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[04/29/21 - 11:33 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, April 29
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!
AMY FROM AMARILLO (Disney Channel, New!) - Isabella Pappas will topline a new comedy pilot at the network, which "follows a family of super-villains who must go on into hiding in Amarillo, Texas when they fall afoul of the League of Villains and are about to be liquidated." Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore are behind the project, which also stars Lucy Davis as Amy's mom, Eva aka Spark, "a feisty supervillain who shoots electrical current out of her hands," with James Patrick Stuart, Patricia Belcher, Kayden Muller-Janssen, Malachi Barton and Reed Horstmann in unspecified roles. Production is slated to start next month. (Deadline.com)
CONNERS, THE (ABC) - Co-stars Sara Gilbert, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Lecy Goranson have closed deals to return for a 20-episode fourth season, paving the way the series' official return. (Deadline.com)
DUCHESS, THE (Netflix) - The Katherine Ryan-led comedy series has been canceled after one season. (Deadline.com)
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL (Apple TV+) - Julie Ann Emery is bound for the limited series as Diane Robichaux, "an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following the hurricane." (Deadline.com)
HOT PINK (Amazon) - David Arquette, Nina Bloomgarden, David Iacono, Mimi Davila, Dana Donnelly and Myra Molloy are all bound for the Sarah Michelle Gellar-led pilot, loosely inspired by Elana K. Arnold's National Book Award finalist "What Girls Are Made Of." No character details were given. (Deadline.com)
HUMMINGBIRD (Amazon, New!) - Amazon Studios has landed a potential drama from Marginal MediaWorks, which "centers on members of a Mexican American family living in the Midwest that are haunted by sinister forces, while searching for the American dream." Writer Marcella Ochoa and director Rudy Valdez are behind the project with Sanjay Sharma also executive producing. (Deadline.com)
IN WITH THE DEVIL (Apple TV+) - Greg Kinnear and Sepideh Moafi are the latest additions to the limited series as Brian Miller, "the chief investigator for the Vermillion County Sheriff's Office"; and FBI agent Lauren McCauley, respectively. Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser and Ray Liotta also star. (Deadline.com)
INSECURE (HBO) - Co-star/producer Natasha Rothwell has signed a three-year, eight-figure overall deal with ABC Signature where she'll develop new series projects under her Big Hattie Productions banner. (Deadline.com)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Showtime) - Grace Gummer has been cast in the vampire drama pilot as Claire, "the heiress of a pharmaceutical empire and is a brilliant scientist who turned down the family's billion-dollar business to pursue a humbler, nobler career in disease research. But her life gets turned upside down when her estranged, ailing father summons her home and reveals a terrible secret." (Deadline.com)
MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, THE (Amazon) - Reid Scott and Gideon Glick are both bound for the upcoming fourth season in yet-to-be-revealed recurring roles. (Deadline.com)
OLGA DIES DREAMING (Hulu, New!) - Writer Xochitl Gonzalez and director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon have scored a pilot order from the streamer for a new drama based on the former's novel, billed as "the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City's elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria." 20th Television is producing. (Deadline.com)
REPUBLIC OF SARAH, THE (The CW) - Ryan Bruce is slated to recur on the newcomer as Adam Dearborn, "an "unbearably handsome do-anything-for you" New Englander and dad to Josh (Etienne Kellici). Fiercely protective of his New Hampshire town, Adam was initially opposed to anyone from Lydon Industries, the mining corporation encroaching on Greylock's land, but he ends up striking up a surprising friendship with Greylock lawyer Danny (Luke Mitchell). Soon Adam's bucolic small-town life is turned upside down when the history between his wife Corinne (Hope Lauren) and Danny is revealed." (Variety.com)
STAIRCASE, THE (HBO Max) - Oscar-nominee Toni Collette is set to star opposite Colin Firth in the true crime docuseries-turned-scripted limited series as Kathleen Peterson, "a corporate executive, mother and stepmother of five, and wife of Michael Peterson, played by Firth." (Deadline.com)
WALKER (The CW) - Odette Annable, who recurs on the series as Geri, will be promoted to regular on the show's second season. (Variety.com)
WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS, THE (HBO) - Lena Headey has scored a role opposite Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux and Domhnall Gleeson in the limited series as Dorothy Hunt: "A mother of four and active CIA asset, Dorothy tries to hold her family together while entangling herself in her husband's (Harrelson) catastrophic misadventures." (Deadline.com)
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