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Kiernan Shipka (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Toheeb Jimoh (“Ted Lasso”), Jack Farthing (“Rain Dogs”) and Amy James-Kelly (“Three Families”) have all joined the cast of HBO’s fourth season of its finance drama “Industry,” the lattest additions alongside previously announced Max Minghella.
The new season follows a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment of the London office of an international bank. Filming begins in the next few weeks in the UK. [Source: Variety]
Dexter: Resurrection
David Dastmalchian (“Late Night With the Devil,” “The Suicide Squad”) has joined the cast of “Dexter: Resurrection” playing a character named Gareth. Further specifics of his character are under wraps, but the series has been reportedly casting a number of serial killer characters in recent weeks. Production on the new season has been underway in New York since January. [Source: Variety]
Black Widow
Amanda Seyfried and “The Dropout” creator/writer/producer Elizabeth Meriwether are re-teaming for a TV series remake of the 1987 neo-noir thriller “Black Widow” starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell. A pilot has been written by Merriwether with Hulu and Searchlight TV producing.
Winger starred in the original film as a Justice Department investigator tracking a gold-digging woman (Russell) who moves from husband to husband in order to kill them and collect the inheritance. [Source: The Playlist]
Beauty in Black
The Tyler Perry-created drama “Beauty in Black” has been renewed for a second season – the order coming six days after the second half of the show’s first season debuted.
The series centers on Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams), a stripper who becomes entangled in the world of a family that runs a cosmetics empire – and a trafficking scheme. Perry’s long-running BET series “Sistas” also scored a ninth season renewal. [Source: THR]
The Perfect Couple
Netflix will continue its recent hit “The Perfect Couple” as an anthology series, this time to be based on Elin Hilderbrand’s 2024 novel “Swan Song” (the first season was based on a 2018 Hildebrand novel).
The new season sees a new couple arriving in Nantucket who derail Chief of Police Ed Kapenash’s plans to retire when their $22 million summer home burns to the ground, and their personal assistant goes missing. [Source: TV Line]
The Last of Us
HBO has premiered the official new poster for the second season of “The Last of Us,” the one-sheet seemingly designed to emulate the official artwork for “The Last of Us Part II Remastered” game – just swapping out a large Ellie and small Abby with a large Joel and small Ellie. The seven-episode new run returns on April 13th.
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