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[09/20/22 - 11:40 PM] Development Update: Tuesday, September 20 By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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EQUALIZER, THE (CBS) - Donal Logue and Gloria Reuben are both bound for the new season. Logue will portray Colton Fisk, "one of the CIA's most decorated agents, an ex-CIA union chief in the Middle East during the 1990s. Empowered with a Tier 5 security clearance (the highest possible) he was part of the intelligence team that took out Bin Laden, and for many years he ran the Farm (Code name for CIA training base in Virginia)." And Reuben is set as Trish, "a recently widowed gallerist who is rekindling a romantic relationship with her former girlfriend, Vi (Lorraine Toussaint)." (Deadline.com)
FEUD (FX) - Molly Ringwald has signed onto the anthology series' second season as "Johnny Carson's second wife Joanne Carson, a good friend of Capote's who remained close to him until his death." (Deadline.com)
FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV+) - Tyner Rushing has been cast in the upcoming season as Samantha, "a space worker on the Mars colony." (Deadline.com)
FULL CIRCLE (HBO Max) - Jharrel Jerome is the latest cast in the Steven Soderbergh-helmed limited series as "a member of a New York criminal organization." (Deadline.com)
HIP (ABC) - The Alphabet has given the Drew Goddard-penned import of the French series a pilot order. In it, "a single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind helps solve an unsolvable crime when she rearranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department. When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order because of her HIP, she is brought on as a consultant to work with a by-the-book seasoned detective, and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team." Sarah Esberg, Pierre Laugier, Anthony Lancret and Jean Nainchrik will also executive produce for Goddard Textiles, Newen Connect and ABC Signature. (Deadline.com)
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN (Paramount+) - Gratiela Brancusi and Lane Garrison will both recur on the show's sophomore run as Tatiana, "a hostess at the Cheetah Nightclub"; and Carney, "one of the higher-ranking prison guards at Kingstown and an associate of Mike's (Jeremy Renner)," respectively. (Deadline.com)
MURDER BY THE BOOK (NBC, New!) - "Good Girls" alums Retta, Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs are set to team for a new drama at the network which "follows a big-city Instafamous book reviewer (Retta) who takes a page out of the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town." The project, which has a put pilot commitment, is set up at the Universal Television-based Minnesota Logging Company will all three executive producing alongside Casey Kyber. (Deadline.com)
RAZZLEKHAN: THE INFAMOUS CROCODILE OF WALL STREET (Hulu, New!) - Lily Collins is attached to star in a limited series at the streamer about the true story of Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein and Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, "tipped to be either the masterminds behind one of the largest heists in history or a pair of hapless wannabe entrepreneurs who somehow stumbled onto a hard drive containing $3.6 billion in Bitcoin stolen from the Finex exchange." Charlie McDowell is on board to direct and executive produce alongside Collins, Alex Orlovsky and Scoop Wasserstein for Searchlight Television and New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios. The New York Magazine article "The Many Lives of Crypto's Most Notorious Couple" will serve as source material. (Deadline.com)
ROOKIE, THE: FEDS (ABC) - Eric Roberts, Deniz Akdeniz, Jessica Betts and Tom Arnold are all bound for the spin-off series. Betts, wife of series star Niecy Nash-Betts, will guest as "a love interest for Nash-Betts' character Simone Clark"; with Arnold as "the charismatic father of Kevin Zegers' Brendon"; Roberts as "a father with a dark secret"; and Akdeniz as "Laura's (Britt Robertson) former Behavioral Science Unit colleague." (TVLine.com)
WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES (Hulu) - Logan Lerman will star alongside Joey King in the limited series adaptation of Georgia Hunter's bestseller as Addy, "a 25-year-old Polish, Jewish middle child. He is an adventurer who lives in Paris as an engineer and is enjoying budding success as a music composer. He has an ability to find common ground with dissimilar people and a talent to fix anything. The character is inspired by the story of Georgia Hunter's grandfather as a young man in the late 1930s." (Deadline.com)
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[04/17/24 - 11:00 AM] National Geographic Honors WW2 Soldiers of Color with Two New Specials Continuing National Geographic's 136-year record of giving viewers access to pivotal historical moments with new breadth and insight, the network will honor the contributions and sacrifices of overlooked Allied soldiers of color with two new specials on Monday, June 3.
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[04/17/24 - 10:00 AM] National Geographic Unravels the Culture-Defining Stanford Prison Experiment and Its Controversial Legacy in "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" (w.t.) From director Juliette Eisner, executive producer Alex Braverman and Muck Media, the three-part series unravels the layers of intrigue and controversy surrounding one of psychology's most debated studies from the past 50 years.
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[04/17/24 - 09:59 AM] Iliza Shlesinger Heads to Prime Video for Next Stand-Up Comedy Special The taping will take place at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City on November 2, and the premiere date for the one-hour special will be announced at a later date.
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[04/17/24 - 09:01 AM] Video: "Sweet Tooth" - Final Season - Official Teaser Trailer - Netflix Experience the final season June 6, only on Netflix.
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[04/17/24 - 09:01 AM] Apple Renews Globally Acclaimed, Hit Space Drama "For All Mankind" for Season Five and Announces New Spinoff Series "Star City" "Star City" is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race - when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon.
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[04/17/24 - 08:07 AM] First Look: Hulu Documentary Film "Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge" An unprecedented look at the non-stop life of a cultural luminary, the film launches June 25 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
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[04/17/24 - 08:03 AM] All-New Season of "Ghost Adventures" Returns Wednesday, May 15 on Discovery Channel This season documents some of the team's most haunting encounters yet, including sinister Skinwalkers and an unprecedented first-ever investigation of the iconic Los Angeles Hospital.
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[04/17/24 - 07:20 AM] "Live with Kelly and Mark" Celebrates One-Year Anniversary, Continuing Its Reign as Television's Number One Entertainment Talk Show The series has increased in Total Viewers by 3% year over year (2.288 million vs. 2.229 million).
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[04/17/24 - 07:07 AM] Global Music Icon Barbra Streisand to Release New Single for Upcoming Peacock and Sky Original Series "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" This will be Streisand's first ever recording for a TV series and will be released globally by Columbia Records on April 25, ahead of the series global launch on May 2.
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[04/17/24 - 07:04 AM] Video: Apple TV+ Debuts Trailer for Season Three of Global Hit Comedy Series "Acapulco," Starring and Executive Produced by Award-Winning Actor Eugenio Derbez "Acapulco" returns for season three with the first two episodes debuting globally on Wednesday, May 1, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through June 26.
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[04/17/24 - 06:01 AM] Hallmark Channel Announces That Production Has Wrapped on Lacey Chabert's 15th Hallmark Christmas Movie "The Christmas Quest" Kristoffer Polaha also star in the project, which is set to premiere later in 2024 as part of the network's 15th Annual Countdown to Christmas programming event.
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[04/17/24 - 05:03 AM] Time Reveals the 2024 TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World TIME Studios and ABC to bring viewers inside the gala with "TIME100: The World's Most Influential People," airing Sunday, May 12, at 10/9c on ABC and next day on Hulu.
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