Caffeine – TV News – July 31st Edition

This week we’ve got the end of the SDCC news and the start of TCA news, so basically: ALL THE TV NEWS. Ready?

A date, at long last: Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival will premiere on November 25th.

More premiere dates:
September 22nd: Easy
October 2nd: Westworld
October 7th: The Ranch
October 9th: Divorce, Insecure
October 16th: Berlin Station, Graves
October 21st: Black Mirror
November 17th: Lovesick (formerly Scrotal Recall)
January 6th: One Day at a Time

Turn has been renewed for a fourth and final season.

Also renewed: Lady Dynamite, Real Rob, Still the King, Flaked, Ballers

HBO has confirmed that Games of Thrones will end with season 8, and supposedly they’re considering a spinoff.

HBO also insists that True Detective is not quite dead yet.

Fresh Off the Boat is filming its season premiere in Taiwan.

The new season of Black Mirror has episodes by Rashida Jones, Mike Schur, and Dan Trachtenberg.

Pop will air Australian horror series Wolf Creek.

Ordered to series:
Amazon: F. Scott Fitzgerald drama The Last Tycoon
HBO: A multiracial family drama from Alan Ball
National Geographic: A miniseries based on Martha Raddatz’s book The Long Road Home

Pilot orders:
Freeform: Mermaid drama The Deep

In development:
ABC: DJ Nash family comedy Losing It
The CW: Thriller Blowback
National Geographic: An adaptation of Michael Crichton’s historical paleontology novel Dragon Teeth
Sony TV: Marijuana drama Humboldt starring John Malkovich
Starz: An adaptation of British comedy Peep Show
TBS: Notorious B.I.G.-inspired comedy Think B.I.G.
TNT: A limited series about the Chandra Levy case

Leaving their shows:
Narcos: Wagner Moura
NCIS: New Orleans: Zoe McLellan

Guest stars:
Law & Order: SVU: Vice President Joe Biden
Lethal Weapon: Jason Derulo
MacGyver: Amy Acker
Roadies: David Spade, Rosanna Arquette, John Mellencamp, Marc Maron

Returns:
American Crime: Timothy Hutton
New Girl: Megan Fox
Pretty Little Liars: Shane Coffey
Quantico: Henry Czerny

Casting:
American Housewife: Meg Donnelly
American Woman: Alicia Silverstone
The Arrangement: Brit Morgan
Arrow: Joe Dinicol
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Maya Rudolph
Conviction: Daniel Franzese
The Deuce: Will Chase
Designated Survivor: Virginia Madsen
Disjointed: Dougie Baldwin, Aaron Moten
Elementary: Nelsan Ellis
Godless: Michelle Dockery
Grimm: Chris McKenna
Halt and Catch Fire: Matthew Lillard
The Handmaid’s Tale: Samira Wiley
Hawaii Five-0: Claire Forlani
Homeland: Elizabeth Marvel
MacGyver: Tristin Mays
The Man in the High Castle: Tate Donovan
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Lilli Birdsell
The Originals: Neil Jackson, Summer Fontana
Ozark: Laura Linney
The Real O’Neals: Ramona Young
Rosewood: Scout Taylor-Compton
Scream Queens: Jerry O’Connell, Laura Bell Bundy
Shameless: Alicia Coppola, Arden Myrin, Pasha Lychnikoff, Ruby Modine
Superior Donuts: Judd Hirsch, Darien Sills-Evans, Anna Baryshnikov
Supernatural: Rick Springfield
This Is Us: Jon Huertas
The Vampire Diaries: Nathalie Kelley, Kristen Gutoskie, Demetrius Bridges, Joel Gretsch
Vikings: Adam Copeland
Untitled Seth MacFarlane space show: Adrianne Palicki, Scott Grimes

(Image courtesy of Netflix.)

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