Hey All
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
SEAL Team has been renewed by Paramount+ for a 7th season. (TV Line)
Netflix has given a 6th and final season order to Cobra Kai. (TV Line)
HBO Max has pulled the plug on the rebooted Gossip Girl after just two seasons. (TV Line)
Starz has announced that Outlander will come to an end after its 8th season. The drama will find its 7th season premiering on the cable network this summer. (TV Line)
CBS is pulling the plug on NCIS: Los Angeles after 14 seasons. The series finale will air on May 14. (TV Line)
Peacock has pulled the plug on Vampire Academy after only one season. (TV Line)
Apple TV+ has canceled The Mosquito Coast”after two seasons. (Variety)
AND THE STORY CONTINUES
PBS has ordered a series adaptation of Moonflower Murders, a follow-up to the Magpie Murders. Lesley Manville will return as editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland with Timothy McMullan returning as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
Veteran actress Meryl Streep will join the cast of the 3rd season of Only Murders in the Building, but no details on her role have been released. (TV Line)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachenl Brosnahan has landed the lead role in the new Amazon limited series Lois & Varga, based on a short story by Lisa Taddeo. The show will follow a newly-married couple who moves to a small and vaunted island after inheriting a heavenly parcel of oceanfront property. But once they arrive, they meet Varga, the island’s only stripper and yoga teacher, who begins to sinisterly unravel their lives. (Variety)
Film veteran Dennis Quaid will star opposite David Oyelowo in the upcoming Paramount+ series Bass Reeves (which is an off-shoot of sorts from the Taylor Sheridan series 1883). Oyelowo will have the title role. Reeves was known as the greatest frontier hero in American history and also believed to be the inspiration for ‘The Lone Ranger.’ Quaid will play Sherrill Lynn, a Deputy U.S. Marshall. (Variety)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum Tatyana Ali will join the cast of the Peacock reboot series Bel-Air for its upcoming second season. She will recur as Mrs. Hughes, the middle school English teacher who sees something special in Ashley (Akira Akbar), often giving her books from her personal collection. (Variety)
It looks like Oscar winner Rami Malek just might be starring in the Warner Bros. Television limited series based on the life of silent film star Buster Keaton. The story will be based on the James Curtis biography about Keaton, who lived from 1895 to 1966, and who is thought of as one of the most prominent stars of the silent film era aside from Charlie Chaplin. He got his start as a child in vaudevile acts alongside his parents, who were traveling performers, before transitioning into film in the late 1910s. (Variety)
Film legend Anthony Hopkins is set to star in the Peacock series Those About to Die, playing Emperor Vespasian. The series will be set in the “complex and corrupt” world of gladiatorial competition, following an ensemble of characters from all parts of Roman society who collide in the arena. (Variety)
It looks like Taylor Kinney will be taking a leave of absence for the long-running NBC drama Chicago Fire to deal with a personal matter. (TV Line)
Actress Martha Plimpton has joined the cast of the HBO limited series The Palace that will be set in a decaying authoritarian regime, chronicling a year inside an authoritarian government as it starts to unravel. The cast already includes Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough and Hugh Grant. Character details for all five actors are being kept quiet, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Looks like Jared Leto will appear in the third Tron movie which is set to be directed by Joachim Ronning. (Variety)
Rising star Xosha Roquemore (Atlanta, Black Monday and Space Jam: A New Legacy) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Captain America: New World Order that will find Anthony Mackie reprising his role as Sam Wilson. But, instead of playing his alter-ego Falcon he has been tapped as the new Captain America. Not much else is known regarding the project and Roquemore’s new role is also being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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