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[03/21/23 - 11:34 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, March 21
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!
CROSS (Amazon) - Author James Patterson has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Skydance Television, home to his upcoming Amazon adaptation. "Women's Murder Club" and "Michael Bennett" are among the featured titles being eyed for new TV incarnations, as are "Private," "Jane Smith" and "Holmes, Miss Marple and Poe." (Deadline.com)
DEVIL'S HOUR, THE (Amazon) - Saffron Hocking has joined the cast of the show's second season as Sam Boyd, "a detective sergeant who worked under DI Lucy Chambers (played by Jessica Raine) in a past life." (Variety.com)
DIARRA FROM DETROIT (BET+, New!) - Actor/writer Diarra Kilpatrick has signed an overall deal with BET Studios. First up: the aforementioned hour-long dark comedy, which has an eight-episode order, and "follows a divorcing schoolteacher with an acerbic sense of humor who refuses to believe she's been ghosted by her rebound Tinder date. Her search for the missing man pulls her into a decades-old mystery involving the Detroit underworld." Kenya Barris of Khalabo Ink Society and Miles Orion Feldsott also serve as executive producers with Erynn Sampson as a producer. (Deadline.com)
DUSTER (HBO Max) - Evan Jones will recur on the upcoming drama in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (Variety.com)
GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, A (Showtime) - The limited series has cast Leah Harvey as "wise hotel chamber maid and single mother Marina"; Johnny Harris as "conflicted secret police officer Osip"; Paul Ready as "sensitive former prince Petrov, a friend of the Count"; Alexa Goodall as "the Count's unlikely young friend Nina"; John Heffernan as "bloodless bureaucrat Bishop"; Lyès Salem as "Andrey, the Maître d' of the Hotel Metroil's Boyarsky restaurant"; Fehinti Balogun as "Mishka, the Count's best friend from university who loves his sister"; Björn Hlynur Haraldsson as "head chef and irascible genius Emily"; Dee Ahluwalia as "bartender Audrius, who enables the copious drinking that takes place at the hotel"; and Anastasia Hille as "Anna's dresser and confidante Olga". (Deadline.com)
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