TV News Wrap-Up: ‘Arrow’ Promotes Katherine McNamara, ‘Paper Girls’ Gets Series Commitment from Amazon, ‘Euphoria’ Renewed for Season 2
We’re very quickly approaching premiere season, and that means it’s the time of year when series start making casting announcement, some trailers get dropped, and a few new series are ordered.
This is probably just the tip of the iceberg with San Diego Comic-Con coming up next weekend.
In the meantime, stay abreast of what’s currently going on in the TV landscape with our weekly TV News Wrap-Up.
Teasers
The official trailer has dropped for Another Life. The sci-fi offering follows Niko Beckinridge (Katee Sackhoff) and her crew as they face unimaginable dangers and go on a high-risk mission to explore the origins of an alien artifact. Another Life drops on Netflix July 25th.
Mindhunter Season 2 has an August premiere date. Entertainment Weekly reports that series director David Fincher let the August 16th release slip during the recording of a podcast. A Netflix official later confirmed the date. Fincher also stated that the second season will focus on the Atlanta child murders.
Renewals and Cancellations
Euphoria has been renewed for Season 2 on HBO. Variety reports that the series starring Zendaya, “…is the ‘youngest skewing drama series on the network’s digital platforms. In addition, the series premiere has already delivered over 5.5 million viewers across HBO’s platforms.”
How to Get Away with Murder will end with Season 6 on ABC. The Hollywood Reporter states that while the sixth season of the Shondaland drama was previously announced, this is the first news of it being the last. The show will wrap-up its run with fifteen episodes airing during the 2019/2020 broadcast season. With the final season depicting Keating’s students going through their final semester of law school this feels like a natural end. How to Get Away with Murder Season 6 will return Thursday September 26 at 10/9c. You can see the trailer for the final season below.
Casting News
Gina Rodriguez is going to play an aspiring POTUS in the Disney+ Series Diary of a Female President. Deadline reports that Rodriguez, who will also serve as executive producer on the series, will recur as the adult version of the main character, 12-year-old Cuban-American and presidential hopeful Elena, in the 10-episode series. Rodriguez’s version of Elena will be on the campaign trail.
Katherine McNamara has been promoted to a series regular for Arrow‘s final season. McNamara’s role in Arrow Season 7 was kept tightly under wraps until it was revealed that she was Oliver Queen’s daughter. TV Line reports that the news comes as little surprise since Joseph David-Jones, who plays future Connor Hawke was also promoted to series regular last month.
American Horror Story: 1984 has added Matt Morrison to the cast. According to TV Line, the Glee alum’s casting was revealed by Ryan Murphy in an Instagram video. The video showed Morrison sporting 80s facial hair and several other franchise alums including Cody Fern, Leslie Grossman and Billie Lourd, and John Carroll Lynch.
An upcoming The Walking Dead spin-off has cast its first three leads. Deadline reports that Alexa Mansour, Nicholas Cantu, and Hal Cumpston, have been tapped for the spinoff, which AMC says will, “feature two young female protagonists and will focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.” The spinoff is slated to premiere in 2020.
Tell Me a Story has added Carrie Anne Moss to its princess-themed second season. TV Line reports, “Moss will play Rebecca, the steely matriarch of the Pruitt family. After losing her husband over a decade ago in a car crash, Rebecca was forced to raise her three children solo, with varying degrees of success. She struggles to find balance between practicality, tough love and actual love (especially with her youngest daughter, Ashley, played by The Gifted’s Natalie Alyn Lind), and after years of pouring all her energy into her children, Rebecca is ready to start focusing on herself.”
The Netflix adaptation of Kristen Hannah’s Firefly Lane has tapped Katherine Heigl as its star and executive producer. According to Variety, Heigl will play Tully Hart. The 10-episode series revolves around Tully and Kate, who meet as young girls and forge a 30-year friendship until a betrayal tears them apart. She will also serve as executive producer alongside Stephanie Germain and Lee Rose.
New Series Orders
The Paper Girls graphic novels has received a series commitment from Amazon. A Deadline exclusive states that this was a “competitive situation,” but ultimately Amazon Studios has received the series. The series, “follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.”
—
What is your favorite bit of TV news from this week? Are you getting excited for the fall shows to return? Let us know in the comments below.
Want more from Tell-Tale TV? Subscribe to our newsletter here!
Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant.