Miracle Workers
TBS has renewed its anthology comedy “Miracle Workers” for a third season. Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe will both return for the new episodes which this season will set the action along the Oregon Trail. Dan Mirk and Robert Padnick will take over as showrunners.
Set in the year 1844, an idealistic small-town preacher (Radcliffe) teams up with a wanted outlaw (Buscemi) and a liberated prairie wife (Geraldine Viswanathan) to lead a wagon train west – a landscape fraught with both promise and peril. [Source: TV Line]
Dopesick
Rosario Dawson has joined the cast of Hulu’s limited series “Dopesick” which deals with the opioid crisis. Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard and Katilyn Dever co-star in this adaptation of Beth Macy’s best-selling book. Dawson will play Bridget Meyer, a DEA agent who fights to curtail the use of OxyContin. Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, Philippa Soo and Jake McDorman co-star in the series which hails from Danny Strong and Barry Levinson. [Source: The Live Feed]
You
Scott Speedman has joined the cast of the upcoming third season of Netflix’s Penn Badgley-led stalker drama “You”. The former “Felicity” and “Underworld” star plays an affluent CEO, husband and ‘uncommunicative’ father named Matthew. His character is described as “reserved, at times mysterious, and has a tendency to be withdrawn, all of which masks a deep well of emotion underneath.” [Source: TV Line]
Staged
The BBC has ordered a second season of lockdown comedy “Staged” starring “Good Omens” alum Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Sheen & Tennant play two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to COVID-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
The new series sees the pair attempt to navigate their new normal at home with their increasingly exasperated families, while simultaneously trying to tackle the world of virtual Hollywood. [Source: BBC]
Servant
The second season trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series “Servant” series is out ahead of the ten new episodes kicking off weekly starting with a global premiere on January 15th.
The second season of the thriller takes a supernatural turn as Leanne returns to the brownstone and her true nature is revealed, a darker future for all lies ahead. Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free and Rupert Grint all co-star.
