and TV Line)

Twin Peaks alum Sherilyn Fenn will have a recurring role on the upcoming new adaptation of S.W.A.T. playing Karen, Karen, the imprisoned mother (doing time for the murder of her abusive husband) of Alex Russell’s character, Jim Street. (TV Line and The Futon Critic)

Actress Tina Majorino (Veronica Mars) will recur on the CBS drama Scorpion, playing Florence, a chemist who moves in next door to the team. (TV Line and The Futon Critic)

Actress Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights and Jane the Virgin) and actor Alan Ritchson (Blood Drive) have joined the cast of the upcoming live-action series Titans, which is set to premiere in 2018. Kelly will play Dove, aka Dawn Granger, one half of the crime-fighting, vigilante duo and romantic couple Dove and Hawk. Ritchson will play Hank Hall, aka Hawk. (TV Line and Deadline)

CANCELLATIONS

TNT has cancelled the period piece drama Will after only one season. (Variety)

Amazon has canceled the Matt Bomer series The Last Tycoon after only one season. (Variety)

Syfy has canceled the gore-fest series Blood Drive after one season. (Deadline)

The Doctor Who spin-off Class has also been canceled after one season. (TV Line)

TRAILERS

Berlin Station Season 2

Alias Grace (New Netflix Series)

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