Hey All,
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)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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