30th August 2018
MOVIES: Downton Abbey - Imelda Staunton, Geraldine James, Simon Jones, David Haig, Tuppence Middleton, Kate Phillips & Stephen Campbell Moore Join Cast
Focus and producer Carnival Films said today that Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton, Geraldine James, Simon Jones, David Haig, Tuppence Middleton, Kate Phillips and Stephen Campbell Moore have joined the cast.
The original cast including Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery and Hugh Bonneville are already set to reprise their upstairs/downstairs roles. Michael Engler is directing the film, which was written by series creator Julian Fellowes.
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The Purge - Jessica Miesel to Recur
Jessica Miesel (The Resident) will play Alison, who dreams of a corner office and promotion.
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The Fix - Robert Wisdom to Recur
Robert Wisdom (The Alienist) will play Buck Neal, an investigator who works closely with Ezra Wolf (Scott Cohen).
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Sneaky Pete - Season 3 - Efrat Dor to Recur
Efrat Dor (The Zookeeper’s Wife) will play Lizzie, an amoral con woman with boundless skill and no moral conscience. She’s not mean spirited. She’s more of a nihilist. Life has no meaning, so do what you want, and live for the thrill of today.
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Shantel VanSanten & Wrenn Schmidt Join Ronald D. Moore's NASA Space Apple Drama Series
The untitled show is set in a world where the global space race never ended.
Shantel VanSanten (Shooter, One Tree Hill) will play Karen Baldwin, the wife of astronaut Edward Baldwin (Kinnaman). The two are a prominent NASA couple.
Wrenn Schmidt (The Looming Tower, Person of Interest) will play a NASA engineer named Margo Madison.
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Bosch - Season 5 - Jacqueline Obradors to Recur
Jacqueline Obradors (NYPD Blue) will play the fast learning and good at hiding her nerves, Detective Christina Vega, who’s been brought up to work in homicide. She feels the promotion has been a long time coming and is determined to prove her worth as quickly as possible.
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God Friended Me - Malik Yoba to Recur
Malik Yoba (Empire) will play Miles’ uncle Terrence, with whom he has a special bond.
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Fresh Off The Boat - Season 5 - Jaleel White to Guest
Jaleel White will guest star in an upcoming fifth season episode of ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” Variety has learned. He will play Calvin, a sarcastic and under-appreciated general manager of a car dealership, where Louis (Randall Park) buys an RV. Calvin does all the work for the dealership but is forced to play second-fiddle whenever his boss comes to visit.
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MOVIES: Doctor Sleep - Kyleigh Curran Joins The Shining Sequel
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Stephen King The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep has tapped young actress Kyleigh Curran in the role of Abra Stone, a girl who has the gift of ‘The Shining’.
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The Bold Type - Season 3 - Betty Who to Guest
Entertainment Weekly have revealed that Betty Who will appear in the season 3 premiere.
29th August 2018
Young Justice: Outsiders - Sneak Peek
Dickinson - Jane Krakowski to Co-Star in Emily Dickinson Apple Comedy Series
Jane Krakowski is set to co-star opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson, Apple’s straight-to-series half-hour comedy about 1800s poet Emily Dickinson. Krakowski will play Mrs. Dickinson, Emily’s mother.
Written by Smith, Dickinson is set during Emily Dickinson’s era with a modern sensibility and tone. It takes viewers into the world of Emily (Steinfeld), audaciously exploring the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn’t fit in to her own time through her imaginative point of view.
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MOVIES: A Quiet Place Sequel - Release Date Revealed & Top Gun 2 Pushed Back a Year
Paramount's high-profile Top Gun sequel is being pushed back a year, and will now hit theaters June 26, 2020, instead of July 12, 2019.
Also, A Quiet Place sequel will open in theaters on May 15, 2020. John Krasinski, who directed A Quiet Place, is writing the follow-up. A director hasn't been announced.
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The Fix - KJ Smith to Recur in ABC Legal Drama
KJ Smith (Dynasty) will play Charlie, Ezra’s executive assistant. The Fix centers on Maya Travis (Robin Tunney), an L.A. district attorney who suffers a devastating defeat when prosecuting an A-list actor for double murder.
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Jett - Chivonne Michelle to Recur in Cinemax Crime Drama
Chivonne Michelle (Shaft) will play Violet. No specific character details are being provided beyond the general description that the actors make up the gallery of morally ambivalent two-bit hoods, budding femme fatales and compromised law enforcers surrounding anti-heroine Jett Kowalski (Carla Gugino).
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Big Mouth - Season 2 - Attack of the Hormone Monsters Teaser Trailer + Premiere Date
Returning to Netflix October 5
28th August 2018
Tell Me a Story - Paulina Singer to Recur in CBS All Access Fairytale Thriller
Paulina Singer (Dead of Summer) will play Laney, a rebellious young ingénue who is exploring the darker persuasions of teen-aged angst and sexuality.
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Siren - Season 2 - Natalee Linez to Recur
Linez will play Nicole, a mysterious woman with her own agenda, catches Xander’s (Verdun) eye when she moves to town, temporarily distracting him from the painful death of his father.
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Panic - Olivia Welch, Mike Faist & Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut to Star in Lauren Oliver's YA Amazon Pilot
Written and created by Lauren Oliver, Panic centers on a forgotten rural town where every year the graduating seniors risk their lives in an illegal, high-stakes game to win life-changing money–and a chance to escape. Anonymous judges force the players through a series of challenges that will compel them to confront their deepest fears – and upend their ideas of who they are, who to trust, and who they might become. This year, 47 players — three of them played by Welch, Faist and Chestnut — will compete for the biggest pot ever. All of them will be changed. Only one will win.
Welch will play Heather, a talented writer who is deeply uncomfortable in her own skin and nowhere near realizing her full potential. She thinks her only chance of a decent life is to save up what money she can and go to Accounting school. When Heather realizes her mother has stolen all of the money she has saved, something changes inside her, compelling her to join the deadly competition and prove to everyone in town that they are wrong about her.
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Deadly Class - Tom Stevens to Recur in Syfy Series
Tom Stevens (Wayward Pines) will play Chester “F*ckface” Wilson, a resident of the same boys’ home Marcus lived in before taking to the streets of San Francisco. An incident at the boys’ home leaves Chester thirsty for revenge against Marcus, his new archenemy. Built like a linebacker with a distinct face, he is vile and volatile, and ready to take down anyone in his path to vengeance.
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NOS4A2 - Karen Pittman to Recur in AMC Supernatural Horror Series
Karen Pittman (Luke Cage) will play Angela Brewster: Willa’s mother, she is a beautifully put together Northeast liberal. Vic’s mother is her cleaning lady, and she is warm and welcoming to Vic.
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MIA - Detective Drama from Michael Weatherly & Cote de Pablo in Development at CBS
NCIS alums Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo are reuniting to executive produce MIA, a new detective drama in the works at CBS. The network has put in development the hourlong MIA, from writer/executive producer Shepard Boucher (Upload), and CBS Television Studios.
Written by Boucher, in MIA, when a newly minted homicide detective is assigned to an experienced, by-the-book partner to solve cases in Miami, she struggles to keep the personal entanglements of her final undercover assignment from jeopardizing her future.
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Sorry For Your Loss - Trailer feat Elizabeth Olsen & Kelly Marie Tran
Sorry For Your Loss premieres Tuesday, September 18th only on Facebook Watch.
MOVIES: Bad Times at the El Royale - Trailer feat Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson & More
MOVIES: Johnny English Strikes Again - Trailer 2 feat Rowan Atkinson
The Conners - Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara and Jayden Rey Returning for Spinoff; Roseanne Character To Be Killed Off per John Goodman
Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara and Jayden Rey, the trio who played Roseanne and Dan Conner’s grandchildren on the rebooted and now-canceled Roseanne last season, are coming back. ABC confirmed that the trio are set as series regulars on The Conners, the Roseanne Barr-free spinoff that premieres this fall.
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John Goodman did not go into detail but confirmed to The Sunday Times that Roseanne Barr’s character will be killed off this fall in the upcoming The Conners spinoff on ABC.
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Curfew - Adam Brody Joins Cast of Sky Drama Series
Deadline have revealed that Adam Brody (The O.C.) has joined the cast of Sky's new Fast & The Furious-style drama Curfew, which will exclusively air on Charter Communications via its Spectrum Originals in 2019. The drama also stars Billy Zane and Miranda Richardson.
Brody will play mysterious megalomaniac millionaire Max Larssen in the street race drama, which will air on Sky One and also stars Titanic star Billy Zane and The Hour’s Miranda Richardson.
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27th August 2018
Snowpiercer - Aleks Paunovic to Recur in TNT Futuristic Thriller
Aleks Paunovic (Van Helsing) will play Bojan Boscovic, a large, fearsome looking man with frostbite scars and stumped ears. Bojan is a Breachworker, performing one of the most dangerous jobs on the train. He’s used to the cold and hazards of the job, comfortable enough to joke about his life being at risk.
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All American - Hunter Clowdus to Recur
Hunter Clowdus (American Vandal) will play. J.J., the life of every Beverly High party and a linebacker on Spencer’s new team.
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Fuller House - Season 4 - Maria Canals-Barrera to Guest as Fernando's Mom
It’s a full house indeed! @fullerhouse @netflix @soni_nicole @bobsaget @hagenboo @candacecbure @juanpablodipace @jodiesweetin @andreabarber @loriloughlin #fullerhouse pic.twitter.com/FK2b6HmkYq
— Maria Canals-Barrera (@Maria_CB) August 23, 2018
Maria Canals-Barrera (Wizards of Waverly Place) will appear in an upcoming episode of the Netflix comedy, playing the mother of Fernando Hernandez-Guerrero-Fernandez-Guerrero.
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Warriors - Teachers Drama from Michael Narducci in Development at ABC with Regina King to Direct
ABC is developing a drama series with Regina King attached to direct and executive produce, Variety has learned exclusively.
Currently titled “Warriors,” the one-hour project hails from Michael Narducci. It takes place in a Midwestern community where two friends–a semi-retired NFL player and an idealistic high school principal–will attempt to overcome their conflicting styles of teaching as they mentor a new generation and confront the long buried sins of their past.
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Best Wishes - Fantasy Drama in Development at ABC
ABC is developing Best Wishes, an hourlong fantasy drama from writer-directors David Posamentier and Geoff Moore (Better Living Through Chemistry), Random Hill and ABC Studios.
Written by Posamentier and Moore, Best Wishes tells the story of a pragmatic, once successful man, Nick Day, who thinks the notion of wishes is a waste of time due to a personal tragedy he’s recently endured. But just as everything in his life is crumbling around him, things get more complicated when he’s approached by a potentially crazy woman claiming to be in the business of granting wishes. And she needs Nick’s help.
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Star - Season 3 - Chad Michael Murray to Recur
Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill, Agent Carter) will play Xander McPherson, an opportunistic real estate investor who is involved in a toxic relationship with Cassie Brown (Brandy Norwood). Xander plays white collar but learned his hustle on the street and knows how to use his charm and power to get what he wants.
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Billions - Season 4 - Samantha Mathis Joins Cast
Samantha Mathis (The Strain) has joined Billions in a season-long arc. She'll play Sara Hammon, the new COO of Taylor Mason Capital. She's brought on board by Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) to help run the newly formed company and protect it — and Taylor — from Axe's (Damian Lewis) aggression.
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The Resident - Season 2 - Daniella Alonso to Recur
Daniella Alonso (Revolution) will recur as as Zoey Barlow, a strong single mother whose two adopted children both have chronic illnesses. With a firecracker attitude and a warm heart, Zoey is described as the kind of mom who gets down on the floor to play with her kids, and the Chastain Park Memorial team will root for her small, loving family as they battle the unimaginable.
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Mom - Season 6 - Kristen Johnston Returning for 3 Episodes
Kristen Johnston will reprise her role as Tammy Diffendorf, Bonnie’s (Allison Janney) foster sister who landed in prison because she attempted to rob an Outback Steakhouse. Johnston will be featured in three episodes this season.
“She’s going to get out of prison and live with Bonnie and Christy [Anna Faris],” explains creator/showrunner Gemma Baker. “It’s going to be really fun.”
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