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[08/11/17 - 11:34 PM]
Development Update: Friday, August 11
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
GIFTED, THE (FOX) - Len Wiseman has signed on as an executive producer/in-house director of the series. He'll helm the show's second episode. (Deadline.com)
GYPSY (Netflix) - The streaming service has pulled the plug on the Naomi Watts-led psychological thriller after one season. (Deadline.com)
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (CBS) - Alison Bennett is the latest tapped to pen the long-proposed spin-off of the former CBS mainstay. The news marks the third stab at the project. Original creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas along with Emily Spivey spearheaded the pilot "How I Met Your Dad" in 2014 while Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger were behind the second go-round in 2016 with "How I Met Your Father," which stalled in the script stage internally at 20th Century Fox Television. (Deadline.com)
LAST MAN ON EARTH, THE (FOX) - Chris Elliott has scored a recurring role on the new season as Glenn, "a castaway living on a deserted island." Additionally, Kristen Wiig's "socialite-turned-crazy-bunker-lady" Pamela will be back in at least three episodes. (EW.com)
LAW & ORDER: SVU (NBC) - Brooke Shields has scored a top secret recurring role on the upcoming season that "will shake up Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) world." (THR.com)
LAW & ORDER TRUE CRIME (NBC) - Rya Kihlstedt and Josh Stamberg are the latest to score roles in "The Menendez Murders." Kihlstedt will play Cindy Erdelyi, "an ex-cop who is Menendez lawyer Leslie Abramson's go-to investigator"; while Stamberg is on board as Robert Rand, "a nonthreatening reporter who has gained access to the Menendez home and forms a connection with the case." (THR.com)
MOSAIC (NBC, New!) - Writer Christine Lavaf and director Wes Ball have sold a new drama to the Peacock "set in a near-future metropolis and follows the interconnected lives of a diverse set of characters struggling to navigate their relationships in the face of emerging technologies." Oddball Entertainment's Joe Hartwick, Jr. will also executive produce for the Universal Television-based Chernin Entertainment. (Deadline.com)
RIVERDALE (The CW) - Graham Phillips has been tapped for a two-episode arc as Veronica's (Camila Mendes) ex, Nick St. Clair, "an old classmate of Veronica's from New York, and despite his parent-pleasing veneer, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing: a hard-partying Lothario with dark desires and an unchecked sense of privilege." (EW.com)
YELLOWSTONE (Paramount) - Jefferson White and Gretchen Mol are the latest additions to the Kevin Costner-led drama. White is set as Jimmy, "a professional thief who joins a band of wranglers working with John Dutton." Mol then will play Evelyn Dutton, "wife of John Dutton and mother to his children and who has a contentious relationship with daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly)." (Deadline.com)
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