Hey All,
Here are the news items (other than what was released from Wednesday to today at San Diego Comic Con):
RENEWAL
Apple TV+ has given For All Mankind a fourth season renewal. (I)
Amazon has given a 3rd season renewal to its fantasy drama The Wheel of Time ahead of its upcoming second season, which has yet to be given an official air date just yet. (TV Line)
SERIES PICK-UP NEWS
NBC has ordered the new drama Found to series. The show is built around the fact that, in any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. More than half that number are people of color that the country seems to forget about. Public relations specialist Gabi Mosley (Shanola Hampton from Shameless) — who was once herself one of those forgotten ones — and her crisis management team now make sure there is always someone looking out for the forgotten missing people. But unbeknownst to anyone, this everyday hero is hiding a chilling secret of her own. The show also stars Brett Dalton (Agents of SHIELD) and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Midori Francis (Netflix’s Dash & Lily) is joining the cast of Grey’s Anatomy, playing Mika Yasuda, a first-year surgical resident. (TV Line)
Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games and The Hate U Give) will star in upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte, a mystery-thriller set in the final days of the High Republic era. The series will unearth a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers. Additional plot specifics as well as details about Stenberg’s potential role are being kept under wraps, though. (TV Line)
Edwin Hodge (The Tomorrow War) has joined the cast of season 4 of FBI: Most Wanted. (TV Line)
Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt Russell have joined the cast of the upcoming Apple and Legendary live-action series about Godzilla and the Titans. In the show, following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the series will explore one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch. (Variety)
Freema Agyeman will not be returning to New Amsterdam for the show’s 5th and final season. (TV Line)
LIVE ACTION TV SPECIAL NEWS
Grammy-winning singer H.E.R. will play Belle in the upcoming ABC live-action take on Beauty and the Beast that is set to air on December 15. (TV Line)
PODCAST NEWS
Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets) will play the title role in a new podcast telling the origin story of Harley Quinn (from her perspective) that will be coming to Spotify. Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die) will play The Joker and Justin Hartley (This Is Us) will play Bruce Wayne. There is no release date set for the podcast as yet. (Variety)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Olivia Colman (Landscapers), Jessie Buckley (Men) and Luke Evans (Crossing Swords) will provide their voices to the upcoming Netflix CG animated feature Scrooge: A Christmas Carol that will be a supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the beloved Christmas story. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, playing Casca Highbottom. (Variety)
Storm Reid (Euphoria) will star in the Paramount Pictures feature film called Becoming Noble that will follow a high school senior who learns she’s a princess of an African nation and travels to her home country on the continent to discover her roots, and to determine if “royal” is something she really wants to be. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
