It was a big week for TV news as the networks and streamers presented their plans for next season at upfronts. Buckle up!
Premiere dates:
May 20th: Tyler Perry’s The Oval
June 18th: The Capture
June 26th: Strung
July 15th: Ride or Die
July 16th: The Hawk
July 23rd: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
July 26th: The Walking Dead: Dead City
July 29th: The Ark
August 2nd: The Librarians: The Next Chapter
August 7th: Anna Pigeon
August 27th: The Undeclared War
October 14th: VisionQuest
October 15th: Crystal Lake
October 21st: The Terminal List
November 11th: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
November 12th: The Good Daughter
Renewed:
Law & Order (officially, this time), Reacher, Jury Duty, My Life with the Walter Boys, Running Point, Big Mistakes, Amandaland, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Black Ops, Things You Should Have Done, Mammoth, Such Brave Girls, Two Doors Down, Prisoner, Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Canceled:
The Lincoln Lawyer (after the upcoming fifth season)
Other headlines:
We’ve got new fall schedules from NBC, Fox, and ABC.
Best Medicine will have fourteen episodes next season (up from thirteen).
The Netflix Oscar Isaac Vegas series is now called The Roman.
Nia DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of Sex Criminals.
Ordered to series:
ABC: Spinoff The Rookie: North
Amazon Prime Video: An adaptation of Elsie Silver’s Rose Hill romance series, Brett Goldstein rom-com series Escorted, an adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ romantasy Fourth Wing
BET: Hollywood security guard mockumentary Lot Patrol
BritBox: Period drama Chocolate Wars
CBS Studios: Family adventure series The Emperor’s Stone
Channel 4: House-buying comic thriller Wrong Move
Netflix: Fertility drama podcast adaptation The Retrievals, Harlan Coben sports agent drama Myron Bolitar, YA private school drama Calabasas, medieval fantasy drama comic book adaptation Barbaric
In development:
Kas Kas Productions: Fashion world dramedy The Bomb Life, crime drama Mastermind, sci-fi series Blackstar Canyon
Legendary TV: A scripted series about sorority recruitment coaches based on Trisha Addicks’ book The Rush Bible
Peacock: A Fast & Furious series (with potentially other series in the franchise in the works at NBCUniversal generally), Western Stoic Ridge based on French-Canadian series Le Clan
Promoted to series regular:
Fallout: Annabel O’Hagan, Dave Register
Guest stars:
Casting:
American Horror Story: Paul Anthony Kelly
Boys of Tommen: Nancy Surridge, Conor Sánchez, James O’Donoghue, Sophie McGibbon
The Chain: Jodie Comer
Close to Home: Michelle Fairley, Conor MacNeill, Gerard Headley, Kerri Quinn, Hannah McClean, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle, Lalor Roddy
The Day of the Jackal: Matt Bomer
Fallout: Aaron Paul
The God of the Woods: Ella Rubin
The Lincoln Lawyer: Amy Aquino, Angela Trimbur, Elpidia Carillo, Nate Corddry, Tricia Helfer, Keir O’Donnell
The Lowdown: Martha Plimpton, Clifton Collins Jr.
The Magnificent Seven: Michael Ealy
The Roman: Betty Gilpin, Alec Baldwin, David Costabile
Up to No Good: Tanya Reynolds, Mathew Baynton, Iain Glen, Raphaël Acloque, Nadia Albina, Louisa Binder, Meg Ballamy, Madeleine Mantock, Peter Egan, Richard E. Grant
Virgin River: Mitchell Slaggert
Wahala: Cush Jumbo, Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde, Susan Wokoma, Genevieve Nnaji
The White Lotus: Ben Kingsley, Max Minghella, Pekka Strang
Wrong Move: Eve Myles, Rory Kinnear, Eleanor Tomlinson, David Thewlis, David Bradley, Austin Haynes, Daisy Morgan, Gwyneth Keyworth, Ali Khan, Evia Kaisi, Ray Fearon, Paul Bazely, Laura Elsworthy, Alex McQueen
(Image courtesy of USA Network.)
