Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
FX has given a second season order to The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges. (TV Line)
Apple TV+ has pulled the plug on the Jason Momoa drama See. The series will air its third and final season on the streaming servie on August 26. (TV Line)
The CW has canceled the new drama Tom Swift after only one season. (TV Line)
Despite getting a third season renewal, the Paramount+ drama Why Women Kill isn’t going to get its third season after all since the renewal has been reversed. (TV Line)
HBO has pulled the plug on The Time Traveler’s Wife after only one season. (TV Line)
RESCUED AFTER ALL
NBC has come to rescue in saving the reboot of Magnum P.I., giving the series a two-season renewal (the show’s 5th and 6th), which will consist of 10 episodes each season with an option for more episodes. (Deadline and TV Line)
NOT MOVING FORWARD
Peacock is not moving forward with the small screen TV adaptation of the box office film Field of Dreams although the project is being shopped around to other outlets. (Variety)
BLAST FROM THE PAST REBOOT
The streaming service formerly known as IMDbTV – now known as Amazon’s Freevee – will be moving forward with a sequel to the 1980’s sitcom Who’s the Boss with original series stars Alyssa Milano and Tony Danza reprising their roles. The reboot will focus on Samantha Micelli (Milano), a single mother who lives in the same house where she grew up on the original series. Her retired dad, Tony (Danza), lives with her. There’s no word yet on whether Judith Light and Danny Pintauro will also reprise their roles. (The Hollywood Reporter)
TV CASTING NEWS
Kate Winslet will be returning to the small screen again, this time in the limited HBO series Trust, based on the Hernan Diaz novel. Winslet will executive produce in addition to starring, in a story that focus on what happens when a wealthy financier reads a novel based on his own life and is dissatisfied by his and his wife’s portrayal. He asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. She, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history—and his wife’s place in it. (Variety)
Freeform is moving forward with thriller The Watchful Eye that centers on a young nanny who goes to work for a wealthy New York family that harbors a closetful of secrets. Mariel Molino (from ABC’s failed drama Promised Land) will play the lead role of Elena Santos, who maneuvers her way into a job with an affluent family and has some shocking secrets of her own. Molino takes over from Andrea Londos, who played Elena in the show’s pilot. The actor who will be among the cast include Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop and Amy Acker. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Supergirl alum Melissa Benoist will star in the HBO Max series The Girls on the Bus, inspired by a chapter in Amy Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary. Benoist will play Sadie McCarthy, a journalist who romanticizes the original “Boys on the Bus” and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at covering a presidential campaign for the paper of record. Sadie hits the trail and eventually bonds with three female competitors. Despite their differences, these women become a found family with a front-row seat to the greatest soap opera in town: the battle for the White House. (Variety)
The new Netflix action-comedy Obliterated – from the creators of Cobra Kai – has cast Nick Zano (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Shelley Henig (Teen Wolf) as the leads. The show tells the story of an elite special forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that a bomb they deactivated was a fake. The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb, and save the world. Zano will star as Chad McKnight, who heads up the special forces team. The team loves him despite his reputation for being a wild guy on and off the job. The night from hell in Vegas will test his commitment to both keeping the good times going and saving the world while he’s at it. Hennig will play Ava Frost, a CIA lead agent who likes to play by the book while overseeing an elite Special Forces team. But the book gets thrown out the window when she and the team have to go back to work while impaired. (Variety)
Andie MacDowell is returning to the Hallmark Channel to star in the network’s new original series The Way Home, playing Del, the matriarch of the Landry family and a pillar of the close-knit community of her small, Canadian farm town. She and her daughter Kat have been estranged from each other following tragic events that left their family forever changed and prompted Kat to move away. When Kat unexpectedly returns many years later with her teenage daughter whom Del has never met, the three generations of women embark on an enlightening journey to find their way back to each other and learn important lessons about their family’s past. (Deadline)
Outlander has added new cast members to its upcoming 7th season. Those actors are Izzy Meikle-Small (Never Let Me Go) and Joey Phillips (Billy Elliot). They will play brother and sister Rachel Hunter and Dr. Denzell Hunter, respectively. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Kathryn Newton (Supernatural and Little Women) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) will star in the box office film Lisa Frankenstien from Oscar winner Diablo Cody. Set in 1989, the film follows an unpopular high schooler who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams using the broken tanning bed in her garage. (Deadline)
Emma Roberts has joined the cast of the Marvel flick Madame Web that will star Dakota Johnson as the title hero. The movie is an origin story for the comic book character, a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself. In the comics, her abilities prove to be greatly beneficial to Spider-Man and his fellow arachnid allies but given her condition she’s never battled villains herself. (Variety)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things and Enola Holmes) will star in the next Russo Brothers project. Rumors surfaced earlier this year that Chris Pratt was in talks to co-star, but no deal has been set yet. The film will be set in a retro-futuristic past, where an orphaned teenager (Brown) traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother. (Deadline)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Reba stars Melissa Peterman and Reba McEntire herself will star alongside each other as sister in the Lifetime made-for-TV movie The Hammer, which is inspired by the life of traveling circuit judge Kim Wanker. McEntire will play Wheeler, an outspoken, firecracker lawyer who is appointed Judge of the 5th District of Nevada and is one of the few traveling judges left in America. After the reigning judge passes away under suspicious circumstances, Kim finds herself covering a circuit that stretches between Las Vegas and Reno — a rugged, often desolate area where anything and everything can happen. With gavel in hand, she lays down the law with a no-nonsense brand of justice, that quickly earns her the nickname ‘The Hammer.’ As the investigation of the former judge’s death heats up, Kim’s sister Kris (played by Peterman), who runs the local brothel, suddenly becomes the prime suspect. As a result, Kim is forced to work even harder to make certain the appropriate justice is served. McEntire’s real-life boyfriend Rex Linn (CSI: Miami) will co-star. A premiere date has not yet been announced. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
