Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
The CW has given a 6th season renewal to the drama All American. (TV Line)
FX has pulled the plug on Mayans M.C. The show’s upcoming fifth season will be its last. (Variety)
Paramount+ has given a second season order for the rebooted sequel Criminal Minds: Evolution. (TV Line)
It’s been made official: TNT has pulled the plug on the fourth season of Snowpiercer despite the fact the episodes have been filmed, are ready to be aired and the show was given the greenlight for the 4th season. The show is now being shopped around though. (TV Line)
TV DEVELOPMENT
It looks like Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood are involved in a workshop on the musical version of Thelma & Louise, which has been in the works since at least 2021. (Variety)
ORDERED TO SERIES
It looks like Paramount+ has given an order to a live-action version of Dungeons & Dragons, giving the show an 8-episode order. Exact plot details, including what elements of the Dungeons & Dragons canon will be included, are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Veteran actress Donna Mills will appear in the upcoming episode of The Rookie: Feds, playing Layla Laughlin, a famous cosmetics maven who had humble beginnings, and began as a single mom who made her way by developing skincare products in her kitchen. (Variety)
Actor Sope Dirisu (Gangs of London) has joined the cast of season 3 of the Apple TV+ British spy drama Slow Horses, playing Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul. (Variety)
The Good Doctor is getting a spin-off. Kennedy McMann (The CW’s Nancy Drew) will appear in The Good Lawyer alongside Desperate Housewives alum Felicity Huffman. They will make their debut in the backdoor pilot on March 6 when Dr. Shaun Murphy (series lead on The Good Doctor Freddie Highmore) seeks legal representation to help him win a case and puts his faith in a promising, young lawyer who has obsessive compulsive disorder. McMann will play that lawyer, Joni DeGroot, a brilliant, funny and self-aware lawyer who is relatively new to her prestigious law firm when she takes Shaun’s case. Meanwhile, Huffman will play Janet Stewart, a highly regarded attorney and partner at the law firm with a fierce intellect and dry wit. (TV Line)
Veteran actor Morgan Freeman has joined the upcoming Paramount+ series Lioness, a CIA drama from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, which includes among its cast Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldana along with Hallmark alum Jill Wagner. The show is based on a real-life CIA program, following Cruz Manuelos, am 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. Freeman will play Edwin Mullins, the U.S. Secretary of State. (The Hollywood Reporter)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Nickelodeon has started production on a Zoey 101 original sequel film that will find original cast members Jamie Lynn Spears, Erin Sanders, Sean Flynn, Matthew Underwood, Christopher Massey, Abby Wilde and Jack Salvatore all reprising their roles. The movie sequel entitled Zoey 102 will reintroduce fans to the Pacific Coast Academy alumni as they reunite for a wedding in the present day. (Variety)
NETFLIX MOVIE NEWS
Kerry Washington and Oprah Winfrey have joined the all-star cast of the upcoming Netflix film Six Triple Eight from Tyler Perry himself. The movie will tell the inspiring true story of the only all-Black, all-female World War II battalion. When these women joined the war effort, they were given the herculean task of sorting through and delivering the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. For nearly 75 years, their story has been kept out of history books and away from the national spotlight. But, on March 14, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the bill for the women to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’ highest honor. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Marisa Abela (HBO’s Industry) will star as the late singer Amy Winehouse in the box office biopic called Back to Black that will look at Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early aughts and her intense journey to fame. (Variety)
Oscar-nominee Aunjanue Ellis will star in the Ava DuVernay feature film Caste, which is inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winner bestseller Caste: Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson. The story examines the system of hierarchy that has shaped America. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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