Hey All,
Here are the news items from this past week:
CANCELLATIONS
FOX has pulled the plug on the medical drama The Resident after six seasons. (TV Line)
Netflis has pulled the plug on the drama Sex/Life after two seasons. (TV Line)
SERIES ORDER NEWS
FOX has given a series order to the first series of the 2023-2024 TV season. That new series is Doc,, a medical drama based on an Italian format that would center on the Dr. Amy Elias — chief of internal and family medicine at a Minneapolis hospital, who’s also recovering from a brain injury that has wiped out the last eight years of her memory. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Hulu has ordered to series a new, untitled drama that would find This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and series alum Sterling K. Brown reuniting on the small screen. There are no specific details on the plot as yet, but it has been described as a thriller and say Brown would star as the head of security for a former president. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Amazon is developing a series based on the novel Clans of the Alphane Moon by the late Philip K. Dick that is described as a subversive, genre-bending, sci-fi comedy about desperately trying to escape, and ultimately having to embrace our flaws, told through the prism of a Latinx family en route to a new, faraway moon. (Variety)
SERIES ORDER NEWS
It’s been a long and winding journey to the small screen for the TV adaptation of the 1999 box office movie Cruel Intentions, but Amazon has placed an 8-episode series order for the production that would be set in Washington, D.C., following two ruthless step-siblings who will do anything to stay at the top of the Greek Life hierarchy at their elite college. When a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Panhellenic system, they’ll do whatever is necessary to preserve their power and reputation, including seducing the daughter of the U.S. vice president. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
With the announcement of the cancellation of The Resident, lead actor Matt Czuchry is now available to move on to a new project. He will be joining the latest season of the FX series American Horror Story. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Lars Mikkelsen will play Grand Admiral Thrawn in the upcoming Disney+ series Ahsoka that stars Rosario Dawson in the lead role. (Variety)
Hallmark Channel alum and The Bold Type actor Sam Page has joined the cast of Grey’s Anatomy in the recurring role of Sam Sutton, an Air Force pilot who is seriously injured in a base-jumping accident. His first appearance will be during the May 4 episode. (Variety)
Royal Pains lead Mark Feuerstein has joined the cast of the upcoming MGM+ (formerly EPIX) series Hotel Cocaine that will star Danny Pino and Michael Chiklis. The series is about Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban expatriate who fought against Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion and re-made his life in Miami. He is general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians. Feuerstein will play Burton Greenberg, the owner of the Mutiny Hotel, the “Studio 54” of Miami. (Deadline)
Game of Thrones alum Kit Harington has joined the cast of the HBO drama Industry for its third season. He will recur as as Henry Muck, the CEO and Founder of Lumi, an exciting green tech energy company that’s about to go public. (Deadline)
Soap star Thad Luckinbill will star opposite Zoe Saldana in the Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ series Lioness, which is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives. Thad will play Kyle, an old friend of Joe’s who oversees a trafficking contact. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Damson Idris (from the FX series Snowfall) will star opposite Brad Pitt in the untitled Formula One racing film that will feature Pitt as a former driver who returns to the sport while Idris will play his teammate. (Variety)
Andre Holland, taking over for Ryan Gosling, and Gemma Chan will star in the box office movie The Actor that tells the story of actor Paul Cole (Holland), who finds himself stranded in 1950s Ohio, suffering from severe memory loss after a brutal attack, struggling to find his way back to his life in New York and reclaim what he has lost. (Deadline)
A live-action remake of Moana has been announced by Disney with Dwayne Johnson reprising his role as Maui. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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