Sorry for the unannounced absence last week – I was helping a family member who’d had surgery. Now everyone is on the mend, so let’s catch up on a bunch of TV news!
Premiere dates:
March 2nd: Murdoch Mysteries (Acorn season 19 premiere)
March 8th: Rooster
March 11th: Sunny Nights (US premiere on Hulu)
March 19th: Heartland (US season 19 premiere on UPtv)
April 2nd: XO, Kitty
April 9th: The Miniature Wife
April 19th: From, The Way Home
May 7th: M.I.A.
May 13th: Good Omens
May 15th: Rivals
May 20th: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
May 27th: Spider-Noir
June 5th: Cape Fear
July 15th: Lucky
Renewed:
Your Friends and Neighbors, St. Denis Medical, Happy’s Place, A Man on the Inside, Finding Her Edge, Off Campus, Dark Winds
Canceled:
Other headlines:
CBS is doing a crossover between FBI and CIA.
NBC has pulled Brilliant Minds from the schedule.
Season two of Untamed will be set in Hawai’i.
Norman Vance Jr. will showrun Amazon’s adaptation of Summer on the Bluffs. And Ildy Modrovich will showrun their Dear Debbie adaptation.
Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing will showrun Disney+’s Eragon.
Superfakes has announced its directors.
Trent O’Donnell will direct the Eternally Yours pilot.
Ordered to series:
Amazon Prime Video: An adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s sports romance series Boys of Tommen
Channel 4: Iranian embassy drama The Siege, Northern Ireland drama Close to Home, darkly comedic thriller Wrong Move
Fox: Spy drama The Interrogator written by and starring Stephen Fry
Hulu: Legal drama Conviction starring Elisabeth Moss
Acquired for North America:
MHZ Networks: Nordic crime thriller The Pushover
Netflix: The new British adaptation of Lord of the Flies
In development:
A24: A TV version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from Glen Powell
Amazon MGM Studios: An adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s novel 30 Sunsets para enamorarte
Fifth Season: A scripted series based on Olivia Ferney’s Travel with Livii Instagram
Gaumont: An adaptation of Mary Kubica’s suspense novel It’s Not Her
HBO: Video game adaptation Baldur’s Gate
MGM Television: An adaptation of Las Vegas gambling history book Blood Aces from Sylvester Stallone and Cole Hauser and starring Hauser
Netflix: An adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads starring Jeremy Strong, an adaptation of Navessa Allen’s dark romance Lights Out, dark historical drama Witches, an adaptation of Aggie Blum Thompson’s thriller Such a Lovely Family
Peacock: An adaptation of Emily Fox’s Buckingham Palace workplace novel Royal Spin
Red Empire Productions: ’80s music drama Those Little White Lines
Red Planet Pictures: An adaptation of Claire Mackintosh’s upcoming thriller It’s Not What You Think
Truenorth: Icelandic Cold War crime series Top of the Rock starring Anna Chlumsky and Leslie Bibb
Universal TV: An adaptation of Ashley Elston’s thriller First Lie Wins from Kevin Williamson
Promoted to series regular:
The Gilded Age: Jordan Donica, Ashlie Atkinson
Yellowjackets: Nia Sondaya
Guest stars:
Elsbeth: Mark Linn-Baker, Joanna Gleason, Didi Conn
George & Mandy’s First Marriage: Rex Linn
Law & Order: SVU: David Zayas (replacing Timothy Busfield)
Murdoch Mysteries: Amber Marshall
The Pitt: Jona Xiao
The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins: Megan Thee Stallion
S.W.A.T. Exiles: Selma Blair, Jerry O’Connell, David Lim
Returns:
George & Mandy’s First Marriage: Lance Barber, Zoe Perry, Raegan Revord, Doc Farrow
Law & Order: SVU: Octavio Pisano
Murdoch Mysteries: Countess Luann de Lesseps
One Chicago crossover: Jesse Lee Soffer, Tracy Spiridakos
Casting:
All the Sinners Bleed: Kelly Jenrette
Baywatch: Stephen Amell
Bosch: Start of Watch: Ariana Guerra, JD Pardo
Close to Home: Anthony Boyle, Jessica Reynolds, Seamus O’Hara, Oisín Thompson
Cry Wolf: Dane DeHaan, Atticus Mitchell, Ayo Solanke, Elizabeth Perkins
Cupertino: Nik Dodani
Dalziel and Pascoe: Kerry Godliman, Nina Singh
The Day of the Jackal: Weruche Opia, Pablo Schreiber
Eternally Yours: Helen J Shen, Parker Young
First Day on Earth: Ncuti Gatwa, Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake, Danny Sapani
Foster Dade: Jaden Michael
The Gilded Age: Taylor Trensch, James Scully, Dennis Haysbert, Maggie Kuntz, Neal Huff, Bonnie Milligan
God of War: Callum Vinson
Gucci: Game Over: Miriam Leone, Matilda Lutz, Francesco Scianna
How to Survive Without Me: Ray Romano, Joshua Jackson
The Institute: Alfie Allen
The Last of Us: Clea DuVall, Jorge Lendeborg Jr.
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: Brandon Flynn, Murray Bartlett
Newlyweds: Tèa Leoni
The Off Weeks: John Cho, Zoë Winters, Tony Macht, Ravi V. Patel, Will Yun Lee
Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Leslie Grossman
Power: Origins: Dominic Rains
Regency: Rhys Darby
The Rockford Files: David Boreanaz
The Rookie: North: Froy Gutierrez, Janet Montgomery, Karen Fukuhara, Mya Lowe, Malik Watson
S.W.A.T. Exiles: Lenora Crichlow
The Siege: David Morrissey, Danny Dyer, Motaz Malhees, Alex Jennings, Omid Djalili Trinity: Mike Dopud, Anthony Konechny, Jason Fernandes
Untamed: Shea Whigham, Kelly Hu
Up to No Good: Claudia Jessie, Penelope Wilton, Meera Syal
The White Lotus: Sandra Bernhard
Untitled Apple TV Berlin Noir adaptation: Colin Firth
(Image courtesy of the CBC.)
