Famke Janssen Joins ‘Long Slow Exhale’ Basketball Drama Series At Spectrum Originals

Animal Kingdom‘s Christina Ochoa is set as a lead in ABC’s Promised Land, Matt Lopez’s Latinx family drama pilot.

EXCLUSIVE: Lyriq Bent (She’s Gotta Have It), Shalini Bathina (Little Voice) and Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars), in a recasting, are set as leads opposite Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Enajite Esegine, Brittney Elena, Jazmine Stewart, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Carmen Flood and Erin Croom (The Conners).

Jordan Moreau Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are teaming up for “Beef,” a comedy-drama series coming to Netflix.The show follows two people who let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action. “Beef” will be comprised of 10 half-hour episodes.Lee Sung Jin (“Dave,” “Tuca & Bertie”) serves as creator, showrunner and executive producer.

Nicholas Gonzalez is coming back to television.

Fargo actor David Thewlis is to star opposite Olivia Colman in HBO and Sky’s limited series Landscapers, which tells the story of a couple who become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in a back garden.

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off a three-season run as Dr. Neil Melendez on ABC’s The Good Doctor, Nicholas Gonzalez has been tapped to co-star opposite Eoin Macken, Natalie Zea and Jon Seda in NBC’s sci-fi drama La Brea.

EXCLUSIVE: Spectrum Originals has given a 10-episode order to Joe Pickett, a one-hour drama series based on C.J. Box’s bestselling novels. Michael Dorman (Patriot, For All Mankind) has been tapped for the title role in the project from Waco creators John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, Paramount Television Studios and Lucy Fisher’s Red Wagon Entertainment.

Before he became an Oscar-winning film actor that headlined a number of major features, Jamie Foxx got his start on the small screen. From his multi-season run on the sketch comedy series, “In Living Color,” in the early-‘90s to his popular sitcom, “The Jamie Foxx Show,” Foxx became a household name telling jokes and acting silly on TV.

It’s been just over a year since HBO gave their series order for an untitled series on the Los Angeles Lakers from Academy Award-winning director Adam McKay (“The Big Short,” “Vice,” “Step Brothers”).

Former Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has been tapped as the female lead in Beacon 23, Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks’ psychological thriller series based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Hugh Howey. Headey will also executive produce through her production company, Peephole Productions, as part of her first-look deal Boat Rocker Studios, which co-produces Beacon 23 with Spectrum Originals.

Rian Johnson is currently working on a “Knives Out” sequel and a future “Star Wars” film trilogy (wink, wink), but apparently, the filmmaker has found time to squeeze in a TV series for Peacock, “Poker Face.” READ MORE: Rian Johnson’s ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Still Might Happen… Eventually According to the streaming service, Peacock has ordered a 10-episode season of “Poker Face,” a new mystery series from creator-writer-director Rian Johnson.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTom Hiddleston will star alongside Claire Danes in the series adaptation of the Sarah Perry novel “The Essex Serpent” at Apple, Variety has learned.The one-hour drama series follows newly widowed Cora (Danes) who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.

Mr Turner and Summer Of Rockets actor Timothy Spall has joined Lesley Manville to headline PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders, which goes into production next week in Suffolk and Ireland.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming NBC drama series “La Brea” has added four new castmembers.Eoin Macken, Jack Martin, Jon Seda, and Lily Santiago have all joined the series. They join previously announced cast members Natalie Zea, Zyra Gorecki and Chiké Okonkwo.In the show, when a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half, separating mother and son from father and daughter.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Schine (SEAL Team) is set as a series regular opposite Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterJoshua Caleb Johnson, the breakout star of the acclaimed Showtime series “The Good Lord Bird,” has landed a key role in the upcoming Blumhouse feature “Bingo.”One of several on Blumhouse’s Amazon Studios genre slate, highlighting female and emerging filmmakers, Johnson joins the previously announced Adriana Barraza in the film from director and co-writer Gigi Saul Guerrero.Johnson will play Caleb, a teenager being raised by a single mother and living in his