TV News: Rebel, Undoing, Park, Quinn, Shadows

Rebel
Andy Garcia has been cast opposite Katey Sagal in ABC’s Erin Brockovich drama pilot “Rebel” which hails from “Station 19” showrunner Krista Vernoff. Sagal plays Annie ‘Rebel’ Bellow, a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree.

She’s a funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman who cares desperately about the causes she fights for and the people she loves. Garcia will play Julian Cruz, the recently widowed powerful attorney for whom Rebel consults and whom is frequently irritated by his most famous employee. [Source: The Live Feed]

The Undoing
HBO has released a new teaser for their limited series adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s psychological thriller novel “The Undoing” starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland, Edgar Ramirez, Noah Jupe and Lily Rabe. The series will debut on May 10th.

The Undoing will follow the story of married couple who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.

Central Park
Apple has released the trailer for “Central Park,” the first adult-targeted animated series for Apple TV+ and one that hails from Loren Bouchard – the creator of “Bob’s Burgers”. The voice cast includes likes of Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs, and Stanley Tucci.

The series is partly a musical too and follows people that all have warring ideas on what to do with the New York City location. “Central Park” will premiere on Apple TV+ on May 29.

Harley Quinn
DC Universe has released a first look clip from its animated series “Harley Quinn” in which Penguin gloating over a captive Quinn and gets more than he bargained for – losing his trademark in the process. The new season sees Alfred Molina joining as Mister Freeze and Sanaa Lathan arriving as Catwoman. New episodes air from April 3rd.

What We Do In The Shadows
FX has released a series of teasers for the second season of “What We Do in the Shadows”. In the new season, the vampires will try to find their way in a world of human Super Bowl parties, internet trolls, an energy vampire who gets a promotion and becomes drunk on power and of course, all the ghosts, witches, necromancers, zombies and shadowy cloaked assassins who roam freely in the Tri-State area.