Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATION
PBS has given Miss Scarlet a sixth season renewal. (TV Line)
BBC has given a third season order for the police drama Vigil that stars Suranne Jones and Game of Thrones alum Rose Leslie. (Deadline)
CBS has given series renewals to the following dramas: Tracker, Elsbeth, Fire Country, NCIS, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney. They join the already renewed FBI and Matlock. However, word of a renewal for the following shows has NOT been made yet: The Equalizer, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Watson and S.W.A.T. (TV Line)
Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on the Margo Martindale series The Sticky after only one season. (TV Line)
Hulu has given a second season order to the Sterling K. Brown-led drama Paradise. (Variety)
NOTE: The first season of the series will get its network debut on ABC starting on April 7.
SERIES PICK-UP ORDERS
ABC has announced a series pick-up for another 9-1-1 spin-off. The new show aptly entitled 9-1-1: Nashville will take place in the Music City during the 2025-2026 TV season. (Deadline and TV Line)
CBS has announced a spin-off series to Blue Bloods that will star series lead Donnie Wahlberg. Boston Blue will find Danny Reagan (Wahlberg) taking a position with the Boston PD where he will be partnered with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family. The series is expected to be part of the 2025-2026 TV season. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Mary Louise Parker (Weeds) and David Alan Grier (St. Denis Medical) have landed guest starring roles in season two of the CBS hit series Elsbeth, which stars Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni. Parker will play Freya, a decluttering guru with a minimalist lifestyle brand and a controlling personality while Grier will play Arthur Greene Jr., the highly professional owner of a family mortuary that caters to the one percent. (Variety)
The Flash alum Matt Letscher will show up on the new spin-off series Suits LA, playing the dad of Ted Black, who is played by Arrow alum Stephen Amell. (TV Line)
Megan Follows, who came to fame portraying legendary book character Anne Shirley in the PBS series Anne of Green Gables, will portray the author of that legendary franchise of books Lucy Maud Montogomery in a new series to be called Lucy. Maud (and yes there is an actual period between the title of the series). Follows will play Maud, from her forties through the end of her life, and the actress will also serve as executive producer on the series. There are no specific details on where this series will air, though. (Variety)
Nepotism is alive and well over on Nobody Wants This, the Adam Brody and Kristen Bell-led Netflix series. Brody’s real-life wife, actress Leighton Meeter will appear in the show’s upcoming second season, playing Abby, Joanne’s (played by Bell) middle school nemesis who is now an Instagram mommy influencer. (Variety)
More recognizable faces will be showing up in season two of the Peacock series Poker Face. Among those familiar folk will be Haley Joel Osment, John Cho, Justin Theroux, Jason Ritter, Alia Shawkat, Carol Kane, David Krumholtz and Melanie Lynskey (the real-life wife of Ritter and star of Yellowjackets). They join an already impressive list of guest stars for the upcoming season that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Katie Holmes, Gaby Hoffmann, Kumail Nanjiani, Cynthia Erivo, BJ Novak, Margo Martindale, John Mulaney, Awkwafina, Corey Hawkins, Simon Rex and Method Man (among others). Details regarding their characters are under wraps, though. (Deadline)
Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte star Golda Rosheuvel will appear in the BBC TV adaptation of The Dream Lands, which is based on the apocalyptic climate change novel by Rosa Rankin-Gee that will also include among its cast Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies and Monarch). (Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Claire Danes will reunite with My So-Calle Life creator Winnie Holzman for a new family drama being developed by HBO. The Applebaum Curse will focus on a dysfunctional family with Claire Danes in the lead role. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
The next new movie starring Chris Pine will be Nowhere Fast, a Texas crime thriller following a small-town criminal who inadvertently kills the nephew of his boss. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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