Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATION
All of the major networks have announced their expected fall TV line-ups (albeit FOX hasn’t released its exact night-by-night line-up just yet). You can see night-by-night line-ups here on my site. In the meantime, one additional drama that has been canceled is Riverdale on The CW, but the series will air its current 7th season in 2023 and then come to an end. (TV Line)
RENEWAL
Disney+ has given a fourth season renewal to the musical series High School Musical: The Musical: the Series. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
It looks like there might be a film reboot of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at 20th Century Studios. The “original” film came out in 2003, and was set in an alternate Victorian Age world, following a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters that included Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer—as they teamed up on a secret mission. (Deadline)
As was rumored earlier, the official announcement has been made that HBO Max is no longer moving forward with a live-action movie about the Wonder Twins that was going to star 1883 actress Isabel May and Riverdale hunk KJ Apa. (Variety)
Chris Pine will be directing for the first time, and recent Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female) will star in his directorial debut. The movie called Poolman is being billed as a moving tribute to Los Angeles, but plot details are not being revealed. (Variety)
It looks like Ryan Gosling just might be starring in the feature film adaptation of the iconic 1980’s TV series The Fall Guy. The original series ran from 1981 to 1986 and starred Lee Majors(The Six Million Dollar Man) as a Hollywood stunt man, who, to make ends meet, works as a bounty hunter. (Variety)
TV NEWS
Season 3 of Bridgerton is supposedly skipping ahead to book four in the franchise, focusing on the Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington love story. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
The limited series Bass Reeves from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, is now going to be called 1883: The Bass Reeves Story, and will star David Oyelowo as the legendary lawman, who was known as the greatest frontier hero in American history, and also believed to be the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. (Deadline)
Speaking of Taylor Sheridan. His next Yellowstone based-programming – the prequel entitled 1932 – has announced that megastars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren will star in the series that will debut on Paramount+. The series will introduce viewers to a new generation of the Duttons. The series will explore the early 20th century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home. What characters Ford and Mirren will play have not been announced nor is there any word on whether 1932 will be a self-contained limited series the way that 1883 turned out to be. (TV Line)
Actress Maria Sten will reprise her role of Frances Neagley in the upcoming season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s Reacher, based on the books by author Lee Childs that stars Alan Ritchson in the lead role (that was portrayed by Tom Cruise in the box office films). Season 2 of the series will actually focus on book 11 in the Jack Reacher franchise. The synopsis of season two is this: When the members of Reacher’s old military unit start turning up dead, Reacher has just one thing on his mind—revenge. (Deadline)
The ABC drama Big Sky featured Jensen Ackles (Supernatural and The Boys) in the recently aired season finale. Now, it’s been announced that Ackles will be a series regular in the show’s upcoming 4th season AND now it has been announced that Hall of Famer country music megastar Reba McEntire will play the role of Sunny Brick, the mercurial matriarch of the Brick family, a successful backcountry outfitter that has a secret history of “missing” customers. (TV Line)
Ava DuVernay has landed a 3-year script-to-series commitment from Starz on an as-yet-untitled romantic drama series that will star Joshua Jackson (Dr. Death and Dawson’s Creek) and Lauren Ridloff (The Walking Dead and Eternals), who will also executive produce. The series will follow two polar opposites who become intertwined in a love affair that turns their worlds – and those of everyone around them – upside down. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
