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[05/10/17 - 11:47 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, May 10 - 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:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
100, THE (The CW) - Isaiah Washington's Thelonious Jaha won't return as a series regular for the show's fifth season. (TVLine.com)
FARGO (FX) - Mary McDonnell is bound for the current season as "the so-called storage queen of The Great Lakes region, Ruby Goldfarb, who offers Emmit Stussy (Ewan McGregor) a way out of the mess he's in." (EW.com)
LIBRARIANS, THE (TNT) - John Noble and Rachel Nichols will both drop by the show's fourth season. He'll guest as Monsignor Vega, "a Vatican bishop who is secretly the head of the Heretical Order of the Shadows." Nichols then will recur as Nicole Noone, "a skilled fighter and Flynn's previous guardian, who he'd thought perished 13 years ago (and before the start of the series)." (EW.com)
O.G., THE (TBS) - Tiffany Haddish has been cast in the Tracy Morgan-led comedy as "Tray's (Morgan) former girlfriend Shay has transformed from a tough girl from the streets to an ultra-refined socialite who is now married to a white guy, who is the antithesis of Tray." (Deadline.com)
WHO WAS? SHOW, THE (Netflix, New!) - The streaming service has ordered 13 half-hour episodes of new family variety series billed as "a mixture of comedy and history and will feature key leaders, innovators and creative trendsetters while placing historical figures into context for today's children." The project, due in 2018, is based on Penguin Books' bestselling children's book series of the same name. Penguin Workshop, FremantleMedia, Matador Content and Bento Box Entertainment are among the auspices with Rich Korson, Bob Higgins, Jay Peterson and Francesco Sedita executive producing. (Deadline.com)
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