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Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson, Free Solo climber Alex Honnold, Dave Bautista, Armie Hammer, Cara Delevingne, Zachary Quinto and a returning Channing Tatum are among the adventurers confirmed dive into Season 5 of Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Nat Geo confirmed Tuesday the cast and that its season premiere is November…

EXCLUSIVE: McMafia‘s Juliet Rylance is set as a series regular and Andrew Howard (The Oath), Eric Lange (Narcos), Robert Patrick (True Blood) and Stephen Root (Barry) will recur opposite Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow in Perry Mason, HBO's limited series from Team Downey. Written and executive produced by Rolin Jones…

Hidden Figures and Moonlight star Janelle Monáe is set to headline the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. The description of her character provides some clues about the premise of Season 2. The actress/musician plays a tenacious woman who finds…

The Last O.G.‘s Daniel J. Watts has been cast as Ike Turner in the upcoming Broadway production of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, producers announced today. The actor joins the previously announced Adrienne Warren who reprises the role of Tina she originated in the London production. Watts was among the general cast…

Young Australian actress Markella Kavenagh has been cast as a series regular on Amazon Studios' high-profile The Lord of the Rings TV series, sources confirm to Deadline. The series hails from writers JD Payne and Patrick McKay and director Juan Antonio (J.A.) Bayona.  Set in Middle-earth, it will explore new…

EXCLUSIVE: Phillip Rhys (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming second season of CBS All Access' anthology series Tell Me A Story. Based on a Spanish format, Tell Me A Story takes the world's most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological…

Jonathan Groff is, suddenly, Seymour with this fall’s Off Broadway return of the beloved Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical Little Shop of Horrors. Co-starring with Mindhunter‘s Groff in the Michael Mayer-directed revival will be Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle. The production and casting was announced today by…

EXCLUSIVE: Lea DeLaria (Orange is the New Black) is set for a recurring role on Hulu’s upcoming femme fatale thriller series Reprisal, from The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and A+E Studios. Created, written and executive produced by Josh Corbin (StartUp), Reprisal is a hyper-noir story that…

Bloodline and The Passage alum Jamie McShane and Rudy Dobrev (NCIS: Los Angeles) are set for recurring roles on the upcoming third season of military drama series SEAL Team. Starring David Boreanaz, SEAL Team follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and…

Adam Sandler is on to his Netflix next project, an untitled Halloween comedy which will feature an all-star cast such as Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Maya Rudolph, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Michael Chiklis, and Kenan Thompson. Steve Brill is directing the Happy Madison Productions film from a screenplay…

The cherry on top of the Marvel Comic-Con session Saturday was news that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to play Blade in a reboot from Kevin Feige’s MCU. No other details were revealed. The original from New Line Cinema starred Wesley Snipes. It was an R-rated film, so it will be interesting to see if…

Jeffery Wright has been cast as The Watcher, the narrator of What If…?, Marvel’s upcoming animated series for the Disney+ streaming service. The news was revealed Saturday during Marvel’s jam-packed Hall H presentation at Comic-Con. Wright fittingly was in San Diego already, participating earlier today in HBO’s panel…