TV News Wrap-Up: ‘Chicago Med’ Temporarily Shuts Down After Positive COVID-19 Test, ‘Law and Order: Organized Crime’ Delayed at NBC, Hillary Clinton to Executive Produce ‘The Woman’s Hour’

Happy fall everyone. It may not feel like fall because we’re not eagerly consuming new content from some of our favorite shows, but it is officially the season. 

While some shows have started production a few have hit a snag, and yet that doesn’t stop and streamer, cabler, or network from ordering new content. 

Check out our TV news wrap-up for more. 

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Netflix orders Jeffrey Dahmer miniseries from Ryan Murphy.

• The series will be called Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story and will be produced with his co-creator Ian Brennan. 
• The order comes on the heels of the release of the Netflix series Ratched which has been #1 in several regions in the first week of its debut. 
• Deadline reports the series, “Monster chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree. The series dramatizes at least 10 instances where Dahmer was almost apprehended but ultimately let go. The series also is expected to touch on white privilege, as Dahmer, a clean-cut, good-looking white guy, was repeatedly given a free pass by cops as well as by judges who were lenient when he had been charged with petty crimes.”

Matt Olmstead steps down as showrunner from Law and Order: Organized Crime. 

• The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news stating that the series will now be delayed and is no longer part of the NBC fall schedule while they look for a replacement showrunner. 
• Olmstead has reportedly exited the series after creatives differences but is expected to land another Dick Wolf series building off a four-year stint with Wolf Entertainment where he served as showrunner on Chicago Fire, co-created and ran Chicago P.D., and developed Chicago Med. 
• He departed Wolf Entertainment after signing a two-year eight-figure deal with ABC Studios where he helped launch Stumptown. 

Legacies has added Leo Howard as a series regular ahead of Season 3.

• Howard appeared in three episodes of Season 2 as Sheriff Mac’s son Ethan. 
• TVLine confirmed the casting announcement and described Ethan’s character as, “a student at Mystic Falls High School, at the top of Legacies‘ sophomore season when Hope attempted to blend in as a regular teenager. (Spoiler alert: the experiment was short-lived.)”

Billions has been renewed for a sixth season and has promoted Corey Stoll to series regular.

• The series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis is also adding House of Cards vet Corey Stoll to the cast. 
• Stoll made his debut on the series in Season 5 as Mike Prince, a business titan, and social impact pioneer. 
• TVLine reports, “The Billions renewal follows Showtime’s previous pickups for Back to Life, The Chi, City on a Hill, The L Word: Generation Q, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Shameless (for an 11th and final season) and Work in Progress.”
• Showtime has yet to announce the fate of Don Cheadle comedy Black Monday and the White House satire Our Cartoon President. 
• The cabler previously announced that Billions Season 5 will be split into two parts, due to production issues stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The second half of Season 5 will premiere sometime in 2021 followed by Season 6. 

Hillary Clinton is now on board to executive produce a political anthology series entitled The Woman’s Hour.

• According to TVLine, “The potential first season of The Woman’s Hour would take inspiration from Elaine Weiss’ 2018 nonfiction book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, and would shed light on the battle to ratify the 19th Amendment.”
• Subsequent seasons of the project will appeal to young, politically active audiences by highlighting influential women in politics who have changed history. 
• Weiss is set to executive produce alongside Clinton with Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Television producing. 
• Angelina Burnett (Halt and Catch Fire, Hannibal) is on board as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.

The Good Doctor is adding Noah Galvin as a resident on the upcoming season. 

• Galvin whose previous credits include The Real O’Neals, will play one of four new first-year residents whose arc will span the entire season. 
• TVLine reports, “His character, Dr. Asher Wolke, made the choice to separate himself from an Orthodox Jewish sect before opting to attend medical school.”
• There other three residents include Brian “Sene” Marc (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Bria Samoné Henderson (Mrs. America), and newcomer Summer Brown.
• The additions come after the series said farewell to two cast members at the end of Season 3. 

Legends of Tomorrow has upped Adam Tsekhman as a series regular for Season 6. 

• According to TVLine, “Tsekhman first appeared as whip-cracker Ava Sharpe’s eager-beaver colleague in the CW series’ Season 3 premiere, in which the Bureau (theoretically) relieved the Legends of their time-policing duties.”
• Earlier this year the series also added Shayan Sobhian (who plays Behrad) and Olivia Swann (Astra) as series regulars while Lisseth Chavez (Chicago P.D.) has been cast to play alien expert Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz.
• Tsekhman’s previous credits include Six, Transparent, 2 Broke Girls, and Hawaii Five-0.

S.W.A.T will kick off its fourth season with an L.A. Riots flashback episode. 

• TVLine reports, “As originally planned out over a year ago, this flashback episode would have closed out Season 3 on April 29, which was the 28th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots (which stemmed from the acquittal of four LAPD officers for the usage of excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King).”
• The episode will split its time between the present-day and 1992 and will feature a teenage version of Shemar Moore’s Hondo. 
• Executive Producer Shawn Ryan said, “We will get around to filming that episode, because that’s a special one, to look back at the riots through the perspective of a teenage Hondo.”
• TVLine also confirmed that young Hondo will be played by Donald Dash, who previously appeared on Rise and Blue Bloods.

Chicago Med has shut down for two weeks after a positive COVID test. 

• The medical drama began filming last week and, as of now, is still slated to premiere its sixth season on November 11th. 
• TVLine reports, “The production team member was immediately sent home following the positive test, and producers Wolf Entertainment and Universal TV decided to pause production out of an abundance of caution since the production team member was in close proximity with the cast and crew. (A second member from the same department also tested positive last week.)”

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