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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Netflix has given Emily in Paris a fifth season renewal. (TV Line)

AMC has pulled the plug on Orphan Black: Echoes after its debut season. (Deadline and TV Line)

Max has pulled the plug on the reboot of Pretty Little Liars after two seasons. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has cancelled the comedy Time Bandits after only one season. (TV Line)

HBO has given a season four renewal to Industry. (TV Line)

Nearly 3 years after its last original episode, When Hope Calls, the spin-off series to the Hallmark Channel long-running series When Calls the Heart, has been renewed for season two, but instead of airing on the Hallmark Channel it will now be airing on the rival network Great American Family. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

As mentioned above, When Hope Calls will be back for a second season (on Great American Family instead of Hallmark Channel), and has added new cast members, including Cindy Busby (Cedar Cove) as Nora; Christopher Russell (UnREAL) as Mountie Michael. They join returning cast members Morgan Kohan, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Hanneke Talbot and Wendy Crewson. (TV Line)

Harry Potter alum Katie Leung has joined the cast of season four of Bridgerton in which she will play Lady Araminta Gun, a twice married and twice widowed woman, who has two girls debuting on the marriage mart this season and is feeling the pressure to get at least one of them married off. (TV Line)

Syfy is working on an adaptation of the series Revival, based on the Image Comics series by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton. The main cast will include Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) and David James Elliott (JAG). The synopsis for the series is: On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story, as the ‘revived’ appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress (Scrofano) is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. Elliott will play Wayne Cypress, the longtime sheriff who is determined to keep his town and family as normal and safe as possible — a tall order when the dead return to life in the small town he’s sworn to protect. (Variety)

Sources are reporting that Emmy winner Archie Panjabi will star as a villain in Season 2 of Doctor, but details about her character are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis will star in the Amazon Prime series adaptation of the Kay Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell. The streaming service has given a greenlight for two seasons and has added cast members including Ariana DeBose, Bobby Cannavale and Simon Baker. The mystery-thriller series follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), the Chief Medical Examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former position with complex relationships, both personal and professional – including her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with plenty of grudges and secrets to uncover. Cannavale will play former detective Pete Marino while Baker will play FBI profiler Benton Wesley and DeBose will play Lucy Farinelli-Watson, Dorothy’s daughter. (Variety)

Sons of Anarchy alum Charlie Hunnam will star as notorious serial killer Ed Gein in season 3 of the Ryan Murphy-created anthology series Monster. Gein became infamous in the 1950s when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains. Gein’s case served as an inspiration for several major pop culture characters later on, including Norman Bates in Psycho and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. (Variety)

In addition to being the moderator for NCIS: Origins, Mark Harmon will briefly appear on screen during the pilot episode of the prequel series. (TV Line)

STREAMING SERVICE MOVIE

Reacher lead Alan Ritchson will star in the Netflix movie War Machine, playing an Army Ranger undergoing a grueling selection process. He will star alongside Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, and Australian actors Blake Richardson, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Daniel Webber. (Variety and Collider)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

The best-selling romance novel People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry is being adapted to the big screen with Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid and The Hunger Games prequel film) and Emily Bader (My Lady Jane) in the lead roles of Alex and Poppy. The story centers around best friends Poppy and Alex—one a free spirit and the other straight laced, though with an apparent spark lingering beneath the surface—who spend their summers traveling together, meeting the aforementioned people. New cast members include Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), Lucien Laviscount (Emily in Paris) and Lukas Gage (Euphoria). (E! News)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Brendan Gleeson and Jack Huston have both joined the cast of the Amazon live-action Spider-Man Noir series, but both of their roles are being kept under wraps. They will join Nicolas Cage and Lamorne Morris in the series. (Variety)

Meanwhile over on Netflix, the limited series adaptation of the Alice Feeney novel His & Hers has added Jon Bernthal and Pablo Schreiber to the cast, joining Tessa Thompson in the six episode series that will be set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega – the sleepy town where she grew up – Anna is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers. Detective Jack Harper (Bernthal) is strangely suspicious of her involvement, chasing her into the crosshairs of his own investigation. There are two sides to every story: his & hers, which means someone is always lying. (Variety)

Parker Young will recur in the 5th and final season of 9-1-1: Lone Star, playing Campbell, a Texas Ranger assigned to work alongside Carlos (series regular Rafael L. Silva). (TV Line)

Floriana Lima, who viewers will remember from A Million Little Things, has been cast in Grey’s Anatomy, playing Nora, a childhood friend of Hunt and sister Megan. (Deadline and TV Line)

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Scarface and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) is set to recur in Law & Order: Organized Crime for its 5th season, which will now air on Peacock. She will play Isabella Spezzano, a figure from Stabler’s (series lead Christopher Meloni) past. (Deadline)

STRAIGHT-TO-SERIES ORDER

Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to Thumblite, a corporate thriller that will star Rosamund Pike. The series will examine the schemes, rivalries, visions and obsessions of the power brokers and their underlings as they vie for control of the most powerful industry the world has ever known. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Shailene Woodley is set to produce and star in a biopic about legendary 60’s singer Janis Joplin. (Variety)

Michael B. Jordan will direct and star in a reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair, but plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

EARLY STAGE DISCUSSIONS

It looks like Lifetime just MIGHT be launching a TV movie franchise feature legacy characters from the long-defunct soap opera All My Children, which ran on ABC from 1970 to 2011, but the talks are in the very early stages; however, the cabler did confirm (after the news broke) that there are two AMC movies in development, one of which would be holiday-themed. (TV Line)

AUDIO PRODUCTION

Audible Inc., a leading producer and provider of original spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, announced the upcoming release of the Canadian Audible Original drama Wynonna Earp: Tales from Purgatory. The immersive, multicast audio production is written by creator, producer and writer of the show, Emily Andras with original cast members reprising their roles, including Melanie Scrofano as Wynonna Earp, Tim Rozon as Doc Holliday, Dominique Provost-Chalkley as Waverly Earp, Katherine Barrell as Nicole Haught, Varun Saranga as Jeremy Chetri, Dani Kind as Mercedes Gardner, Martina Ortiz Luis as Rachel Valdez, and Greg Lawson as Randy Nedley. The audio series will be released on October 17. Fans can also watch the 90-minute reunion special for the series which debuted this past Friday, September 13. (Audible Press Release)

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Here are the entertainment news items for the past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Hulu has renewed Only Murders in the Building for a 5th season. (TV Line)

MGM+ has pulled the plug on The Winter King after only one season and has also cancelled Beacon 23 after two seasons. (TV Line)

9-1-1: Lone Star will come to an end on FOX at the end of its upcoming 5th season. (TV Line)

Bosch Legacy, the spin-off off Bosch, will end with its upcoming 3rd season on Amazon Prime. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

A spin-off of Reacher is in the work at Amazon Prime. Exact plot details for the spin-off are being kept under wraps, but it is believed to focus on Frances Neagley (Maria Sten). (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Kelli Giddish will be back as Amanda Rollins on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for its upcoming 26th season, but she will only be back as a guest star, making “a bunch of appearances throughout the season.” (TV Line)

Jay Hayden (Station 19) will have a recurring role in FBI: International, playing Agent Tyler Booth, an intelligent and charismatic agent in Budapest looking for assistance on a case. (Deadline)

Character actor Ron Canada will appear on season 2 of the NBC drama The Irrational, playing Eli Mercer, the dad to Alec (series lead Jesse L. Martin) and his sister Kylie. (TV Line)

Patricia Arquette will star in a Hulu limited series that will be about the Murdaugh family, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast. The Murdaugh family were powerful players in the Lowcountry region of South Caroline, wielding great legal and political influence. But for the better part of a decade, the family has been accused of involvement in a variety of crimes, ranging from fraud to murder. Arquette will play Maggie Murdaugh. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Alison Brie will play villain Evil-Lyn in the upcoming live-action Masters of the Universe that will star Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam aka He-Man. (Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter)

Chloe Bennett (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD) and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) will star in the indie feature film Hello Out There, which will center on Minnie (Bennet), a young journalist who embarks on a road trip across New Mexico with her cousin, Rex (Dunster), a punk rock guitarist fresh out of rehab, who is trying to figure out what’s left. Their stated mission: to investigate Area 51 and unearth the truth about extraterrestrial life. But as the journey unfolds, a deeper, more personal reason for their quest comes to light. (Deadline)

Bridgerton alum Phoebe Dynevor will join Zac Efron in the feature film Famous, a provocative Los Angeles-set thriller that explores the dark side of celebrity with Efron playing dual roles: the overzealous fan, Lance Dunkquist, and Hollywood heartthrob, James Jansen. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news updates for this past week:

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like Netflix is developing a sequel series to the long-running drama One Tree Hill, which aired on The WB starting in 2003 and ended on CW in 2012. Original series stars Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton are set to executive produce and reprise their breakout roles as Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer, respectively. The potential follow-up will pick up 20 years later, following Brooke and Peyton as they parent teenagers of their own. (Deadline and TV Line)

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Blue Ridge: The Series has been given a second season renewal by Imagicomm Entertainment. (Press Release)

Netflix has pulled the plug on Dead Boy Detectives after only one season. (TV Line)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

Hallmark+ (formerly Hallmark Movies Now) has given a straight-to-series order to the new one-hour drama series Ripple, which will be set in New York City, focusing on Nate, Kris, Walter and Aria who have crossed paths hundreds of times, yet they’ve never met. Because of the seemingly minuscule decisions these core four make in the pilot, we’ll witness the ripple effect of how these strangers, all dealing with life’s challenges in their own way, are led to one another. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

The Anthony Hopkins-led film Eyes in the Trees has added Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ashley Greene and Thomas Kretschmann to its cast. The film will be a modern reimagining of H.G. Wells’ novel “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” which will follow a video journalist and his film crew as they embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race. Vince Henway (Meyers) and his former protégé-turned-ex Channing Arneau (Greene) lead the crew into the heart of Monkey Ko off the coast of Thailand. Also known as The Island of Death to the locals, the island holds rumors of forgotten government medical experiments and scientific genetic manipulations led by Dr. Addis (Hopkins). What they find on the island is beyond their wildest expectations, a product of nightmares. Their search for answers quickly transforms into a fight for survival as they try to thwart Dr. Addis’ plan to ‘regress mankind,’ killing the majority of earth’s human population. (Variety)

It looks like Sony Pictures is developing a remake of the Ritchie Valens story La Bamba, teaming with Luis Valdez, the writer and director of the original film. The 1987 film starred Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, the 17-year-old Mexican-American singer who rose to fame in the 1950’s with songs like “La Bamba,” “Donna” and “We Belong Together.” His meteoric ascent was cut short when he died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper, in what was dubbed “The Day the Music Died.” (Variety)

Tomer Capone (The Boys) will play a besotted suitor in the new romantic comedy called Save the Date that will star comedian Adi Havshush in the lead role. The movie follows the story of Dassy, a wedding planner who finds herself in a relationship slump after her longtime partner makes a shocking revelation. Turning to her grandmother for comfort, Dassy reluctantly agrees to take part in an ancient spell to summon her one true love – except instead of one, her overzealous bubbie manages to conjure up four suitors who set out to win Dassy’s heart. (Variety)

Rebecca Ferguson has joined the cast of The Magic Faraway Tree based on the classic children’s book by Enid Blyton, which includes Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Nicola Coughlan [among others]. Ferguson will play Dame Snap, the story’s headmistress. The film follows Polly (Foy) and Tim Thompson (Garfield) and their children, Beth, Joe and Fran, who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. There, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric occupants, who are capable of transporting visitors to fantastical far-off lands. Coughlan will play woodland fairy Silky while Nonso Anozie will play group leader Moonface. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV CASTING NEWS

Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke will star in the espionage thriller Ponies, which has been ordered to series at Peacock. The series will be set in Moscow in 1977 where two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place. (Variety)

Lost veteran Matthew Fox has joined the cast of The Madison, joining Michelle Pfeiffer in the Taylor Sheridan series set in the Yellowstone universe. Fox will play Paul, a self-reliant bachelor who loves the outdoors. (TV Line)

Kate Winslet is set to star in yet another new drama series called The Spot which will air on Hulu. When a successful surgeon (Winslet) and her schoolteacher husband begin to suspect that she may be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death, their quest for truth spirals into a web of mounting suspicion and dark secrets, testing their resolve and their relationship as they confront the possibility of hidden guilt and betrayal. (Variety)

The upcoming Peacock limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, which will star Michael Chernus in the lead role, has added new cast members, including: Gabriel Luna as Detective Rafael Tovar; James Badge Dale as Chief of Detectives Joe Kozenczak; Michael Angarano as Sam Amirante; Chris Sullivan as Lead Prosecutor Bill Kunkle and Marin Ireland as Elizabeth Piest. The series will peel back the twisted layers of Gacy’s life while weaving in heartrending stories of his mostly gay victims; exploring the grief, guilt, and trauma of their families and friends; and exposing the systemic failures, missed opportunities and societal prejudices that fueled his reign of terror. (Variety)

Dean Norris has been promoted to series regular on Law & Order: Organized Crime where he plays Randall Stabler, the older brother of Elliot Stabler (series lead Christopher Meloni). (Deadline and TV Line)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Disney+ has pulled the plug on the Star Wars series The Acolyte after only one season. (TV Line)

Apple TV+ has given the crime thriller Criminal Record a second season renewal. (TV Line)

MOVING TO A NEW HOME

The Librarians: The Next Chapter was unceremoniously pulled from the schedule by CW, but it will now air on TNT, as one small part of the cable network’s missions to beef up its depleted drama slate. And, what’s more, TNT has given the show – which has yet to even air an episode yet – a second season. The show is expected to premiere sometime in 2025 on TNT. (Deadline and TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

FBI cast member Katherine Renee Kane, who has played Special Agent Tiffany Wallace since season 3, will be leaving the show during its upcoming 7th season. (TV Line)

Gina Rodriguez has joined the cast of the ABC series Will Trent for the show’s upcoming third season, playing Marion Alba, a charismatic, confident Assistant District Attorney new to Atlanta, who after her first encounter with Will falls flat, the pair is surprised to learn that they must work together to investigate a crime in the world of Atlanta gangs. (Deadline and TV Line)

Maria Bello will star in the upcoming Netflix drama series The Waterfront. She will appear alongside Holt McCallany in the series that is inspired by true events and dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat. Bello will play Mae Buckley, a complex woman who’s married to Harlan (McCallany) and the mother of their two children. After her husband took a step back from the family business, together with their son, she has been running the fishery in very questionable ways in a desperate attempt to save the family. (Variety)

Lisette Olivera has joined the cast of the CBS series FBI, playing Syd, a trained Behavioral Analysis Unit Agent who is about to rotate into the field. (Deadline)

It has now been confirmed that Patrick J. Adams and Beau Garrett have joined the Yellowstone sequel series The Madison, which will star Michelle Pfeiffer. The series is being described as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana. Adams will play Russell McIntosh, a young investment banker who has followed the life path set before him from the start, while Garrett will play Abigail Reese, a resilient and sardonic New Yorker who is a recently divorced mother of two. (TV Line)

Freddie Highmore and Keeley Hawes will star, and executive produce, the upcoming Amazon Prmie 6-episode thriller The Assassin. Hawes will play Julie, a retired assassin living a secluded life on a remote Greek island while Highmore will play Edward, Julie’s estranged son with whom she has a somewhat thorny reunion. The cast will include Gina Gershon, Jack Davenport and Alan Dale. (TV Line)

Erik Palladino has joined the cast of season 4 of the MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem, playing real-life hitman Giuseppe “Pino” Greco, a high-ranking hitman in the Sicilian mafia. (TV Insider)

James Spader will reprise his role of Ultron, the villainous artificial intelligence from Avenger fame, in the upcoming Vision series that will star Paul Bettany. (Variety)

Anya Taylor-Joy will star in the Netflix adaptation of How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie. Taylor-Joy will play the murderous Grace Bernard, the protagonist of the book. The synopsis of the movie is: Grace is the forgotten child of Simon Artemis, a merciless billionaire. After a heartbreaking rejection, Grace decides to exact revenge. But will this deadly scheme take even more from Grace than she’s already lost? (Deadline)

Yellowstone star Kelly Reilly will star in Under Salt Marsh, a new limited series set to air on Sky Original, which is available to customers in the UK and throughout Europe. The 6-part show will be a gripping crime thriller set in the fictional Welsh town of Morfa Halen, a place caught between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea. Reilly will play detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis. (Variety)

Once Upon a Time alum Lana Parrilla has joined the cast of the upcoming USA Network series The Rainmaker based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, that will follow Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his law school girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son. Parrilla will play brash, ballsy street lawyer Jocelyn “Bruiser” Stone who heads her disgraced father, J. Lyman Stone’s strip-mall law firm. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Matt Smith will star alongside Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Regina King and Liev Schreiber in the upcoming crime thriller Caught Stealing, which will center on Henry ‘Hank’ Thompson (Butler), a former professional baseball player who spends his nights working in a Manhattan bar. That is until he is violently beaten up and faced with the fact that someone wants something from him. (Radio Times)

Sally Field is expected to appear in Remarkably Bright Creatures, the box office adaptation of the novel by Shelby Van Pelt that will follow a lonely widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant octopus. After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she begins working the night shift as a janitor at a local aquarium. At work, she becomes acquainted with an eight-tentacled animal named Marcellus, who helps Tova uncover the truth about her son’s disappearance at sea 30 years ago. (Variety)

9-1-1 hunk Ryan Guzman has joined the cast of the new action thriller Midnight that is already set to star Rosario Dawson, Alexandra Shipp and Milla Jovovich. The film will follow a young, blind woman (Shipp) as she is hunted by a group of international criminals (Jovovich) searching for a package they believe was given to the woman by her federal agent sister (Dawson). However, the assailants quickly realize that the woman, though unable to see, may be far more dangerous than expected. (Deadline)

The box office movie Little Lorraine will star Arrow alum Stephen Amell and Lord of the Rings alum Sean Astin as well as Latin superstar J Balvin. The film is based on true events from the late 1980s, depicting a remote mining and fishing town’s transformation into a hub for a major cocaine smuggling operation. Amell will play an out-of-work coal miner who takes a job on a lobster boat involved in drug smuggling while Balvin will play an Interpol agent investigating a drug importation ring suspected of entering America through Cape Breton. The cast also includes Stephen McHattie, Rhys Darby and Steve Lund [among others]. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Netflix has given a second season renewal to its superpower series Supacell. The streamer has also given a second season order for The Gentlemen. (Variety and TV Line)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on the reimagined series My Lady Jane after only one season. (Deadline and TV Line)

Apple TV+ has given the sci-fi drama Dark Matter a second season order. (TV Line)

PULLED FROM THE FALL TV LINE-UP

For some reason the folks over at CW have pulled the plug on airing The Librarians: The Next Chapter from its expected fall debut. That doesn’t mean the show has been pulled altogether, but a new date has not yet been determined. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Jared Padalecki (Supernatural and Walker) will appear in three episodes of the CBS drama Fire Country, playing Camden, a SoCal firefighter and maverick with a surfer swagger who is a force to be reckoned with and immediately recognizes Bode’s (series lead Max Thieriot) raw talent. There is also a possibility that this new character could land his own spinoff too. (Deadline and TV Line)

John Slattery (Mad Men) will star in the USA Network reboot of John Grisham’s The Rainmaker, playing Leo F. Drummond, a legendary lion of the courtroom and senior partner at Tinley Britt, the powerful firm that Rainmaker protagonist Rudy Baylor is up against. The straight-to-series order is the first on the cabler since 2020. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Bill Camp (Presumed Innocent), Andrea Martin (Evil) and Merritt Wever (Unbelievable) have joined the season 3 cast of the HBO period piece The Gilded Age. Camp will star as JP Morgan, the world-famous investment banker who finds himself at odds with George Russell (series regular Morgan Spector) over the future of the railroad industry. Martin will play Madame Dashkova, a medium who claims to be able to commune with the dead. And, Wever will play Monica O’Brien, Bertha Russell’s (series regular Carrie Coon) estranged sister who appears at a crucial time for the family. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Alexandra Shipp (Anyone But You), Rosario Dawson and Milla Jovovich will star in the upcoming action thriller flick Midnight with Dawson also serving as a producer. The movie will follow a young, blind woman (Shipp) as she is hunted by a group of international criminals (led by Jovovich) searching for a package they believe was given to the woman by her federal agent sister (Dawson). However, the assailants quickly realize that the woman, though unable to see, may be far more dangerous than expected. (Deadline)

The upcoming rom-com film The Pet Nup will star Emeraude Toubia (With Love and Shadowhunters), Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), Halston Sage (The Orville) and Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl). The movie will focus on a recently divorced couple as they navigate their new lives and love apart, but the arrangement in their “Pet-Nup” forces them to extremes as they fight for custody of the one thing in their life that can’t be split in two: their dog. (Deadline)

The dark comedy crime thriller Full Throttle Mindset will star Josh Duhamel and Lukas Gage (seen in the remake of Road House). The movie tells the wild true story of young burnout Blake Laubinger (Gage), who’s taken under the wing of a Midwestern tanning salon mogul named Todd Beckman (Duhamel). He soon learns his new mentor’s businesses are a front for a drug empire — one he’s now expected to partake in. (Deadline)

LaKeith Stanfield is expected to join Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the upcoming box office thriller Die, My Love which will be set in a remote forgotten rural area, following a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. It is unknown who Stanfield would play. (Deadline)

Camila Mendes (Riverdale) has landed the role of Teela in the upcoming live-action Masters of the Universe movie. She will star opposite Nicholas Galitzine who has been cast as He-Man. (Deadline)

Actress Kali Rocha will be coming back to Grey’s Anatomy, reprising her role of Dr. Sydney Heron in three episodes. (TV Line)

The still-untitled Bosch: Legacy spin-off that is set to star Maggie Q (Nikita and Designed Survivor) over on Amazon Prime has added Michael Mosley (Castle), Amy Hill (Magnum P.I.), Rebecca Field (All Rise) and Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf) to is ensemble cast. The series will follow Detective Renee Ballard (Maggie Q), who is running the LAPD’s new cold case division — a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the largest case load in the city. Mosley will play Ted, a reserve officer who has been assigned to cold cases to keep an eye on Ballard; Hill will play Tutu, Ballard’s spunky grandma; Field will play Colleen, an enthusiastic and eccentric volunteer, and Moroles will play Martina, a savvy legal intern. (Deadline and TV Line)

Actress Yerin Ha (Halo) has been cast as Sophie Beckett, the love interest of Benedict Bridgergon (Luke Thompson) in the popular period drama’s fourth season. (Variety)

Matthew Fox (Lost and Party of Five) will be back on the small screen in the series The Assassin, which is basedo n the popular book series by acclaimed British novelist Tom Wood. The series will be centered around a ruthless assassin named Victor (Fox), who after a mission goes wrong, he realizes he has been betrayed by an anonymous client. his humanity that has long remained buried begins to resurface within him, posing “the greatest threat to his survival. Fox will also serve as an executive producer on the series that is in production at Max. (Collider)

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Here are the entertainment news items for the past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

According to the show’s showrunner, House of the Dragon will run for four seasons on HBO and then it will come to an end, although HBO has yet to officially renew it for its fourth season. The second season of the show just came to an end last week with no date set yet for its guaranteed third season. (TV Line)

PILOT ORDER

CBS has given a pilot order to the new drama Einstein that comes from Monk creator Andy Breckman. The show will revolve around the great grandson of Albert Einstein, a rilliant but directionless tenured professor who gets into trouble with the law — and for retribution, must help a local police detective solve her cases. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

John Cho, Christopher Gorham, Alicia Hannah-Kim and Jacob Bertrand will all star in the Disney+ and Hulu Korean spy drama that will follow Seo Munju (Gianna Jun), a highly accomplished diplomat and former ambassador to the United States, and Sanho (Gang Dongwon), an international special agent shrouded in a veil of secrets, as they race to uncover the truth behind an attack that threatens the future stability of the Korean peninsula. Details regarding who Cho, Gorham, Hannah-Kim and Bertrand will portray are under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Tyler Labine (New Amsterdam) will recur in season 5 of For All Mankind as Fred, a Mars Peacekeeper. (Deadline and TV Line)

Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) and Darren Barnet (Never Have I Ever) have joined the cast of season 10 of Chicago Med where they will play Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Dr. John Frost respectively. (TV Line)

Funny man and The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong will be seen in an episode of the FOX anthology crime series Accused where he will play a kind-hearted jewelry store owner who confronts his wife’s secret past. (Variety)

Sarah Paulson, Nicey Nash, Teyana Taylor and Naomi Watts have joined Glenn Close and Kim Kardashian in the upcoming Hulu legal drama series All’s Fair from executive producer Ryan Murphy. The show will find Kardashian playing a Los Angeles divorce lawyer in an all-female law firm, headed by Close’s character. There are no details on what characters these new cast members will play, however. (Variety)

Dakota Fanning and Abby Elliott have joined the cast of the upcoming Peacock suburban-thriller series All Her Fault that will revolve around a plausibly terrifying situation that eventually unearths the deep secrets of a community. (Variety)

Tru Valentino, who has been playing Officer Aaron Thorsen on The Rookie since season 4, will not be back as a series regular in the new 7th season later this year. (TV Line)

Michael Thomas Grant (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) will recur in season 21 of Grey’s Anatomy, playing Gray Sloan’s openly gay Episcopal chaplain. (TV Line)

Robin Weigart will not be seen as Teddi in season 2 of Tracker on CBS. There is no explanation on how her character will exit, but Abby McEnany, who plays Teddi’s wife Velma will be back. (TV Line)

The Gray Sisters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians franchise have been cast. The Disney+ drama will find Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal and Margaret Cho taking on the roles of Anger, Tempest and Wasp respectively. They are sisters who share one eye and one tooth and operate a taxi firm in New York City. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Manny Jacinto (most recently seen on the Disney+ sci-fi series Star Wars: The Acolyte) will play the husband of Lindsay Lohan in the upcoming sequel film Freakier Friday. (Entertainment Weekly)

Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris and J.K. Simmons will star in the movie Reykjavik, a historical drama that will chronicle one of the most significant diplomatic achievements of modern times. The film will take place at the most dangerous point of the Cold War, watching as political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland over one long, tense weekend to decide if there will be peace or war in the world. Daniels will play President Reagan, while Harris will play Soviet leader Gorbachev and Simmons will play United States Secretary of State George Shultz. (Deadline)

Zachary Levi (Chuck and Shazam), Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery), Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope), Bridget Regan (The Rookie) [among others] will appear in the new movie Sarah’s Oil that tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believed there was oil beneath the barren land she was allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming one of the nation’s first female African American millionaires — at 11 years old. (Deadline)

Queen Charlotte alum India Amarteifio and Damian Hardung (Maxton Hall) will star in the coming-of-age romance flick Into the Deep Blue that follows Nick (Hardung) and Fiona (Amarteifio), best friends who meet in group therapy, who are struggling to piece their lives together after experiencing loss. When a weekend trip brings their deepening feelings to the surface, they might sooner cut each other off than face them. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Patricia Arquette and Michael Sheen [among others] have joined Jodie Comer in the upcoming Kenneth Branagh film The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, a contemporary psychological thriller. (Deadline and Collider)

Zoe Saldana will provide her voice to the upcoming Disney flick Elio that follows a boy named Elio who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to an interplanetary organization where he is chosen to become Earth’s ambassador to other galaxies. (Variety)

McKenna Grace will star opposite Allison Williams in the upcoming indie film Regretting You that will center on the complex relationship between Morgan Grant (Williams) and her daughter, Clara (Grace). Morgan became a mother at a young age, putting her own dreams on hold to raise Clara. As Clara grows into a teenager, their relationship becomes strained, especially after a tragic accident claims the life of Chris, Morgan’s husband and Clara’s father. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Acorn TV has renewed the Jane Seymour-led series Harry Wild for a fourth season. (TV Line)

Disney+ has pulled the plug on the period piece series Renegade Nell after only one season. (TV Line)

NOT MOVING FORWARD

Peacock is no longer moving forward with the Battlestar Galactica reboot from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. (Variety)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation of Every Summer After based on the novel by Carley Fortune. The show’s logline is: Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A week to get it right. (Variety)

The Yellowstone spin-off formerly known as 2024 will not tentatively be called The Madison. The series is expected to follow wealthy matriarch Stacy Clyburn and her family as they leave New York City and head to Montana in the wake of her husband and brother-in-law’s tragic deaths in a plane crash. The cast is expected to star Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Patrick J. Adams (from Suits) and Beau Garrett (from Firefly Lane). (TV Line)

Netflix is working on a series adaptation of the Emily Henry novel People We Meet on Vacation with Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Emily Bader (My Lady Jane) starring in the lead roles.  (Deadline)

The story will follow longtime best friends Poppy and Alex (Bader and Blyth respectively) who took one week of every summer vacation together. However, things changed when they stopped speaking for two years. When Poppy reaches out and convinces Alex to take one more vacation together, she sees it as her time to fix their broken relationship. But there’s one unspoken truth they have yet to confront: Are they really just friends or is there more to their relationship? (The Hollywood Reporter)

CHANGING OF THE GUARDS

Carrie Underwood is going back to American Idol; this time she will be taking over as judge for Katy Perry. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Boyd Holbrook has joined the cast of season 4 of The Morning Show where he will be playing Brodie, a popular and provocative podcaster and talk-show host. (TV Line)

Toya Turner (Warrior Nun and New Amsterdam) has joined the season 12 cast of Chicago P.D. where she will play Kiana Cook, a patrol officer who loves the adrenaline of the job and its stakes and doesn’t blink in the face of chaos. (TV Line)

Leven Rambin (Grey’s Anatomy and True Detective) has joined the season 3 cast of Fire Country. She will recur as Audrey, a former fire camp inmate, who presents with the grit and tenacity that her tattoos and prison record imply. (TV Line)

Jake Lockett has been promoted to series regular on Chicago Fire where he has been recurring as Sam Carver for the past two seasons. (TV Line)

Private Practice alum KaDee Strickland will recur on season 13 of Chicago Fire, playing Monica Pascal, the estranged wife of Dermot Mulroney. (TV Line)

Fans of 9-1-1: Lone Star will see Jackson Pace, who has been recurring as Wyatt, the son of Judd Ryder since season 3, a whole lot more, as he has been promoted to series regular. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

AMC has given The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon a third season renewal. (TV Line)

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Looks like there will be another spin-off series to The Boys. Vought Rising will star Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash as Soldier Boy and Stormfront respectively. This series will be a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s. (TV Line)

The Doctor Who world is expanding with a five-part spin-off series called The War Between the Land and the Sea that will star Russell Tovey (the original Being Human) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) as well as franchise vets Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient. The premise for the new offshoot is thus: When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international crisis is triggered. With the entire population at risk, UNIT steps into action as the land and sea wage war.” (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Sony is planning on rebooting the movie franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer with cast members Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid) [among others]. Original stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are in talks to return. (Variety)

Chris Hemsworth will star in the feature film The Corsair Code, a high-octane, sci-fi mystery adventure, but that’s all the details there are about the film. (Deadline)

Looks like Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson could be starring in the thriller film Die, My Love that will be set in a remote forgotten rural area, following a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. It is unknown who Pattinson would play, though. (Deadline)

Rebecca Ferguson (Silo and The Greatest Showman) has joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled Peaky Blinders feature film, but no other details have been revealed. (TV Line)

Oscar winner Brendan Fraser will play American General Dwight Eisenhower in the D-Day movie Pressure that finds Andrew Scott playing James Stagg, the Chief Meteorological Officer of Britain. It was his responsibility to closely monitor the weather forecast for the beaches of Normandy, as inclement weather could spell disaster for the operation. With a small window to launch the invasion, and delays meaning that Germany’s network of spies would have more time to uncover the Allies’ secret plans, Stagg was under an enormous amount of pressure. (Collider)

Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the Marvel Universe, but this time he will be play Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom in the Avengers: Doomsday. (Variety)

Lessons in Chemistry star Lewis Pullman has joined the cast of the upcoming flick Thunderbolts, but it is unclear exactly who he will be playing. (Deadline and Empire Online)

TV CASTING NEWS

Violett Beane (The Flash and Death and Other Details) and Elliot Knight (The Boys) have joined the cast of the Amazon Prime crime drama Countdown that will star Jensen Ackles, Jessica Camacho and Eric Dane. The series centers on LAPD officer Mark Meachum (Ackles), who — after a broad-daylight murder — is brought into a secret task force with agents from a host of law enforcement agencies. A more sinister plot then comes into focus as the task force must put aside competing agendas to save an entire city. Beane will play Evan Shepherd, a tech-savvy recent graduate of the FBI Academy who’s eager to learn how to operate inside the task force and Knight will play Keyonte Bell, a third-generation FBI agent who is well-versed in terrorist threats. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Maura Tierney has joined the cast of the upcoming 24th season of Law & Order, but character details are being kept under wraps. (TV Line)

The 3rd season of the AMC series The Terror has added more cast members, including Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Stephen Root and Marin Ireland, who will join series lead Dan Stevens, who will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. (Variety)

Josh Charles has joined the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale for the show’s 6th and final season. Details on who he will be playing are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Tessa Thompson will star in the Netflix psychological thriller limited series His & Hers, based on the novel by Alice Feeney that will be set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a journalist. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega – the sleepy town where she grew up – she is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers. (Variety)

William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) has joined the cast The Morning Show for its 4th season. He will play Ben, the network’s self-assured and innovative Head of Sports. (Variety)

Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of Chicago Fire for its 13th season in the series regular role of Chief Dom Pascal. (TV Line)

Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Jerrika Hinton (Grey’s Anatomy) have joined the cast of the FOX anthology series Accused for the show’s 2nd season. They will both appear in the installment entitled “Marcus’ Story,” in which a tech entrepreneur creates software that when used takes a dark turn. Hinton will play Lycia and Adams will play Pete. (TV Line)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Miranda Cosgrove and Pierson Fode will star in the new Netflix rom-com The Wrong Paris, which will center on Dawn (Cosgrove), who is desperate to get to France for a once-in-a-lifetime art opportunity. Thus, she talks her way onto a Bachelor-type dating show set in Paris — only to discover the show is actually set in Paris, Texas as part of a ratings stunt by the producers. Now in jeopardy of losing out on her dreams, Dawn must find a way to get kicked off the show, until a real romance begins to blossom with Trey (Fode), the show’s handsome and charming bachelor. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

CANCELLATION

Halo has been cancelled after two seasons on Paramount+. (TV Line)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Looks like FOX just might be doing a movie adaptation of their hit series 24, which is in early development at 20th Century Studios, but there is no word if lead star Keifer Sutherland will be involved. (Variety and TV Line)

ORDERED TO SERIES

NBC has done it. They have given a series order to Suits: L.A., the spin-off series that will star Arrow alum Stephen Amell in the lead role. The network has also picked up the series Grosse Pointe Garden Society that will star Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Aja Naomi King, Nancy Travis and Felix Avitia. The drama will tell the story of four suburban garden club members with diverse backgrounds who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

The new, upcoming NBC medical drama Brillian Minds that will star Heroes alum Zachary Quinto as a revolutionary neurologist, inspired by a true story, has added Mandy Patinkin in a recurring role and Steve Howey and Andre De Shields as guest stars. Patinkin will play an esteemed family doctor who joins the staff of Bronx General Hospital; while Howey will play a rugged motorcycle mechanic, who comes to Dr. Wolf (Quinto’s character) looking for help with a gunshot wound and De Shields will play an Alzheimer’s patient in an end-of-life care facility. (Variety)

Season 2 of the Peacock drama Poker Face has added to its guest star roster, including Giancarlo Esposito, Katie Holmes, Gaby Hoffmann and Kumail Nanjiani. (Variety)

Colin Firth has joined the cast of the upcoming Amazon Prime series Young Sherlock, which will star Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the lead role. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever. Firth will play Sir Bucephalus Hodge. (Variety)

Jodie Turner-Smith has joined the cast of the upcoming Paramount+ with Showtime espionage drama The Agency that will star Michael Fassbender in the lead role. The series follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage. Turner-Smith will play ​​Sami Zahir, a professor of social anthropology who is said to have a history with Martian. Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere will co-star. (Variety)

In the category of “that didn’t take long,” Halle Berry is no longer attached to star in and executive produce the upcoming Hulu legal drama All’s Fair due to a scheduling conflict. (Variety)

Dan Stevens (Legion and Downton Abbey) will star in the third season of the AMC thriller series The Terror, which will premiere in 2025. Stevens will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him. (Variety)

S.W.A.T. has promoted Niko Pepaj to series regular and Chicago Fire alum Annie Ilonzeh will join the team in the recurring role of Devin Gamble. (Deadline and Collider)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Emilia Clarke, Gerard Butler and Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley will lend their voices to the upcoming animated musical movie The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland with Butler set to voice St. Nick while Clarke will voice the Queen of Hearts and Ashley will voice Alice. The synopsis of the movie is: This time, it’s St Nick’s turn for an adventure down the rabbit hole. There he meets the Mad Hatter, recast as a high-fashion, reindeer-loving tea party host; the White Rabbit, an endearingly scatty and forgetful character; the Queen of Hearts, a Scrooge-esque tinsel-hater, her antagonistic sidekick, the Cheshire Cat and Alice herself, whose kindness helps St. Nick save Christmas. (Variety)

Will Reeve, son of the late, great Christopher Reeve (Superman himself) will have a special cameo in the upcoming James Gunn-directed box office movie Superman, which is set to debut in theatres sometime in 2025. (Entertainment Weekly)

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