Extra! Extra! Top TV News Of The Week: Cillian Murphy Returns As Thomas Shelby, What's Next For Ellen Pompeo? Outlander News! Book To Streams, House of the Dragon Trailers 🐉
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In addition to Droughtlander, I know y’all have been suffering from lack of TV news. This edition is filled with new save the dates, renewals, cancellations, and a list of novels being turned into series. Wondering what Ellen Pompeo is doing now that she’s spending less time at Grey Sloan Memorial? What is the cast of Friends up to? All this and more in this special edition of WineBingeTV’s Extra! Extra!
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In another life I was a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Design, so I like to add fashion news anywhere I can when it pertains to wine or TV. Here are some fashionable news nuggets:
The Gucci Family Saga Set For TV Adaptation: The creatives behind such shows as Narcos and Lupin will take on a TV series about the rise of the iconic Gucci brand and the notorious family behind it.
Stella McCartney Teams Up With Veuve Clicquot To Launch Vegan Leather Engineered From Grapes. Her collection includes handbags and even a purse to hold your champagne bottle. Take A Look!
Top 5 TV News of the Week
Cillian Murphy To Return As Tommy Shelby In ‘Peaky Blinders’ Film
The long-awaited Peaky Blinders film will finally go into production this September and Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy will return in his iconic role as Thomas Shelby. The film is expected to carry on stories of the family through to the second World War.
Joshua Jackson To Star In New Ryan Murphy Series ‘Dr. Odyssey’
A new medical drama starring Dr. Death’s Joshua Jackson is on route to ABC from producer Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans). The series is set on a cruise ship and follows the main character (Jackson) who charms people to get what he wants. Other details are being kept hush-hush, but the series is expected to premiere this Fall.
Nicole Kidman, Henry Golding Slated For ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Season 2
More ‘strangers’ have come aboard for the second season of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers. Nicole Kidman will return in her role as Masha and be joined by Henry Golding, Mark Strong, and Lena Olin. Other previously announced cast members include Murray Bartlett, Christine Baranski, and Annie Murphy.
Karen Pittman Not Returning For ‘And Just Like That…’
It looks like another And Just Like That… regular will not be returning for the third season. Karen Pittman who plays Dr. Nya joins Sara Ramirez (Che) as the second cast member not returning for the next season. Max issued a statement saying that Pittman would not be returning due to scheduling conflicts with Apple TV+’s The Morning Show and Netflix’s upcoming Forever.
Maggie Q To Lead New ‘Bosch’ Spinoff Series
The Bosch spinoff series for Prime Video has announced that Maggie Q will lead the show as Detective Renée Ballard. The series will follow LAPD’s new cold-case division which no surprise is poorly funded and has the largest caseload in the city. Ballard takes on each case with empathy, uncovering larger conspiracies while taking support from Harry Bosch in dangerous situations. The series has a 10-episode order.
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What’s Next For?
You Fans: Pitch Perfect’s Anna Camp will play Joe’s twin sisters-in-law Raegan and Maddie Lockwood for the fifth and final season.
What’s Next For Grey’s Ellen Pompeo? - Pompeo and The Morning Show’s Mark Duplass will star together in a Hulu limited series inspired by the true story of Natalia Grace.
What’s Next For Friends Cast?
David Schwimmer will star in the second season of Goosebumps for Disney+
Jennifer Aniston to star in Hail Mary, a biography of a former Miss USA contestant who becomes a successful sports manager
Courtney Cox to star in Last Chance U, a series for Netflix about the real-life trials and tribulations of Brittany Wagner, an athletic counselor.
Lisa Kudrow to star alongside Brian Cox and Edie Falco in The Parenting, a horror-comedy about a couple who rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and discovered it’s haunted by a 400-year-old poltergeist
Uncoupled cancelled at Showtime after revival
Law & Order: SVU renewed for Season 26 at NBC
Law & Order renewed for Season 24 at NBC
Chicago Med renewed for Season 10 at NBC
Chicago Fire renewed for Season 13 at NBC
Chicago P.D. renewed for Season 12 at NBC
Bupkis not returning for second season at Peacock per Pete Davidson
The Way Home renewed for a third season at Hallmark Channel
NCIS: Sydney renewed for season 2 at CBS
April 12: Good Times animated reboot to premiere on Netflix
April 17: The Circle - Season 6 will premiere on Netflix
April 25: Dead Boy Detectives premieres on Netflix
November 2024 Outlander Season 7, Part 2 returns on STARZ
Jeff Daniels, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu To Star in Man in Full Adapted From Tom Wolfe’s Novel
Jessica Biel To Star In Psychological Thriller The Good Daughter Based on Karin Slaughter’s Novel for Peacock
We Were Liars based on the novel by E. Lockhart Has Series Set at Prime Video
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Trailer of the Week - The Veil starring Elisabeth Moss (Hulu)
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House of the Dragon: Season 2 Trailer(s) (Max)
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Interview With The Vampire: Season 2 (AMC+)
The Acolyte (Disney+)
Franklin (Apple TV+)
Kaos (Netflix)
Rebel Moon: Part 2 (Netflix)
Doctor Who (Disney+)
Conan O’ Brien Must Go (Max)
Supacell (Netflix)
AHS: Delicate Part 2 (FX/Hulu)
Tease of the Week: The Penguin (Max)
Coming Soon To Theaters: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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March 23 🥳
Keri Russell, 48
Victoria Pedretti, 29
Ayesha Curry, 35
Marin Hinkle, 58
Amanda Plummer, 67
Hope Davis, 60
Born on this Day Joan Crawford (1906-1977)
Her birth name was Lucille Fay LeSueur and she was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her parents had already separated by the time she was born, and by the time she was in her teens she had already had three stepfathers. In her early life, Joan Crawford worked odd jobs, but her ticket into show business was her talent for dancing. She was recruited into a chorus line which had her traveling to cities across the midwest and on the east coast. After two years as a chorus girl, she headed to Hollywood where she quickly landed a bit part in Pretty Ladies (1925) as a showgirl.
Crawford continued to star in bit parts, but bit parts added up and in 1928 she was cast in Our Dancing Daughters which took her star status to the moon. Now, at this time, most stars of the silent screen were seeing their careers fall flat because of their unappealing voices (like John Gilbert), but Crawford didn’t have that problem. Her first talking picture was the hit film Untamed (1929). Through the 1930s, Crawford became one of the shining stars at MGM. Her roles in Grand Hotel (1932), Sadie McKee (1934), and No More Ladies (1935) captivated audiences across the country.
However, things changed in the 1940s. Fresh, younger faces started coming into Hollywood and Crawford was no longer getting the A-list roles. She ended up leaving MGM for Warner Bros. which proved a good move, landing her the role of her career -- Mildred Pierce (1945) which led to her first and only Oscar win for Best Actress.
In her later life she went onto have more personal, public unwanted fame like her feud with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane co-star Bette Davis and her reputation for being unruly on set, an alcoholic, and as Bette Davis once said, “she’s slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.”
On May 10, 1977, Crawford died of a heart attack in New York City at 71 years old. Her adopted daughter Christina (whom Crawford had disinherited) wrote a scathing account of her childhood in a novel famously titled “Mommie Dearest” where she painted Crawford as a monster.
Where To Stream Joan Crawford Films
Sudden Fear (Tubi)
Possessed (Tubi)
The Women (Tubi)
Mildred Pierce (buy or rent on demand)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (buy or rent on demand)
March 24 🥳
Jessica Chastain, 46
Jim Parsons, 50
Lara Flynn Boyle, 53
Lake Bell, 44
Alyson Hannigan, 49
Kelly LeBrock, 63
Born on this Day: Steve McQueen (1930-1980)
Born in Beech Grove, Indiana, McQueen was born to mother Julian and father William McQueen who was a stunt pilot. Steve McQueen’s first lead role was in 1958’s The Blob. He starred in many films throughout his career, but it was the crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair co-starring Faye Dunaway that many consider a signature role for him. McQueen passed from mesothelioma on November 7, 1980 at age 50.
Where to Stream Steve McQueen Films:
The Great Escape (Prime Video)
The Thomas Crown Affair (Pluto TV, Tubi)
Papillon (Tubi)
Le Mans (Pluto TV)
Bullitt (Tubi)
The Cincinnati Kid (Tubi)
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