Walker, Texas Ranger Reboot: Premiere Date, Spoilers, Casting, and More About Jared Padalecki's New CW Series

Gina Torres is headed to the Lone Star state. The former “Suits” actress, for which she starred alongside Meghan Markle for seven seasons as Jessica Pearson, will join the cast of the hit FOX show “9-1-1: Lone Star” as a series regular and will reunite with showrunner Tim Minear whom Torres worked with on the sci-fi classic “Firefly” in 2002.

 Supernatural will be coming to an end in 2020, but at least Jared Padalecki will still be showing up on The CW every week! Padalecki has been cast as the lead in the network's upcoming Walker, Texas Ranger reboot — Walker-- and we can hardly wait to see this reimagining of an old classic.Obviously, no one will be able to recreate the pure magic that was the beloved Chuck Norris original series, but Padalecki is certainly going to try.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmVerve has signed David Blue Garcia, the Emmy-winning director and DP who just took over directing Legendary’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. As Deadline revealed, Garcia was set for the film after the original helmers exited over creative differences about the first week of shooting.

Rachael Leigh Cook still has fond memories from her experience working alongside the late Paul Walker in She’s All That.“Paul’s an excellent actor. People don’t say that enough, because they’re sort of blinded by how just absurdly attractive he was,” Cook, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, August 24, while promoting her new film Love, Guaranteed.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorMajor League Baseball’s scheduled Oakland A’s-Texas Rangers game will not be played Thursday after players on both teams agreed to sit out to protest this past weekend’s police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI.The decision by players on the AL West rivals makes it the fourth MLB game to be postponed in the wake of boycotts by players in several pro sports leagues beginning Wednesday.

circumvent that restriction — including by having candidates post clip reels to YouTube, or having party campaign committees post opposition research to public websites.

Power Trip, has died, aged 34.His death was confirmed by his family, who said he passed away yesterday (August 25). Gale’s cause of death currently remains unknown.“It is with the greatest of sadness we must announce that our lead singer and brother Riley Gale passed away last night,” Riley’s family wrote in a statement posted to Power Trip’s social media.“Riley was a friend, a brother, a son.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLegendary has overhauled production on “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” parting ways with directors Ryan and Andy Tohill over creative differences and hiring David Blue Garcia to directThe departure of twin brothers the Tohills from the reboot came a week into production in Bulgaria. Texas-based Garcia, who made his feature directorial debut with 2018’s “Tejano,” will start the production over from scratch.

Texas is pretty well known for its chainsaw massacres. Over the decades, there have been quite a few of them caught on film, all beginning with the classic Tobe Hooper film from 1974.

Candyman director Nia DaCosta has teamed with Locke & Key writer Aron Eli Coleite on a new horror podcast for QCode. The duo have co-created Ghost Tape, a story about a new Army recruit on a remote Texas base.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: A week into production and there has been major behind-the-scenes bloodletting on Legendary’s sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Directors Andy & Ryan Tohill have exited a film that was a week into production in Bulgaria over some creative differences.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorKiersey Clemons (Antebellum) is set to star in and executive-produce serialized horror podcast Ghost Tape from LA audio firm QCode.Set to be released this October, the series is co-created by Aron Eli Coleite (Locke & Key) and Nia DaCosta (Candyman). Additional casting is underway.The show will follow new recruit Tessa Dixon at a remote army base in Texas as she deals with the psychological and physical trauma of basic training.

announced in July that Smith would be joining the network, after 23 years at Fox News.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilmRise, the New York-based film and TV distribution company and streaming network, has acquired Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely social justice documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.

Supernaturalpoised to return to the CW this fall, it won't be long before the Winchesters are back on our screens! While we're not looking forward to saying goodbye to our favorite demon-hunting brothers, we can't wait to see what these remaining episodes have in store. Season 15 has already delivered some truly memorable moments like Christian Kane dropping by for a rowdy time in Texas, Rowena (Ruth Connell) ascending to hell's throne, the Doppel-Winchesters and Jack (Alexander Calvert)

A Texas-based events company has sued 2 Chainz over allegations that he screwed up a show he was meant to headline in 2018 by double-booking himself and then showing up just as the venue was closing.According to a lawsuit filed last week, Sultan Productions paid 2 Chainz and his touring company a $125,000 advance ahead of the September 2018 gig, also covering production costs and paying two support acts.The events firm actually noticed before the day of the show that the rapper seemed to have