Caffeine – TV News – March 13th Edition

Happy Sunday, and don’t forget to turn your clocks forward if you’re somewhere that does that! Then come back for lots of TV news.

Premiere dates!
May 18th: Royal Pains
May 31st: Scream
September 30th: Luke Cage

Season finales:
April 12th: iZombie
April 18th: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
May 13th: The Vampire Diaries
May 16th: Jane the Virgin
May 19th: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The 100
May 20th: The Originals
May 24th: The Flash
May 25th: Arrow, Supernatural

Renewed: Arrow, The Flash, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, iZombie, Supernatural, The 100, Reign, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Outsiders, Mercy Street, Into the Badlands, Young & Hungry

Ripper Street will end with Season 5, as will Switched at Birth. And Royal Pains will end with the upcoming season eight.

Graham Yost is taking over as Sneaky Pete showrunner from David Shore.

More new showrunners:
Law & Order: SVU: Rick Eid
Toast: Gregg Mettler
Training Day: Barry Schindel

Ordered to series:
FX: Getty family kidnapping limited series Trust

Pilot orders:
Amazon: A revival of The Tick
WGN America: DC Comics adaptation Scalped, science fiction adaptation Roadside Picnic

In development:
Freeform: Sleeping Beauty sequel After
MRC: A Nicole Holofcener comedy starring Amy Ryan
Netflix: A friendship comedy from Nick Stoller
Sonar Entertainment: A series based on graphic novel The Fifth Beatle about Brian Epstein

Pilot directors:
MacGyver: David Von Ancken

Justin Chambers has confirmed that he’ll return for Season 13 of Grey’s Anatomy.

Leaving their shows:
Reign: Torrance Coombs

Guest stars!
Black Mirror: Malachi Kirby
Grey’s Anatomy: Wilmer Valderrama
Nashville: Kesha, Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett
Notorious: Dilshad Vadsaria
Rizzoli & Isles: Yvette Nicole Brown

Returns:
Nashville: Derek Hough

Casting:
24: Legacy: Ashley Thomas, Zayne Emory
APB: Justin Kirk, Eric Winter
Broken: Anna Paquin
Bull: Freddy Rodriguez
Bunker Hill: Aaron Jennings, Odette Annable
Casual: Dylan Gelula
Chicago Justice: Nazneen Contractor
Citizen: Ismael Cruz Cordova
Conviction: Eddie Cahill, Daniel DiTomasso
Cruel Intentions: Bryce Cass
Crunch Time: Craig Ferguson, Kyle Howard, Kellee Stewart, Andrea Anders
The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez: Eric Close, Melora Hardin, Debra Mooney, Jeimy Osorio
Drew: Debra Monk
East Los High: Stephen “tWitch” Boss
The Exorcist: Geena Davis
Feed the Beast: Michael Rispoli
The Fluffy Shop: Paul Walter Hauser
Four Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Steven Bauer, Danielle Savre
Frequency: Devin Kelley
Furst Born: Talitha Bateman, Poppy Montgomery, Patrick Brammall
Future Man: Glenne Headly, Ed Begley Jr.
The Great Indoors: Christine Ko
Hail Mary: Gareth Reynolds
Halt and Catch Fire: Manish Dayal
Harley and the Davidsons: Jessica Camacho
Haters Back Off: Eric Stocklin, Colleen Ballinger-Evans
Hooten & the Lady: Jane Seymour, Jessica Hynes, Jonathan Bailey, Shaun Parkes
The Jury: Kevin Rankin, Nikki DeLoach
Lethal Weapon: Kevin Rahm, Clayne Crawford
MacGyver: George Eads
Making History: Leighton Meester
Marlon: Diallo Riddle
Midnight, Texas: Francois Arnaud
Mindhunter: Jonathan Groff, Anna Torv, Holt McCallany
Miranda’s Rights: Ruffin Prentiss
Model Woman: Andie MacDowell, Nicole Ari Parker, Caitlin Carver, Madeline Blake
Mr. Robot: Craig Robinson
Murder in the First: Michael Gaston, Corey Reynolds, Amanda Schull, Tiffany Dupont
My Time/Your Time: Izzie Steele, Langston Kerman
The Night Of: Michael K. Williams, Glenne Headly, Ben Shenkman, Max Casella, Amara Karan, Sofia Black-D’Elia. Paul Sparks, Afton Williamson, Paulo Costanzo, Ned Eisenberg, Mohammad Bakri. Nabil Elouahabi. Ashley Thomas, Glenn Fleshler, Chip Zien
No Tomorrow: Tori Anderson
Notorious: Ryan Guzman, Sepideh Moafi
Pitch: Bob Balaban, Ali Larter (replacing Elisabeth Shue)
Prison Break: Augustus Prew, Rick Yune, Steve Mouzakis, Sarah Wayne Callies
Prototype: Cote de Pablo
Queen Sugar: Marycarmen Lopez
Real Good People: Ross Kimball, Beth Hoyt, David Keith
Recon: Amanda Warren, Yasmin Kaur Barn, Nick Wechsler
Riverdale: Casey Cott
Scream: Kiana Lede, Anthony Ruivivar, Santiago Segura, Sean Grandillo, Karina Logue, Austin Highsmith
Sebastian: Vanessa Lachey
A Series of Unfortunate Events: K. Todd Freeman
Shots Fired: Tristan Wilds, Aisha Hinds
The Son: Sam Neill, Henry Garrett, Zahn McClarnon, Paola Nunez, Sydney Lucas
Spark: Alex Lanipekun, Austin Hebert, Antonia Thomas, Rege-Jean Page
Square Roots: Katie Walder
Still Star-Crossed: Torrance Coombs, Wade Briggs, Ebonee Noel, Zuleikha Robinson, Lashana Lynch
Superior Donuts: David Koechner, Megyn Price, Sarah Stiles
Taken: Brooklyn Sudano
Teen Wolf: Pete Ploszek
Time: Goran Visnjic
Time After Time: Genesis Rodriguez, Regina Taylor, Jordin Sparks
Toast: Jono Kenyon, Tessa Ferrer
Training Day: Lex Scott Davis, Julie Benz
Transylvania: Luke Allen-Gale, Evan Stern, Amrita Acharia
UnREAL: Bruce Davison, Christopher Cousins, Lindsay Musil
What Goes Around Comes Around: Dougie Baldwin, Alyssa Milano, Jee Young Han
Untitled CW Mars drama: America Olivo, Mark Leslie Ford
Untitled Judy Greer HR comedy pilot: Jon Daly, Patton Oswalt
Untitled Kevin Williamson paranormal pilot: Matt Passmore (replacing Bailey Chase)
Untitled Matt LeBlanc comedy pilot: Jenna Fischer, Jessica Chaffin, Diana Maria Riva

(Image courtesy of USA Network.)

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