Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
AMC has given Interview With the Vampire a third season renewal. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Chicago Med series regular Dominic Rains will not be returning to the NBC drama for its upcoming 10th season. (TV Line)
La Brea alum Lily Santiago and Wilson Bethel (Hart of Dixie and All Rise) have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix limited series Untamed that will star Eric Bana as Kyle Turner, a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The cast already includes Sam Neill and Rosemarie Dewitt. Santiago will play Naya Vasquez, an ambitious young, former Los Angeles cop while Bethel will play Shane Maguire, a former army ranger who now uses his skills as the park’s Wildlife Management Officer. Maguire’s a loner, preferring to live by himself in the wilderness where it’s easier to follow his own rules. (Variety)
Daniel Ezra will not return to All American as a series regular for the drama’s 7th season, but he will still remain an “integral part” of the franchise by appearing as a guest star. (Variety)
ER alum Gloria Reuben has joined the cast of the Amazon Prime upcoming series The Better Sister, which also stars Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Modine. Based on the novel by Alafair Burke, the series stars Biel as Chloe, a woman whose life is upended when her husband Adam (Corey Stoll) is brutally murdered and the prime suspect shocks the family and exposes secrets. Banks will Chloe’s sister, Nicky, who hustles to make ends meet while trying to stay clean. Reuben will play Michelle Sanders, a respected lawyer who has made a career of standing up when she’s told to sit down. Michelle Sanders faces a new kind of challenge when she crosses paths with the sisters. (Variety)
Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast of the Paramount+ With Showtime upcoming political thriller series The Agency that will also star Michael Fassbender as Martian, a covert CIA agent. Wright will play Henry, the CIA’s director of operations overseeing non-official cover agents, and a mentor to Martian. (Variety)
Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar has joined the cast of the Dexter prequel series Dexter: Original Sin that will air on Paramount+ With Showtime. Gellar will play Tanya Martin, the CSI Chief at the Miami Metro Police Department and Dexter’s new boss. (TV Line)
The Young Sherlock series from Guy Ritchie has cast the boy genius’s parents. Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone will play Silas and Cordelia Holmes. The series will air on Amazon Prime and will star Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Joseph Fiennes real-life nephew) in the lead role. (Deadline)
New cast members have been added to season 3 of the Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That. Logan Marshall-Green, Mehcad Brooks and Jonathan Cake will recur as guest stars in roles that have not been announced yet. (Variety)
Broadway alum and Schmigadoon cast member Aaron Tveit has joined the cast of MGM+’s Earth Abides series that will take place on an Earth that has been ravaged by a deadly, measles-like disease that wiped out most of its population. A small handful of survivors must crawl from the wreckage and attempt to rebuild civilization. The story takes place over decades, and details the history of a small community founded by graduate student Ish and his wife, Emma. Tveit will play Charlie, the handsome and charismatic leader of a band of travelers on the post-apocalyptic Earth. Other cast members include Alexander Ludwig (Vikings and Heels), Elyse Levesque (Starage Universe and The Originals), Luisa D’Oliveira (The 100) and Hilary McCormack (Killjoys). (Collider)
STRAIGHT-TO-SERIES ORDER
HBO has given an 8-episode straight-to-series order to a live action Green Lantern series that follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland. (TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Snatchback is a new series in development at Universal Television, and this potential new series will find Prison Break brothers Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller starring. The series will be inspired by the life of a real covert intelligence officer who is still active in the field today, following a highly skilled privately contracted team of operatives as they recover hostages across the globe from some of the most exotic, and equally dangerous locations on the planet. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
