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[11/20/18 - 11:17 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, November 20
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) - Chaske Spencer is set to recur on the series as Dominic Masters, "someone who works for Madeline Burke (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)." (Deadline.com)
BOSCH (Amazon) - Jon Lindstrom and Tim Lounibos are slated to recur on the upcoming fifth season as Lance Cronyn, "a lawyer who goes toe-to-toe with Bosch"; and Ed Sung, "an investigator armed with patrol cop instincts and level-headed humor during a season-long investigation," respectively. (Deadline.com)
DEUCE, THE (HBO) - David Krumholtz's Harvey Wasserman, Daniel Sauli's Tommy Longo, Sepideh Moafi's Loretta and Olivia Luccardi's Melissa have all been promoted to regulars for the show's third and final season. (Deadline.com)
GREAT, THE (Hulu) - Phoebe Fox has been cast in the Elle Fanning/Nicholas Hoult-led drama pilot as Marial, "Catherine's right hand woman." (Deadline.com)
HOOPS (Netflix) - Jeny Batten and M. Dickson have been tapped as showrunners of the upcoming animated series, which centers around a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach (Jake Johnson) who thinks turning around his God-awful team will take him to the "big leagues." (Deadline.com)
MAGNUM P.I. (CBS) - Corbin Bernsen will drop by the reboot series as Icepick, "a grizzled, older prisoner/self-dubbed "criminal degenerate" who wields a sense of humor as well as some hard-earned wisdom. A longtime father figure to Rick (Zachary Knighton), who himself was once headed down the wrong path, Icepick shows some tough love when Rick comes to him with a problem." (TVLine.com)
MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, THE (Amazon) - Bzhaun Rhoden, Louis Ferreira and Peter Shinkoda are all bound for the show's fourth season. Rhoden will play Benjy, "a member of the Black Communist Rebellion"; with Ferreira as Brad Bellows, "the leader of the D.C. Resistance cell"; and Shinkoda as Kazu Suzuki, "the very distinguished Royal Secretary to the Crown Princess." (Deadline.com)
NORTHERN EXPOSURE (CBS, New!) - Rob Morrow is attached to star in a potential revival of the former CBS staple, about Joel Fleischman (Morrow), "who returns to Cicely, Alaska, for the funeral of an old friend and finds a new set of quirky characters and reunites with old ones in this continuation of the classic series." Original series co-creator Josh Brand is penning the project with Morrow, John Falsey and Ben Silverman also on board to executive produce for Universal Television. Actor John Corbett will also receive a producing credit. (Deadline.com)
SALVATION (CBS) - The Eye has pulled the plug on the summer series after two seasons. (Variety.com)
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