Happy Sunday, and happy June! Let’s see what news we’ve got this week . . .
Season four of Hell on Wheels will premiere on August 2nd.
Syfy has picked up season two of Canadian show Bitten.
Picked up to series:
HBO: Comedy Vice Principals
In development:
Fox: Comedy This Is Me
HBO: 1960s gay rights drama Open City
History Channel: A Knights Templar miniseries
Paramount: An adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist
WGN America: Graham Yost WWII drama Avenue of Spies
Wind Dancer Films: A Good Samaritan series
Pilot directors:
Galyntine: Greg Nicotero (replacing David Mackenzie)
E! has passed on pilot Songbyrd.
Promoted to series regular:
Reign: Jonathan Keltz
Guest stars!
Benched: Jim Rash, Nat Faxon
Covert Affairs: Max Martini
Doctor Who: Foxes
Downton Abbey: Sue Johnston
Returns:
The Originals: Nathaniel Buzolic
Casting:
Boardwalk Empire: Travis Tope
The Comeback: Mark L. Young
Daredevil: Charlie Cox
Dig: Richard E. Grant
The Fosters: Kerr Smith
Galyntine: Peter Fonda
Hell on Wheels: Jonathan Scarfe
The Newsroom: Keith Powell
The Originals: Sonja Sohn
The Red Tent: Toby Sebastian
The Returned: India Ennenga
Shameless: Steve Kazee
Sleepy Hollow: Matt Barr, Sakina Jaffrey
Sons of Anarchy: Marilyn Manson, Annabeth Gish
Texas Rising: Kris Kristofferson, Rob Morrow
Transparent: Melora Hardin (replacing Gillian Vigman)
Vikings: Ben Robson
(Image courtesy of AMC.)
