Happy Memorial Day weekend to our U.S. readers – let’s see what TV news we can catch up on before you head out to your parades and picnics.
Premiere dates:
July 9th: Ballard
July 23rd: Family Law (US premiere), Washington Black
July 31st: Glass Heart
August 6th: Platonic
Renewed:
Canceled:
Other headlines:
Zach Braff will return for the Scrubs revival.
Max Winkler will direct the pilot of American Love Story.
Josh Kirby and Jonathan Veles will write the pilot of cricket comedy Strikers.
Ordered to series:
BBC: A whole slate of new comedies
BBC/RTÉ: An adaptation of Rónán Hession’s board gamers novel Leonard and Hungry Paul starring Laurie Kynaston, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, and Alex Lawther
Disney+: British comedy Alice & Steve
Netflix: Korean thriller The Rat, Korean rom-com Lovestruck, an adaptation of Dan Brown’s upcoming Robert Langdon thriller The Secret of Secrets from Brown and Carlton Cuse, a Newfoundland sea creature suspense series starring Josh Hartnett
Sony Pictures TV: Spinoff S.W.A.T. Exiles starring Shemar Moore
Acquired for North America:
BritBox: BBC relationship drama Mr Loverman
Acquired for the U.S.:
PBS Masterpiece: Bille August’s adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo
In development:
Blumhouse Television: An adaptation of Clémence Michallon’s upcoming thriller Our Last Resort
CBS Studios: A 7th Heaven reboot
DIGA Studios: 1990s music video boom drama Glitter Fades
FX: An adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s prep school thriller The Shards from Ryan Murphy and starring Kaia Gerber
HBO: An adaptation of Ty Landers’ upcoming crime novel Baby Queen
Peacock: Thriller Strangers potentially starring Leslie Mann and Gabrielle Union
Starz: DC Black political elite drama Kingmaker, Venice thriller Masquerade
Casting:
Alice & Steve: Nicola Walker, Jermaine Clement, Yali Topol Margalith, Joel Fry, Tyrese Eaton-Dyce, Marcia Warren, Eilidh Fisher, Ebony Aboagye
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Dichen Lachman, Dolly de Leon, Terry Chen, Lily Gao, Madison Hu, Tantoo Cardinal, Jon Jon Briones
Carlota: Belinda
Imperfect Women: Wilson Bethel, Keith Carradine, Jackson Kelly
The Other Bennet Sister: Ella Bruccoleri
Prodigies: Rina Sawayama
Stumble: Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown, Georgie Murphy, Ryan Pinkston, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis, Taylor Dunbar
Sub/liminal: Joseph Cross, Lena Hall, Caissie Levy, Kecia Lewis, Patrick Page, John Rubinstein, Amir Arison, Geoffrey Cantor, Courtnee Carter, Ali Cobrin, Andrea Cortés, Nick Freni, Evelyn Giovine, Timothy Hughes, Ryan Jamaal Swain, Darius Jordan Lee, Tom McGowan, Eric T. Miller, Benjamin Papac, Rosa Procaccino, Geena Quintos, Evan Alexander Smith, Ryan Spahn
The Terminal List: Costa Ronin
(Image courtesy of the CW.)
