Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
The Paramount Network has renewed Yellowstone for a fourth season. (Variety)
The Blacklist has been renewed for an 8th season by NBC. (TV Line)
CASTING NEWS
Actors Keegan Allen (Pretty Little Liars) and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) has joined the cast of the upcoming Walker, Texas Ranger reboot that will air on The CW. Walker will star Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki in the lead role. Allen will play Liam Walker, the younger, gay and conservative brother of Cordell Walker, who has been recently promoted to assistant DA while Pileggi will play Bonham Walker, Cordell and Liam’s father, a third-generation Texas rancher. (Variety and Deadline)
Actor Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones) is among seven new cast members joining the second season of the Netflix series The Witcher. Hivju will play the role of Nivellen. (TV Line)
Actress Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Picard) will appear in the CBS drama MacGyver, in a season-long arc, playing the title character aunt, Gwendolyn Hayes, the sister of his late, beloved mother, an ex-DXS agent who was presumed dead and is also believed to be the head of Codex, the organization that the Phoenix has been hunting this season. (TV Line)
Actress Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve) will star in the upcoming Netflix drama The Chair. The six-episode half-hour series centers on the Chair of an English department at a major university, which will be played by Oh. (Variety)
Actor Delroy Lindo has opted to leave the series Good Fight at the end of the show’s upcoming fourth season. (TV Line)
Actor Skeet Ulrich and actress Marisol Nicholas are both set to exit Riverdale at the end of the show’s current season. (TV Line)
Actress Patina Miller (Madam Secretary) has joined the spin-off seies Power Book III: Raising Kanan that will follow the early years of Kanan Stark. Miller will play Raquel “Raq” Thomas, a cold, hard, fierce, successful and deadly woman taking names in a man’s world. (TV Line)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Mahershala Ali (Green Book, Moonlight and The 4400) will produce and star in the genre-bending drama feature Swan Song on Apple TV Plus, which is set in the near future, exploring how far someone will go, and how much they’ll sacrifice, to make a happier life for the people they love. (Variety)
Actor Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe, Sense8 and Treadstone) has joined the cast of Matrix 4. His role in the flick is being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
