Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
ABC has given The Rookie and Will Trent a 6th season and 2nd season (respectively renewal orders. ABC has also given The Good Doctor a 7th season renewal; and Station 19 has been given a 7th season renewal as well. (TV Line)
Hulu has given a second season renewal of Reasonable Doubt. (TV Line)
Apple TV+ has pulled the plug on the new drama series Dear Edward after only one season. (TV Line)
Disney+ has pulled the plug on National Treasure: Edge of History. (The Hollywood Reporter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Ewan McGregor will star in the Amazon Prime Video series Lodi that is currently in development. Set in 1977, car salesman Lou (McGregor) goes from ordinary small-town citizen to FBI informant infiltrating the mafia when a key member of organized crime offers to buy his Cadillac dealership. (Variety)
Lionsgate TV is in very early development of a TV series adaptation of the Stephanie Meyers Twilight franchise of books. (Variety)
Paramount+ is in the early development stages of a small screen version of Galaxy Quest. (Variety)
AMC is developing another series from the world of Anne Rice, focusing on the Talamasca, a secretive organization featured in a number of Rice’s iconic novels that is devoted to studying the supernatural world and keeping mortals safe from its darkest elements. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
As mentioned above Hulu has given a second season renewal for Reasonable Doubt, which will see Morris Chestnut join the cast, playing Corey Cash, a charming and media-savvy defense attorney who Jax brings in to help on a new high-profile case. (TV Line)
Broadway legend Patti LuPone will play a sexy witch named Lilia Calderu in the Disney+ WandaVision spin-off series Agatha: Coven of Chaos. (People)
The O.C. alum Mischa Barton will appear in the new season of Neighbours, the long-running Australian soap opera, which is coming to Amazon Freevee. She will play Reece, an American new to Erinsborough who’s not quite who she appears to be. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Actor Brandon Sklenar (1923) will star alongside Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in the film adaptation of It Ends With Us, based on the Colleen Hoover best-sellig novel. Lively will play Lily Bloom while Baldoni will play Ryle Kincaid. The movie follows Lily, who has a complicated past, as she meets neurosurgeon Ryle while living in Boston. Although she believes she has found her soulmate, over time, she begins to question their relationship. And to complicate things more, her high school love interest, Atlas (to be played by Sklenar), comes back into her life. (The Hollywood Reporter)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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