This week’s TV news brings us a bunch of summer premiere dates as well as some cancellations and final season news as the networks clean up some loose ends . . .
Premiere dates:
July 9th: Pandora
July 19th: Killjoys
July 28th: Bulletproof
August 8th: Two Sentence Horror Stories
August 15th: Why Women Kill
August 25th: The Affair
August 30th: Carnival Row
September 10th: Mr. Mercedes
October 14th: Letterkenny
Finale dates:
June 27th: In the Dark
July 31st: Jane the Virgin
August 1st: iZombie
August 6th: The 100
Renewed:
Dead to Me, The Spanish Princess (for an additional eight episodes to finish the story), Lucifer (for a final season)
Cancelled:
The Good Place (after the upcoming fourth season), The Ranch (after the upcoming fourth season), Sneaky Pete, Deadly Class, Happy!, Swamp Thing, The Red Line
Other headlines:
Kristen Bell will direct an episode of The Good Place.
Queen Sugar has announced a slate of directors.
Jesse Williams has officially signed on for more Grey’s Anatomy.
Ordered to series:
Gold: Comedy The Cockfields starring Kim Cattrall
Viaplay: Sci-fi comedy series Home Invasion starring Morena Baccarin
WarnerMedia: Crime drama Tokyo Vice starring Ansel Elgort
In development:
AMC: An adaptation of Mona Awad’s novel Bunny
Company Pictures: An adaptation of Rebecca Stott’s novel In the Days of Rain
eOne: An adaptation of Margaret Atwood novel Edible Woman
FX: An adaptation of horror novel Speaks the Nightbird
ITV: Submarine drama Tenacity
NBC: Da Vinci Code prequel series The Lost Symbol
Playtone: Sammy Davis Jr. miniseries Sammy from Lee Daniels
Sid Gentle Films: An adaptation of dog adoption graphic novel Fetch, a Queer as Folk-inspired drama with poet Max Wallis
UCP: A Punky Brewster reboot starring Soleil Moon Frye
WarnerMedia: A series adaptation of podcast Over My Dead Body from Elizabeth Banks
Leaving their shows:
Tommy: David Fierro
Promoted to series regular:
Arrow: Joseph-David Jones
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Gavin Leatherwood, Lachlan Watson
MacGyver: Levy Tran
Shameless: Kate Miner
Young Sheldon: Matt Hobby
Guest stars:
Queen Sugar: Cree Summer, Bryan Terrell Clark
Returns:
Suits: Patrick J. Adams
Casting:
The Angel of Darkness: Melanie Field, Rosy McEwen
BH90210: Ivan Sergei
Briarpatch: Kim Dickens
Carol’s Second Act: Ashley Tisdale (replacing Bonnie Dennison)
Deadwater Fell: Cush Jumbo, David Tennant
Dollface: Goran Visnjic
The Good Lord Bird: Joshua Johnson-Lionel
Good People: Josie Totah, Tasha Smith
Into the Dark: Corey Fogelmanis, Annie Q., Jessi Case, Julian Works, Philip Labes, Hugo Armstrong
Little Fires Everywhere: Paul Yen
Mrs. America: Elizabeth Banks
Runaways: Elizabeth Hurley
Suits: Denise Crosby
You: Danny Vasquez
(Image courtesy of Amazon.)
