Caffeine – TV News – December 14th Edition

Caffeine – TV News – December 14th Edition

The winter TV season is coming into focus with another slew of premiere dates in this week’s TV news!

Premiere dates:

December 28th: Animal Control (special timeslot premiere)

January 4th: Best Medicine (special timeslot premiere)
January 5th: My Life Is Murder
January 8th: The Pitt
January 11th: The Night Manager
January 15th: The Upshaws
January 25th: Memory of a Killer (special timeslot premiere), It’s Not Like That

February 5th: The Lincoln Lawyer
February 18th: 56 Days

March 5th: Ted

April 15th: Margo’s Got Money Troubles

May 15th: Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine

Renewed:

Heated Rivalry, Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black (for a third and final season), Down Cemetery Road

Canceled:

Hotel Costiera, Leverage: Redemption

Other headlines:

Bryan Fuller says a new season of Pushing Daisies is in the works.

Bill Lawrence’s upcoming HBO campus comedy is now called Rooster.

The Holes adaptation is not moving forward at Disney+.

Ordered to series:

Hallmark+: When Calls the Heart prequel Hope Valley: 1874 starring Bethany Joy Lenz, Benjamin Ayres, Jill Hennessy, Roan Curtis, and Lachlan Quarmby
Studiocanal: An adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Endless Night directed by Jonathan Entwistle

In development:

Amazon: An adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s novel Skinny Dip starring Amanda Seyfried
Apple TV: An adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s children’s fantasy novel The Brothers Lionheart
CBS: TSA comedy Checkpoint
The Green Room/Desilu: A series about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Hulu: Papal drama Vatican City from Robert and Michelle King
Netflix: An adaptation of Emily Giffin’s novel All We Ever Wanted
Starz: A drama about Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter’s gambling scandal

Promoted to series regular:

Survival of the Thickest: Marouane Zotti

Guest stars:

Ghosts: Iain Armitage
Grey’s Anatomy: Jamie-Lynn Sigler
The Neighborhood: Anthony Anderson
Shifting Gears: Luke Macfarlane
Survival of the Thickest: Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Ashley Graham, Ronny Chieng, Wyatt Cenac, Jenna Lyons, Ice-T, LaQuan Smith, Charles Harbison, Ashley Romans

Returns:

Law & Order: SVU: Ethan Cutkosky

Casting:

All the Sinners Bleed: Giancarlo Esposito, David Lyons, Donald Elise Watkins, Mackenzie Astin, Jordan M. Cox, Cullen Moss, Angus O’Brien, Cranston Johnson, Christopher Matthew Cook, Christopher Thornton, Bill Oberst Jr.
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Omar Maskati
Assassin’s Creed: Lola Petticrew
Barbershop: Bokeem Woodbine, Bresha Webb, Langston Kerman, Tiana Okoye
The Boys from Brazil: Paul Ben-Victor
Cry Wolf: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jack Greig
Dig: Hugh Laurie
The Hunting Wives: John Stamos, Cam Gigandet, Dale Dickey
Matlock: Sarah Wright Olsen, Henry Haber
My Life with the Walter Boys: Erin Karpluk, Naveen Paddock
Number Ten: Rafe Spall, Katherine Kelly, Jenna Coleman
Sheriff Country: Ian Quinlan
Tracker: Kathleen Robertson, Mark Engelhardt

(Image courtesy of Crave.)

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