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[05/06/14 - 11:37 PM] Development Update: Tuesday, May 6 - Odds & Ends 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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HYSTERIA (Amazon; W: Shaun Cassidy; D: TBA) - Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises) has joined the cast of the Mena Suvari-led drama pilot, about Dr. Logan Harlow, an exceptionally bright, driven, complicated, charming but socially awkward neurologist/psychiatrist at the University of Texas Medical School who travels to her hometown of Austin, TX to investigate a mysterious epidemic among high school girls that may be spreading through technology. He'll play "a local man who is trying to reconnect with his family after he had an affair with the family babysitter and now finds the girl not wanting to let go." (Deadline.com)
RECOVERY ROAD (ABC Family; W: Bert V. Royal & Karen DiConcetto; D: Lawrence Trilling) - Samantha Logan ("666 Park Avenue") has booked the lead role on the drama pilot, about Maddie, who has reputation as a party girl who doesn't think she has a problem, until she's confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Trying to save face, Maddie chooses to spend her nights living with other recovering addicts at a rehab facility, and her days pretending everything is perfectly normal among her high school classmates and her closest friends. Lawrence Trilling has likewise signed on to direct the project, which is based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson. (Deadline.com)
AND IN OTHER NEWS... - "New Girl" will return this fall with a full 22-episode order while "The Mindy Project" will be back with a smaller 15-episode season (Vulture.com); ABC has extended the contract of its late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for two extra years, keeping him on board through at least January 2017 (Deadline.com); Comedy Central has snagged the off-network rights to FX's animated veteran "Archer," with repeats beginning in May 2015 (Deadline.com); Johnathon Schaech has been cast as Colonel Sherman in History's "Texas Rising" (Deadline.com); Sony Pictures Television is developing a limited series based on Walter Kirn's autobiographical book "Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade" (Deadline.com); Rich Blomquist has closed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television (Deadline.com); and Timothy Busfield has been cast as Benjamin Franklin on "Sleepy Hollow" (EW.com).
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[06/13/26 - 12:01 PM] FOX Sports Soars Into Record Books with Most-Watched USMNT Telecast Ever 15,986,000 viewers watched the USMNT defeat Paraguay 4-1 across FOX, FOX One and Tubi.
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[06/12/26 - 12:31 PM] FOX Sports Scores Record Viewership with FIFA World Cup 2026 Opening Match 6,309,000 viewers watched Mexico top South Africa 2-0 across FOX, FOX One and Tubi.
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[06/12/26 - 11:01 AM] "Married at First Sight" Season 20 Arrives July 12 on Peacock See you at the altar.
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[06/12/26 - 07:01 AM] Netflix's "The God of the Woods" Starts Production in Upstate New York The highly-anticipated series adaptation of Liz Moore's New York Times' bestselling novel is now filming upstate in both the Hudson River Valley and the Adirondacks.
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[06/12/26 - 06:01 AM] Netflix Unveils First-Look Images from "Villaflor," Santiago Mitre's New Film Based on true events, this political thriller blends espionage and historical drama, following two stories in 1977 that move in opposite directions.
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[06/12/26 - 03:01 AM] Video: "Sidemen Presents: Side-Menu" - Official Trailer - Prime Video Ready, steady, chaos! Join the Sidemen and friends in a brand new series where they pair up to take on national dishes, judged by a special guest, to determine which contestant will become the star chef of the series.
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[06/12/26 - 01:31 AM] Video: "Gram Chikitsalay" Season 2 - Official Trailer - Prime Video The young, idealistic and brilliant Dr. Prabhat, takes charge of a neglected Primary Health Centre in a North India Village hoping to bring about much needed changes only to realise it is he who will have to change before anything else.
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[06/12/26 - 12:01 AM] Video: "Inside the Trustor Scandal" - Official Clip - Netflix Joachim Posener, alongside key insiders, revisits the snowballing financial scandal that followed the illegal purchase of a Swedish investment firm in the '90s - and who exposed it.
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