If you, like me, are trying to finish your taxes today, let’s see what nuggets of TV news we have to cheer you up . . .
Premiere dates:
April 21st: The Brokenwood Mysteries
May 2nd: Bad Boy
May 15th: SkyMed
May 25th: The Librarians: The Next Chapter
May 28th: Adults
June 19th: The Waterfront
June 29th: Nautilus
Renewed:
The Chicken Sisters, The Last of Us, Colin from Accounts, Mayfair Witches
Canceled:
Mythic Quest (with a new ending to be uploaded)
Other headlines:
Morten Tyldum will direct the Cape Fear pilot.
AMC’s Silicon Valley drama is now called The Audacity.
Thomas Schnauz is joining Mayfair Witches as co-showrunner.
Ordered to series:
Acorn TV: New England mystery series Allie and Andi starring Brooke Shields
Amazon Prime Video: Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation
AMC: Anthology series Great American Stories starting with The Grapes of Wrath
RTÉ: Dark and quirky wedding drama These Sacred Vows
Acquired for the U.S./Canada:
Walter Presents: Italian mafia series Cold Summer
In development:
A+E Studios: An adaptation of Emma Rosenblum’s novel Bad Summer People starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Amazon Prime Video: A series adaptation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Amazon Studios: Gayle Forman YA adaptation Just One Day produced by and starring Kathryn Newton
Fox: An adaptation of time travel novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Showdog Studio: A universe of linked 1980s espionage shows
Warp Films: A series adaptation of 1984 nuclear war movie Threads
Guest stars:
Adults: Julia Fox, Charlie Cox, Ray Nicholson, D’Arcy Carden, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, John Reynolds
All American: Trick Williams
The Chi: Phylicia Rashad, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Karrueche Tran
Doctor Who: Graham Norton
Casting:
The Audacity: Zach Galifianakis
Cape Fear: CCH Pounder
Carrie: Siena Agudong
The Chicken Sisters: David James Elliott
Elle: Zac Looker, Jessica Belkin, Logan Shroyer, Amy Pietz
The Lincoln Lawyer: Sasha Alexander, Kyle Richards, Jason Butler Harner, Scott Lawrence
Nemesis: Moe Irvin, Stephanie Sigman, Quincy Isaiah, Jay Reeves, Mike O’Malley, Khalilah Joi, Shane Johnson, Siua Ikale’o
Only Murders in the Building: Logan Lerman, Jermaine Fowler
Paradise: Thomas Doherty, Michael McGrady, Timothy Omundson
Pride & Prejudice: Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, Olivia Colman
Shrinking: Sherry Cola, Isabella Gomez
Sugar: Shea Whigham, Raymond Lee, Sasha Calle
These Sacred Vows: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Justine Mitchell, Jason O’Mara, India Mullen, Adam John Richardson, Tom Hanson, Jade Auguste, Aaron Heffernan, Aoife Hinds, Shane Daniel Byrne, Catherine Bohart
Untitled Hulu Murdaugh Murders series: Brittany Snow
(Image courtesy of Netflix.)
