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“The Umbrella Academy” is bringing in three new cast members for season 2.

Ritu Arya, Yusuf Gatewood and Marin Ireland are all set to join returning cast members Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin H. Min for the Netflix show’s sophomore outing.

Arya, best known for her role in the AMC shows “Humans,” has been cast as Lila, a chameleon who can be as brilliant or as clinically insane as the situation requires.

Gatewood, who recently starred in Amazon’s “Good Omens,” will play Raymond, a born leader with the smarts, gravitas,

David E. Kelley, fresh off his stint on “Big Little Lies,” and “Lost” director Jack Bender are teaming up to bring Stephen King’s latest novel “The Institute” to the screen.

Spyglass has won the rights to the book and plans to adapt it into a limited series with Kelley in place to write and executive produce, and Bender set to serve serve as director and executive producer. The duo previously worked together on “Mr. Mercedes,” Audience Network’s adaptation of King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy which has been renewed for a third season.

“The Institute,” which hits shelves today,

Starz is set to premiere European crime drama Dublin Murders on Sunday November 10. The Lionsgate-backed broadcaster has also unveiled the first trailer for the drama, which stars Killian Scott (C.B. Strike) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful).

The series, which airs in an 8pm slot, is based on Tana French’s novels. Starz acquired the series, which was originally commissioned by the BBC, in December and it will air it in the U.S., Canada as well as on its Starzplay service across Europe and Latin America. It will launch on BBC One in the UK in October.

The psychological thriller is adapted by series creator and writer Sarah Phelps. Dublin Murders follows Rob Reilly (Scott) – a smart-suited detective whose English accent marks him as an outsider – who is dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin with his partner, Cassie Maddox (Greene

The casting of Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown” Season 3 has caused something of a continuity controversy given the Oscar-winning actress has brown eyes. Claire Foy, who played the character in the first two seasons of the Netflix smash hit, has blue eyes, correctly matching the color of the real Queen Elizabeth II. Netflix’s first look images for “The Crown” Season 3 confirmed Colman was keeping her brown eye color in the role, but that doesn’t mean the production didn’t try to maintain eye color continuity.

“The Crown” director Ben Caron told The Guardian in a recent interview that the production first tried to use blue contact lenses on Colman to get her to match both Foy and the real Queen Elizabeth II. The problem was that the contact lenses got in the way of Colman’s acting. Caron said it felt as if Colman “was acting behind a mask…

The hit CBS sitcom “Young Sheldon” is in hot water with the FCC over its use of sound effects avoking the Emergency Alert System tone during an episode that aired last April, and the agency is now proposing a $272,000 fine.

The episode, titled “A Mother, A Child, and a Blue Man’s Backside,” aired April 22 and featured a character watching the broadcast of a cartoon that is interrupted by a tornado watch. The moment featured a background sound similar to the EAS tone. The tone was altered in an attempt to avoid violating FCC rules that forbid using such tones except during actual emergency situations or authorized tests, but in a statement released Monday night, the FCC said the show didn’t go far enough.

“On April 12, 2018, CBS transmitted an episode of “Young Sheldon” via at least 227 television stations, including 15 of CBS’s owned-and-operated television stations. The episode included a

Disney Plus has abandoned plans for a scripted Muppets series that was being worked on by Josh Gad, Adam Horowitz, and Edward Kitsis.

Though the trio’s planned take on the beloved Jim Henson characters had never been formally announced, sources confirm that it had been in the works for months at the streaming service. According to an individual with knowledge of the decision, Gad, Horowitz, and Kitsis decided to walk away from the series after new leadership at Muppets Studios opted to take the series in a different direction.

The news comes less than three weeks after Disney announced

Things are getting spooky at Apple TV+: The soon-to-debut streamer is rebooting the ’90s PBS kids’ show Ghostwriter.

The new-look Ghostwriter, billed as “a reinvention of the beloved original series,” centers on “four kids who are brought together by a mysterious ghost in a neighborhood bookstore, and must team up to release fictional characters from works of literature.” It’ll premiere Friday, Nov. 1, along with Apple TV+’s other initial offerings like the Jennifer Aniston/Reese Witherspoon drama The Morning Show and the Jason Momoa dystopian drama See. (Watch the first trailer for See right here.)

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ABC’s Grand Hotel checked out on Monday night with 2.17 million total viewers and a 0.4 rating (per football-adjusted Nielsen finals), ending Season 1 with an audience low while steady in the demo.

Through its penultimate episode, Grand Hotel was averaging just under 2.8 million total weekly viewers and a hair over a 0.5 demo rating, ranking ninth among all ABC summertime programs (but besting Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., What Would You Do?, something called Family Food Fight and Reef Break).

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Schitt's Creek is the best show currently on TV, and we're notdone talking about it. And we might never be, bebes! To paraphrase David Rose (Dan Levy), we might not have a lot, but we do have taste.

The latest update on our favorite series of the year is this: Netflix has revealed that Season 5 will

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Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.

This week’s question: Who is your favorite TV doctor of all time? (Doctor Who does not count.)

Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook), TV Guide Magazine

I am not a fan of how TV usually represents doctors. They are mostly either super earnest and “I am going to save you at the risk of my career!” annoying or the “doesn’t play by the rules” rebel who rides a motorcycle down the ER hallway. Both are tired. And don’t even start me on the hard-ass doctors who obviously know everything and show it off while parading a crew of new residents through a massive hospital during the opening of soooooo many pilots. We get it: Their job is their life and they have a secret soft center.

No, I like my doctors like

Wme is seeking to dismiss the Writers Guild of America’s suit alleging packaging fees are illegal.

Lawyers for the agency filed the motion late Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, asserting that the WGA has failed to state a claim under which relief can be granted and that the court lacks jurisdiction. It asked that the court set a hearing for Oct. 11.

The move comes three weeks after the WGA withdrew its state court suit against Wme, CAA, UTA and ICM Partners and re-filed suit in federal court. The guild is seeking a declaration that packaging fees are unlawful.

The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Sept. 5 and Hollywood’s biggest stars made the trip to Canada to premiere their films.

Some of the most anticipated premieres and screenings included Jennifer Lopez’s “Hustlers,” Meryl Streep in “The Laundromat,” Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” Eddie Murphy in “Dolemite Is My Name,” Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out,” and Adam Sandler’s “Uncut Gems.” Besides premieres, the festival included numerous glitzy after-parties and galas.

Catch a look inside the festivities with photos from the 2019 Toronto Film Festival.

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The Lenkoverse is back on track for another two-show team-up.

Though a full-on crossover between CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum P.I. did not come to fruition during the latter’s freshman run, Peter M. Lenkov — the showrunner for both of the Aloha State-based procedurals — told TVLine as part of our Fall Preview Q&a that he is resolved to making it happen this TV season, and “sooner rather than later.”

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Gas up your yellow chem suits and do the happy lab dance because Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad movie is coming soon.

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Dermot Mulroney (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Homecoming) is now leading the hunt for Hanna in Amazon Prime’s action-drama.

Mulroney has joined the Season 2 cast as John Carmichael, a former mentor of Mireille Enos’ Marissa who takes over at the sinister Utrax organization that has been hunting the series’ titular teen.

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Other Season 2 additions, per our sister site Deadline, include Anthony Welsh (Pure), Severine Howell-Meri (Casualty), Cherrelle Skeete (Doctors) and Gianna Kiehl.

Arrow Season 8 is nearly upon us, and now we finally have our first photos from the final season. It really is the beginning of the end!

In addition to some stellar photos of Team Arrow doing their thing, we also officially have our first peek at two cameos that we simply cannot wait for. Both Tommy

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Millie Bobby Brown is sticking with Netflix for her next project. According to Deadline, the Stranger Things star is teaming up with her sister Paige Brown for the Netflix film A Time Lost.

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On Tuesday, the first trailer for Apple TV+'s upcoming dystopian drama See was revealed, and it looks like the Jason Momoa series will be serving up some serious Game of Thronesvibes.

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Arrow will be playing its “greatest hits” as the CW drama unspools its final 10 episodes. And as seen in the first batch of photos from the Season 8 premiere, two of those tunes come in the form of the late Moira Queen (again played by Susanna Thompson) and the equally dead Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell).

How on Earth is that possible?

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