Idris Elba stars in Netflix’s upcoming original comedy series Turn Up Charlie debuting on the streaming service on March 15, 2019. The official trailer features Elba as a DJ who winds up taking care of a kid as a manny, definitely not the career path he expected to take.
In addition to Idris Elba, the cast of season one includes Frankie Hervey, Piper Perabo, and JJ Feild. Angela Griffin, Guz Khan, Jocelyn Jee Esein, Jade Anouka, Cameron King, and Dustin Demri-Burns appear as recurring guest stars. Elba co-created the series and is an executive producer with Tristram Shapeero. Martin Joyce and Ana Garantio co-executive produce. Shapeero and Matt Lipsey directed episodes of the first season.
Season one consists of eight 30-minute episodes.
The Plot and Characters:
Turn Up Charlie centers on the titular Charlie (Elba), a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a ‘manny’ to his famous best friend’s problem-child daughter, Gabby (Hervey).
Sara (Perabo) is a super star DJ, feminist icon and vivacious trendsetter, who has chosen to abandon the chaotic and exciting life she lived in America, to put roots down in London in an attempt to give her badly behaved daughter more stability and normality.
Charming and charismatic, Hollywood actor David (Feild) is adored by both fans and friends. A North London boy done good, David is ambitious and hardworking, but his return to his hometown brings new opportunities and uncertainties in equal measure.
Spoiled and savvy, Gabrielle is wise beyond her years. Neglected by her career driven parents, Gabrielle pushes the boundaries – and the sanity of her nannies – to the extreme, in order to get her mum and dad’s attention. Her spiky retorts, mischievous adventures and epic tantrums hide a lonely young girl with a distorted view of reality.
20th Century Fox is not holding anything back with the release of the new trailer for Dark Phoenix. The two and a half minute trailer reveals the evolution of Jean Grey and the havoc she wreaks as her powers grow.
The cast of Dark Phoenix is led by Game of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner as Jean Grey / Phoenix. The cast of the X-Men film also includes James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique. Nicholas Hoult is Hank McCoy / Beast, Tye Sheridan is Scott Summers / Cyclops, Alexandra Shipp is Ororo Munroe / Storm, Kodi Smit-McPhee is Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler, Evan Peters is Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver, and Jessica Chastain is Smith.
Simon Kinberg wrote and directed Dark Phoenix and also served as a producer along with Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Todd Hallowell. Kinberg’s behind the scenes team includes director of photography Mauro Fiore, editor Lee Smith, production designer Claude Pare, and costume design by Daniel Orlandi, with music by Hans Zimmer.
20th Century Fox is set to release the sci-fi action drama in theaters on June 7, 2019.
The Plot:
“In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain.
With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite — not only to save Jean’s soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.”
Poster for ‘American Gods’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Starz)
Author/executive producer Neil Gaiman and American Gods star Ricky Whittle were paired up for roundtable interviews at the New York Comic Con. Gaiman and Whittle are Comic Con veterans and when asked to compare their experience at the San Diego Comic Con prior to season one to the New York reception, Gaiman said it’s obvious the excitement level of fans has dramatically increased since the first season aired. He also joked that what fans have said they really want during the season two promotional tour is more shirtless Ricky Whittle, preferably covered in blood.
“I do bleeding and topless well,” joked Ricky Whittle. “I appreciate that.”
“It is a different kind of feeling. Now the first question you ask yourself is will they come? The next question is will they stay? And what I love is I don’t get the sense that anybody’s going away. I barely get the sense that anyone’s checking their watches. Everybody now is going, ‘Yeah, there’s an awful lot of TV to watch. It’s fine. We are looking forward to American Gods arriving,’” explained Neil Gaiman about the wait for season two.
He added, “We have an audience now around the world. This is Amazon’s biggest international hit around the world and is a huge hit for Starz in the U.S. So, it’s a lot to live up to and a lot to get right. There’s a lot of moving parts.”
Season two of American Gods premieres on Starz on March 10, 2019.
Do you feel that pressure to live up to expectations, given the first season?
Neil Gaiman: “You know the great thing about being me is…”
Ricky Whittle: (Laughing) “There’s so many, by the way.”
Neil Gaiman: “My role, I describe it occasionally on American Gods as being parental, but it’s much more like being a father in that I get to have intense moments of pleasure and then I disappear off and everybody else gets to do all the work for many, many months. And then they show me what they brought forth and I go, ‘Yes, I am proud of this thing.’”
Ricky Whittle: “We refer to him as the ‘Gods’father. And it is like, ‘Look what we did, daddy,’ and he goes, ‘That’s okay. Do better than that. That’s fantastic. Well done, do it again.’”
Neil Gaiman: “There’s a lot of that. With the last season there was just the madness of the fact that I was really trying to work on Good Omens, working six or occasionally seven-day weeks, 10 to 15-hour days meant that there were only chunks of time I could devote to American Gods. I got together with Jesse (Alexander), the last showrunner, and just briefed him, downloaded, talked him through the season and where things needed to go. Then helped him with episode one and helped him get things rolling before disappearing back into Good Omens. Then it started easing up a bit in April (2018). I got to start working with the writers on episode six and seven and eight, on getting those right. I’m looking forward in future seasons to being there a lot more. But then again, I’m not going to be a full-time showrunner on anything so it should be a lot easier.
But it’s a huge responsibility. It’s a big responsibility to the book, it’s a responsibility to the actors, and it’s a responsibility to the audience. But if you let yourself think about the audience, you go mad. You just think about your responsibility to the cast and to the crew, and to the story.”
You’re working on the American Gods sequel. Is that something you plan on adapting and will it have something to do with the series?
Neil Gaiman: “I figure that what I’m hoping to do with American Gods the sequel is that there are hooks built into American Gods that the sequel clips onto. Some of them are big and obvious and some of them are almost invisible and only I know where they are. So, when we started the process with Bryan (Fuller) and Michael (Green), I explained to them where the clips were and the shape of the sequel and how it was going to begin and where things needed to hook onto.
Sitting down with Jesse, again, there was an, ‘Okay, these are the things we need to make sure. You can’t lose this thing. You can’t lose this thing. This thing may seem tiny but it’s going to have important events down the line.’
So, hopefully, at the point where we get to…if we make it through five seasons and we get to finish the book and then we’ve done the stories of Shadow in the UK, I can get to roll up my sleeves and get to the story of Shadow’s return to the U.S. That’s a long way down the line.”
Is that something you’re looking forward to doing?
Ricky Whittle: (Laughing) “Shadow will be 55. No, I’m massively looking forward to it. I’ve sat around the table at meetings and I’ve four days left of season two to shoot and I’m already looking forward to season three. It’s my favorite part of the book and I don’t want to just brush season two under the table, but I’ve lived it for the last so many months and I’m excited for the audience to catch up with me and see what we’ve done. But this is coming up to my favorite part of the book, and then moving on Neil has come up with so many other prophesies that we can delve into.
The way that the stories have all kind of evolved, we can progress this story too. So, the book was set to be four or five seasons long, we can do six, seven…because I love working with Neil. I love working with this cast. The crew in Toronto’s amazing. It’s a lot of fun.
The great thing about Shadow Moon is I work backwards. I know where I want him to go and what I want him to become, so I worked backwards to this empty shell void of feeling and emotions. So now I just get to just to layer him. Every season I get to add more colors until he becomes whatever we decide to do in the future.
Long may this show continue and I get to show the many colors of Shadow Moon.”
Ricky Whittle stars in ‘American Gods’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Starz)
What are fans telling you that they connect to most with Shadow Moon?
Ricky Whittle: “With Shadow? They love his hope, for some reason. A lot happens to Shadow Moon in a negative aspect and he continues to get up and keep moving forward.
Something that fans really reached out to me with was how it inspired them, which I felt was really heartwarming that they felt if Shadow Moon can get up after a night like he’s just had, I can get on with my day. It’s fine. I’ll go to work and deal with whatever I have to deal with or whatever space they’d be – be it a work space, be it the playground, be it at home. Wherever it is. Because he does constantly get beat down and he constantly gets back up. He constantly believes it will be okay. Even the troubles with Laura – he doesn’t just shun that. He wants answers. He wants to talk things out. He wants to find out what’s going on. He wants to find out what’s going on with Wednesday and all these gods.
It’s really inspirational that a character where so much negative stuff happens to him can actually provide hope for people. They see that inner strength that he has, that light that he kind of carries within him, and hopefully that light can kind of be passed on to the audience. That’s what you want to do. You want to inspire audiences to better themselves, become better versions of themselves, and to enjoy their own lives and see that it could be worse. You could be strung up into a tree by several faceless goons and a crazy vape-smoking teenager.”
Isn’t that just a normal Saturday for you?
Ricky Whittle: “It’s a Tuesday in California, basically.”
How has life changed for you since American Gods began?
Ricky Whittle: “Life hasn’t changed much because I’m always positive and I love life. The only thing that’s changed is I now get to work with my idols that I watched on TV. Neil called me up one day and (talking to Neil) you don’t know this. I’m geeking out. He called me up and I was speechless. I pointed at the phone as if to say, ‘It’s Neil,’ but no one’s here to see this. Damn it! So, yeah, I get to work with him and Orlando Jones, various people that I grew up with. Ian McShane. He’s Lovejoy to me. I grew up and my grandma, bless her soul, she would have lost her mind. If she would have known I was working with Ian McShane, oh my goodness. She loves him way more than me.
The only thing that’s changed is I get to work with my idols that I grew up with.”
Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle, Andre Braugher as Ray Holt, Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz, and Andy Samberg as Jake Peralta in ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (Photo by: Vivian Zink/NBC)
The good news Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans have been anxiously waiting to hear has arrived. NBC breathed new life into the half-hour comedy after it was cancelled by Fox, and now it’s confirmed the first NBC season (season six overall) won’t be a one-and-done thing. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been renewed for season seven which will air during the 2019-2020 season.
According to the network, season six has been averaging 3.9 million viewers. That’s a million more viewers than it averaged when season five aired on Fox.
The award-winning comedy was created by writers Dan Goor and Michael Schur. Goor, Schur, David Miner, and Luke Del Tredici serve as executive producers.
“It’s been one of our great joys as a network to give Brooklyn Nine-Nine a second life,” stated Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, Co-Presidents of Scripted Programming, NBC Entertainment. “Cheers to Dan Goor, Mike Schur, Luke Del Tredici and David Miner, and our amazing cast and crew who each week turn New York’s finest into New York’s funniest.”
Season six airs on Thursdays at 9pm ET/PT.
The Season Six Plot:
“As the sixth season begins, Brooklyn Nine-Nine continues to follow the exploits of hilarious Det. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), his diverse, lovable colleagues and their more-serious-than-a-hunk-of-actual-granite boss, Capt. Holt (Andre Braugher), as they police the NYPD’s 99th precinct. The new season will also dive into the marital life of Jake and his new bride, the extremely type-A Sgt. Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero), who were married in the season five finale.
Rounding out the ensemble are Holt’s next-in-command, Sgt. Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews), a muscle-bound human mountain who loves nothing more than his three little daughters, except for a fresh carton of full-fat yogurt. The man loves yogurt. Jake’s fellow detectives include his best friend and human puppy dog, Det. Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio), and the incredibly secretive, tough-as-nails Det. Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz). Holt’s civilian assistant is Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti), the living embodiment of the “100” emoji. Also part of the Nine-Nine are veteran officers Det. Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) and Det. Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker), whose only skill as police officers is their ability to make a passable pot of coffee.”
Stella Maeve as Julia Wicker and Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh in ‘The Magicians’ (Photo by: Eike Schroter/SYFY)
Syfy has made a whole lot of fans happy with the renewal of The Magicians for season five. The network confirmed today what had initially been announced on January 22nd that the popular fantasy series will be back for a fifth season. Henry Alonso Myers will be joining Sera Gamble and John McNamara as the fifth season showrunners.
Season four kicked off on January 23, 2019 and is currently airing on Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT. The season four cast includes Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil, Rick Worthy, Jade Tailor, Brittany Curran and Trevor Einhorn.
“The Magicians raised the bar at SYFY and has gained momentum season after season, attracting a new audience to the channel. We are proud of this series as it continues to break the boundaries of storytelling,” stated Bill McGoldrick, President, Scripted Content, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
“We couldn’t be happier or more excited to conjure another year of magic and all it entails — love, hate, loyalty, betrayal, sex, foul language, drugs, battling gods, monsters and the most dangerous enemies of all: other human beings. We have the best writers, producers, directors, cast and crew in the charted multiverse. Here’s how strongly we believe this: anyone who tries to poach a single one of them will be cursed. And we have the voodoo dolls to do it,” said executive producers and co-showrunners, John McNamara and Sera Gamble.
McNamara and Gamble also commented on the addition of Myers as a co-showrunner. “Henry has been with the show since minute one of Season 1. His talent, professionalism and love of all things magical has been instrumental to our success. We couldn’t be happier to see him become co-showrunner. Also, he bakes the greatest bread this side of the Hudson River.”
Ana Ortiz, Scott Foley, Vir Das, Lauren Cohan and Tyler James Williams in episode 1 (ABC/Larry D. Horricks)
ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier is your next will they/won’t they TV coupling. Scott Foley (Scandal) plays FBI Agent Will Chase. Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead) plays CIA Agent Frankie Trowbrige. It’s not just their agencies that are at odds, they both have their own way of saving the world but they’re going to have to work together.
The action-packed show films in Prague and all around Europe, but Foley and Cohan came to Los Angeles for the Television Critics Association panel on Whiskey Cavalier. We spoke with Foley more after the panel about all the tropes of hour-long action-comedy. Whiskey Cavalier premieres on February 27, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT on ABC.
What are some of the tropes you’re trying to change with this show?
Scott Foley: “For me, I have a hard time relating to the sort of, I don’t want to say soulless, but the tough don’t show your heart characters. To play one who is willingly open about his emotions and his feelings is so much more interesting and one I relate to much more.”
How so?
Scott Foley: “How so? There’s more to do. I can laugh, I can cry instead of just having sort of deadpan face looking over a body thinking we’ve got to figure this out. There’s things to relate to. It’s like being a person.”
Are you a crier in real life? What makes you emotional?
Scott Foley: “I think I’m emotional like Will. I think Will is more of a real life character than the tropes you see on other shows, if that makes sense. Am I a crier in real life? When I have to be. When it gets me what I want.”
Scott Foley: “On Scandal? I was there probably four or five days a week.”
Any hesitation to take a lead role that’s there the whole time?
Scott Foley: “No, no. I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing this for 25 years or so. Mostly in the drama space, so I was well aware of the workload that was coming my way. I‘m still young enough I can pull it off for a couple more years.”
How’s your frequent flyer miles?
Scott Foley: “I don’t get to fly as much as you’d think. We’re sort of stuck over there. A little puddle jump here and there but for the most part, it’s all in Prague. We’ve shot in London and Paris, I’m stuck in Prague. It’s a rough life, man. It’s a rough life. I’ve got three kids in school over there, my wife’s over there, we love it. It’s great.”
The whole family moved to Prague for this?
Scott Foley: “Yeah, what do you mean for this? This is it. I grew up overseas. My wife and I talked about giving our kids the opportunity to do the same thing. This came along and we’re jumping at it. We’re done filming our 13 episodes the beginning of March but my kids are in school until June. So we’ll stay and we’ll travel around.”
Do you get to see your family with all this this work?
Scott Foley: “It is labor intensive. I don’t get to see them as much as I’d like but the fact that they’re there with me, I can go into their rooms at night after they’re in bed, give ‘em a kiss or see them in the morning before I go. It’s important.”
Is playful the toughest tone to hit?
Scott Foley: “It’s been a hard tone. The one thing we wanted this show to be was fun. Obviously, everybody has their own idea of what fun is, but finding the tone of this has been, by far, the hardest thing. You get on these notes calls with executives and they’re drama executives because we’re doing an hour-long show. They want less jokes and more spy stuff. You get on set and let’s push the spy stuff away and find some more jokes. That’s the fun stuff for us and that’s really where the characters live. The spy stories are what take us from the beginning to the end, but the characters live in those comedic moments and that’s really important for us.”
What fun stuff is coming up?
Scott Foley: “Oh, what fun stuff isn’t coming up? We’re shooting episode 12 of 13 right now. You’ll get to see us in London. I’m living a dream here. I’m jumping off bridges. Lauren and I drove a motorboat under the London Tower Bridge on the Thames. We’ve shot at the Tate Modern. We have huge ski set pieces that we’re shooting in Austria.”
Do you say no sometimes?
Scott Foley: “I’m so glad I’m not riding a motorcycle down a staircase, but look, I’m 46 years old. I try to do as much as I can myself but there are times when I know that okay, I’d rather not have knee surgery in the off season so I’m gonna let you do that, buddy, because that’s your job.”
Do you feel like James Bond?
Scott Foley: “Yeah, but having more fun. James Bond gets to do all my stuff but I get to tell a joke every now and then, although he does have a couple cracks, doesn’t he?”
Scott Foley and Lauren Cohan in ‘Whiskey Cavalier’ (ABC/Larry D. Horricks)
How do you stay energized for such a physical job?
Scott Foley: “You would think it’s fairly complicated. I’ve been so busy in Prague. I’m wearing a suit from Scandal that’s a little big because I haven’t been to the gym in six months. I don’t have time to go to the gym. The fight rehearsals and dealing with all the stunts keeps me in fairly decent shape and my day is full. If I’ve got a scene that’s off, I’m doing a fight rehearsal with the stunt guys, working the next big set piece or I’m in a wardrobe fitting. It’s a busy gig and like I said to you earlier, I knew what I was getting into. I’m happy to have it.”
Was there one moment you were like, “What the hell have I gotten myself into?”
Scott Foley: “During the pilot, the second day. It was 10 below zero Celsius. With the windchill it was like 17 below. I was basically wearing this. I had three layers of long underwear on. They’d yell cut and the hair and makeup women would come to me with those hot water bottles that your grandmother uses, and I woke up the next day wind burned and exhausted and I thought I might rather be in prison. This is pretty bad.”
How often do you go home hurt?
Scott Foley: “All the time. All the time. I go home bruised and sore and limping and cold. Then my wife tells me shut up and deal with it. ‘I’m the lead of a show, we’re in Prague on an ABC TV show, you’re going to be just fine,’ and she’s right.”
Have a lot of your relatives come out to visit the set?
Scott Foley: “Yes, yes, all the Polish family. In my house.”
Do they want to be on the show?
Scott Foley: “They might. It’s not going to happen. Part of the deal of us going to Prague, my wife Marika’s on the show, she’s an actress with a fairly successful career. She said to me, ‘I can’t miss pilot season. I can’t miss getting jobs because you want to go.’ I told Peter Roth, ‘What if she’s on the show?’ He basically said, ‘If you’ll shoot in Prague, you can put your whole family on the show.’ So I’m going to put my whole family. The kids are next.”
What’s the dynamic while you’re shooting with her?
Scott Foley: “We had many conversations. We’ve worked together before in the past and it was not a great experience. The first time we ever worked together, we had a scene on a show called The Unit years ago. We were blocking it out, the director was saying, ‘Scott, you’re going to come from over here and then you guys will have a kiss here.’ I said, ‘That all sounds good except I don’t think I come from here,’ and I had some sort of reason. In the middle of me explaining it, my wife said, ‘Will you just come from where he wants you to come from?’ I said, ‘Okay, sure.’ I was like, ‘Babe, we’re at work. You talk to me like that at home but you can’t do that at work.’ And we had that conversation before here, and it didn’t seem to matter. She still talks to me like that.”
Is that hard when you combine that and leave the home stuff at home?
Scott Foley: “It is. You can’t. You can’t leave it at home. In between takes we’re talking about kids and school and did you pack the lunch? Just life is there but we’ve reconciled and it’s working out really well.”
A lot of us treat our jobs as an escape. You can’t do that.
Scott Foley: “No, it’s hard to. On Scandal, I’m guilty of being the guy who, if my call time was 10am, I’d tell my wife, ‘Oh babe, they need me at 7am.’ I’d go and take a nap in my trailer. We have little kids.”
What stunts get you really excited and which are like oh no, not again?
Scott Foley: “Driving stuff makes me really excited because I get to sit in a car. Fighting is exhausting because it’s not just me and you fighting. It’s me fighting all of you guys and they’re all professional stuntmen and I’m not a professional fighter. The stunt guys map out the entire fight before I even get there and then they show me a video of it. It’s daunting. My stunt guy, Pavel, is a professional kickboxer. So he’ll show me a video of him kicking a guy in the face. I’m like, ‘My leg doesn’t get up that high. I don’t know how you do it.’ So they just get me a shorter stunt guy.”
Poster for season 2 of ‘Strange Angel’ (Photo Credit: CBS All Access)
The period drama Strange Angel will return for a second season, and today CBS All Access announced Angus Macfadyen (Lost City of Z, Turn) has joined the show’s cast. According to the official announcement, Macfadyen will play Aleister Crowley.
Aleister Crowley is described as “the founder of Thelema and an accomplished man of mystery – as well as a writer of novels, a climber of mountains, and a master spy – comes to Jack Parsons, seeking Jack’s military connections, and ultimately pushes Jack to wield the full powers of magick and will.”
Angus Macfadyen joins a season two cast that includes Jack Reynor, Rupert Friend, Bella Heathcote, and Peter Mark Kendall. Strange Angel is based on George Pendle’s book and was created by Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins). Heyman executive produces with David DiGilio, Ridley Scott, and David W. Zucker.
Season two of the compelling series will air during the summer of 2019. Season one debuted on June 14, 2018 and is currently streaming on CBS All Access.
The Plot:
Strange Angel is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons and explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.
Jack Parsons (Reynor), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker in 1930s Los Angeles, works as a janitor at a chemical factory but dreams of building rockets that will take mankind to the moon. As he helps pioneer the unknown discipline of rocket science by day, by night, Parsons is pulled into a new occult religion created by Aleister Crowley, performing sex magick rituals to bend the world to his will and make his fantastical dreams a reality.
At the conclusion of the first season, Jack and his team from Caltech make a scientific breakthrough that secures the military’s interest as the country nears the brink of war. In season two, the U.S. is fully engaged in World War II, transforming Jack’s rocketry work into a lucrative business and further entrenching him in the military-industrial complex. While Jack’s career takes off, he and his wife Susan’s devotion to their new occult religion grows, leading them to invite the sex cult into their Pasadena mansion and to forge a personal relationship with the group’s notorious founder, Aleister Crowley himself.
Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green, and Tori Spelling are all confirmed to return for a special 90210 event series set to air this summer on Fox. According to the network, the reunited cast of 90210 will be playing heightened versions of themselves in the six-episode series.
“Beverly Hills, 90210 left an indelible impact on pop culture and an entire generation,” stated Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, FOX. “Its powerful legacy is an important part of our network’s DNA – bold stories not told anywhere else and bigger-than-life-characters – and we’re honored to bring back the beloved original cast members for 90210.”
Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler (90210, Awkward) are writing and executive producing. Gabrielle Carteris, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling and Ian Ziering will also executive produce.
The Plot:
“90210 comes with a big twist: Priestley, Garth, Ziering, Carteris, Green and Spelling will play heightened versions of themselves in a brand-new serialized drama – with a healthy dose of irreverence – that is inspired by their real lives and relationships.
Having gone their separate ways since the original series ended 19 years ago, Jason, Jennie, Ian, Gabrielle, Brian and Tori reunite when one of them suggests it’s time to get a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot up and running. But getting it going may make for an even more delicious soap than the reboot itself. What will happen when first loves, old romances, friends and frenemies come back together, as this iconic cast – whom the whole world watched grow up together – attempts to continue from where they left off?
Spawning generations of imitators, Beverly Hills, 90210 premiered on FOX on October 4, 1990, when it became an instant pop culture sensation and one of the most adored programs in the network’s history. Centered on the tony Los Angeles community identified in its title, the show aired for 10 seasons, during which it documented the trials and tribulations of a group of friends from high school to college and into early adulthood, as they navigated a myriad of coming-of-age dramas and complex rivalries, often making real-world headlines by tackling controversial and socially relevant topics.”
CBS All Access will continue to travel to new frontiers with a third season of Star Trek: Discovery. The network also announced Michelle Paradise will join Alex Kurtzman as co-showrunners on the upcoming third season.
“Michelle joined us midway through season two and energized the room with her ferocious knowledge of Trek,” stated Alex Kurtzman. “Her grasp of character and story detail, her drive and her focus have already become essential in ensuring the Trek legacy, and her fresh perspective always keeps us looking forward. I’m proud to say Michelle and I are officially running Star Trek: Discovery together.”
“The massive success of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season launch exceeded our expectations in both driving subscriber growth and generating a phenomenal response from Star Trek fans,” said Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President, Original Content, CBS All Access. “With Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise at the helm, we look forward to continuing Star Trek: Discovery’s journey, growing the Star Trek franchise on CBS All Access and bringing fans new Star Trek stories for many years to come.”
Michelle Paradise’s resume includes being a co-executive producer on The Originals and writer on Hart of Dixie and Rogue, prior to being a co-executive producer on Star Trek: Discovery.
The cast of the show’s second season is led by Sonequa Martin-Green (Commander Michael Burnham). The series also stars Michelle Yeoh (Philippa Georgiou), Doug Jones (Commander Saru), Shazad Latif (Ash Tyler), Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike), Anthony Rapp (Lt. Commander Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Ensign Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), Mary Chieffo (L’Rell), and Ethan Peck (Spock).
The first season as well as the first six Star Trek: Discovery season two episodes are currently available to CBS All Access subscribers.
The Plot:
After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery joining forces with Captain Christopher Pike on a new mission to investigate seven mysterious red signals and the appearance of an unknown being called the Red Angel. While the crew must work together to unravel their meaning and origin, Michael Burnham is forced to face her past with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.
CBS’s FBI season one continues on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 9pm ET/PT with an episode titled “Invisible.” Season one episode 16 was directed by Charles Carroll from a script by Joe Halpin.
Episode 16’s guest stars include James Chen as Ian Lim, Olivia Nikkanen as Elizabeth Chase, Chris Diamantopoulos as Benjamin Chase, Anzi Debenedetto as Charlie Jacobs, Dominique Allen Lawson as Greg, George R. Sheffey as Mr. Musk, Peter Scattini as Sam Musk, and Kevin T. Collins as Carl. Tara Westwood, Ann Sanders, Kyoko Dole, Luis Patino, Melissa Joyner, Derek Hedlund, Adaku Ononogbo, Mark Mckinnon, Barbara Tirrell, and Robert Michael Johnson also guest star.
Season one stars Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, and Ebonée Noel as Kristen Chazal. The cast also includes Jeremy Sisto as Jubal Valentine and Sela Ward as Dana Mosier.
The “Invisible” Plot – When the daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped in an attempt to gain notorious internet fame, Maggie and OA discover the kidnapper’s plans go far beyond abduction in order to never be forgotten.
FBI Season 1 Plot:
“From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the team behind the Law & Order franchise, FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe.
Born into a multigenerational law enforcement family, Special Agent Maggie Bell commits deeply to the people she works with as well as those she protects. Her partner is Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, a West Point graduate via Bushwick who spent two years undercover for the DEA before being cherry-picked by the FBI. Overseeing them is Special Agent in Charge, Dana Mosier, who operates under intense pressure 24/7/365 and has undeniable command authority.
The team also includes Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, the nerve center of the office whose ability to easily relate to and engage with both superiors and subordinates makes him a master motivator. Kristen Chazal is the team’s most valued resource, a brilliant analyst recruited straight out of university who can piece together the big picture faster than anyone. These first-class agents tenaciously investigate cases of tremendous magnitude, including terrorism, organized crime and counterintelligence.”
