Caffeine – TV News – October 6th Edition

Caffeine – TV News – October 6th Edition

Not a ton of big TV news this week as the focus remains on the new fall season, but we’ve got some interesting tidbits to catch up on!

Premiere dates:

October 7th: Murdoch Mysteries (on both CBC and Ovation TV)
October 13th: Tales from the Void

December 12th: No Good Deed

Renewed:

Billy the Kid (for a third and final season), Sugar

Canceled:

That ’90s Show

Other headlines:

Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are having a crossover episode.

Kurt Sutter has left his Netflix series The Abandons.

James Hawes will direct the first two episodes of Lanterns.

Heidi Schreck will write the She-Ra live action series.

Amazon is not moving forward with its Who’s the Boss? sequel or the Bosch spinoff focused on J. Edgar.

Ordered to series:

Amazon Prime Video: A Reacher spinoff about Maria Sten’s character Frances Neagley, romantic drama Off Campus based on Elle Kennedy’s college-set hockey romance novels
FX: Ryan Murphy comic book adaptation The Beauty starring Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, and Ashton Kutcher, an untitled noir series from Sterlin Harjo starring Ethan Hawke

In development:

ABC: Another 9-1-1 spinoff
Amazon MGM Studios: A limited series adaptation of A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii
Fox: Washed up golf prodigy comedy Thunderjacks
HBO: A US remake of British family business comedy Back
Lionsgate: An adaptation of R.F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface
Peacock: True crime limited series The Thing About Tommy
Tavake: Anthology series Sk8 or Die from Tony Hawk and Steve-O

Guest stars:

Elsbeth: Vanessa Bayer, Dan Bucatinsky
Overcompensating: Charli XCX
Poppa’s House: Tommy Davidson, Lamorne Morris

Casting:

All’s Fair: Ed O’Neill
The Beast in Me: Brittany Snow, Natalie Morales, David Lyons, Tim Guinee
The Buccaneers: Leighton Meester
Einstein: Matthew Gray Gubler
Going Dutch: Joe Morton, Catherine Tate
His & Hers: Poppy Liu, Chris Bauer
Iris: Kristofer Hivju, Harry Lloyd, Marco Leonardi, Angela Bruce, Lorenzo De Moor
JonBenét Ramsey: John Billingsley, Jeremy Bobb
The Neighborhood: Glynn Turman
Overcompensating: Tomaso Sanelli
Revival: Steven Ogg
Ripple:
Frankie Faison, Julia Chan, Ian Harding, Sydney Agudong
Upload: Lee Majdoub
The Waterfront: Topher Grace
When Hope Calls: Trevor Donovan
Untitled Peacock Simu Liu thriller: Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian d’Arcy James, Mark O’Brien, Kathleen Chalfant

(Image courtesy of the CBC.)

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