Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
Netflix has announced that Never Have I Ever has been given a fourth season renewal, which will be its last season. The third season of the show will premiere later this year. (TV Line)
Vikings: Valhalla have been renewed for two additional seasons. (Screen Rant)
Power Book IV Force has been renewed for a second season by Starz. (Variety)
The Baby-Sitters Club will have to find a new way to make some spending money: Netflix has cancelled the middle school dramedy after two seasons. (Deadline and TV Line)
TV SERIES NEWS
HBO Max has given a spin-off series order to The Penguin based on the character played by Colin Farrell (who will appear in the series) from the box office movie The Batman. The limited series will, of course, focus on Oswald Cobblepot as he rises through the ranks of Gotham’s criminal underworld. (Variety)
AMC has given a greenlight to Isle of the Dead, another The Walkind Dead spin-off series, that will be centered around Maggie (Lauren Cohen) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The series, which is set to premiere in 2023, will follow the unlikely pair into what is being described as a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. (TV Line)
A new murder mystery drama from Shondaland (the Shonda Rhimes production company) has been given a series order at Netflix. The Residence, inspired by the Kate Andersen Brower book, will be a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion. The show has received an eight-episode order. (Variety)
Hulu has picked up the drama series Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem. The 10 episode, one-hour drama asks the question, “how do you solve a murder in a post-fact world?” (Variety)
FOLLOW THE YELLOWSTONE ROAD
There has been some confusion (lately) about the future of the Yellowstone spin-off series 1883, as there have been stories that the western has been renewed for a second season while other stories have said it was only meant as a 10-episode limited series. The truth is when this: Yellowstone returns for the start of its 5th season this summer with 7 episodes airing; when it goes on its break, Paramount+ will air “additional episodes” of 1883 (how many episodes is unclear). Then the final 7 episodes of Yellowstone will air at the end of the year, at which time the new spin-off 1932 will air its first two episodes before moving over to Paramoount+. (Cheat Sheet)
TV MOVIE NEWS
Heather Hemmens (Roswell, New Mexico) has signed a deal to star in multiple original films with the Hallmark Channel. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
As fans of the small screen adaptation of Teen Wolf, which aired from 2011 to 2017 on MTV, know there will be a reunion movie airing with nearly all of the cast returning EXCEPT it has been confirmed that break-out star Dylan O’Brien will NOT be returning. (TV Line)
Hot on the heels of her small screen starring role in the NBC drama The Thing About Pam, Renee Zellweger will star in the Peacock drama Avenger Field that tells the story of those that established a clandestine all female US Airforce program called the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) to battle Hitler from home. Inspired by the true story of WASP leader Jackie Cohran (Zellweger) and the diverse group of women who fought the system, skeptics and even sabotage to bring everyone home safely. (Variety)
Giancarlo Esposito will star and executive produce in the 6-episode new drama series The Driver that will focuse on a taxi driver (Esposito) whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports. The show is expected to debut on AMC and AMC Plus in 2023. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Florence Pugh (Black Widow and Little Women) is expected to join the cast of Dune, Part 2 where she will play Princess Irulan Corrino, a royal who becomes romantically entangled with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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