The Total Screen's Weekly Newsletter 001 - April 30th, 2018

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News

• Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) and Jake Busey (The Frighteners) have been cast in season 3 of Netflix's Stranger Things.  Elwes will play Hawkins sleazy Mayor, and Busey will portray Bruce, a Journalist.  
• SyFy has ordered The Russo brother's (Avengers: Infinity War) adaptation of Deadly Class as a series.
• Idris Elba (Avengers: Infinity War) will star in and produce the Netflix original comedy series Turn Up Charlie, about a DJ who becomes the Nanny of his famous friend's problem child.
• Cinemax has given a series order to Jett, a drama series from Sebastian Gutierrez (Gothika) starring Carla Gugino (Sin City).
• Lisa Joy and Jonathon Nolan (Westworld) are adapting William Gibson's SciFi book The Peripheral for Amazon. 
• Blumhouse simultaneously developing Worst Roomate Ever, based on the New York Magazine article of the same name, for TV and Film.
• Amazon is developing an adaptation of the cult British series Utopia.  The series will be run by Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn, who was previously atatched when the series was in development at HBO with David Fincher (Fight Club).
• Amazon is developing adaptations of Jonathan Hickman's East of West and Transhuman.
• Sundance Now has acquired the British comedy series Motherland.
• Hulu has picked up Pen15, a middle-school comedy produced by and starring Maya Erskine (10 Cloverfield Lane) and Anna Konkle (The Escort) as 13 year old versions of themselves.
• Netflix is bringing Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City back as a 10 episode limited series.  Ellen Page (Hard Candy) will be joining the cast, and Lauren Morelli (Orange Is the New Black) will be running the series.
• Crackle is developing a science fiction adaptation of Heart of Darkness.
• Youtube Red has ordered a pilot for High & Tight from Chris Marrs (Arrested Development), a buddy comedy starring Sung Kang (Fast Five) and Danny Pudi (Community).
• Annapurna Television is developing a series based on The New York Times' recent expose of the Nxivm sex cult, which included Smallville Actress Allison Mack.
• The Disney Channel has ordered an anime inspired Star Wars Resistance, an animated Star Wars series from Dave Filoni (Star Wars Rebels)
• Netflix is making a multi camera comedy series created by and starring Comedian Gabriel Iglesias.
• Netflix has ordered Another Life, a science fiction series which will star Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica).
• David Fincher (Fight Club) is returning to direct episodes of Netflix's Mindhunter for its second season, alongside fellow Directors Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) and Carl Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress). 
• The subject of the 3rd season of National Geographic's Genius will be Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley.
• Arrow Writer Beth Schwartz is taking over as the series Showrunner.
• Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Diego Luna (Rogue One), and Emile Hirsch (The Girl Next Door) have been added to the cast of season 3 of Trollhunters.
• Gino Vento (The Deuce) and Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) have been cast in recurring roles in Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy spin-off series Mayans MC.
• John Goodman (Roseanne) and Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum) have joined the cast of Black Earth Rising, a co-production of Netflix and the BBC.
• Noah Emmerich (The Americans) has joined the cast of Netflix's The Spy, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
• Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Underground) has joined the cast of HBO's Lovecraft Country.
• Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders), Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones), Timothy West (Last Tango in Halifax), and Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones’s Diary) have joined the cast of HBO and BBC co-production Gentleman Jack.
• Leo Suter (Victoria), Stuart Harris (Outlander), and Imogen King (Darkest Hour) have joined season 2 of Clique, which will now air in the US on Pop.
• Cancellations:  Seven Seconds, Trollhunters (after its upcoming 3rd season) at Netflix, Ash Vs. Evil Dead at Starz, Tremors at SyFy, The Path at Hulu, and Homeland (after it's 8th season) at Showtime.
• Renewals: Taboo at FX, Money Heist at Netflix, Billions at Showtime, At Home With Amy Sedaris at TruTV, Genius at National Geographic, and ahead of its season 1 premiere, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan at Amazon.

Trailers

 The Innocents - Netflix

 

The Rain - Netflix

Busted - Netflix

Stranger Things 3 - Netflix

Dear White People - Netflix

13 Reasons Why - Netflix

The Break with Michelle Wolf - Netflix

GLOW - Netflix

Marvel's Luke Cage - Netflix

Yellowstone - The Paramount Network

Star Trek Discovery - CBS All Access

Succession - HBO

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger - Freeform

Animal Kingdom - TNT

The Detroiters - Comedy Central

All Night - Hulu

Motherland - Sundance Now

Attack on Titan - Funimation

Podcast

The Weekly Set Podcast Episode 153

Lost in Space Season 1 Episode 2

Legion Season 2 Episode 4

Westworld Season 2 Episode 1

Schedule

For our full Schedule, click here. 

Monday, April 30th, 2018
Elementary – CBS

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
Cobra Kai – Youtube Red
Colony – USA

Friday, May 4th, 2018
The Rain – Netflix
Busted! I Know Who You Are – Netflix
Dear White People – Netflix
A Little Help with Carol Burnett - Netflix

Saturday, May 5th, 2018
Diablo Guardian - Amazon

Sunday, May 6th, 2018
I’m Dying Up Here – Showtime
Sweetbitter – Starz
Vida – Starz

Monday, May 7th, 2018
SuperMansion – Crackle
X Company – Ovation

Thursday, May 10th, 2018
Safe - Netflix
Motherland - Sundance Now

Friday, May 11th, 2018
All Night – Hulu
Bill Nye Saves the World – Netflix
Evil Genius: the True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist - Netflix

Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Patrick Melrose – Showtime

Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Little Women – PBS

Friday, May 18th, 2018
You Are Wanted - Amazon

Friday, May 25th, 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Amazon
Trollhunters - Netflix

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
 Mob Psycho 100 (Live Action) - Netflix

Thursday, May 24th, 2018
Fauda - Netflix

Friday, May 25th, 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Amazon
Trollhunters - Netflix

Sunday, May 27th, 2018
The Break with Michelle Wolf - Netflix
The Fourth Estate - Showtime

Monday, May 28th, 2018
Six – History

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
100 Code – WGN
Queen Sugar – OWN
Animal Kingdom – TNT

Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Reverie – NBC