Settle in with your coffee – we’ve got two weeks of TV news to catch up on, including lots of updates from New York Comic-Con!
Premiere dates:
November 17th: Dune: Prophecy
November 21st: Cruel Intentions
November 29th: The Agency
December 4th: Light Shop
December 5th: Black Doves
December 19th: Laid
January 2nd: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
January 5th: Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches
January 22nd: Prime Target
January 26th: Watson (after the AFC Championship Game)
March 4th: Daredevil: Born Again
Renewed:
Shrinking, Slow Horses, Matlock, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Beef, Virgin River, We Might Regret This
Canceled:
Other headlines:
Good Omens will end with one 90-minute episode, and Neil Gaiman will not be involved due to the sexual assault allegations against him.
CBS has announced a bunch of special holiday episodes.
The crossover between Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has expanded with guest appearances in both directions.
Rose McIver will direct an episode of Ghosts.
Sony and Amazon are reportedly starting over on video game adaptation God of War as the EPs depart and new writers join. Ronald D. Moore is taking over as showrunner.
Greg Mottola will EP and direct the first two episodes of The Miniature Wife.
Netflix’s Spike Jonze series is not moving forward at this time.
Ordered to series:
Channel 5: Thriller Catch You Later starring Jason Watkins
Crave: Crime drama Underbelly starring Stephen Amell, Minnie Driver, and Hamza Haq
Hulu: An NFL drama from Dan Fogelman
Acquired for the U.S. and Canada:
MHz: Elsa Morante adaptation La Storia
Acquired for Canada:
CBC Gem: British comedy-drama Cheaters, Scandinavian comedy All and Eva, Danish drama Families Like Ours
Corus: Mystery Whitstabel Pearl
Acquired for the U.S.:
Hulu: French thriller series Paris Has Fallen
Pilot orders:
Hulu: Coming-of-age mystery/comedy Phony starring Connie Britton
In development:
87Eleven Entertainment: An adaptation of Sebastien de Castell’s fantasy series Spellsinger
ABC: Comedy Do You Want Kids? from and starring Rachel Bloom
Amazon: Equestrian romance series Eventing based on Natalie Keller Reinert’s novels, a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie from Mike Flanagan
Avatar Entertainment: A series about the life of Ernest Hemingway
Fox: Drama Billionaire Apocalypse
Hulu: An adaptation of M.K. Oliver’s upcoming novel A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage from Liz Tigelaar
Made Up Stories: An adaptation of Zoë Foster Blake’s novel Things Will Calm Down Soon, an adaptation of Sally Hepworth’s crime thriller Darling Girls
Netflix: Insurance adjuster crime procedural Pain & Suffering
Ranga Bee Productions: Misogynist influencer feminist dramedy Hysterical starring Naomie Harris, Jameela Jamil, and Romesh Ranganathan
RTÉ: Relationship drama Yes!
Space Nation Inc.: Video game adaptation Space Nation from Roland Emmerich
Sympatico: Espionage thriller Emergency starring Luke Evans
Upgrade Productions: An adaptation of Japanese crime novel The Aosawa Murders
Victura Media: An adaptation of Dawn O’Porter’s novel Paper Aeroplanes
ZDF Studios/Ananey Studios: An adaptation of David Edelson’s hiking survival novel The Tea House on the Death Pass
Guest stars:
Abbott Elementary: Seven-John Singleton
The Agency: Hugh Bonneville
Am I Being Unreasonable?: Chelsea Peretti, Tom Davis, Denise Black, Jamali Maddix, Kojey Radical, Charlie Cooper
Black Mirror: Nicholas Cirillo
The Boys: Mason Dye
Elsbeth: Laurie Metcalf, Eric McCormack
Ghosts: Sakina Jaffrey, Bernard White
Night Court: Mayim Bialik
Poker Face: John Mulaney, Ego Nwodim, Sam Richardson
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Tatiana Maslany
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Rhys Darby
Casting:
Abbott Elementary: Matthew Law
Beef: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Youn Yuh-Jung
Boarders: Wunmi Mosaku, Cara Theobold, Michael Salami, Kenda Brown
Cobra Kai: Lewis Tan, Patrick Luwis, Rayna Vallandingham
East of Eden: Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada, Joe Anders
Elsbeth: Michael Emerson
For All Mankind: Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz, Ines Asserson
Grey’s Anatomy: Sophia Bush
Happy’s Place: Elizabeth Alderfer
Homestead: Charles Esten, Jill Wagner, Sam Page
The Institute: Brendan Beiser, Mary Walsh, Jordan Alexander
The Last Thing He Told Me: Judy Greer
Law & Order: Organized Crime: Olivia Thirlby
Lynley: Daniel Mays, Niamh Walsh, Michael Workeye, Joshua Sher
The Madison: Ben Schnetzer
Monster: Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams
The Pitt: Mika Abdalla
The Rainmaker: Tommie Earl Jenkins
The Rig: Alice Krige, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ross Anderson, Phil McKee, Johannes Roaldsen Fürst
Scarpetta: Hunter Parrish
Shifting Gears: Seann William Scott
The Waterfront: Andrew Call
(Image courtesy of HBO.)