I’m back from vacation and we have lots of TV news from the past two weeks to catch up on!
Premiere dates:
August 22nd: That ’90s Show (new date)
September 25th: Midnight Family
September 26th: Colin from Accounts
October 11th: Disclaimer
October 16th: Shrinking
October 25th: Before
October 31st: The Diplomat
November 7th: Citadel: Honey Bunny
December 3rd: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
December 26th: Squid Game
Renewed:
Canceled:
Other headlines:
A Yellowstone spinoff called The Madison is in development with Michelle Pfeiffer confirmed to executive produce and star. Kurt Russell and Patrick J. Adams are reportedly also in talks to star.
Netflix says Squid Game will end with season 3.
House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal says the series will run for four seasons.
Christopher Meloni will write an episode of Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Leila Cohan will co-write and showrun the adaptation of Emily Henry’s Happy Place.
Tubi will co-produce season two of Boarders.
Ordered to series:
ABC: Car restoration shop comedy Shifting Gears starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings
Amazon Prime Video: An adaptation of Carley Fortune’s novel Every Summer After called Every Year After
Channel 4: An adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s historical Northern Ireland novel Trespasses starring Gillian Anderson, an adaptation of Sarah Moss’s novel Summerwater
FX: Twenty-something housemate comedy Snowflakes
Acquired for the U.S.:
BritBox: British drama Captivated, Welsh-language crime caper Tree on a Hill
MHz Choice: Angel Merkel detective show Miss Merkel
Pilot orders:
CBS: Workplace comedy DMV, detective procedural Einstein
In development:
Amazon Prime Video: Father-son comedy Home Team produced by and starring Eric Stonestreet
CBS: Vampire family comedy Eternally Yours
Legendary Television: An adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Seveneves
Lionsgate: Sequel series John Wick: Under the High Table produced by Keanu Reeves
Made Up Stories: An adaptation of Emily Perkins’ novel Lioness
NBC: Philadelphia police drama Keats from Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance
Netflix: YA horror-comedy Bat Boy, an untitled spiritual procedural from Terrence Coli and Rabbi Steve Leder, a limited series based on Philadelphia’s Main Line Murders in 1979, an A Different World sequel series, a series reboot of 1960 Japanese sci-fi movie The Human Vapor
Sam Okun Productions: An adaptation of space program history book Dark Side of the Moon
Sony Pictures TV: An adaptation of Mira Jacobs’ novel We Killed Anji Alexander
Tomorrow Studios: An adaptation of Kara Swisher’s tech memoir Burn Book
Universal Television: An adaptation of audiobook Rifts and Refrains
Not moving forward:
ABC: Ty Burrell comedy pilot Forgive and Forget
Peacock: The Battlestar Galactica reboot
Leaving their shows:
Only Murders in the Building: Jesse Williams
Presumed Innocent: Peter Sarsgaard
The Rookie: Tru Valentino
Tracker: Robin Weigert
Promoted to series regular:
9-1-1: Lone Star: Jackson Pace
Chicago Fire: Jake Lockett
Law & Order: SVU: Juliana Aidén Martinez
Guest stars:
Accused: Ken Jeong
Man on Fire: Bobby Cannavale
Poppa’s House: Rebecca Mader
Survival of the Thickest: Yves Mathieu East
You: Nava Mau
Casting:
1923: Augustus Prew
The Agency: John Magaro
All Her Fault: Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliott
All’s Fair: Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor, Naomi Watts
Andor: Ben Mendelsohn
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Callan McAuliffe, Franka Potente, Ian Pirie
Bosch Renee Ballard spinoff: John Carroll Lynch
Chicago Fire: KaDee Strickland
Chicago Med: Sarah Ramos, Darren Barnet
Chicago P.D.: Toya Turner
Citadel: Matt Berry, Gabriel Leone, Merle Dandridge, Rahul Kohli, Michael Trucco
Fire Country: Leven Rambin
For All Mankind: Tyler Labine
The Four Seasons: Marco Calvani
Good Cop/Bad Cop: Devon Terrell, Grace Chow, Blazey Best, Philippa Northeast, William McKenna, Shamita Siva, Scott Lee
Grey’s Anatomy: Michael Thomas Grant
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Edward Ashley, Henry Ashton, Youssef Kerkour, Daniel Monks, Shaun Thomas, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Danny Webb
The Morning Show: Boyd Holbrook
A Motel: Jake Weber
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho
Poppa’s House: Wendy Raquel Robinson
Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Chris Redd, Pardison Fontaine
Spider-Noir: Abraham Popoola
Tempest: John Cho, Christopher Gorham, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Jacob Bertrand
The Waterfront: Holt McAllany
Young Sherlock: Dónal Finn
Untitled Apple TV+ golf comedy: Judy Greer
(Image courtesy of Netflix.)
