Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATIONS
Apple TV has renewed Down Cemetery Road for a second season. (Variety)
Sadly, Leverage: Redemption will not be getting a fourth season, as it has been cancelled. (TV Insider and TV Line)
The Amazon Prime series Hotel Costiera has been cancelled after one season. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
Kathleen Robertson (Beverly Hills, 90210 and Murder in the First) and Mark Engelhardt (American Horror Story: Asylum) have joined the cast of Tracker in recurring roles. Robertson will play Maxine, a successful attorney at a major firm looking to engage Reenie (Fiona Rene) on what Maxine assures her is simply grunt work for an upcoming class action suit. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Maxine may have an entirely different game that she’s playing; meanwhile, Engelhardt will play Emile Lang, a man with his own moral code. (Deadline)
Matlock has added Sarah Wright Olsen (Parks and Recreation) and newcomer Henry Haber in recurring roles. Wright Olsen will play Gwen, an efficiency expert analyzing the firm; while Haber will play Hunter, a younger associate from the floater pool who is a total bro. (Deadline)
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Big Sky and The Sopranos) will have a guest-starring role in Grey’s Anatomy, playing Dr. Laura Kaplan, a urologist living with Multiple Sclerosis, who visits Grey Sloan at the request of Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen) and offers Richard (James Pickens Jr.) a unique perspective on his case. The role was created for Sigler, who has lived with MS for more than two decades and marks her return to television after a three-year break. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
LaKeith Stanfield will play NBA legend Dennis Rodman in the upcoming box office movie 48 Hours in Vegas that is inspired by the untold story of Dennis Rodman’s legendary trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals. (Variety)
Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) is attached to star in the rom-com flick Life on Other Planets, but details about the movie are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
Jennifer Garner (Alias) has signed on to star in and produce One Attempt Remaining, a new comedy movie that follows an ex-couple who, years after their acrimonious divorce, learn that the cryptocurrency they won on a crazy night on a cruise is now worth millions, but they’ve forgotten the password. With only three days left before the account expires, they must retrace their steps that night, not just to find the password to their fortune, but also why they fell in love in the first place. (Deadline)
The Netflix film Don’t Ever Wonder that will star Nia Long and Larenz Tate have added a slew of additional cast members, including Blair Underwood, Laz Alonso, Susan Kelechi Watson, Pauletta Washington, Dennis Haysbert, Chante Adama, Algee Smith and more. Details about the movie are being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)
GREENLIGHT ORDER
Looks like the world of the Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart will be expanding. A prequel series Hope Valley: 1874 has been greenlit at Hallmark+. The cast will include Bethany Joy Lenz, Benjamin Ayres, Jill Hennessy, Roan Curtis and Lachlan Quarmby that is set to debut in March 2026. Lenz will play Rebecca Clarke, who travels from Chicago to the Western Canadian frontier with her 11-year-old daughter. But when her wagon breaks down, she has no choice but to accept help from local rancher and confirmed bachelor, Tom Moore (Ayres). Despite Rebecca’s best intentions to remain unattached, the future she dreams of for her and her daughter, along with the people she meets in this fledgling town, including the guarded Tom and tenacious pioneer woman Hattie Quinn (Hennessy), ultimately compel her to put down roots and make a fresh start.” Curtis will play Hattie’s daughter while Quarmby will play Constable Alexander Vaughn, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Variety)
TV SERIES ADAPTATION
Amanda Seyfried is attached to star in a series adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen novel Skinny Dip. She will star as Joey Perrone in a story about a woman who is pushed off a cruise liner by her marine scientist husband but survives and plots revenge with a former cop. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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