Caffeine – TV News – December 18th Edition

Welcome to the final TV news roundup of 2022! Since the next two Sundays are holidays, we’re going to take a little break, and I’ll catch you up on everything in January!

Premiere dates:

January 24th: How I Met Your Father

February 2nd: Freeridge
February 3rd: Dear Edward
February 15th: Wu-Tang: An American Saga
February 16th: The Upshaws
February 24th: Party Down

March 14th: Gotham Knights, Superman & Lois
March 17th: Power Book II: Ghost
March 19th: Sanditon

Renewed:

Quantum Leap, Yellowjackets, The Sex Lives of College Girls, The Santa Clauses, Sort Of

Canceled:

Minx, Dangerous Liaisons, The Nevers, Love Life, Sanditon (after the upcoming third season), Step Up, Warrior Nun, Shantaram, Blockbuster

Other headlines:

The three-way NCIS crossover has been pushed back a week to January 9th.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has set an all-female directing team for season two.

Ordered to series:

Amazon Prime: Video game adaptation God of War, Reese Witherspoon cheerleading comedy All Stars
Apple: Mythic Quest companion series Mere Mortals
CBS: An adaptation of Jeffrey Deaver’s survivalist mystery novel The Never Game starring Justin Hartley
HBO: Julio Torres comedy series Little Films
Netflix: K-pop star coming-of-age romance Doona!

Pilot orders:

ABC: Medical drama The Hurt Unit
Disney+: A modern take on Witch Mountain starring Bryce Dallas Howard
FX: A U.S. version of British comedy Peep Show

In development:

ABC: An untitled legal drama from Natalie Callaghan and Alexi Hawley
Amazon: An adaptation of game Warhammer 40,000 produced by and starring Henry Cavill
BBC: Limited series Biafra from David Oyelowo
Black Jellybeans: Production company comedy Underdeveloped
Element Pictures: An adaptation of Nicola Dinan’s upcoming queer romance Bellies
Entertainment One: Robert De Niro crime drama Mr. Natural
Fifth Season: An adaptation of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of Rosie Walsh’s Love of My Life
NBC: CIA drama The Chase, a lunar colony medical drama, family dramedy For Better and Worse
Passenger/Sinestra: An adaptation of Nathan Newman’s novel How to Leave the House
Peacock: A horror thriller based on Robert McCammon’s novel Stringer
Red Marble Media: True crime podcast adaptation Proof
Sox Entertainment: NBA civil rights docudrama Big Men
Starz: British boxing drama Fightland from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson

Guest stars:

CSI: Vegas: Eric Szmanda
The Flash: Nicole Maines
Genius: MLK/X: Jalyn Hall

Casting:

1923: Joseph Mawle
Dark Matter: Amanda Brugel
The Decameron: Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet, Tanya Reynolds, Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer
Dr. Death: Luke Kirby, Ashley Madekwe, Gustaf Hammarsten
Dune: The Sisterhood: Josh Heuston, Edward Davis
The Franchise: Billy Magnussen, Lolly Adefope, Darren Goldstein, Isaac Powell, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Brühl, Richard E. Grant
How to Be a Bookie: Maxim Swinton
The Other Black Girl: Garcelle Beauvais, Brian Baumgartner, Alyshia Ochse, Kate Owens
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Jack Dylan Grazer
Under the Bridge: Lily Gladstone
Unprisoned: Faly Rakotohavana, Jordyn McIntosh
We Were the Lucky Ones: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Moran Rosenblatt, Sam Woolf, Michael Aloni

(Image courtesy of Hulu.)

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