We’ve got a bunch of casting updates and info about new shows in this week’s TV news!
Premiere dates:
November 7th: Maxton Hall – The World Between Us
December 4th: The Abandons
January 8th: Heartland (U.S. season 18 premiere)
Renewed:
Lioness, When Hope Calls: Brookfield, Ballard
Canceled:
Mid-Century Modern, The Chi (after the upcoming eighth season)
Other headlines:
Scott Wolf will direct an episode of Doc.
And Utkarsh Ambudkar will direct an episode of Ghosts.
Ordered to series:
5: Mystery series The Family Secret starring Eleanor Tomlinson and Matthew Lewis
ABC: Carl Hiaasen private investigator adaptation RJ Decker
Amazon Prime Video: Dan Turèll crime drama adaptation Murder in the Dark starring Michael Falch
BBC/Netflix: A Peaky Blinders sequel series
Netflix: Swedish crime drama The Case, Lauren Iungerich YA friendship thriller Poser
Acquired for the U.S.:
Amazon Prime Video: Civil War spy drama The Gray House
Netflix: Australian supernatural drama Playing Gracie Darling
Showtime: British thrillers The Guest and Coldwater
Acquired for North America:
BritBox: British thriller The Game
Pilot orders:
FX: Young Frankenstein spinoff Very Young Frankenstein
In development:
Amazon MGM Studios: A live-action series based on Mattel’s Shani doll, an adaptation of Ruth Ware’s boarding school thriller The Lying Game
Disney+: Archie comics adaptation Afterlife with Archie from the Riverdale team
NBC: A church choir sitcom starring Kristin Chenoweth
Peacock: An adaptation of crime podcast Vigilante
Teton Ridge Entertainment: A rodeo medical drama based on a Texas Monthly article
Guest stars:
Happy’s Place: JoAnna Garcia Swisher
The Marlow Murder Club: Nigel Harman, Peter Davison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Sarah Alexander, Tony Gardner, Jason Merrells, Harry Enfield, Cherie Lunghi, Adrian Lukis, Alastair Mackenzie
Ransom Canyon: Patricia Clarkson
Slo-Pitch: Ayami Sato, Varun Saranga, Laura De Carteret, Don MacLean Jr., Carolyn Taylor, Chris Locke, Chris Sandiford, Nadine Bhabha
St. Denis Medical: Kristen Schaal, Lauren Weedman, Frankie Quiñones, Lauren Lapkus, Tim Baltz, Jeremiah Brown, Jonah Beckett
Returns:
Doc: Scott Wolf
When Calls the Heart: Brooke Shields
Casting:
The Age of Innocence: Fiona Glascott, Belinda Bromilow, Emma Shipp, Hayley Mills, Ryan Morgan, Will Tudor, John Light, Steven Pacey, Kel Matsena, Lucia Balordi, Elly Roberts, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Anna Madeley, Michael Cochrane
All the Sinners Bleed: Nicole Beharie
The Body: Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, Geena Meszaros, Nnamdi Asomugha, Louisa Krause, Shirley Chen, Jackson Kelly, Sofia Wylie, Kyra Pierce, Phallon Pierce, Marcel Ruiz, Orlando Norman, Gabby Windey
Chicago Med: Gbenga Akinnagbe
The Comeback: John Early, Barry Shabaka Henley, Abbi Jacobson, Tony Macht, Brittany O’Grady, Zane Phillips, Julian Stern
I Kill the Bear: Chad Kroeger, Adrian Holmes, Georges St-Pierre, Jonathan Torrens, Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, Kristin Kreuk, Dylan Playfair, Eliana Jones, Frederick Roy, Megha Sandhu
Joseph of Egypt: Alexa Mansour, Shila Ommi, Christopher Maleki, Alonso Rappa, Johnny Visotcky, Jay Abdo
The Killings: Parrish Station: Essie Randles
The Neighborhood: Amber Stevens West
Presumed Innocent: Fiona Shaw
Scrubs: Vanessa Bayer, Joel Kim Booster, Robert Maschio, Phill Lewis, Ava Bunn, Jacob Dudman, David Gridley, Layla Mohammadi, Amanda Morrow
Slo-Pitch: Emily Hampshire, Jess Salgueiro, Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Emma Hunter, Chelsea Muirhead, Lane Webber, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Amanda Cordner
Very Young Frankenstein: Zach Galifianakis, Dolly Wells, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, Kumail Nanjiani
Vigil: Tornike Gogrichiani, Steven Miller, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Benjamin Wainwright, Artur Zai Barrera, Jordan Duvigneau, Kaisa Hammarlund, Adam Fidusiewicz, Naomi Yang, Eric Godon, Conor Berry, Amy Manson, Jason Tobin, Steven Cree, Killian Coyle, Derek Riddell, Alma Prelec, Dawn Sievewright, Shereen Cutkelvin
Vought Rising: Cecily Strong, Mark Pellegrino, Eric Johnson, Annie Shapero
Untitled FX witness protection pilot: Finn Wittrock, Ashley Thomas
(Image courtesy of Prime Video.)
