Happy Canada Day! Let’s breeze through the week’s premiere dates, new show orders, and other TV news so everyone can get out and enjoy the holiday.
Premiere dates:
July 26th: The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
September 4th: Mayans M.C., The Purge
September 5th: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
September 9th: Rel (special preview)
September 12th: American Horror Story
September 23rd: 9-1-1 (special two-part premiere)
September 24th: The Resident, 9-1-1 (special two-part premiere)
September 25th: The Gifted, Lethal Weapon
September 26th: Empire, Star
September 28th: Last Man Standing, The Cool Kids
September 30th: Rel (timeslot premiere)
Canceled:
Ghosted, Nobodies, Champions, Famous in Love, Six
Other headlines:
Bash Doran will showrun J.J. Abrams’ HBO show Demimonde.
Krysten Ritter will direct an episode of Marvel’s Jessica Jones season three.
James Duff has joined Star Trek: Discovery as an EP.
The Snowpiercer pilot director has left the show very dramatically.
ABC has extended its cast options for comedy pilot Steps.
HBO Go/Now has acquired satirical Scandinavian series Beforeigners.
Lisa Cholodenko will direct Unbelievable.
Ordered to series:
Charter: Bad Boys female-led spinoff L.A.’s Finest
Showtime: An adaptation of video game Halo from Kyle Killen
Netflix: An adaptation of Salman Rushie’s magical realist novel Midnight’s Children, martial arts sci-fi crime drama Wu Assassins
YouTube Premium: Friendship comedy Kat & June Think Stuff!, dark comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida starring Kirsten Dunst, sci-fi anthology Weird City from Jordan Peele
Pilot orders:
Amazon: YA projects Panic, The Wilds, and College
HBO: Televangelist comedy The Righteous Gems starring Danny McBridge and John Goodman
In development:
Bryncoed Productions: An adaptation of The County Guides to Murder
Promoted to series regular:
Empire: Nicole Ari Parker
Lost in Space: Sibongile Mlambo
S.W.A.T.: Patrick St. Esprit
Guest stars:
Catastrophe: Michaela Watkins
Fuller House: Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Lainie Kazan
London Kills: Glynis Barber, Melanie Gutteridge, Jennie Jacques, Frances Tomelty, Dean Andrews
The Oath: Kevin Connolly
One Day at a Time: Gloria Estefan
Pure: Alyson Hannigan
Returns:
The Originals: Danielle Campbell
Casting:
Berlin Station: Ismael Cruz Cordova
The Boys: Tomer Capon
David Makes Man: Phylicia Rashad
Erase: Callie Thorne
Future Man: Shaun Brown
Good Trouble: Michael Galante
Grantchester: Tom Brittney
London Kills: Hugo Speer, Sharon Small, Bailey Patrick, Tori Allen-Martin
Messiah: Beau Bridges, Philip Baker Hall
A Million Little Things: Grace Park
NOS4A2: Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Ross-Bachrach
Now Apocalypse: RJ Mitte, Grace Victoria Cox
The Oath: Christina Milian, Leona Lewis, Zulay Henao
Raising Dion: Jazmyn Simon, Alisha Wainwright, Ja’Siah Young
The Romanoffs: Hera Hilmar
Tell Me a Story: Sam Jaeger
Tell Me Your Secrets: Stella Baker
Turn Up Charlie: Piper Perabo, JJ Feild, Frankie Hervey
Unbelievable: Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, Kaitlyn Dever
Watchmen: Jeremy Irons, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sara Vickers
Untitled Showtime Roger Ailes limited series: Russell Crowe
(Image courtesy of BritBox.)
