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[07/11/25 - 11:27 PM]
Development Update: Week of July 7-11
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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ALTRUISTS, THE (Netflix) - The streamer's Sam Bankman-Fried limited series has added Eugene Young as Gary Wang; Madison Hu as Constance Wang; Karan Soni as Nishad Singh; Matt Rife as Ryan Salame; Alex Lawther as Sam Trabucco; Naomi Okadaas as Claire Watanabe; Maddie Hasson as Lauren Platt; Marianna Phung as Lily Zhang; Paul Reiser as Joe Bankman; and Robin Weigert as Barbara Fried. (Deadline.com, 7/10)
BEST MEDICINE (FOX) - Annie Potts, Josh Segarra and Abigail Spencer will star opposite Josh Charles in the upcoming drama. Potts will play Martin's (Charles) Aunt Joan, "a strong, sturdy, lobster woman who still goes out every day on her boat, and no one better tell her to stop if they know what's good for them"; with Segarra as Sheriff Mark Mylow, the lovable, open-hearted lawman who may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but knows this town like the back of his hand"; and Spencer as Louisa, "a warm, charming teacher who immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Martin, yet she’s intrigued by him." (Deadline.com, 7/10)
BLACK WIDOW (Hulu) - Quincy Tyler Bernstine has been cast in the upcoming drama as Nora, described as "a veteran FBI agent working alongside Alice (Emmy Rossum) in the department who has worked on hundreds of homicides and human trafficking cases." (Variety.com, 7/10)
BOSTON BLUE (CBS) - Mika Amonsen has joined the cast of the "Blue Bloods" spin-off as Sean Reagan. He succeeds Andrew Terraciano, who played the role on the parent series. (Deadline.com, 7/9)
BRILLIANT MINDS (NBC) - Brian Altemus and John Clarence Stewart have both joined the cast of the series' second season. Altemus will play Dr. Charlie Porter, "the new neurology resident who is guarded, competitive and hiding something from his fellow doctors. Charlie believes in winning and sees medicine not as a calling, but a sport." And Stewart is Dr. Anthony Thorne, "a mid-career ER doctor who's grown a little too comfortable with the maxim that emergency medicine is blue-collar work. Dr. Thorne is charmingly acerbic, allergic to anything or anyone too earnest, and believes helping a little for all is better than doing the most for a few, putting him in direct conflict with Dr. Wolf." (Deadline.com, 7/7)
CARELL, LAWRENCE & TARSES COMEDY SERIES (HBO) - Robby Hoffman will recur on the upcoming comedy series in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (Variety.com, 7/7)
CIA (CBS) - Warren Leight has been tapped as showrunner of the upcoming "FBI" spin-off, which has been delayed to midseason. He replaces David Hudgins, who has exited. Dick Wolf, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen, Peter Jankowski and director Eriq La Salle remain on board as executive producers. (Deadline.com, 7/11)
DEATH IN APARTMENT 603: WHAT HAPPENED TO ELLEN GREENBERG? (Hulu, New!) - The streamer has commissioned a three-part series from ABC News Studios that will investigate the death of Ellen Greenberg, "a 27-year-old teacher, was found dead on the kitchen floor of her apartment in 2011 with 20 knife wounds and 11 bruises. Her death was officially ruled a suicide but her parents have insisted she was murdered and the pathologist who ruled her death a suicide recently changed his mind." Nancy Schwartzman is the director and executive producer alongside David Sloan, Victoria Thompson, Dakota Fanning, and Elle Fanning for Lewellen Pictures, Blackfin and TFC Productions. Laura Dimon serves as producer. (Deadline.com, 7/10)
DUSTER (Max) - The drama series, starring Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson, has been canceled after one season. (Deadline.com, 7/9)
EVERY YEAR AFTER (Amazon) - Amy B. Harris has joined the Carley Fortune adaptation as showrunner. She replaces Leila Gerstein who has exited over "creative differences." (THR.com, 7/8)
EXTRA (Syndication) - Executive producer Theresa Coffino is exiting the newsmagazine after 26 years. It's understood fellow executive producer Jeremy Spiegel will remain as showrunner when the series returns for its 32nd season this fall. (Variety.com, 7/8)
FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK (Apple TV+, New!) - Regé-Jean Page is attached to star in a small screen take on Elissa Sussman's novel: "Published in 2022, Funny You Should Ask is a love story that centers on a restless young journalist with big dreams who interviews a Hollywood heartthrob - and then reunites with him ten years later to discover exactly how he feels about her." Rachel Alter is penning the project with Page, Emily Brown, Robin Schwartz, Carolyn Daucher, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner also executive producing for A Mighty Stranger Production and Tomorrow Studios. (Deadline.com, 7/8)
GOOD COP/BAD COP (The CW) - The show's freshman run will be made available this Friday, July 11 on Prime Video. (Deadline.com, 7/10)
INSIDE EDITION (Syndication) - Eva Pilgrim has been tapped as the next anchor of the newsmagazine, succeeding Deborah Norville. The series enters its 38th season this fall. (Deadline.com, 7/7)
MONOPOLY (Hulu) - Emmy winner Liza Colón-Zayas will recur on the drama pilot as Rosie, "the beloved and socially minded head of a community board in her Lower East Side city district. Rosie finds herself at the center of an explosive real estate development project that inspires as much rage as it does admiration and threatens to destroy the heavily Puerto Rican community she calls home." (Deadline.com, 7/9)
MONSTER VOLUME 4 (Netflix, New!) - The true-crime franchise from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan is nearing a fourth installment, this time telling "the story of Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts." Casting is already underway. (Deadline.com, 7/8)
MOVERS (FX, New!) - The cable channel has ordered a pilot from Robert Ben Garant and Cathy Shim billed as "an improvised workplace comedy revolving around the erratic and codependent lives of a crew of movers." Garant and Shim will also star alongside Maz Jobrani, Darius Homayoun, Tanael "TJ" Joachim, Manny Montana, and Becky Lynch. Stacey Sher, Peter Principato and Jonny Shipes are also on board to executive produce for 20th Television. (Deadline.com, 7/7)
NEIGHBOURS (Amazon) - Executive producer Jason Herbison has indicated the possibility of a second revival for the soap, which was canceled in February but will continue to stream new episodes through December. "Once again, we will be resting the residents of Ramsay Street on a hopeful note, with some tantalising possibilities for a future chapter," Herbison said in a statement announcing the end of production. "Neighbours is a special show and it's been a privilege to make the recent seasons for our loyal viewers around the world. We have added 460 episodes to our legacy of over 9000 episodes, something we all feel proud of." (Deadline.com, 7/11)
NOLA KING (Paramount+) - Dave Erickson has departed the proposed "Tulsa King" spin-off series starring Samuel L. Jackson as showrunner. Erickson still runs both "Tulsa King" and the streamer's fellow entry "Mayor of Kingstown." The search is underway for a replacement should the spin-off move forward. (Variety.com, 7/11)
OFF CAMPUS (Amazon) - Steve Howey will recur on the Elle Kennedy adaptation as Garrett's dad, Phil Graham, "a former hockey legend famous for his temper on the ice who pushes his son to be the star player he is today." (Deadline.com, 7/9)
PITT, THE (HBO Max) - Tracy Ifeachor's Heather Collins will not return for the medical drama's second season. Said report notes "that the decision was a creative one, and it was not Ifeachor's choice to leave." (TVLine.com, 7/10)
REHAB ADDICT (HGTV) - Host Nicole Curtis took to social media to confirm the series' 10th season will return despite being abruptly pulled after two episodes. (@detroitdesign, 7/8)
RJ DECKER (ABC) - Weruche Opia will star opposite Scott Speedman in the drama pilot as Shay Bennett, "the shrewd-if-unpredictable daughter of a very powerful, very corrupt state senator with ties to RJ's past." (Deadline.com, 7/11)
SCRUBS (REBOOT SERIES) (ABC) - The Alphabet has formally ordered the revival to series with Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke officially set to return and executive produce: "The new series will follow JD Dorian (Braff) and Christopher Turk (Faison), who scrub in together for the first time in a long time- medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way." Tim Hobert and Aseem Batra are the showrunners with creator Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer likewise executive producing for 20th Television and Doozer Productions. (Deadline.com, 7/10)
SHIFT, THE (Amazon, New!) - Amazon MGM Studios has optioned the book (subtitled "Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself") by Christina Najjar, also known as Tinx, for development as a romantic comedy series: "Based on the book, The Shift TV series will follow two early-thirtysomethings as they navigate love, friendship and life while dating in New York City." The search is underway for a showrunner to co-create the series with Tinx. Aaron Kaplan, Troy Zien and Dunia McNeily will also executive produce for Kapital Entertainment and 3 Arts Entertainment with Jaiden Kaplan as a co-executive producer. (Deadline.com, 7/8)
STERLING POINT (Amazon) - Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Duplass are slated to recur on the YA series as Joe and Steven, respectively. No other details were given. (Deadline.com, 7/11)
TRINITY (Netflix) - The Gugu Mbatha-Raw/Richard Madden-led drama series has added the following actors: Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret Vandenburg, "the CEO and matriarch of her family's business empire, guiding them to become a prominent family with political ties"; JD Pardo as Tom Reyes, "a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy"; James Remar as President Paul Barnard; Robert Wisdom as Admiral Griff Tatum; Bruce Greenwood as Special Agent Eric Colby; Kirk Acevedo as Captain Jock Campbell; Ben Cotton as Special Agent Jake Ryan; Jason Ralph as Brooks Vandenburg; and Mark O'Brien as Dr. Brian York. (Deadline.com, 7/11)
UNTITLED YELLOWSTONE SPIN-OFF PROJECT (Paramount+) - Finn Little will reprise his "Yellowstone" character, Carter, in the upcoming spin-off series featuring Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser. (Deadline.com, 7/11)
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