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[05/08/26 - 11:44 PM]
Development Update: Week of May 4-8
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!
AMERICAN BLUE (HBO Max) - The Milo Ventimiglia-led drama pilot has added Maisie Merlock as Talia Milkosek, "the daughter of Milk and Lori, who is emotionally bruised by her father's absence in her childhood and is now expected to find space for her dad"; Gerardo Celasco as Tony Corrado, "a local Joliet politician posing a threat to Milk in more ways than one"; and Cinthya Carmona as Jenny, "a single mother in a failing relationship with a JPD Detective, protective of her son in the wake of her boyfriend's inability to separate from the job." (Deadline.com, 5/6)
DARK WINDS (AMC) - John Patrick Jordan will recur on the series' fifth season in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (Deadline.com, 5/5)
FOSTER DADE (Hulu) - The streamer has passed on the YA pilot based on the Nash Jenkins novel. (Deadline.com, 5/6)
GOING DUTCH (FOX) - The network has pulled the plug on the comedy series after two seasons. (Deadline.com, 5/4)
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (HBO) - Jon Brown has been elevated to co-showrunner for show's second season, which is formally a go to begin filming this fall ahead of its Christmas series premiere. (Deadline.com, 5/6)
HIGH POTENTIAL (ABC) - Nora and Lilla Zuckerman have been tapped as showrunners of the series' third season, succeeding Todd Harthan who is moving onto Disney+'s "Eragon." (Deadline.com, 5/6)
HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT ME (HBO Max) - The family drama pilot has added Rita Wilson as Beverly, "a prolific writer-director and a matriarch who sees her family as her greatest accomplishment"; Tommy Dewey as Dan, "a kind and creative painter, and the only slightly chaotic thing Kate has ever loved"; Scarlett Abinante and Colette Porch as "fraternal twins Beth and Stephanie, daughters of Kate (Kaley Cuoco) and Dan"; Genevieve Angelson as Molly, "a wealthy, uptight and demanding woman who makes teachers cry"; Matthew Kellison as Bennett, "Cary (Jack Ball) and Luis' (Kylar Miranda) older child, whose antics have caused problems at school and leave Cary exhausted"; and Ella Rubin as "the cute and innocent Dottie, Cary and Luis' younger child, who remains largely quiet amid the family's chaos but picks her moments to chime in with the unwitting comedic timing only a small child can have." (Deadline.com, 5/6)
INTERROGATOR, THE (FOX) - The Stephen Fry-led newcomer has cast Maria Zhang, Jessica Sula, and Jenna Elfman. Zhang will play Florence, "the most idealistic and optimistic of the team. She handles all things computers, from hacking, gathering, and decrypting evidence to creating forgeries and deepfakes to lead Henry's subjects astray." Sula then is Astrid, "a criminal psychologist, who's sharp, funny and idealistic, and though a novice to the spy game, a natural. She's the somewhat estranged daughter to Henry, and it's clear she inherited her father's natural ability to read people as well as his gift for guile - she could have been a successful con artist." And Elfman is Woodrow, "who was a rising star in the CIA, until a mission gone awry sent her tumbling down the ladder. Now she finds herself at the D.I.A. as a handler for Henry's group." (Deadline.com, 5/5)
JILL & GINGER (NBC) - The Katey Sagal/Jane Lynch-led comedy pilot is not moving forward to series at the network. (Deadline.com, 5/8)
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE (Peacock, New!) - Leo Richardson has sold a potential drama to the streamer based on Lucinda Berry's novel: "When the president of the West Hollywood Mom's Club is found murdered, all of her friends and members become key suspects. A jaded detective uses every trick he knows to outsmart the killer." Garcelle Beauvais will also executive produce the project for FilmNation and Universal Television. (Variety.com, 5/7)
KEY WITNESS/PUZZLED/WHAT THE DEAD KNOW (NBC) - The network has passed on the three aforementioned drama pilots for its 2026-27 schedule. (Deadline.com, 5/8)
LOL: LAST ONE LAUGHING (Amazon, New!) - The streamer is "talking about" a U.S. version of the franchise, which has been remade in over 25 countries. No other specifics were given. (Deadline.com, 5/4)
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (MGM+) - Will Patton will star opposite Matt Dillon in the upcoming TV series as "ruthless baron Cyrus T. Clemons to Dillon's seven gunslingers leader Chris Adams." (Deadline.com, 5/7)
MASKED SINGER, THE (FOX) - Fremantle-owned Eureka Productions has taken over producing duties from FOX Entertainment Studios on the series, which is expected to return for season 15 at midseason on the network. (Deadline.com, 5/8)
MORNING SHOW, THE (Apple TV) - Lizzy Caplan is bound for the series' fifth season as Gwen, "a passionate and uncompromising Broadway theater director." (Deadline.com, 5/7)
NIGHT AGENT, THE (Netflix) - Abigail Breslin, David Denman, and Annabeth Gish are all bound for the show's final season. Breslin will play Cahlin, "a young FBI agent working on Duval's investigation into Night Action"; with Denman as Ford, "a veteran CIA agent and former head of a Joint Terrorism Task Force"; and Gish as Holland, "an FBI agent who joins the DOJ investigation into Peter Sutherland." (Deadline.com, 5/5)
PARADISE (Hulu) - Elijah Wood and Melissa Benoist have both landed roles on the show's third season. (TVLine.com, 5/6)
PROBABILITY OF MIRACLES, THE (Amazon) - Melissa Collazo, Henry Eikenberry, and Ginnifer Goodwin are the first to be cast in the Wendy Wunder adaptation, which has also added Rina Mamoun as co-showrunner and Ella Jones as director of the debut installment. Collazo will play Campbell "Cam" Cooper, "an irreverent cynic, who has been suffering from neuroblastoma since she was 8 years old. After receiving an "expiration date" from her doctor, Cam's mother uproots their family to a town called Promise in the hope that a miracle may save Cam's life." Eikenberry then is Asher, "who is handsome, easygoing, confident, and great with power tools. Asher is exactly who you'd imagine falling in love with if you were moving to a small seaside town for the summer. But underneath his easy-going demeanor, there's a lot more to Asher than meets the eye." And Goodwin is Cam's mother, "who has relentlessly pursued solutions for her daughter ever since Cam's diagnosis as a child. She has spent so many years focused on Cam that she's lost sight of herself. Her own growth hasn't just been paused by the demands of caring for a sick child, it's been drained by the constant mental load that comes with it." Katie Lovejoy, Leslie Morgenstein, and Laura Lancaster also executive produce. (Deadline.com, 5/7)
SEX CRIMINALS (Amazon) - Imogen Poots and John Reynolds will topline the comic book-turned-TV series from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, and Tze Chun: "In the eight-episode Sex Criminals, co-created by Gordon, Nanjiani and Chun, Suze (Poots) is a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night, she meets Jon (Reynolds)... who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex having, time stopping couple would do: they rob banks." (Deadline.com, 5/8)
SHERIFF COUNTRY/UNTITLED EDGEWATER MEDICAL DRAMA (CBS) - Executive producer Matt Lopez has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, home to said franchise. There he'll continue as showrunner on the former and writing and executive producing the latter. (Deadline.com, 5/8)
STICK (Apple TV) - Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander, and Missi Pyle will recur on the show's sophomore season in yet-to-be-revealed roles. (Deadline.com, 5/7)
TEMPTATION ISLAND (Netflix) - The franchise's streaming incarnation was been renewed for a third season. (Deadline.com, 5/7)
TRACKER (CBS) - The series will relocate from Vancouver to Los Angeles for its fourth season as part of a state's tax credit initiative valued at $48M on $129M in qualified expenditures. (Deadline.com, 5/4)
UNTITLED DAVID ZABEL PROJECT (Netflix, New!) - David Zabel has sold "a gritty cop drama" to the streamer. No other details were given about the project, which comes from Scott Free and AMC Studios. Zabel recently signed an overall deal with the latter company. (Deadline.com, 5/7)
UNTITLED IVF PROJECT (HBO Max, New!) - Mandy Moore and Julia Brownell have set up a limited series at the streamer: "The untitled IVF project tells the story of two families coming together against incredible odds and discovering a newfound extended family that they never could have imagined." Brownell is penning the script while Moore is expected to star as one of the parents. Both will also executive produce alongside Averie Huffine for Humble Sandwich Productions and presumably 20th Television. (Deadline.com, 5/6)
WAR (HBO) - The show's second season has tapped Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, David Harewood, Richard Schiff, Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Douglas Booth, Charles Edwards, Luca Pasqualino, Rebecca Front, Alexandra Maria Lara, Linus Roache, Violet Braeckman, Sasha Behar, Sid Phoenix, Cornelius Booth, and Megan Channell. No other character details were given. (Deadline.com, 5/7)
WINDY CITY (Amazon, New!) - Alison McDonald is spearheading a new drama based on Liz Tomforde's book series at Amazon MGM Studios: "Kicking off with 2022's Mile High, Windy City is a five-book interconnected sports romance series that follows a close-knit group of five professional athletes as they each navigate falling for the strong, complicated women who unexpectedly enter their lives and challenge them in all the right ways." The two will executive produce alongside Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark for Premeditated Productions. Julie Jarmon will serve as a co-executive producer. (Deadline.com, 5/6)
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[05/29/26 - 06:00 AM]
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