Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
AMC has given a second season renewal to the new drama Dark Winds. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The CW is considering another soapy, noir thriller teen dama called Jake Change that will be set in the world of Archie Comics. The potential series will focus on an Asian-American–led mystery, following a 16-year-old private investigator as he navigates the racially and socio-economically diverse worlds of his ever-gentrifying home of Chinatown, and the elite private high school he attends. (Deadline)
Netflix is developing a new limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden with Florence Pugh on tap to star in an as-yet unconfirmed role. The story is set in California’s Salinas Valley over a period that stretches from the Civil War to the end of World War I, telling the interconnected stories of the Hamilton family, an Irish immigrant family with nine children, and the Trask family, led by the wealthy Adam Trask. The story eventually narrows its focus to center around the Trask family and the drama surrounding Adam, his wife Cathy and their sons Cal and Aron. (Variety)
CHANGE OF PLANS
The Yellowstone spin-off originally title 1932 will now be called 1923. The “tweak” in the show’s name is because the series will encompass the end of World War 1 and the start of prohibition. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Kevin Zegers has joined the cast of the spin-off series The Rookie: Feds, playing Brendon Acres who is just out of Quantico. He’s got a lot to prove in his first posting – not least because his background as the lead on the long-running TV series Vampire Cop means few people take him seriously. His years of method-actor training led not only to martial arts and gun skills, but also a master’s in computer science. (Deadline)
Actress Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi) will star opposite Natalie Portman in the Apple limited series Lady in the Lake, taking over the role of Cleo Sherwood in the series from Lupita Nyong’o. (Variety)
China Beach alum Dana Delany has joined the cast of the Sylvester Stallone Paramount+ series Tulsa King that follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet. (Variety)
Doctor Who alum Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight) will star in the Apple TV+ one-hour London thriller Criminal Record, a powerful, character-driven thriller set in the heart of contemporary London. An anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case: one a young woman in the early stages of her career and the other a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy. Capaldi will play Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty, and Jumbo will play Detective Sgt. June Lenker. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
The reboot of the Spy Kids movie franchise will star Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and Zachary Levi (Chuck) in the lead roles. (Deadline)
Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) has joined the cast of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, starring opposite Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid) and Rachel Zegler (West Side Story). Schafer will play Tigris Snow, the cousin and confidante of Coriolanus Snow (Blyth). (Variety)
MINI-SERIES NEWS
PBS Masterpiece is developing a 4-part mini-series adaptation of the acclaimed novel Miss Auten by author Gill Hornby. The novel centers on the lives and loves of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra. It delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane – an act of destruction that has troubled academics and Austen fans for centuries. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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