We’ve got a TON of casting news and other updates in this week’s TV news!
Premiere dates:
July 27th: Furious
July 29th: Diarra from Detroit
July 31st: Adults prequel episode
August 5th: The Shards
August 27th: Adults
September 16th: Slow Horses
October 23rd: Lupin
Renewed:
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (for a third and final season), Widow’s Bay, The Uniform, House of Guinness
Other headlines:
The upcoming Scooby-Doo live action show will have an actual dog in the title role.
Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf are leaving Doctor Who, and this year’s Christmas special has been scrapped.
Matt Shakman will direct and EP Discretion.
NBC is redeveloping crime procedural pilot What the Dead Know.
Ordered to series:
Amazon Prime Video: An adaptation of Lucy Score’s romance novel Things We Never Got Over
Disney+: Canadian crime comedy Knighted, Canadian true crime drama I’m Not Coming Back
Netflix: Korean crime series Paper Man starring Cho Jung-seok, Park Hae-soo, and Claudia Kim
Acquired for the U.S.:
BritBox: BBC Agatha Christie remake Hercule
In development:
ABC: An adaptation of Isabella Maldonado’s crime novel A Forgotten Kill from Justin Hartley
Amazon MGM Studios: A live-action Jem and the Holograms show, The Girlfriend sequel series The Boyfriend
Hambino Media: Little League comedy Dugout Dads from and starring the cast of The Sandlot
HBO Max: Family drama Six Days to Sunday
Hulu: Comedy Music Theories
Netflix: A series version of movie Hit Man
Peacock: An adaptation of Andrea Mara’s thriller Such a Nice Girl
Universal TV: An adaptation of Catherine Adel West’s crime novel Strangers Behind Closed Doors
Promoted to series regular:
Best Medicine: Jason Veasey, Stephen Spinella
Big Mistakes: Elizabeth Perkins
Overcompensating: Holmes
Guest stars:
Adults: Susie Essman, Raven-Symoné, Gaten Matarazzo, Jake Shane, Isaac Powell, Ben Marshall, Zosia Mamet
Granchester: Nicholas Ralph
How to Survive Without Me: Kevin Changaris, Pressley Hosbach, Dar Zuzovsky, Sofía Rodríguez
Only Murders in the Building: Jennifer Saunders, Sean Teale, Simone Ashley, Amar Chadha-Patel, Rhea Norwood, Matthew Beard, Sharon Horgan, Martin Freeman, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Jamie Demetriou, Anjana Vasan, Jane Horrocks, Derek Jacobi, Lesley Nicol
Returns:
Dark Winds: Geraldine Keams
The Night Agent: Luciane Buchanan
Casting:
Baywatch: John Beckwith
Conviction: Jimmi Simpson
Dark Winds: John Hoogenakker, Gregory Cruz
Delphi: Theo Rossi
Durango: Kathryn Newton
Escorted: Lesley Manville
Fortitude Valley: Rupert Everett
Hercule: Edward Bluemel
The Last of Us: Peter Sarsgaard
Legacy of Spies: Joe Alwyn, Anjana Vasan, Charlotte Ritchie, Lee Ross, James McArdle, John Dagleish, Goran Bogdan, Adam Hugill
The Magnificent Seven: Danny Pino, Joanne Froggatt, Amy Forsyth
Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Levon Hawke
Overcompensating: Tom Francis, Aisha Dee, AnnaSophia Robb
Peaky Blinders sequel series: Conleth Hill, Daniel Monks, Samuel Bottomley, Arturo Muselli, Eugene Collins, Lucie Shorthouse, Cal O’Driscoll, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee
The Probability of Miracles: Georgia Acken, Michaela Watkins, Ema Inês
Scooby-Doo: Origins: Rusty Schwimmer, Peter Macon, Maxwell Simkins, Jona Xiao, Dani Deetté, Elysée Sanvillé, Alex Isles, Avery Kristen Pohl, Pamela Mitchell, Ross Kimball, Sara Gilbert, Wynn Everett, Sauriyan Sapkota, Bruce McGill, Sherilyn Fenn
Task: Edgar Ramírez
Your Friends and Neighbors: Sydney Lemmon, Rick Cosnett, Mitchell Hoog, Gillian Zinser
(Image courtesy of Apple TV.)
