TV News Wrap-Up: ‘The 100’ Prequel Title Revealed, ‘Good Girls’ Season 3 Trailer Drops, ‘Saved By the Bell’ Revival Casts Jessie and Zack’s Sons, & More

It’s been an emotional week in the world of TV with both Arrow and The Good Place saying goodbye.

However, as pilot season shows us, as one series comes to an end, more begin. This week there have been a lot of pilot pickups and casting news as shows head into midseason and spring episodes. 

Take a look at our TV news wrap-up to see the highlights from the last week. 

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Ray Romano is returning to his sitcom roots to appear on One Day at a Time Season 4. According to TV Line, this appearance reunites him with former Everybody Loves Raymond EP Mike Royce. Romano has been cast as Brian, a 2020 Census taker who comes to the household to interview the Alvarez family. The series will make its triumphant return to Pop TV on March 24th at 9:30/8:30c. 

Paget Brewster will be appearing on Blood and Treasure‘s second season. According to TV Line, Brewster will recur as Sister Lisa, a resourceful nun with a sly sense of humor. Brewster’s recent credits include Criminal Minds and Mom. 

NBC has picked up a prequel series to The DaVinci Code. TV Line reports that the series will be based on Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and will, “…follow the early adventures of the famed Harvard symbologist, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.” The series will be penned by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, co-creators of TV’s Scream, who will also serve as EPs alongside Brown, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, Anna Culp, and Samie Falvey.

Rose Byrne has booked a role in a ’80s aerobics dramedy called Physical for Apple TV+. Variety reports that the series will take place in a Southern California beach community and center around a woman “…struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife who finds an unconventional path to power through an unlikely source: the world of aerobics.” The series hails from Annie Weisman who will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer of the series.

A Million Little Things has tapped Marcia Gay Harden to play Gary’s estranged mom. A TV Line exclusive reports that Harden will play Alice, who left home a few months after Gary’s seventh birthday to follow her acting dreams. Harden’s episode is slated to air February 6th at 10/9c on ABC. 

The CW has ordered several new pilots. TV Line reports that The CW has picked up a female-led Kung-Fu reboot in addition to revisiting The Republic of Sarah, which was originally developed a year ago by CBS. The Kung-Fu series penned by Blindspot EP Christina M. Kim, “…tells the story of how a quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice — all while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her. Meanwhile The Republic of Sarah has been orderd with a tweaked premise to follow, “…rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper who uses an obscure cartographical loophole to declare that her imperiled town is an independent nation.” It was also reported that  The CW is also looking at developing the series The Lost Boys. 

Money makes the world go round in the first full trailer of Good Girls Season 3. The third season shows Beth, Annie, and Ruby starting their own counterfeit money operation. While the girls are now free of Rio and the FBI it looks like the stakes may be higher than ever. Take a look at the trailer below and be sure to catch the premiere on Sunday, February 16th at 10/9c on NBC. 

Soundtrack has been cancelled by Netflix after one season. The Hollywood Reporter details the musical drama’s long road to air which started at Fox in 2018 and was presented at the network’s upfront. When the mandate changed to focus on multi-camera comedies and procedurals, they decided to shop the series around. Netflix stepped in and gave it a straight-to-series order two months later. After the cancellation, series creator Joshua Safran took to Twitter to express his frustrations saying, “I personally feel like it never came out.” Safran’s previous credits include Broadway, Gossip Girl, and Smash. Aware that Sountrack was a big swing, he did construct the first season to offer closure and encourages viewers who may not have seen the series yet to give it a shot. 

Netflix announced that The Crown will end with Season 5 and that Imelda Staunton will be the final Queen Elizabeth II. Creator, Peter Morgan previously stated that he envisioned the show going on for six seasons, but while mapping out Season 5, found it to be a natural end to the series. Read more about this announcement right here. 

The title for The 100 prequel series has been revealed. TV Line reports that the new series will be called Anacanda, potentially to become The 100: Anacanda, and admits that it raises more questions than answers. The series will debut as a backdoor pilot during the upcoming seventh and final season of The 100. The potential series will take place after the world’s first nuclear apocolypse and will follow a band of survivors as they learn to cope with the dangerous world. Since this series will be set over a century before Clarke and the rest of the delinquents were sent to the ground, the odds of seeing any Skaikru characters is slim. 

The Saved by the Bell revival has cast Zack and Jessie’s sons. According to TV Line, Zack and Jessie’s progency will be among the pupils at the new Bayside High. The production has picked two newcomers to fill the roles, the first being Mitchell Hoog (Roswell, New Mexico) as Mac Morris and the second being Belmont Cameli (Empire) as Jamie Spano. Character breakdowns don’t yet reveal whether Kelly is Mac’s mother or Slater Jamie’s father. 

Perpetual Grace, LTD has been cancelled, but will get a chance to wrap up its story with a limited return to Epix. According to Deadline, Epix cites a limited audience for the reason they won’t be granting a second season, but the brass did think that the series deserved to resolve its story. The exact number of episodes the limited return will be comprised of is still being negotiated. 

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