Showtime Limited Series ‘Fellow Travelers’ Adds Five to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Joe Otterson TV ReporterImogen Reid will star opposite Ellen Pompeo in the untitled orphan limited series at Hulu that was announced on Aug. 3.The series is inspired by the true story of a Midwestern couple who adopts a young girl with a rare form of dwarfism (Reid).

UK actor Imogen Reid has been tapped as a co-lead opposite Ellen Pompeo in Hulu’s untitled orphan limited series, executive produced by the Grey’s Anatomy star.

Emmy winner Jaime Pressly (Mom) has joined the cast of Fox’s comedy series Welcome To Flatch as a series regular for its upcoming second season. She will play a new character named Barb Flatch.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeEmmy winner Jaime Pressly (“My Name is Earl”) is moving into another small TV town. Pressly has been added to the cast of Fox’s “Welcome to Flatch” as it returns for a second season. She will play Barb Flatch, a Realtor who returns to her hometown after a bad divorce.

It’s official: Keanu Reeves will star in the long-gestating adaptation of Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City for Hulu.

according to Deadline. She will only appear in eight episodes of the upcoming season.

Will season 19 be Ellen Pompeo‘s last on Grey’s Anatomy!? This breaking news suggests she’s starting to look at other projects!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEllen Pompeo is set to star in a limited series inspired by real events that has been ordered at Hulu, Variety has learned.In the untitled show, a Midwestern couple adopts what they believe is an 8-year-old girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, they slowly start to believe she may not be who she says she is. As they question her story, they’re confronted with hard questions of their own about the lengths they’re willing to go to defend themselves, falling into a battle that’s fought in the tabloids, the courtroom, and ultimately their marriage.Hulu has given the series an eight-episode order.

The stranger-than-fiction story of Ukranian-born Natalia Grace and her US adoptive parents who claimed that she was an adult “sociopath” pretending to be a child, is the inspiration for an eight-episode Hulu limited series starring and executive produced by Ellen Pompeo.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi) has joined Apple TV+’s Huey P. Newton series The Big Cigar in a recurring role. She joins an ensemble led by André Holland, which also includes Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca and Jordane Christie.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Netflix limited series “A Man in Full” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Tom Pelphrey, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill, and Chanté Adams have all joined the show opposite previously announced leads Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. Variety exclusively reported the show had received a straight-to-series order at the streamer in November 2021.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a limited series exclusively for Hulu from Steven Knight with Elisabeth Moss set to star, Variety has learned.Titled “The Veil,” the show is described as a thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.“We’re excited to continue our partnership with Steven Knight on ‘The Veil’ and thrilled to have Elisabeth Moss sign on for the lead role,” said Nick Grad, president of original programming at FX. “Steven’s scripts are riveting and no doubt will showcase Elisabeth’s exceptional talent.” Knight is writing and executive producing “The Veil,” with Moss executive producing under her Love & Squalor Pictures banner.

FX has ordered The Veil, a new limited series thriller for Hulu from Steven Knight and starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale). 

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime will not be picking up a second season of one-hour drama anthology series The First Lady. The star-studded Season 1 of the anthology, set in the East Wing of the White House and focused on telling the stories of America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies, centered on Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), with Davis also serving as executive producer.

Pedro Pascal and David Harbour are TV mainstays in their respective right. Pascal’s third season as the star of the hit Disney+ show “The Mandalorian” premieres early next year.

Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal are reteaming to star in and produce the upcoming Spanish-language Hulu limited series “La Máquina,” from Searchlight Television. “La Máquina,” which got a straight-to-series order, follows an aging boxer (Bernal) whose crafty manager (Luna) secures him one last shot at a title.

When Kate Winslet and HBO work together, great things happen. Just look at “Mildred Pierce” and “Mare Of Easttown” and their respective success at the Emmys for proof.

Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) and David Harbour (“Stranger Things”) will star in HBO’s upcoming limited series “My Dentist’s Murder Trial.” The series, which is currently in development, is based on the true story of Dr. Gilberto Nunez’s indictment in the death of his friend Thomas Kolman.

HBO is developing My Dentist’s Murder Trial, a limited series, starring and executive produced by David Harbour (Stranger Things) and Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, The Last of Us).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPedro Pascal and David Harbour at set to star together in the limited series “My Dentist’s Murder Trial” currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned.The series is inspired by the James Lasdun New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.” The article told the true story of how Dr. Gilberto Nunez was indicted for the death of his friend, Thomas Kolman.Both Pascal and Harbour will executive produce in addition to starring.