Caffeine – TV News – March 8th Edition

Caffeine – TV News – March 8th Edition

Time to spring forward! If you’re somewhere where Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend, go check your clocks and then come back to catch up on the week’s TV news, including a ton of renewals!

Premiere dates:

March 26th: Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story

April 3rd: Your Friends & Neighbors

May 6th: The Other Bennet Sister
May 28th: The Four Season

July 9th: Little House on the Prairie

Renewed:

Best Medicine, Little House on the Prairie, Abbott Elementary, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Nashville, High Potential, Black Snow, Miss Scarlet (for a seventh and final season), The Night Agent

Canceled:

Palm Royale, The Bear (after the upcoming fifth season)

Other headlines:

Eric Guggenheim is taking over as showrunner of Fire Country.

Ordered to series:

FX/Hulu: Family drama Disinherited starring Victoria Pedretti and Kiera Allen
MGM+: An adaptation of Treasure Island starring David Oyelowo, Hayley Atwell, Jack Huston, Tomer Capone, and Tom Sweet
Netflix: Firefighter drama Tyler Perry’s Where There’s Smoke, Alexander the Great drama Alexander from Jacob Tierney, Justin Halpern comedy I Suck at Girls

Acquired for North America:

Apple TV: Vietnamese thriller Sister Sister

In development:

A24: An adaptation of Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s contemporary crime thriller We Are the Dead
AMC: Southern drama The New Gothic from Hilarie Burton Morgan
Blink49 Studios: An adaptation of M.L. Rio’s literary thriller If We Were Villains
Netflix: Suburban thriller Next Door starring Tessa Thompson
See-Saw Films: A new adaptation of British detective series Lovejoy

Leaving their shows:

Sullivan’s Crossing: Scott Patterson

Promoted to series regular:

The Gilded Age: Kelley Curran

Guest stars:

The GIlded Age: Jim Gaffigan, Dallas Roberts, Elizabeth Marvel, Andrew Burnap
XO, Kitty: Lana Condor

Casting:

Baywatch: Jessica Belkin, Thaddeus LaGrone, Hassie Harrison
Black Snow: Lee Tiger Halley, Caroline Craig, Samson Alston
Chad Powers: Colin Woodell, Gillian Jacobs, Carey O’Donnell, Nate Varrone
Colin from Accounts: Thomas Cocquerel, Nikki Shiels, Mark Trevorrow
Einstein: Melissa Fumero
Eternally Yours: Rose Abdoo, Tristan Michael Brown, Shylo Molina
Frisco King: Asa Germann, Kai Caster, Lilah Pate, Savanna Gann
God of War: Louis Cunningham, Ben Chapple, Evelyn Miller, Island Austin
How to Survive Without Me: Kaley Cuoco
I Suck at Girls: Kayo Martin, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Laila Pruitt
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Lucy Boynton, Babou Ceesay, Peter Mullan
The Land: Bridget Moynahan
Life Is Strange:
Maisy Stella, Tatum Grace Hopkins
The Lowdown: Betty Gilpin
Paris Is Always a Good Idea: Lacey Chabert, Scott Michael Foster, Rebecca Hanssen, Henry Czerny
Protection: Hope Davis
Puzzled: Christina Elmore, Molly Griggs
The Rockford Files: Jacki Weaver
Stick: Billy Zane
The Tillbrooks: Shiv Pai
Where There’s Smoke: Tyler Lepley, Mike Merrill, Da’Vinchi, Eltony Williams, Brock O’Hurn, Joe Hunter, Karen Obilom, Brittany S. Hall, Mariah Goodie, Jordan Rodriguez, Judi Moon
The White Lotus: Vincent Cassel, Corentin Fila, Nadia Tereszkiewicz
Untitled NBC profiler pilot: Jon Beavers

(Image courtesy of the BBC.)

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