‘9-1-1’: Vanessa Estelle Williams Joins Fox Drama Series

Kiernan Shipka might be venturing over the “Riverdale” to resurrect her ‘Chilling Adventures’ witch, Sabrina Spellman, but the actress is ready to move into the real world for her next project. And by real world, I mean she’s ready to play a Wall Street business person attempting to climb up the ranks.

A new sports biopic series tells the extraordinary life of a man Gary Lineker described as “one of the greatest footballers of all time” – Diego Maradona.

ATLANTA -- Houston's 7-2 win over Atlanta in World Series Game 2 drew 10,539,000 viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming apps.The game was seen by an average of 10,280,000 on Fox, up 13% from 9,105,000 for Tampa Bay's 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second game last year, which set a record low for the World Series.Wednesday's game drew 186,741 streams, Fox said Thursday.———More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP—Sports

EXCLUSIVE: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry, Killing Eve) is the latest addition to the cast of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, Netflix’s film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, from Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy Productions.

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to The Missing, an eight-episode crime drama series based on Israeli crime writer Dror A. Mishani’s international bestselling novel The Missing File, from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers), Keshet Studios and Universal Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Tucker has joined the cast of Fox’s dance dramedy The Big Leap in a recurring role. He will appear opposite stars Scott Foley, Simone Recanser, Teri Polo, Piper Perabo and Anna Grace Barlow. The series hails from Liz Heldens, Jason Winer, Sue Naegle, 20th Television and Fox Entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Creevy (In My Skin) rounds out the lead cast, alongside Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin, in upcoming Showtime drama Three Women, an hourlong series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo.

WarnerMedia has been rolling out HBO Max around the world over the last few months and has been ramping up the number of international originals that it orders.

Uma Thurman will join the cast of Showtime’s Super Pumped. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress is set to appear opposite Jospeh Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of an anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAustin Stowell has been cast in the upcoming Showtime drama series “Three Women,” Variety has learned exclusively.The series is based on the book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo. It is described as a portrayal of American female desire, in which three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.

EXCLUSIVE: Diany Rodriguez (Law & Order: Organized Crime) has joined the upcoming ninth season of NBC’s long-running drama series The Blacklist in a heavily recurring role.

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lee Curtis revealed to us on today’s Hero Nation that while she’s not expecting a third season of Scream Queens, she is reteaming with that series co-creator Ryan Murphy on a new Netflix limited series tentatively titled Outfielder. 

Common is the latest star to join Apple TV+’s dystopian drama Wool.

EXCLUSIVE: The Park, a dystopian drama series that explores a society left to be governed by children as a mysterious virus starts killing off all adults, has wrapped production for Topic and Vanishing Angle.

We’ll be seeing more of Octavio Pisano on Law & Order: SVU. Pisano, who portrays Detective Joe Velasco, has been promoted to series regular on the NBC procedural.

EXCLUSIVE: SAG Award winner Iqbal Theba (Green Book, Glee) has signed on to star in Land of Gold, a drama from writer-director Nardeep Khurmi, which is currently in production in Oklahoma.

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa De Sousa (The Best Man franchise) and McKinley Freeman (Titans, Queen Sugar) are set for recurring roles opposite Morris Chestnut and Yaya DaCosta in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels. The role reunites De Sousa with Chestnut, with whom she stars in The Best Man franchise. Joe Morton also stars in the series.

Happy Mondays percussionist Mark ‘Bez’ Berry has been announced for the next series of Dancing On Ice.Bez is joining the ITV show in January 2022 following his recent stint on Celebrity MasterChef.“At the moment it’s more like Bambi on Ice, not Dancing On Ice,” the Happy Mondays man said.

Odetta Watkins is exiting Warner Bros. Television to join Amazon Studios as Head of Drama Series.