Hey All,
Here are the news items for the past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
BET has cancelled The Quad after two seasons. (Variety)
Jessica Jones has been renewed for a third season by Netflix. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actor Colton Haynes will return to Arrow full time for the show’s 7th season. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) will take on the key role of Captain Christopher Pike in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Susan Sarandon will return to Ray Donovan as Samantha Winslow for the show’s upcoming 6th season. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) will take over the role of Colonel Cathcart in the Hulu series Catch-22, taking over the role originally set to be played by George Clooney. Clooney will take on the smaller role of Scheisskoft, a training commander. (Variety)
Actress Peyton List (Gotham and Frequency) and actors Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway), Waleed Zuaiter (Altered Carbon) and Graham McTavish (Outlander) have all joined the cast of the USA Network series Colony for the upcoming 3rd season. List will play Amy Leonard, a doctor and member of the San Fernando cell, who embarks on a dangerous journey; Brady will play Everett Kynes, a highly successful tech entrepreneur who has risen in the new world to become the head of the rebuilt Seattle Colony; McTavish will play Andrew MacGregor, the leader of the most successful Resistance camp in what used to be the western United States and Zuaiter will play Vincent, a moral man who finds himself caught in an impossible position while working for a powerful Resistance group. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actor Gabriel Luna (Matador and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has been cast as the Terminator in the new version of the James Cameron reboot of the franchise. (Deadline)
Actress Stana Katic (Castle) will appear in the untitled female-driven WW II spy drama based on the real-life spies in Winston Churchill’s secret army. The film will center on British intelligence officer Vera Atkins (Katic) and two of the women she sends to France as spies. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
