The Office Reboot
Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) and Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus) have been cast. The new take on the hit NBC workplace comedy, which starred Steve Carell as the inept branch manager of a Pennsylvania paper company, will be set in a new office with new characters but will take place in the same universe as the original series.
Parish News
If you’re hooked on Parish (which airs at 9/8c on AMC) at the end of Episode 3, Gray arrived back home to find his family under the watchful eye of Anton (The Handmaid’s Tale’s Bradley Whitford) and his goons. Whitford’s shadowy gang member has a lot of power in the city of New Orleans, and he takes major issue with Gray’s recent involvement with The Horse including saving the man’s life from Anton’s hit.
Anton shares a bone-chilling story from his past before forcing Gray to go on yet another mission, this time on Anton’s behalf. With his family’s lives on the line, Gray finds himself stuck among a whole slew of very bad men and murder might be his only way out.
Giancarlo Esposito stars as Parish; a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to pick-up a Zimbabwean gangster mostly known for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Down Cemetery Road Casting News
Based on a novel by author Mick Herron (Slow Horses) Down Cemetery Road has cast Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson. The series begins with a house exploding in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappearing in the aftermath. Sarah Tucker (Wilson, The Affair), who lives nearby, becomes obsessed with finding the girl and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Oscar and Emmy winner Thompson). They find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
Dead Boy Detectives at Netflix
The show, based on Neil Gaiman’s Vertigo comics, stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri as Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, best friends and ghosts who help solve paranormal cases in the mortal realm.
Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts … who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. Debuts on Netflix on April 25.
Shrinking Season 2 Update – AppleTV+
Shrinking follows Jason Segel’s Jimmy, a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules of his career by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. Jimmy has lost his wife and wants to try a new approach to his loss, but it is unclear how this will help others. Season two of Shrinking is currently in production. Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Lukita Maxwell, Michael Urie and Luke Tennie round out the cast of the series, which marked one of Ford’s first TV series regular roles.
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