There is a rumor out there — only a rumor, folks — that Angela Lansbury will be joining the cast of Game of Thrones for two episodes. And I don’t care that it’s just a rumor, and I don’t even care who she may or may not play, I’m just `going to go ahead and get excited about this.
Bachelor in Paradise has been renewed for a fourth season because someone at ABC hates my liver.
There will be at least two more seasons of Narcos on Netflix, amigos.
Speaking of drug dramas: Queen of the South has been renewed by USA for a second season.
If Mistresses returns next summer — which is a big if — it’s going to have to do so without Yunjin Kim. (She’s got a full schedule of hunting Benry to attend to. Old Lost references, high five.)
You only thought there were a lot of O.J. Simpson projects. Just wait until the wave of JonBenet specials take over television. NBC is the most recent network to add JonBenet to their schedule. It’s a part of a television obsession with true-crime stories — but has anyone told them that there were more than two murders in the 90s?
The present-day Heathers series is moving forward over on TV Land. Big fun!
In other development news:
- Fox bought a family comedy from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
- One Direction’s Zayn Malik and Dick Wolf are working on a series together for NBC which I can only imagine will be called Chicago: Boy Band
- CBS bought a legal drama from the producer of Parenthood and Friday Night Lights
- A series of classic Doctor Who episodes from the 60s are being reimagined as a six-part animated series
- NBC has bought another comedy from Eva Longoria because they will never learn
- NBC also bought a suburban crime drama
- The classic Australian movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, is being turned into a miniseries (for Australian TV — but it might come here eventually)
The Russian remake of Everybody Loves Raymond is the longest-running Russian adaptation of an American show. And now you’ll never be able to forget that dumb fact.
R.I.P. Leslie Herbert Martinson, director of every single television show ever.
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