Caffeine – TV News – October 3rd Edition

Our first batch of TV news for October brings us a bunch of new series pickups and casting updates!

Premiere dates:

October 24th: Curb Your Enthusiasm

December 29th: The Book of Boba Fett

Renewed:

Sex/Life, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Johnson, BMF

Canceled:

Mr. Corman

Other headlines:

OWN has revived All Rise.

Scott Winant will direct the first two episodes of The Thing About Pam.

Jonathan van Tulleken will direct the first two episodes of Shōgun.

Ordered to series:

Amazon: A college-set The Boys spinoff
Channel 4: Danish crime series adaptation Suspect starring James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Richard E. Grant, Ben Miller, Niamh Algar, Antonia Thomas, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan, Imogen King
Freeform: Phoebe Robinson autobiographical comedy Everything’s Trash
Hulu; Legal drama Reasonable Doubt starring Emayatzy Corinealdi
ITV: Crime drama DI Ray starring Parminder Nagra, limited series Litvinenko starring David Tennant and Margarita Levieva
NBC: A new season of . . . original flavor Law & Order (yes, really)
Netflix: On My Block spinoff Freeridge

In development:

The CW: A Babylon 5 reboot
Disney Branded Entertainment: David E. Talbert musical series Madelyn Square Gardens
IMDb TV: A Cruel Intentions series
Keshet Studios: Cuban nightclub series Tropicana Nights
Media Res: An adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads
Moondog Films: Felicia Pearson autobiographical limited series A.K.A. Snoop
Netflix: Four shows from Mara Brock Akil including an adaptation of Judy Blume’s Forever, an adaptation of Jordan Ifueko’s YA fantasy novel Raybearer
Revelations Entertainment: Cape Town District Six drama Hanover Street
Sony Pictures TV: Afro-Latino thriller Sanyu
Stone Village TV: A Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid series
Yellow Bird UK: An adaptation of Alison Gaylin’s novel The Collective

Guest stars:

Better Things: Ron Cephas Jones
The First Lady: Kathleen Garrett
Law & Order: SVU: Aidan Quinn

Returns:

Grey’s Anatomy: Scott Speedman (now a series regular)
Law & Order: SVU:
Danny Pino

Casting:

Coercion: Sydney Park, Tyrone Marshall Brown
The Conners: Tony Cavalero
The Girl from Plainville: Peter Gerety, Michael Mosley, Ella Kennedy Davis, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Kylie Liya Page, Jeff Wahlberg
Gravesend: Fran Drescher, Martin Kove, Mario Cantone, William Forsythe, Andrew Dice Clay, Sofia Milos
The Idol: Lily-Rose Depp
Iron Mike: Russell Hornsby
Kindred: Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, David Alexander Kaplan
The Last Police: Blu Hunt, Reno Wilson, Maximiliano Hernandez, Dawnn Lewis, Derek Phillips, Courtney Dietz, Troy Kotsur
Magnum P.I.: Martin Martinez
Monarch: Eva Amurri, Adam Croasdell, Faith Prince
Moonhaven: Yazzmin Newell
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin: Lea Salonga, Sharon Leal, Elena Goode, Carly Pope, Zakiya Young
The Reckoning: Steve Coogan
Run the Burbs: Rakhee Morzaria, Zoriah Wong, Roman Pesino, Ali Hassan, Julie Nolke, Jonathan Langdon, Simone Miller, Samantha Wan, Candy Palmater, Chris Locke, Aurora Browne
Shōgun: Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Takehiro Hira, Ako, Shinnosuke Abe, Yasunari Takeshima, Hiroto Kanai, Toshi Toda, Hiro Kanagawa, Nestor Carbonell, Yuki Kura, Tommy Bastow, Moeka Hoshi, Yoriko Doguchi, Yuka Kouri
Superman & Lois: Ian Bohen
Three Women: Ravi Patel
Tom Jones: Hannah Waddingham
True Lies: Ginger Gonzaga, Omar Miller, Erica Hernandez, Mike O’Gorman
When Hope Calls: Lori Loughlin

(Image courtesy of CBS.)

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