Caffeine – TV News – September 25th Edition

Well, we’re a week into the fall season, and we’ve gotten our first TV news on a full-season pickup – but also some summer show renewals, info on new shows in development, and more!

Premiere dates:
December 9th: Fuller House

Superstore has gotten a back nine pickup for its second season.

Renewed: Atlanta, Better Things, Odd Mom Out, Victoria, Dice, Flowers

Cancelled: Ripper Street (after Season 5)

Jakob Verbruggen will direct TNT’s The Alienist, replacing Cary Fukunaga.

Ordered to series:
CBS: Comedy Superior Donuts
Go90: Megyn Kelly presidential campaign journalist comedy Embeds

In development:
ABC: A Latino adult sibling comedy starring Felipe Esparza and Dustin Ybarra, twisted soap The Marquis from Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec, a Shondaland comedy about the fallout of a best friend dying, gay minister family drama Grace, a Magnum P.I. sequel featuring his daughter, a female detective procedural
Amazon: Limited series Toy Wars about Mattel and Hasbro
CBS: A family comedy from Austin Winsberg, a hate crimes procedural from Alex Kurtzman and Katie Couric, whistleblower legal drama Perfect Citizen
The CW: A Mata Hari drama from Michael Weatherly, supernatural drama Stick Man from Tim Kring, terminal cancer dramedy Life Sentence
FOX: Medical workplace comedy This Might Hurt, sociopolitical werewolf soap Red Moon
Hulu: Comics adaptation Postal
Lavender Pictures: A Cousin Bazilio adaptation starring Ben Kingsley
MRC: Stephen King Dark Tower spinoff Wizard and Glass
NBC: Sci-fi cop drama The Last Policeman, Bill Lawrence commercial space travel workplace comedy Spaced Out, family comedy There Goes the Neighborhood from LeBron James and Bill Lawrence
Showtime: Dark comedy Keeping It Real starring Walton Goggins
Weinstein Television: An Elvis Presley miniseries

Guest stars:
Grey’s Anatomy: Ravi Patel
Kevin Can Wait: Ray Romano
Lethal Weapon: Hilarie Burton
New Girl: David Hornsby
No Tomorrow: Jenna Dewan Tatum
Supernatural: Kadeem Hardison

Returns:
The Affair: Jennifer Esposito
Criminal Minds: Jane Lynch
Once Upon a Time: Gabrielle Rose, Tzi Ma

Casting:
American Crime: Cherry Jones
Bates Motel: Isabelle McNally, Brooke Smith
Being Mary Jane: Jona Xiao
Broken: Anna Friel, Paula Malcomson, Aisling Loftus, Adrian Dunbar
Clique: Louise Brealey, Synnove Karlsen, Aisling Franciosi, Emun Eliot
Damnation: Aden Young, Logan Marshall-Green, Sarah Jones, Chasten Harmon, Christopher Heyerdahl, Melinda Page
Dear White People: Jeremy Tardy
The Exorcist: Mouzam Makkar
Fargo: Scoot McNairy
Fearless: Michael Gambon, John Bishop, Robin Weigert, Jonathan Forbes, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Bamber
G.L.O.W.: Britt Baron, Jackie Tohn, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Sunita Muni, Kia Stevens
Gilmore Girls: Carolyn Hennesy
Guerrilla: Bella Dayne
Gypsy: Poorna Jagannathan, Brenda Vaccaro
Legend of Master Legend: John Hawkes
Lost in Space: Toby Stephens, Maxwell Jenkins
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Michael Zegen
My So Called Wife: Uma Thurman
Nashville: Murray Bartlett
Outlander: Wil Johnson, John Bell
Riviera: Amr Waked
Snatch: Phoebe Dynevor
Vikings: Kris Holden-Reid
White Famous: Stephen Toboloswky

(Image courtesy of Netflix.)

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