Suddenly it’s March, and this week’s TV news brings us a bunch of spring premiere dates and more!
Premiere dates:
March 22nd: The Comeback
April 20th: Sullivan’s Crossing (season 4 premiere on the CW)
April 23rd: Running Point
May 9th: Song of the Samurai
May 21st: The Boroughs
May 29th: Star City
June 12th: Power Book III: Raising Kanan
Renewed:
Industry (for a fifth and final season), Animal Control, Robin Hood, Doctor Foster (for a third and final season)
Other headlines:
The Rookie is crossing over with Dropout’s Game Changer.
The upcoming Tulsa King spinoff has moved to Texas and will be called Frisco King, and Taylor Sheridan will write all eight episodes.
Hans Zimmer will score All the Sinners Bleed.
Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie will showrun The Interrogator.
Daniel Minahan will direct the pilot of How to Survive Without Me. Greg Mottola will direct the pilot of The Rockford Files.
Ordered to series:
AspireTV: HBCU comedy Savannah State of Mind
Sky/Starz: Boxing drama Fightland from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
Three: New Zealand billionaire comedy The Sanctuary starring Adam Pally
Acquired for North America:
BritBox: British psychological thriller Gone
Acquired for the U.S.:
AMC+: BBC crime family series This City Is Ours
Apple TV: Israeli thriller Unconditional
BritBox: Barbara Taylor Bradford adaptation A Woman of Substance starring Brenda Blethyn
MHz Networks: French historical drama Montmartre
PBS: British detective series Patience
Pilot orders:
Hulu: Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Files starring Danielle Deadwyler
In development:
20th Television: A YA drama from Kimberly Belflower
Amaya Productions: A bilingual scripted series about “El Chapo” Guzmán from and starring Rafael Amaya
Amazon MGM Studios: An adaptation of Nichole Chase’s novel The Accidental Assassin, an adaptation of Jo Spain’s thriller Never to Be Found
Apple: Limited series The Nanny Squatter starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cecily Strong
BBC: Investigative journalism thriller D-Notice, crime drama Shy & Lola starring Bel Powley and Hayley Squires, Tudor historical drama 1536
CBS: Co-parenting comedy You’re Only Young Twice starring Ashley Tisdale
Fox Entertainment Studios: An adaptation of Alanna Bennett’s YA novel The Education fo Kia Greer
Hulu: An adaptation of V. Castro’s horror novel The Haunting of Alejandra, an adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s upcoming novel The Witches of Cambridge, Japanese comedy adaptation Last Second Chance
Palomar: A Julius Caesar series from Bille August
Peacock: A series reimagining of movie Bride Wars starring Emma Roberts
Working Title: An adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Aimee Lou Wood
Leaving their shows:
Wednesday: Noah B. Taylor
Promoted to series regular:
Wednesday: Joanna Lumley
Guest stars:
Wednesday: Winona Ryder
Casting:
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: Audrey Hare
The Buccaneers: Paul Wesley
Cupertino: Busy Philipps, Rob McClure, Joe Morton, Steven Pasquale
A Different World: Charnele Brown, Jenifer Lewis, Vincent Jamal Hooper, Elijah J. Roberts, Renee Harrison, Famecia Ward, Dasan Frazier
Elle: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
God of War: Ed Skrein
The Hunting Wives: Casey Mills
The Magnificent Seven: Matt Dillon
Marshals: Ellyn Jameson, Michael Cudlitz
Newlyweds: Tim Daly
The Rockford Files: Michaela McManus
Safe Houses: Leland Orser
Superfakes: Dustin Nguyen
Untamed: Moon Bloodgood, Kekoa Kekumano, Myra Molloy, Matthew Keoni Sato, Robbie Magasiva, Branscombe Richmond, Moronai Kanekoa, Joe Tippett, Luciane Buchanan
Wednesday: Chris Sarandon, Noah Taylor, Oscar Morgan, Kennedy Moyer
Yellowjackets: Molly Ringwald, June Squibb
Untitled NBC Los Angeles PI comedy: Jake Johnson
(Image courtesy of Apple TV.)
