It’s been hot in my part of the world, so I was very happy to see that this week’s TV news brought us some premiere dates that let me daydream about fall!
Premiere dates:
August 25th: Upload
September 4th: The Paper
September 25th: Alice in Borderland
October 12th: Matlock, Elsbeth (special preview)
October 13th: The Neighbord, DMV, FBI, Watson
October 14th: NCIS, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney
October 16th: George & Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Matlock, Elsbeth (regular timeslot), Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy
October 17th: Fire Country, Sheriff Country, Boston Blue
October 19th: Tracker
October 22nd: The Monster of Florence
Renewed:
Slow Horses, Pretty Blind, Murderbot, Virgin River, Rebus
Cancelled:
Grantchester (after the upcoming 11th season), Duster
Other headlines:
CBS has pushed new show CIA to midseason, and Watson will take its place in the fall.
Ryan Murphy is reportedly working on a fourth season of Monster about Lizzie Borden.
Sci-fi comedy series Demascus, which AMC canceled before it actually aired, will finally be shown on Tubi.
Season two of Mistletoe Murders will air on Hallmark before streaming the next day on Hallmark+.
Madison Lintz will EP and star in an adaptation of Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin crime novels – no network yet attached.
Amy B. Harris is taking over as showrunner of Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming series Every Summer After.
Ritesh Batra is replacing Nisha Ganatra to direct the pilot of Unaccustomed Earth.
Dave Erickson is no longer showrunning NOLA King.
Ordered to series:
ABC: A revival of Scrubs starring Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, and Donald Faison
HBO Max: The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Netflix: A live-action adaptation of Korean webtoon Solo Leveling starring Byeon Woo-seok
Pilot orders:
FX: Workplace comedy Movers
In development:
Amazon MGM Studios: A scripted rom-com adaptation of Tinx’s advice book The Shift
Apple: An adaptation of Elissa Sussman’s novel Funny You Should Ask from and starring Regé-Jean Page
Leaving their shows:
The Pitt: Tracy Ifeachor
Guest stars:
Casting:
The Altruists: Eugene Young, Madison Hu, Karan Soni, Matt Rife, Alex Lawther, Naomi Okada, Maddie Hasson, Marianna Phung, Paul Reiser, Robin Weigert
Best Medicine: Abigail Spencer, Josh Segarra, Annie Potts
Black Widow: Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Blue Ridge: JP Guana
Boston Blue: Mika Amonsen
Brilliant Minds: Brian Altemus, John Clarence Stewart
Dear England: Jodie Whittaker, Jason Watkins, John Hodgkinson, Daniel Ryan, Sam Spruell, Adam Hugill, Josh Barrow, Lewis Shepherd, Will Antenbring, Edem-Ita Duke, Francis Lovehall, Abdul Sessay, Jacob Greenway, David Shields, Hamish Frew, Alfie Middlemiss, Riess Fennell, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Bobby Schofield, Dom Rayner, Alexander Parsons
Movers: Rebecca Quin (a.k.a Becky Lynch), Maz Jobrani, Darius Homayoun, Tanael Joachim, Manny Montana
Off Campus: Steve Howey
Reasonable Doubt: Kiah Clingman, Brittany Inge
RJ Decker: Weruche Opia
Sterling Point: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jay Duplass
Trinity: Marcia Gay Harden, JD Pardo, Bruce Greenwood, Robert Wisdom, Kirk Acevedo, Ben Cotton, James Remar, Jason Ralph, Mark O’Brien
Vladimir: John Slattery, Jessica Henwick, Ellen Robertson, Kayli Carter, Miriam Silverman, Mallori Johnson, Matt Walsh, Tattiawna Jones, Louise Lambert
Yellowstone Beth & Rip spinoff: Finn Little
Untitled HBO Steve Carell comedy: Robby Hoffman
Untitled Onyx Collective real estate drama pilot: Liza Colón-Zayas, William Fichtner, Alfredo Castro, Jared Paul Abrahamson
(Image courtesy of CBS.)
