Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
PBS has given a 10th season order to the mystery series Grantchester. (Deadline)
Resident Alien has been given a fourth season renewal, but it will be moved from Syfy to the USA Network. (TV Line)
BROADWAY NEWS
Singer-actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award-winning actress Adrienne Warren (Tina) will star in the first-ever Broadway production of the musical The Last Five years where they will play rising author Jamie and aspiring actor Cathy, two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
Season 3 of The Gilded Age has added Phylicia Rashad and Broadway vet Brian Stokes Mitchell to the cast. Rashad will recur as Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland, a woman from a prominent family in Newport with ties dating back to the American Revolution who has high standards and an occasionally sharp tongue. She is unwilling to compromise the standards and expectations of her elite and exclusive social group — particularly when it comes to her son. Mitchell will guest star as Frederick Kirkland, Elizabeth’s husband and the patriarch of the Kirkland family. (Variety)
The upcoming Netflix drama series adaptation Man on Fire, based on the book series by author A.J. Quinnell, will star Billie Boullet (A Small Light) and Aquaman alum Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. The eight-episode series will tell the story of John Creasy (Abdul-Mateen II), once a high-functioning and skilled Special Forces Mercenary, known for surviving even the most desolate of situations, who is now plagued with intense PTSD. Determined to overcome his personal demons, he sets out on a path to redemption. But, before he can adjust to this new life, he finds himself back in the fire, fighting harder than ever. Boullet will play Poe Rayburn, a role loosely based on the young character in the novel. (Deadline)
Sam Neill, Eric Bana and Rosemarie DeWitt will star in the Netflix limited series Untamed that follows Kyle Turner (Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Turner on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past. Neill will play Paul Souter who has been the chief park ranger in Yosemite for half his life. He’s a dedicated husband, father, grandfather, and friend to Turner (Bana). He’s comfortable in all facets of his job, whether it’s dealing with crime inside the park or with the bureaucracy around it. And, DeWitt will play Turner’s ex-wife Jill Bodwin, a former teacher and park counselor, who remarried a few years after their divorce. Despite the fracturing of their marriage, Jill and Turner maintain a strong bond, held together by events from their past. (Deadline)
Dexter alum Jennifer Carpenter will have a recurring role in the second season of the Yellowstone prequel 1923, playing Mamie Fossett, a highly capable U.S. Deputy Marshall who serves warrants and makes arrests with confidence ahead of her time. (Deadline and TV Line)
Jesse Lee Soffer (Chicago P.D.) will play a new, yet-to-be-named character on FBI: International thus taking over the void created last season by the exit of Luke Kleintank. (TV Line)
Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane and Linda Lavin will star in Mid-Century Modern, a multi-camera Hulu series from Ryan Murphy and Will & Grace series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. This new series will be similar to The Golden Girls with Bomer playing a ditzy Rose-like character (originally played by Betty White) while Lane will play the Dorothy character (originally played by Bea Arthur. Meanwhile, Lavin will play Lane’s mother. The series will be set in the gay mecca of Palm Springs, following three best friends — gay gentlemen of a certain age – who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs where the wealthiest one lives with his mother and a naked Gen Z housekeeper. (Variety)
Patrick Dempsey has joined the Dexter prequel series Original Sin. He will play Aaron Spencer, the Captain of the Miami Metro Homicide who has a decades-long relationship with Harry Morgan, who will be played by Christian Slater). (TV Line)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Sofia Carson (Netflix’s movie Purple Hearts) and Corey Mylchreest (Queen Charlotte) will star in the new movie My Oxford Year, based on the book by Julia Whelan. The film follows Anna, an ambitious young American, who sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream only to meet a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives. (Netflix)
Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne and Carrie Coon will star in the Netflix movie His Three Daughters, which will center on three estranged sisters who reunite to care for their ailing father. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Best known as the AT&T spokesperson, Milana Vayntrub will star in the upcoming Amazon MGM Studio movie Project Hail Mary that is already set to star Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller. The movie will focus on middle school science teacher Ryland Grace (Gosling), who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must figure out how to complete his interstellar mission to save Earth from an astronomical catastrophe completely alone, until he meets a mysterious alien who has traveled light years to save his own species from the same fate. (Deadline)
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence will star in the Apple Original Films movie The Wives, a murder mystery that’s along the lines of The Real Housewives. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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