Welcome back! I’m home from my trip and we’ve got two weeks of TV news to catch up on.
Premiere dates:
February 27th: Toxic Town
March 2nd: Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
March 3rd: Recipes for Love and Murder
March 25th: The Cleaning Lady, Alert: Missing Persons Unit
March 30th: Call the Midwife
April 4th: Dying for Sex
April 8th: The Handmaid’s Tale
April 17th: Ransom Canyon
April 30th: Carême
Renewed:
The Empress (for a third and final season), English Teacher, My Life Is Murder, The Creep Tapes, The Pitt, Big Mood, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, XO, Kitty
Canceled:
How to Die Alone, Hysteria!, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh
Other headlines:
Nzingha Stewart will direct the first episode of The ‘Burbs.
Jason Winer will direct and EP Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s Apple TV+ comedy.
Russell Rothberg will write, EP, and showrun the Swan Song adaptation.
Ordered to series:
Amazon Prime Video: Nick Harkaway thriller adaptation Kill Jackie starring Catherine Zeta-Jones
BritBox International: Italian cuisine-focused crime procedural A Taste for Murder starring Phyllis Logan, Warren Brown, and Cristiana Dell’Anna
Channel 4: Russell T. Davies LGBTQ+ drama Tip Toe, a slate of new shows including a remake of A Woman of Substance
Netflix: A series adaptation of Nazi hunter novel The Boys from Brazil from Peter Morgan and starring Jeremy Strong
Acquired for the U.S.:
Roku: Canadian comedy Bria Mack Gets a Life
In development:
Amazon MGM Studios: Very meta-sounding series Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter
Apple TV+: New York media drama Dilettante starring Jeff Daniels, an adaptation of Candice Fox’s thriller High Wire
BBC: Vacation thriller Two Weeks in August
Bristol Circle Entertainment: A series about serial killer Dorothea Puente
Fox: A procedural based on Karen Rose’s Cold Blooded Liar
HBO: Music dramedy The Band starring Ben Stiller
Hulu: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel series with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the cast
Netflix: Dungeons & Dragons live-action series The Forgotten Realms
Starz: An adaptation of Miranda July’s novel All Fours
Not moving forward:
Hulu: Comedy Downforce, fantasy A Court of Thorns and Roses
Promoted to series regular:
Nobody Wants This: Jackie Tohn
Guest stars:
The Handmaid’s Tale: D’Arcy Carden
Margo’s Got Money Troubles: Marcia Gay Harden
My Life Is Murder: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rhys Darby
NCIS: Origins: Lauren Bowles
The Neighborhood: Justin Long, Kara Royster, Hunter King, Angelique Cabral (serving as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff)
Rescue: Hi-Surf: Olivia Culpo
Shifting Gears: Jay Leno
Casting:
Acapulco: Keyla Monterroso Mejia
The Artful Dodger: Luke Bracey, Jeremy Sims, Zac Burgess
The Beauty: Isabella Rossellini
The Big Bang Theory spinoff: John Ross Bowie
The ‘Burbs: Jack Whitehall, Julia Duffy, Paula Pell, Mark Proksch, Kapil Talwalkar
Cape Fear: Amy Adams
Dexter: Resurrection: Peter Dinklage, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Emilia Suárez
Doctor Odyssey: Adrianne Palicki
Euphoria: Rosalía, Marshawn Lynch, Kadeem Hardison
The Greatest: Omari Hardwick, Dana Gourrier, Amin Joseph
Legally Blonde prequel: Lexi Minetree
The Lincoln Lawyer: Constance Zimmer
Mayor of Kingstown: Edie Falco, Lennie James, Laura Benanti
Neuromancer: Mark Strong
PONIES: Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi, Vic Michaelis
Prisoner: Tahar Rahim, Izuka Hoyle, Eddie Marsan, Catherine McCormack, Leonie Benesch, Finn Bennett, Sam Troughton, Laurie Davidson, Ken Nwosu, Brían F. O’Byrne, Youssef Kerkour
Robin Hood: Sean Bean
Spider-Noir: Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson
Star City: Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Solly McLeod, Agnes O’Casey, Alice Englert
The Testaments: Chase Infiniti, Ann Dowd
Tracker: Chris Lee
Vision: Ruaridh Mollica
The Walsh Sisters: Louisa Harland, Debi Mazar, Máiréad Tyers, Stefanie Preissner, Danielle Galligan, Caroline Menton, Aidan Quinn, Carrie Crowley
Watson: Matt Berry
Widow’s Bay: Matthew Rhys
Untitled AMC Silicon Valley series: Billy Magnussen
Untitled Apple TV+ Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson comedy: Holland Taylor
Untitled Paramount+ Guy Ritchie crime series: Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwan, Emily Barber
(Image courtesy of PBS.)
