Caffeine – TV News – January 18th Edition

Caffeine – TV News – January 18th Edition

This week’s TV news brings us a bunch more winter and spring premiere dates – and NBC trying to single-handedly revive pilot season.

Premiere dates:

January 18th: The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins (special preview)
January 26th: The Rookie (new timeslot premiere)

February 12th: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
February 20th: Portobello
February 23rd: The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins (regular timeslot premiere)

March 1st: American Classic
March 3rd: RJ Decker, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney (new midseason return date)
March 14th: The Madison

April 15th: Euphoria

Other headlines:

Anna Ouyang will showrun season two of Mr. And Mrs. Smith.

Tia Napolitano is stepping down as Fire Country showrunner at the end of the season.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are composing the score for Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole. And Hans Zimmer will score Harry Potter.

Ordered to series:

5: An adaptation of Graham Norton’s crime novel Forever Home
Apple TV: An untitled financial crime thriller starring Dakota Fanning
Netflix: Korean casino crime drama The Dealer from Hwang Dong-hyuk
Paramount+: True crime drama Fear Not starring Anne Hathaway
Sky: A series adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s mystery novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Acquired for the U.S.:

Starz: Mozart/Salieri drama Amadeus

Pilot orders:

NBC: A reboot of The Rockford Files, U.S. marshal drama Protection, a criminal profiler drama, a Los Angeles private eye comedy from Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici, police consultant drama Puzzled, NYC medical examiner drama What the Dead Know from Dick Wolf

In development:

Amazon MGM Studios: A series based on Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware psychologist crime novels
Carnival Films: An adaptation of Alice Feeney’s newest thriller My Husband’s Wife

Leaving their shows:

Do You Want Kids?: Daniel Stern

Promoted to series regular:

Law & Order: SVU: Corey Cott

Guest stars:

Matlock: Edwin Hodge
The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins: Michael Kosta, Craig Robinson

Casting:

Abbott Elementary: Khandi Alexander
Cry Wolf: William Jackson Harper
Dirty Business: David Thewlis, Jason Watkins, Asim Chaudhry, Posy Sterling
Fire Country: Natalie Zea
Forever Home: Amy Nuttall, Douglas Henshall, Denise Welch, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond, Lewis Cope, Shane Zaza, Jenny Walser, James Baxter
God of War: Ryan Hurst, Teresa Palmer
High Potential: Susan Kelechi Watson
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast: Saoirse-Monica Jackson
The Off Weeks: Arian Moayed, Annaleigh Ashford
The Rookie: North: Chris Sullivan
Superfakes: Bohan Phoenix, Michelle Jones Lee, Keith Leung
The White Lotus: Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards
Untitled Netflix Will Ferrell golf series: Gabe Hogan, Aida Osman

(Image courtesy of Paramount+.)

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