The Total Screen's Weekly Newsletter 005 - May 28th, 2018

News

• Netflix has signed a deal with former President of the United States and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama to produce content under their new production company Higher Ground Productions.   
• Though the pilot was rejected by Hulu, it appears that Locke and Key might find a home at Netflix.
• Actress Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) has signed on to produce and star in a new series about Actress Vivien Leigh.  The series is being developed by FremantleMedia  and Mainstreet Pictures.
• Richard Geere (Pretty Woman) will take on the lead role in MotherFatherSon for the BBC.
• Sundance will act as the US partner for the international production The Name of the Rose.  John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson (LOST) and Rupert Everett (Cemetery Man) are set to star in the limited series.
• SyFy's upcoming Ruso Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War) produced comic book adaptation Deadly Class has had its Showrunner Adam Targum (Banshee) replaced by Mick Betancourt (Shots Fired).  Creative differences was cited as the reason.
• Popular Actor Michael B Jordan (Chronicle) has taken the lead voice over role in the Rooster Teeth animated series gen:LOCK.
• Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and David Thewlis (Fargo) have signed on to season 2 of Netflix's animated series Big Mouth.  Rodriguez will be playing Gina, a soccer playing girl, while Thewlis will portray the Shame Wizard, another imaginary representation of puberty for the series.
• Casting has begun for Damon Lindelof's (LOST) reportedly loose adaptation of the classic graphic novel Watchmen for HBO.  Regina King (The Leftovers), Don Johnson (Miami Vice), Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Louis Gossett Jr (Iron Eagle), Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), and Andrew Howard (Limitless) have been cast with King's role being described as the lead.  Lindelof has stated that many of the roles will be new, and not carry overs from the comic.
• James Cromwell (The Green Mile) has joined the cast of Counterpart as Yanek, the Warden of the underground facility Echo.
• Zachary Levi (Chuck) has joined the cast of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel as a Manhattan area Doctor who finds himself in Maisel's orbit.
• Adam Nagaitis (The Terror), Jessie Buckley (Taboo), Adrian Rawlins (Hard Sun), and Con O’Neill (Happy Valley) have been cast in HBO's Chernobyl.
• Ryan Guzman (Heroes Reborn) has been cast in season 2 of Fox's 911 as a yet to be named Firefighter. 
• Supergirl has put up a casting notice for a transgender woman of open ethnicity.  The yet to be cast character is named Nia Nal, and is described as a young Cat Grant-type in her early 20s.
• The recently canceled SyFy series The Expanse has been officially picked up for revival by Amazon.  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is said to be a massive fan of the series and its source material.
  
• The Marvelous Mrs Maisel has been renewed for a third season at Amazon.
• Baskets has been renewed for a 4th season at FX.
• LA to Vegas officially canceled by Fox.
  

Trailers

New to Netflix US (June) - Netflix 

Rilakkuma and Kaoru - Netflix

The Staircase - Netflix


Claws - TNT

Strange Angel - CBS All Access

A Very English Scandal - Amazon 

Door #1 - Hulu VR 

Podcast

The Weekly Set Podcast Episode 157

Lost in Space Season 1 Episodes 6-7

Legion Season 2 Episode 8

Westworld Season 2 Episode 5

Articles

Summer 2018 TV Preview

All of your favorite new and returning shows for the Summer season (the months of June, July, and August) are presented here, chronologically, by the release dates of their upcoming seasons.

Schedule

For our full Schedule, click here. 

Monday, May 28th, 2018 
Six – History

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

Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Reverie – NBC
Dallas & Robo - YouTube Red 

Friday, June 1st, 2018
CB Strike – Cinemax

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
FLCL – Adult Swim

Sunday, June 3rd, 2018
Pose – FX
Succession - HBO

Monday, June 4th, 2018
Dietland – AMC
The Fosters – Freeform
Five Points - Facebook Watch 

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
Younger – TV Land
Teachers – TV Land
Humans – AMC

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Condor – AT&T/DirecTV
Impulse - YouTube Red 

Thursday, June 7th, 2018
American Woman – Paramount
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger – Freeform
Nashville - CMT 

Friday, June 8th, 2018
Sense8 - Netflix

Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Claws – TNT

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
The Bold Type – Freeform

Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Marlon – NBC
Strange Angel - CBS All Access
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce - Bravo 

Friday, June 15th, 2018
Goliath - Amazon
12 Moneys - SyFy
The Ranch - Netflix
Voltron - Netflix 

Sunday, June 17th, 2018
The Affair – Showtime
Deep State – Epix
Shades of Blue – NBC
La balada de Hugo Sánchez - Netflix


Monday, June 18th, 2018
Marvel's Spider-Man - Disney XD

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
Drunk History – Comedy Central
Love is ____ - OWN 

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
Yellowstone – Paramount
Young & Hungry – Freeform

Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Queen of the South – USA
Shooter – USA
Detroiters - Comedy Central
Take Two - ABC

Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Luke Cage – Netflix

Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Preacher – AMC

Monday, June 25th, 2018
Salvation - CBS

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Secret City - Netflix