The Rookie Renewed for Season 7
Out of the half-dozen dramas that ABC has aired this TV season, The Rookie ranks No. 3 and currently on another break until April 30, has four episodes left to air during this strikes-shortened season. Expect a big Season finale.
Tracker Casting News
Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh has been cast as Colter’s sister Dory. Colter finally reunites with his little sister Dory in the coming weeks. Tracker stars Justin Harley as as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country and uses his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries; all while contending with his own fractured family. Their parents, Ashton and Mary (played by Oz’s Lee Tergesen and Good Sam’s Wendy Crewson), were professors at Berkeley until there was this incident with Colter’s dad, and he took them to live off the grid at this cabin by Sierra National Forest.
Tracker was previously renewed for Season 2. New episodes air Sundays at 9/8c on CBS (and stream next day on Paramount+).
Dr. Odyssey Casting News
Don Johnson will star opposite Joshua Jackson in Ryan Murphy’s new ABC drama Dr. Odyssey, the upcoming medical drama set aboard a cruise ship, with Jackson playing Dr Odyssey whose charms help him get what he wants. The show is set to debut on ABC this fall.
Outer Range Season 2
The time-warping western starring Josh Brolin will drop its second season on Thursday, May 16 on Prime Video with all seven episodes dropping at once.
Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable phenomenon at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness in the form of a dark void. The mystery surrounding the enigmatic void on the west pasture of the Abbott family ranch deepens in Season 2, as Royal and his wife Cecelia (Lili Taylor) struggle to keep their family together in the aftermath of their granddaughter’s sudden disappearance. The stakes have never been higher for the Abbotts who now face threats on multiple fronts, propelling its characters deeper into the void with profound and unforeseen circumstances that could shake the very foundations of time itself.
BET and BET+ Renewals
BET has renewed “Tyler Perry’s Sistas” for its eighth season, “Tyler Perry’s The Oval” for Season 6 and “Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living” for a sixth season. Also renewed is “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” for its sixth season on BET (and 12th overall, having previously run in syndication and TBS). The deal additionally includes new seasons of BET+ series “Tyler Perry’s Zatima,” “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless,” Tyler Perry’s Bruh” and “All The Queen’s Men.”
Suits TV Show Picked Up
Primetime programming service MyNetwork TV has picked up an off-network run of “Suits” for this fall, making its broadcast TV debut.
“Suits,” created by Aaron Korsh, originally ran on USA Network for nine seasons (and 134 episodes) between 2011 and 2019. NBCUniversal Syndication Studios distributes the series to broadcast; this is believed to be the first time a series started out on as an original series cable, then was syndicated first to streaming before making a run on broadcast.
“Suits” stars Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht, as well as Gina Torres, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, Katherine Heigl and Meghan Markle.
Franklin – starring Michael Douglas
Adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff’s novel, “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America,” Apple TV+’s “Franklin” recounts inventor Benjamin Franklin’s eight-year mission in France where he schemed and plotted to foster a Franco-American alliance.
The first three episodes of “Franklin” premiered on April 12 on Apple TV+, with new episodes dropping weekly on Fridays.
The series opens in December 1776. Though the Declaration of Independence had been signed three months prior, the fledgling republic was on the brink of collapse. Due to sparse funding and a paltry 3,000 soldiers trying to stand against Britain’s formidable forces, the Continental Congress was running out of options. Franklin (Michael Douglas), a publisher and an intellectual, was America’s last hope. Landing on the shores of Brittany, France, the statesman and his grandson, Temple (Noah Jupe), embark on a mission to politically and financially lure French diplomats to America’s side. While the pair hoped to set up shop in Paris quietly, the 70-year-old scientist’s celebrity immediately put a massive wrinkle in their plans, forcing them to use different tactics.
HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the seven-part HBO series is structured as a prisoner’s confession, written under duress in a Vietnamese re-education camp in the years after the war. “The Sympathizer” follows the character of Captain (Hoa Xuande), a North Vietnam operative who is a plant in the South Vietnam army. After he is forced to flee to America and take up residence in a refugee camp, he continues to spy for the Viet Cong. An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.
Features Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le and Alan Trong, Sandra Oh, Kieu Chinh and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen and Robert Downey Jr. (playing several roles).
“The Sympathizer” premiered on HBO and Max April 14.
Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Slingshot’ Picked Up
The upcoming psychological sci-fi thriller starring Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck has been picked up by Signature Entertainment.
The film follows an astronaut struggling to maintain his grip on reality while aboard a possibly fatally comprised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead”), Emily Beecham (“Hail, Caesar!”) and Tomer Capone (“The Boys”) also star.
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