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Chicago Med has picked up two new season regulars for the upcoming Season 10. Sarah Ramos (The Bear) and Darren Barnet (Anyone But You) have signed onto the popular medical drama as Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Dr. John Frost, respectively.

With the news that they were joining the team, both actors had something to say about their new career journey.

Sarah Ramos Joins Chicago Med

Sarah Ramos started as a child actor, and one of her earliest roles came as Patty Pryor in the NBC series American Dreams when she was 11. She moved on to Parenthood in 2009 and also appeared in The Affair, Midnight, Texas, and The Bear on Hulu.

Darren Barnet in Anyone But You | YouTube

Sarah seems excited about the new role, as she posted something on her Instagram Stories about her casting, with a link to a news article about it. While she has been busy playing Jessica,...

“Chicago Med” is adding two new series regulars for Season 10.

Sarah Ramos and Darren Barnet have both been cast in the NBC medical drama, with Ramos set to play Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Barnet to play Dr. John Frost. They will appear alongside cast members S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Marlyne Barrett, Jessy Schram, Steven Weber, and Luke Mitchell.

Ramos was recently seen in the hit FX series “The Bear.” She is also known for starring in shows like “Parenthood,” “Midnight, Texas,” and “Winning Time.” In 2017, she wrote, starred in, and directed the web series “City Girl,” based on a screenplay she wrote when she was 12. In film, Ramos has been in productions such as “Babylon,” “The Boy Downstairs,” and “Ask for Jane.”

She is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham.

Barnet is best known for his role in the Netflix series “Never Have I Ever,” which aired...

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a drama series based on the comic book “El Gato Negro” by Richard Dominguez, Variety has learned.

The series, currently titled “El Gato,” will be shot in both English and Spanish. Diego Boneta is attached to star, with Eric Carrasco adapting the comic book for the screen.

“Sharing ‘El Gato’ with audiences around the world is a dream come true,” says Boneta. “This has been a passion of mine since I started Three Amigos. Eric Carrasco and the entire team have built a character and universe that honors the super hero genre and still feels completely epic and original. It is an absolute honor to play Frank and produce this with my amazing partners at Amazon, MGM, and all other producers on this epic story. Get ready for a wild ride.”

In the series, Boneta will star as Frank Guerrero. The official description states that...

Legendary country star Dolly Parton was an uncredited executive producer on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, as the show came from her production company Sandollar Productions, which she co-founded with her former manager, Sandy Gallin. So if there’s anyone who should have an idea of what’s going on with the Buffy reboot that was announced some years back, it’s Dolly – and she said it’s still in the works.

Five and a half years have gone by since it was announced that a reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was in development with Monica Owusu-Breen, co-creator of the TV show Midnight, Texas, writing, executive producing, and serving as showrunner. It was said that the new show would be “contemporary, building on the mythology of the original”. A year and a half ago, Owusu-Breen’s fellow executive producer Gail Berman said the project was “on pause...

Friends was and is a blessing to so many people around the world. And so was Matthew Perry.

The alchemy of brilliant writing, a stellar cast, voice-of-a-generation twentysomethings, and hilarity and emotionality in abundance, made it a wonderful series in 1994 — and unbeknown to all of us, were the ingredients to continue to impact generations almost 30 years after that. As the head of comedy development at Warner Bros. Television at that time, it’s definitely a shining star in my career.

Casting the six Friends, along with creators Marta Kauffman, David Crane and Kevin Bright, was challenging. They all had to be “stars.” The chemistry had to be believable. You just had to love them. And no one was more elusive than Chandler.

We had happily cast David Schwimmer (Ross), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Courteney Cox (Monica) and Matt LeBlanc (Joey), and we had two roles to go just days before we started production on the pilot.

Exclusive: Actress Arielle Kebbel, known for roles in The Vampire Diaries and John Tucker Must Die, has signed with Independent Artist Group.

Kebbel is perhaps most familiar to television audiences given her role on the aforementioned CW show, in which she played the charismatic and wise-beyond-her-300 years vampire, Lexi Branson. Previously, she’s held prominent roles on HBO’s Ballers opposite Dwayne Johnson, as well as the NBC series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector and Midnight, Texas. The actress has also been seen on shows like UnREAL, Gilmore Girls, Grand Hotel, Life Unexpected, Grounded for Life, The League, The Grinder, and 90210, among others.

On the big screen, Kebbel has recently been seen in the final three installments of the popular After series of YA romantic dramas, based on the novels by Anna Todd: After We Fell, After Ever Happy, and After Everything. She also starred in Fifty...

Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment announced it has acquired worldwide rights and will be launching sales on the sci-fi thriller Site at the upcoming American Film Market in November. The gripping and thought-provoking film is written and directed by the award-winning Jason Eric Perlman, who was recently named #4 in LA Weekly’s “Top 10 Entertainment Professionals to Watch in 2023.” His debut feature Threshold was released by Sony Pictures after a decorated festival run in 2017.

Blue Fox Entertainment is handling worldwide sales and will preview first look footage of the film for buyers at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM). Blue Fox Entertainment’s US distribution division is planning a theatrical release for the film.

The film stars Jake McLaughlin, Arielle Kebbel, Theo Rossi, and Miki Ishikawa, and Yoson An.

In Site, Neil (Jake McLaughlin) experiences an inexplicable time distortion in an abandoned military test site while inspecting it with his business partner Garrison (Theo Rossi). Soon, Neil is having repeated traumatic flashes back to a WWII prison camp in China called Unit 731, which somehow holds the thread to his own unraveling present. Neil begins to realize that the past lives and events in this place of unspeakable brutality seem to mirror his own trauma with his son Wiley and his wife Elena (Arielle Kebbel). Desperate for answers, Neil enlists Naomi (Miki Ishikawa) to help him find the facility’s last surviving scientist. Ultimately, Neil awakens to a new redemptive responsibility, both within his own family and the greater society around him.

Site is produced by publicist and entrepreneur Benjamin Cooke, Sundance alum, Kelly Hayes, international businesswoman, Yvonne Supangkat, and Jason Eric Perlman.

Blue Fox Entertainment’s James Huntsman said, “Audiences are hungry for high quality science fiction thrillers, which have been scarce in the market recently. With Site, Jason and his talented cast and crew have created an exciting journey that has something relevant to say beneath the surface of the film.”

Director Jason Eric Perlman said, “We are thrilled to have this film beginning its journey in the viewing world. In this time of such unthinkable conflicts I believe it’s vital that creativity explores the interconnectedness of mankind, as well as the atrocities we are capable of inflicting upon one another. Site is intent upon doing both, but with the philosophical imperative that if we ignore history, or the darkness within each of us, we are doomed to repeat the same traumas over and over.

It has been an honor to work with our incredibly talented cast in bringing this story to life, and their commitment to the material elevates it to a remarkable plane. Our visionary crew is also to be credited with what I believe we’ve achieved. The cinematography of Eunah Lee and the brilliant production design of Gabor Norman were integral in the telling of this story to full potential. We are excited to team now with Blue Fox in launching this film into the world.”...

Pretty soon, Ben Song (played by Raymond Lee) will have more jobs than Barbie.

NBC has unveiled the full trailer for Quantum Leap’s second season, which will see the time traveler take on loads more new roles — including spy, Nazi puncher, L.A. riots observer, and an accused witch during the Salem Witch Trials.

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One of the best genre shows is adding cast members from two other genre greats.

According to Variety, Eliza Taylor (The 100) and Peter Gadiot are joining the cast of the NBC drama series.

Taylor will play Hannah Carson, "a complex young woman who may be more than she appears," and will be introduced on Quantum Leap Season 2 Episode 3.

Gadiot will play U.S. Army Officer Tom Westfall, who is a former special forces and will oversee the next phase of the Quantum Leap project.

Tom is described as "thoughtful," "centered," and "a spiritual kind of warrior who both men and women admire, but whose humility keeps him from ever being arrogant."

Yes, we are so here for this casting news.

Quantum Leap is one of few TV shows returning in the fall as planned, thanks to NBC getting the show into production earlier due to the risk of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

NBC is going to have some original scripted series as part of its fall 2023 schedule (even with the ongoing writers and actors strikes), and among them is Quantum Leap, returning for its second season in October. As part of its panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the drama unveiled the first eight minutes of the premiere, which included some guest stars TV (and NBC) fans might recognize. The opening of Quantum Leap Season 2 shows what executive producer Martin Gero told TV Insider after the Season 1 finale in April: that Ben, while he does have his memories back, does not return home. Rather, his next leap takes him somewhere over Russia in 1978, on a plane, and the others on board are played by Melissa Roxburgh (Manifest), François Arnaud (Midnight Texas), Aaron Abrams (Blindspot), and P.J. Byrne (The Boys). The five of them are transporting some sort of artifact (shipped out of Germany...

Melissa Roxburgh will make the leap from Manifest to Quantum Leap.

During Quantum Leap’s panel Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, NBC announced that Roxburgh will guest-star in the sci-fi drama’s Season 2 premiere, set for Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 9/8c.

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Francois Arnaud (Midnight Texas), Aaron Abrams (Hannibal,...

Evan Jones has signed with Buchwald for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, Jones has landed a recurring guest star role in the upcoming HBO Max crime drama series “Duster” from J.J. Abrams and Latoya Morgan. Jones will continue to be represented by Artists First and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

Jones is best known for his roles in films like “8 Mile,” in which he played Cheddar Bob, and “Jarhead,” in which he played Fowler. Jones’ other notable film roles include “Den of Thieves,” “The Book of Eli,” “Guardians of the Galaxy 2,” “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” “Shot Caller,” and “Hotel Artemis.”

In television, Jones has appeared in shows like “October Road,” “Houdini,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Midnight, Texas,” and “CSI: Cyber.”

“Duster” was picked up to series at HBO Max in February. The eight-episode series is set in 1972. Per the official logline, “the first Black female...

Exclusive: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Reid Scott and François Arnaud are set as the male leads opposite Sarah Shahi in Judgement, ABC’s drama pilot from former Charmed showrunner Joey Falco and 20th Television.

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Written and executive produced by Falco, Judgement is a high-stakes legal soap that redefines the genre by playing out over two timelines. Fifteen years from now, a woman (Shahi) being vetted for a Supreme Court seat recounts her experience at a prominent D.C. law firm in 2023, where the only thing more controversial than the cases was her messy love life,...

Sex/Life won’t leave you hanging for much longer.

Netflix announced Thursday that the steamy series starring Sarah Shahi will return for Season 2on Thursday, March 2. Season 1 was released back in June 2021.

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The streamer also unveiled a new teaser, which you can check out above,...

Fantastical elements have been part of television since 1964's "Bewitched" and 1965's "I Dream of Jeannie. In the following decades, the genre's popularity has only grown, moving beyond family-friendly sitcoms. The '90s brought us "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." The 2000s ushered in the massive cultural phenomenon of "Lost." The world of fantasy television is wonderfully expansive, featuring some of the most critically-acclaimed television -- from philosophical comedies like "The Good Place" to time travel romantic dramas like "Outlander," to high fantasy tales of intrigue and betrayal like "House of the Dragon." For every beloved series, there's a critically-panned fantasy flop. Every "Game of Thrones" season 1, there's a "Game of Thrones" season 8. 

But the reviews are not the end all be all of a show's enjoyability. After all, art is subjective. Sometimes media that didn't work for critics can still be a great time. Even if a show was not well-received on its release,...

The second season of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” will premiere on March 24, 2023 – with a third season already ordered – and Variety reports that three new faces have joined the cast.

François Arnaud, Nicole Maines, and Nia Sondaya (“Truth Be Told”) have been added in recurring roles.

Arnaud will guest star in four episodes as Paul, described as “a New York writer and secret boyfriend of Coach Scott (Steven Kreuger) who reminds Coach Scott of what might have been.”

Maines will play Lisa, an associate of Adult Lottie (Simone Kissell), who is trying to recover from past trauma. Sondaya is set to take over the role of teen Akilah, with Keeya King exiting the series.

The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.”

“Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players...

Nicole Maines (“Supergirl”), François Arnaud (“The Borgias”) and Nia Sondaya (“Truth Be Told”) have been added to Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” Season 2 in recurring roles.

They join Emmy nominee and Critics Choice Award winner Melanie Lynskey, Oscar and Emmy nominee Juliette Lewis, Emmy nominee Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress. Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”) have also joined the second season as series regulars, along with Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) in a season-long guest arc.

Sondaya has been tapped to step into the role of Teen Akilah in a recasting, with Keeya King exiting the series.

Sondaya has also been featured in recurring roles on “Bel Air,” “Truth Be Told,” and has also starred as a lead in the short film “Heart Shot.” She is repped by Unified Management and Greene & Associates Talent Agency.

Maines will portray Lisa, an associate of Adult Lottie (Simone Kissell...

Now available beginning today from XYZ Films is the one-take, real-time thriller Dash, and we’re here to whet your appetite with an exclusive clip from the brand new rideshare movie.

“The crime-filled streets of Hollywood come alive as you’ve never seen them before in a groundbreaking, one-take thriller following a rideshare driver who leads a double life.”

Dash follows Milly, your everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including: a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z’ers, and even an off-duty police officer.

His attempt to illegally fund his sinful actions takes a literal turn for the worse when he picks up a drug addict going through severe withdrawal. Desperately trying to take his nefarious, double-life to the grave,...

Presence: "XYZ Films is proud to announce that Christian Schultz's Presence will land on North American VOD on November 17th, following a thrilling festival run that included Popcorn Frights and Panic Fest.

After leaving New York after a mental breakdown, Jennifer (The Kominsky Method's Jenna Lyng Adams) is contacted by her best friend about good news concerning their joint business venture. Within the hour, Jennifer is boarding a private plane and walking down the dock to a billionaire’s private yacht.

All seems well, except that Jennifer is plagued by violent, unsettling visions. Is her unchecked anxiety attempting to self-sabotage her once again... or has a sinister presence latched onto her?

Directed by Christian Schultz from a screenplay co-written with Peter Ambrosio, the film is produced by Donny Broussard, Thomas Johnston, Isaiah Laborde, Murray Anthony Roth, and John Paul Summers. The ALLaBorde Films production stars Jenna Lyng Adams (The...

Exclusive: Peacock is developing St. Donatus, a supernatural mystery drama from Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based. Richard Shepard will direct in his latest collaboration with Charmelo and Snyder after Ringer and The Perfection.

Written by Charmelo and Snyder, St. Donatus is about a small town in Iowa with a dark secret. An unwitting family, relocating from Brooklyn, moved into a newly-renovated farmhouse on the outskirts of town. When the family starts experiencing unsettling occurrences, it brings them closer to the town’s secret… and the very thing trapped in their cellar.

Charmelo and Snyder executive produce with Hayes, Milliner and Shepard. Universal TV, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Charmelo and Snyder created and executive produced drama series Ringer for CBS/The CW starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Shepard also...

Netflix has nixed its Grendel comic book adaptation, one year after granting it an eight-episode series order.

Hailing from Supernatural co-showrunner Andrew Dabb and starring Abubakr Ali (Katy Keene) as the masked vigilante from the award-winning Matt Wagner/Dark Horse comic books, the series was to follow Hunter Rose, a gifted fencer, writer and assassin who, in seeking to avenge the death of a lost love, goes to war with New York’s criminal underworld. Except then he realizes, “Why beat them, when you can join them?”

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Four years have passed since it was announced that a reboot of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series was in the works with Monica Owusu-Breen, co-creator of the TV show Midnight, Texas, writing, executive producing, and serving as showrunner. And since four years have gone by without any further word on the reboot, a lot of fans have probably forgotten that announcement had even happened. (I sure did.) So it’s no surprise to hear from Owusu-Breen’s fellow executive producer Gail Berman (via TV Line) that the reboot is “on pause”.

After the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot was announced, Owusu-Breen sent out the following statement:

For some genre writers it’s Star Wars.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my Star Wars.

Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons, I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love. I watched her fight,...

François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Joshua Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut.

The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn.

Adams is best known for playing college dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network’s Suits between 2011 and 2019, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He recently made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony-nominated revival of Take Me Out and starred as original Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff.

Vanasse is an award-winning actress who starred as Detective Lise Delorme in CTV’s drama Cardinal between 2017 and 2020, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and...

Exclusive: Jake McLaughlin (Quantico), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy), Miki Ishikawa (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Arielle Kebbel (9-1-1) will lead the cast of the sci-fi thriller Site, which Jason Eric Perlman (Threshold) is directing for the newly-formed shingle Entelekey Media, from his original script.

The film currently in production in North Carolina centers on Neil Bardo (McLaughlin), a commercial real estate inspector and committed family man who accidentally injures his only son. To keep his marriage to Elena (Kebbel) intact while facing crushing medical costs, Neil begs for additional shifts from his mercenary boss, Garrison (Rossi). While inspecting an abandoned government facility, he’s confronted by nightmarish visions that now begin infiltrating his waking life. Desperate for answers, Neil enlists the help of ex-girlfriend turned journalist Naomi (Ishikawa). And together they unravel the mystery of the covert government site and its soul-bending experiments.

Site‘s producers...

Apple TV+ has cooked up another psychological thrill ride for us — and it’s starting soon.

Surface, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki, The Morning Show), will premiere Friday, July 29 on the streamer, TVLine has learned. The premiere will include the first three episodes, with additional episodes debuting each Friday after that.

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Mbatha-Raw plays Sophie, a woman who suffered a serious head injury that left her with significant memory loss.

Former “One Life to Live” star Josh Kelly is returning to daytime TV as a series regular on “General Hospital,” TheWrap has confirmed.

There are no details about his character, but he will first appear on the daytime soap at the end of the month.

Kelly played Cutter Wentworth on “One Life to Live” from 2010 to 2013. The soap, which was set in the fictional city of Llanview, Pennsylvania, ran on ABC from 1958 to 2012 and had a short-lived stint on Hulu before being canceled in 2013.

“General Hospital,” which is set in the fictional town of Port Charles, has welcomed several “One Life to Live” alums over the years, including Roger Howarth.

He also played Jeremy Carter on Lifetime’s “UnREAL,” Robbie on the Jimmy Smits-led “Bluff City Law” and Walker Chisum on Peacock’s supernatural series “Midnight, Texas.” He has also guest-starred on “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Army Wives” and “Rizzoli & Isles.

A follow-up to “Six Feet Under” is in very early development at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

At this time, no writer is attached to the project. Likewise, no plotline has been decided, meaning it could be a reboot or more of a sequel series following up on existing characters from the show in the present day, but no decision has been made. Original series creator Alan Ball and executive producers Bob Greenblatt and David Janollari are all attached to executive produce the new project.

Reps for HBO declined to comment. Reps for Ball did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment.

“Six Feet Under” aired on from 2001-2005 for five seasons and 63 episodes. The show followed the lives of the Fisher family and their associates in the running of a funeral home in Los Angeles.

The cast included Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy,...

Exclusive: Jasmine Cephas Jones has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

Jones is most famously recognized for her dual portrayal of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton. She reprised the roles in the feature film adaptation of the stage play for Disney+. Her contributions to the play’s soundtrack in 2016 earned the cast a group Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Jones was also honored with a 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama for her portrayal of Tyisha in Quibi’s #FreeRayshawn.

She currently produces and stars in the Starz series Blindspotting, reprising the role of Ashley Rose from the 2018 film of the same name. She will return for the dramedy’s sophomore season in 2022.

Other notable big-screen credits include roles in Monsters and Men, Marriage Story, The Photograph, and Honest Thief; and on TV in Mrs. Fletcher,...

The fifth and final season of “The Bold Type” will premiere on May 26 at 10 p.m., Freeform announced Thursday.

The fourth season left Kat, Jane and Sutton at their limits both personally and professionally at Scarlet Magazine. The final six episodes of the series will celebrate the trio’s journey into becoming who they were each meant to be. The series stars Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy, Stephen Conrad Moore and Melora Hardin. Nikohl Boosheri will recur as fan-favorite character Adena El-Amin, and Carson Kressley will guest star as himself in the season premiere. The series is executive produced by Wendy Straker Hauser, Matt McGuinness, David Bernad, Joanna Coles, Brian Madden, Ruben Fleischer and Sandrine Gros d’Aillon.

Also in today’s TV news roundup, Marissa Cuevas joined the cast of the CW’s “Kung Fu.” She will play Nadia, the smart, feisty, charming personal assistant of Evan’s boss who sees and hears everything.

Fox’s Denis Leary comedy “The Moodys” was initially designed as a holiday series, but when the show returns for Season 2 next month, don’t expect a Christmas tree.

“We wanted to be able to do episodes throughout the year, and we didn’t want to have to be creatively tied to Christmas every time,” co-showrunner Bob Fisher said at a Television Critics Association panel for Season 2 on Wednesday. “We’re not saying we’ll never do the holidays, but we wanted to be able to just do different kinds of stories throughout the year.”

The family comedy premiered in 2019 as a six-episode “event series” as part of Fox’s holiday slate. The series was an adaptation of the Australian series of the same name, which followed the Moody family across a series of Christmases before expanding to other holidays and important family events.

“We liked these characters, we liked...

Exclusive: Midnight, Texas alumna Parisa Fitz-Henley is set to headline Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from longtime Criminal Minds showrunner Erica Messer, Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu and writer David Cornue.

Created by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.

Fitz-Henley will play the character in all three time frames.

Ambitious and warm with a great sense of humor, Dr. Finley Briar is a brilliant trauma surgeon who can think 15 moves ahead in the surgical chess match against time. Sometimes her amazing medical judgment gets her into trouble, bypassing hospital protocol in favor of the quickest path to saving a life. In...

Stumptown Season 2 may have been officially on ABC’s fall schedule, but, in a shocking turn of events, it appears that the network has reneged on its renewal, due to coronavirus concerns.

ABC has retroactively canceled freshman crime series Stumptown months after its May renewal for a second season. The news, which arrives via Deadline, proves that the show’s Season 2 prospects were short-lived, thanks to the pandemic, which delayed the Portland-set show’s start in its production home of Los Angeles. Consequently, with the aforementioned renewal having hinged on the now-impossible notion of the series being ready to air in the fall to help kick off ABC’s 2020-2021 season, Covid-caused circumstances have ended its ABC run altogether. However, the subsidiary studio behind the show, ABC Signature, will shop the series around, meaning that Stumptown Season 2 could eventually manifest on another network or even a streaming platform.

An adaptation...

The series spinoff of “Blindspotting” has been officially ordered at Starz.

As Variety exclusively reported last October, the half-hour dramedy will see Jasmine Cephas Jones reprise her role as Ashley from the film. Ashley was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles (Rafael Casal), her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.

The film’s writers, producers, and stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal will also write and executive produce the series. Casal will serve as showrunner in addition to playing the recurring role of Miles. Jones will serve as producer in addition to starring.

“Let us put you up on game, bruh,” Casal and Diggs said in a joint statement. “No description will encompass the complexity of a ‘Blindspotting’ series,...

Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen has joined ABC’s Stumptown as executive producer for the second season. The drama series, inspired by Greg Rucka’s Stumptown graphic novel series, hails from Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer and ABC Studios.

The announcement comes ahead of Stumptown’s Comic-Con@Home panel at 4 p.m. Pt, featuring stars Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson and Michael Ealy and EPs Owusu-Breen, Richman, Fleischer, David Bernad and Rucka. The series was renewed for Season 2 in May.

Written by Richman, Stumptown follows Dex Parios (Smulders), a strong, assertive and sharp-witted veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Her military intelligence skills make her a great Pi, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police.

Johnson stars as Grey McConnell, Ealy as Detective Miles Hoffman, along...

There’s a new sheriff in Stumptown.

Ahead of its second season, the ABC drama has added Monica Owusu-Breen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fringe) as its new co-showrunner, TVLine has confirmed.

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Owusu-Breen, who will also serve as an executive producer on the show, will oversee the series with creator Jason Richman.

Peacock has picked up Departure, the Canadian drama starring The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer, ahead of the service’s nationwide launch Wednesday.

The NBCU streamer has acquired the rights to the drama, which was originally commissioned by Canada’s Global. The company already has rights to the six-part thriller in a number of international territories including the UK.

The show stars Panjabi as investigator Kendra Malley, who alongside her mentor, played by Knives Out star Plummer, are brought on to search for missing passenger plane Flight 716. When battling forces threaten to undermine their work, Kendra must find the truth and stop it from happening again.

The series also stars Kris Holden-Reid (Umbrella Academy), Rebecca Liddiard (Run This Town), Tamara Duarte (Longmire), Mark Rendall (Versailles), Peter Mensah and Sasha Roiz (Suits).

Created by Vince Shiao, it is produced by Shaftesbury and Greenpoint Productions in association...

The wait is almost over, “A.P. Bio” fans. On Tuesday, Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, revealed the premiere date for Season 3 of the Glenn Howerton-led comedy, which was originally canceled at NBC last May and then picked up by Peacock the following month.

The third season of “A.P. Bio” will launch Sept. 3 on Peacock, according to the streaming service, which rolls out nationwide Wednesday. Other upcoming Peacock original series that received debut dates from the platform today include “Departure,” a Canadian-British drama starring Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer, which will premiere Sept. 17, Australian comedy “Five Bedrooms” (Aug. 13) and the Sky Studios-produced “Hitmen” (Aug. 6).

While you still have to wait a little while for these series to drop, Peacock is launching in full tomorrow with originals “Brave New World,” “The Capture,” “Intelligence,” “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” “Where’s Waldo?,” “Cleopatra In Space” and ”Curious George,” along with an extensive lineup of library content.

For A.P. Bio, at least, school will definitely be back in session this fall.

Ahead of Peacock‘s national July 15 launch, the streaming service has announced that Season 3 of A.P. Bio — which it plucked from the ashes almost exactly a year ago — will premiere Thursday, Sept. 3 (releasing all eight episodes at once, binge-style).

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Possibly more than we realize, many TV shows are based on books.

Often the same books get readapted over and over again as new TV shows -- think of how many TV series Sherlock Holmes alone spawned.

It's a good thing because far too often the TV adaptation can't measure up to the books, isn't given enough time to find an audience, or could benefit from an update.

Based on George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire series, Game of Thrones was a mega-hit but ended its run as one of TV's greatest disappointments.

Why did the series crash and burn like King's Landing on Game of Throne Season 8 Episode 5?

In general, the more faithful Game of Thrones was to the books, the better the TV series was. You can easily see this from the unevenness of Game of Thrones Season 2.

Tyrion's storyline as the acting Hand...

There’s a ridiculous amount of TV content out there waiting to be streamed during your downtime — and a lot of it won’t cost you one shiny penny.

TVLine already offers a premium streaming guide, which delivers a rundown of subscription rates, original series and select library content offered by established, new and forthcoming streamers. We also publish a monthly list of TV shows and movies coming and going on Netflix.

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Profiling serial killers can be a total mind… game.

The new poster for NBC’s upcoming Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector — which you can see exclusively below — illustrates how New York police detective Rhyme (Grimm‘s Russell Hornsby) uses his wits to run down the bad guys (given that he can’t, y’know, actually run down the bad guys).

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Exclusive: Francois Arnaud is set as a series regular opposite Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins in The Moodys (fka A Moody Christmas), Fox’s half-hour holiday event series adaptation of the Australian series. Slated to air in December, the single-camera comedy series hails from CBS TV Studios, which will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

Written by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg and Tad Quill, the six-episode The Moodys revolves around the Moodys, including Sean Sr. (Leary), his wife Ann (Perkins), their three grown children and an assorted mix of extended family members who gather for the holidays, with each packing his/her own eccentricities and complications.

Arnaud will play Dan. He is the youngest Moody kid, the creative one, also a neurotic romantic. Brimming with potential and a graduate of Northwestern, Dan is a freelance photographer, currently working as an assistant on a catalog shoot. He might be...

Starz is developing a series spinoff of the Lionsgate film “Blindspotting,” Variety has learned exclusively.

In addition, Jasmine Cephas Jones has been cast in the lead role, reprising the role of Ashley from the film. The series centers on Ashley, who was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister. Her world is turned upside down while the neighborhood goes inside out, and she must renegotiate her relationship with a town that is caught between two conflicting identities.

The Lionsgate TV project will be a half-hour dramedy with Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs attached to write and executive produce. Casal and Diggs starred in the film in addition to writing and producing it.

Exclusive: NBC has put in development Brain Trust, a drama from Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, Neil Meron and Universal Television, where Charmelo and Snyder are under an overall deal.

Written by Charmelo, Snyder and Katie Lunskis, Brain Trust asks what would you do if you could project your mind into another person’s body? What if you could experience the life of anyone you wanted? The Brain Trust centers on a group of young grad students who have developed cutting-edge technology to do just that, but they soon will learn that everything has consequences — some darker than they could have ever imagined.

Charmelo and Snyder executive produce with Meron, Lane Shefter Bishop (The Duff), and Meron’s producing partner Mark Nicholson. Lunskis serves as a producer. Universal TV is the studio.

Charmelo and Snyder created and executive...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ringer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar is eying a return to primetime. Gellar has reteamed with Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder for dramedy Other People’s Houses, which has been set at Fox for development. Gellar will star and executive produce the project, based on the book by Abbi Waxman. It hails from Neil Meron (Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert) and Universal Television, where Charmelo & Snyder and Meron have overall deals, with Fox Entertainment co-producing.

Written by Charmelo and Snyder, Other People’s Houses, which has a script commitment, is described as a suburban dramedy, somewhere between Big Little Lies and Catastrophe. It is the story of nine people… living on a bucolic street… in the quiet, affluent neighborhood of Larchmont Village in Los Angeles. Using the lens of social media, our characters navigate their way through emotional ups and downs, as they...

Exclusive: Jaime Ray Newman (The Punisher) is set for a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu’s upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng’s bestselling book.

Developed and written by Casual‘s Liz Tigelaar, the series hails from Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Washington’s Simpson Street and ABC Signature Studios. Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

Newman will play Elizabeth, a gynecologist who works for Planned Parenthood, was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and attended East Shaker High School with Elena (Witherspoon) and Linda (Dewitt). But unlike Elena and Linda,...

Keep stocking up on tissues, Pearson family fans, because it looks like you’re going to be with the NBC drama’s clan for the foreseeable future, as “This Is Us” has been renewed for a fourth, fifth and sixth season. Each season will consist of 18 episodes.

“In a television landscape with nearly 500 original scripted series, there are very few, if any, that have the critical and cultural impact of ‘This Is Us’ and we couldn’t be more proud to bring fans three more seasons of a show that so well represents the NBC brand,” Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, presidents of scripted programming at NBC Entertainment, said Sunday of the network’s unprecedented three-season renewal. “A huge thank you and congratulations to our executive producers, cast and crew who reach new heights every week with the show’s inventive and compelling storytelling.”

It took NBC some time to...

NBC revealed its fall 2019-20 schedule on Sunday, giving Jimmy Smits’ legal drama “Bluff City Law” the coveted post-“Voice” slot on Mondays, while leaving many other nights intact from last year.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays remain unchanged, with “This Is Us” — fresh off a massive three-season renewal — to again lead into “New Amsterdam,” with “The Voice” kicking things off at 8 p.m. Wednesdays will also remain the same with Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise.

On Thursdays, new comedies “Perfect Harmony” with Bradley Whitford, and Kal Penn’s “Sunnyside” will join veterans “Superstore” and “The Good Place.” “Superstore” will lead into “Perfect Harmony” while “Sunnyside” will air after “Good Place” at 9:30 p.m. At 10 p.m. “Law & Order: Svu” returns for its record-breaking 21st season.

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Updated May 10 at 11:47 a.m. with “Speechless” canceled by ABC.

It’s that time of year again! As the broadcast networks consider new series for their fall slates ahead of their upfront presentations to advertisers next week, they’ve also begun to winnow down which current shows will return next season and which will come to an end.

Below is every scripted (and a few unscripted) show that ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and The CW have renewed or canceled so far, along with those still awaiting their fates for the 2019-20 slate. We’ve also included descriptions of the new shows that have been picked up so far.

Check back throughout the week for updates. You can read our pilot guide to see what projects may soon be ordered to series here.

Aside from the monumental and well-deserved rise of Adam Driver, Allison Williams is on track to become the core “Girls” cast member with the second most interesting career. Not only did her pivotal role in “Get Out” launch her into proper movie stardom, but it seems to have sparked a real love of genre in the actress, a role fans are eager to watch her fulfill. Williams is doubling down on horror with her newest project for Netflix, a thriller set in the cutthroat world of classical musicians. Even the title, “The Perfection,” hints at a Type A character obsessed with success for which Williams seems almost poetically suited.

According to Netflix, “The Perfection” is “overflowing with dizzying horror and sly dark humor.” The synopsis promises “an elegant and terrifying suspense ride filled with unexpected twists and turns. When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (Williams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the...