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[07/30/18 - 11:49 PM]
Development Update: Monday, July 30
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!
BLINDSPOT (NBC) - Dustin Milligan and Annie Q will drop by the upcoming season in unspecified roles. (TVLine.com)
DANCING WITH THE STARS: JUNIORS (ABC) - Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, two-time Mirror Ball champ Val Chmerkovskiy and "La La Land" choreographer Mandy Moore will be judges on the upcoming spin-off series. (@GMA)
DOOM PATROL (DC) - Diane Guerrero has joined the cast of the DC Universe series as Crazy Jane, "an unlikely hero suffering from the world's most severe case of multiple personality disorder. Each of her 64 distinct personas manifest a different super power making Jane the Doom Patrol's most powerful member... and also its most unstable." (Deadline.com)
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (ABC) - Timothy Hutton has joined the cast of the show's fifth season in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (Deadline.com)
ROBBIE (Comedy Central) - Beau Bridges has signed onto the Rory Scovel-led comedy pilot, about an overzealous church-league basketball coach who aspires to restore glory to his rural Georgia town by following in his father's footsteps as the infamous coach who won two high school basketball championships in the nineties. He'll play Robbie's father, Robbie Walton Sr., who is "beloved by everyone in town because he led the local high school to two state championships in his day, he does not suffer fools - especially his son, Robbie." (Deadline.com)
SNEAKY PETE (Amazon) - Blake Masters has been tapped as the new showrunner for the show's expected third season. He'll succeed Graham Yost, Fred Golan and Michael Dinner, who are all exiting. (Deadline.com, 7/28)
UNTITLED 24 PROJECT (FOX) - The latest incarnation of the "24" franchise will reportedly serve as a prequel to the original series and "trace the origin story of CTU agent Jack Bauer." Howard Gordon, Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran are penning the script for 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television. (Deadline.com)
UNTITLED KID FURY PROJECT (HBO, New!) - Comedian Kid Fury is spearheading a new comedy series at the pay channel described as "a surreal dark comedy that follows Greg, a 20-something sarcastic gay black man navigating adulthood and responsibility in New York City while struggling to wrap his head around his undiagnosed clinical depression." Lena Waithe and Avalon Television's Chloe Pisello, David Martin, Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner are the executive producers with Kid Fury and Jason Kim as co-executive producers. (Variety.com)
WOOL (AMC, New!) - Hugh Howey's book series - "a post-apocalyptic story that follows a sheriff, his wife, and their larger society forced underground due to toxic air on the surface of the planet" - is being developed as a TV series at the cable channel. LaToya Morgan is penning the script for AMC Studios with Howey serving as a producer. (Variety.com)
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[07/23/26 - 04:30 PM]
San Diego Comic-Con: Prime Video Announces Matthew Needham as the Voice of The Joker in "Batman: Caped Crusader" Season Two
Season two will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Friday, July 31.
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[07/23/26 - 04:01 PM]
Audiobook Fan-Favorite Jeff Hays Joins Peacock's Live-Action Adaptation of Bestselling Phenomenon "Dungeon Crawler Carl" as the Voice of Princess Donut
On Audible, the series, narrated by Jeff Hays, has clocked over 140 million listening hours.
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[07/23/26 - 04:01 PM]
ABC News Is No. 1 on Sunday Morning, Friday Night and Late Night
"20/20" was up over the previous week in all key target demos and improved year to year across the board.
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[07/23/26 - 02:45 PM]
Andscape Marks 10th Anniversary with New ESPN+ Series "The Trade with Kelley L. Carter" Spotlighting the Game-Changers Shaping Sports, Culture and Entertainment
The brand new series will premiere on ESPN Unlimited/+ on July 29, 2026.
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[07/23/26 - 01:59 PM]
Video: "Avatar: Seven Havens" Teaser and Paramount+ Premiere Date Revealed at Comic-Con International in San Diego
"Avatar: Seven Havens" will premiere on the service globally on Friday, October 9.
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[07/23/26 - 01:00 PM]
"Big Brother" Premiere Week Up +14% from Last Season
In its first week (episodes airing July 9, 12 and 15), "Big Brother" live plus 3-day total multiplatform viewership averaged 4.96 million viewers.
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[07/23/26 - 11:30 AM]
"We Chose to Go to the Moon" Premieres Tuesday, November 10, 2026, on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS App
This immersive theatrical experience tells the dramatic tale of America's race to space and decision to land a man on the Moon in one of the most ambitious scientific and exploration achievements in history.
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[07/23/26 - 11:16 AM]
Netflix Announces Additional Cast of New Drama Series "Myron Bolitar"
Melissa Benoist, Bebe Neuwirth, Griffin Dunne, and Isaiah Hill plus others join the cast.
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[07/23/26 - 11:00 AM]
"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Takes San Diego Comic-Con by Storm with Season 3 Premiere Date Set for November 20 on Disney+
Season three marks the first time that the third book - "The Titan's Curse" - comes to screen.
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[07/23/26 - 10:01 AM]
Video: "MLB at Field of Dreams" - Official Trailer - Netflix
The Phillies face the Twins as Major League Baseball returns to the Iowa cornfields for a nostalgic night of America's favorite pastime.
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[07/23/26 - 09:14 AM]
Great American Media Strikes a Powerful New Chord with "Abilene," A Bold New, Original Series Coming to Great American Media Platforms Early 2027
"Abilene" follows Abby Morgan, a young woman looking to start over who finds herself stranded in the quiet, weathered town of Fair Haven, Ohio.
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[07/23/26 - 09:01 AM]
Video: "Tires" Season 3 - Official Trailer - Netflix
While settling in as part owners of a struggling Valley Forge, Will confronts the road not taken and Shane finds himself on a detour toward adulthood.
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[07/23/26 - 09:01 AM]
Apple TV's "The Morning Show" to Culminate with Star-Studded Fifth and Final Season
Along with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, the ensemble cast is led by Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm, along with new additions for season five, including Jeff Daniels, Reneé Rapp, Jesse Williams, Sean Hayes, Lizzy Caplan and more.
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[07/23/26 - 09:00 AM]
CBS Announces Taylor Sheridan's "The Run for a Million," An Elite Horse-Reining Competition, Airing Saturday, Aug. 22
Plus: the seventh season of "The Last Cowboy" will air on CMT later this fall.
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[07/23/26 - 08:02 AM]
Video: "Don't Say Good Luck" - Official Trailer - Netflix
In this coming-of-age dramedy, Sophie Birenbaum (Sunny Sandler) is ready for the spotlight as the lead in her high school musical - until suddenly she's living with even more drama at home than on the stage.
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