EXCLUSIVE: Longtime ABC Studios/ABC Signature development executive Lisa Lang McMullen is leaving Disney after 12 years for Netflix where she will serve as Director on the Drama Development team run by Jinny Howe.
06.07.2021 - 21:29 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Robin Givens (Riverdale) has been tapped for a key role in the upcoming third season of the CW’s Batwoman.
Givens, a new series regular on the DC drama, will play Jada Jet. A powerful CEO for Jet Industries, Jada isn’t bossy: she’s the boss. Passionate and hard working, a woman who has worked her way through life’s ups and downs to climb her way to the top — all while being extremely protective over her impetuous son. A woman with a deep past that forced her to give up her first-born
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime ABC Studios/ABC Signature development executive Lisa Lang McMullen is leaving Disney after 12 years for Netflix where she will serve as Director on the Drama Development team run by Jinny Howe.
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds) has signed on for a recurring role in Ordinary Joe, NBC’s upcoming drama series starring Jimmy Wolk from House veterans Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves and his 6th & Idaho banner. The project, which co-stars Natalie Martinez, Charlie Barnett and Elizabeth Lail, is a co-production of 20th Television, Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, 6th & Idaho and 3 Arts.
EXCLUSIVE: Caleb Foote, who previously was a recurring guest star on the Max Original series Made for Love, will be returning for season 2 as a series regular.
EXCLUSIVE: Kadeem Hardison (Black Monday, Teenage Bounty Hunters) has joined AMC’s utopian drama Moonhaven as a series regular opposite Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and Ayelet Zurer. The series hails from Peter Ocko.
EXCLUSIVE: Mark McKenna has joined the cast of Peacock’s One Of Us Is Lying, a YA mystery drama series based on Karen M. McManus’ bestselling novel. In a series regular role, McKenna will act opposite previously announced cast members Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel, Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Jessica McLeod, Barrett Carnahan and Melissa Collazo.
EXCLUSIVE: Ayelet Zurer has joined the cast of Peter Ocko’s AMC drama Moonhaven and will act opposite Lord of the Rings and Lost alum Dominic Monaghan.
Oliver Hudson has been tapped as a male lead opposite Elodie Yung in Fox’s new drama series The Cleaning Lady.
EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Noel has joined the cast of the indie feature Pools. She joins Odessa A’zion, Michael Vlamis, Tyler Alvarez and Ariel Winter.
EXCLUSIVE: The cast of HBO/BBC’s investment banking drama Industry is adding three new series regulars for Season 2. Alex Alomar Akpobome (Twenties, For All Mankind) and Adam Levy (The Witcher) have joined the series, from creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. Additionally, Indy Lewis, who guest starred in an episode of Season 1, has been named a series regular.
Jeff Goldblum joins the absurd world of Search Party in a recurring role for the HBO Max series’ fifth season.
Kyle MacLachlan has become the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Joe Exotic limited series.MacLachlan will play Carole Baskin‘s spouse Harold Baskin. Baskin’s husband stood by her side throughout her ongoing feud with Exotic, her business rival.
EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Hasmik, who recurs as journalist Chrissy Beppo in the CW’s Superman & Lois, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming second season.
Nick Offerman will step up to the plate as the Parks and Recreation alum joins the cast of Amazon’s A League Of Their Own reboot series, Deadline confirms.
Emmy and NAACP Award-winner Debbi Morgan (Power, Ghost) is set for a major recurring role opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morgan in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star).
Mónica Marie Zorrilla “All My Children’s” Angie Baxter-Hubbard, aka NAACP Award winner Debbi Morgan, has been cast in Lee Daniels and Karin Gist’s series “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. The “Power” and “Ghost” regular joins previously announced cast members Lance Gross (“Sleepy Hollow”), Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”), Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”), Joe Morton (“Scandal”) LeToya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright.
Apple Studios has secured the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige, for drama development with an eye toward a series order. The high-profile Negro League Baseball project comes from Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mandelay’s Peter Guber, and Oscar nominee Ron Shelton, who is behind such sports film classics as Bull Durham and White Men Can’t Jump.
The upcoming fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel now looks even more like a mini Gilmore Girls reunion as Kelly Bishop joins the cast.
The Bachelorette's new episode promised fresh drama and also a new suitor for lead Katie Thurston. The show's 17th season is currently underway and in the latest episode, we saw one of the old contestants from the franchise, Blake Moynes trying to get himself a spot on the new season.
Chicago Fire will see more of top-of-her-game paramedic Violet Mikami as NBC promotes Hanako Greensmith to series regular.
Hawaii 5-0‘s Lance Gross has joined the cast of Fox’s Our Kind Of People as a series regular. The upcoming drama comes from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels and stars Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and LeToya Luckett.