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“The Night Agent” returns to Netflix with its highly anticipated second season, continuing the thrilling narrative of FBI Agent Peter Sutherland as he navigates the intricate world of espionage and political intrigue. Based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, The Night Agent Season 2 introduces new characters and deepens existing relationships, all portrayed by a talented ensemble cast.

The Night Agent Season 2: Complete Cast & Characters Guide of the Netflix series Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland

Gabriel Basso reprises his role as Peter Sutherland, the diligent FBI agent now fully immersed in the secretive Night Action program at the White House. Basso, 30, is best known for his portrayal of J.D. Vance in the 2020 film adaptation of “Hillbilly Elegy.” His previous work includes roles in “The Big C,” “Super 8,” and “The Kings of Summer.”

Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin

Luciane Buchanan returns as Rose Larkin, a former Silicon Valley cybersecurity CEO and Peter’s love interest.

Prolific author James Patterson will take a rare detour into true crime with a new book focusing on the brutal murder of four University of Idaho students.

Patterson, along with journalist Vicky Ward, will “draw from dozens of exclusive interviews, extensive on-the-ground reporting, and copious court transcripts,” publisher Little, Brown and Company announced.

Patterson and Ward will also reportedly be on hand for the murder trial of suspect Bryan Kohberger, who was arrested in December on charges related to the mass killing and was indicted by a Boise grand jury this past week.

James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward are working to turn the tragic deaths of students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves into a non-fiction title.

In November 2022, the four students at the University of Idaho were violently killed in their homes. Dubbed the “Moscow Murders,” the infamous attack gained a rapid following online as internet sleuths on Reddit, Twitter and other platforms gathered to try and find the killer and his motive.

The book will recount the violence that rattled the college town and the subsequent investigation and arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger. Skydance Television is seeking to option the rights of the book as part of their first-look deal with Patterson. Story Syndicate is in final negotiations to be the production partner with Skydance on the docuseries.

Through exclusive interviews, shoe-leather reporting and court transcripts, Patterson and Ward will delve into the details of the crime,...

The story of the horrific Idaho student murders is in the works for the page and the small screen. Bestselling author James Patterson and award-winning journalist Vicky Ward are teaming on a nonfiction book about the 2022 murders of the four University of Idaho students. Additionally, Skydance Television intends to option the rights to the book for development as a docuseries, based on Patterson and Ward’s investigation, as part of their first-look deal with Patterson.

The book, which does not yet have a title or release date, will be published by Little Brown and Company. According to the publishing company, in it, Patterson and Ward will give a dramatic account of the November 2022 murders of the four students in the Idaho college town of Moscow and the investigation of suspect Bryan Kohberger.

Patterson and Ward will draw from dozens of exclusive interviews, extensive on-the-ground reporting, copious court transcripts, and also will attend Kohberger’s trial.

Growth in streaming market, international roll-out fuels conversation.

This year’s Los Angeles Screenings took place against a backdrop of what Warner Bros TV distribution chief Jeffrey Schlesinger described as “seismic tremors” moving through the television industry.

And the 1,200 or so programming buyers who attended from around the world were eager to see how the effects of consolidation – particularly the unification of Disney and Fox’s TV operations – and the impending launches of Disney, Warner and NBCUniversal streaming services, might be felt in the international TV sales sector.

At the Latin America-focused La Screenings Independent segment of the event, where...

As we close the book on the 2019 broadcast pilot season, largely overshadowed by the WGA-Ata standoff, here is Deadline’s annual honor roll of those who excelled at the 2019 upfronts. The list includes writers/producers/pods who scored at least one new series at the upfronts and have multiple scripted shows.

Berlanti Prods. went 3-for-3 with their pilots, landing series orders for Prodigal Son, starring Michael Sheen and Tom Payne, at Fox and Batwoman, headlined by Ruby Rose, and Katy Keene, starring Lucy Hale, at the CW. The company, which Greg Berlanti runs with President Sarah Schechter, also saw all of its current broadcast series being renewed The company’s tally is a record 18 series (including Red Line). Additionally, Warner Bros. TV-based Berlanti Prods. controls more than half of the CW...

Kim Cattrall is returning to television. The Sex and the City actress will produce and star in the new Fox TV show called Filthy Rich. The soapy drama series will revolve around a very wealthy Southern family and it sounds like their lives are anything but dull. Filthy Rich will debut mid-season (likely in January 2020) but the network has released information and a teaser video that you can watch below.

Filthy Rich

From writer/director Tate Taylor comes Filthy Rich, a southern Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and religion intersect - more correctly, collide - with outrageously soapy results. Meet the Monreauxes, a mega-rich Southern family famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network. Read More…...

It's been a few days since ABC pulled the plug on Whiskey Cavalier.

With ABC's Upfronts presentation happening later today, ABC president of entertainment, Karey Burke has opened up about the cancellation of the Scott Foley and Lauren Cohan led series.

“It was a tough decision, it was the last decision we made,” ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke said at the Disney upfront event.

“We thought we gave it very strong launch in spring. But we lost audience. We felt the biggest opportunity was to try something new."

"We looked for other time slots but did not see a real opportunity to grow.”

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When Whiskey Cavalier was picked up to series last year, many thought it was going to be a breakout success when it premiered.

But Whiskey Cavalier Season 1 has failed to garner much traction.

The show is currently...

Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier has taken to saying that the relaunch of the broadcast network following the historic Disney-21st Century Fox transaction has turned Fox into a “startup company.” During Monday’s upfront presentation at the Beacon Theatre, the startup seams were showing at times as the new-model Fox unveiled a large slate of new shows for the 2019-20 season that amount to a number of swings in different directions.

As promised, Fox is putting great emphasis on live sports and events on its air now that it is untethered from serving the needs of a sibling studio operation as it previously did with 20th Century Fox, now part of Disney. The network’s late-week schedule is stocked with NFL football on Thursday and Sunday, college gridiron on Saturday and Friday’s “sports entertainment” of WWE’s “SmackDown Live.”

But even with the focus on football, much...

Fox has a lot of new shows airing for which they just released all of the trailers! 

Let's take a look at what you can count on seeing for the 2019-20 season on Fox.

Fox Fall 2019 Schedule: Empire, The Resident and More on the Move!

Let us know what shows you want to watch and whether you think we should cover them here at TV Fanatic!

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There was bad news for Last Man Standing this morning when Fox’s fall schedule was unveiled and the Tim Allen sitcom was not on it. But they won’t have to wait that long for Season 8 of the show: It will debut in January after Thursday Night Football wraps on a new night, Thursday, going against NBC’s comedy block at 8 Pm.

Lms is expected to be paired with new multi-camera comedy Outmatched, starring Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson. I hear that anchoring the night at 9 Pm will be promising new drama series Filthy Rich, starring Kim Cattrall. Fox had been trying to get the family soap for fall launch, but creator Tate Taylor’s film schedule did not permit that.

Allen shared the news of the new slot with his fans on Twitter.

In NYC at the Fox Network upfronts.

Big news and kinda cool they are moving Lms to Thursday.

Fox has released the trailers for its new fall 2019 TV shows, and a few series that will premiere at midseason, too.

Now you can get your first look at the “unusual family” dramedy “Not Just Me,” starring Brittany Snow, the Greg Berlanti-produced serial-killer drama, “Prodigal Son,” and Kristen Wiig’s new animated series, “Bless the Harts,” all of which will debut at the start of Fox’s upcoming year.

There are also previews for these new shows, which will premiere in the colder months: the David Ayer-created cop drama, “Deputy,” the John Slattery-led tech-centric thriller, “neXt,” Kim Cattrall’s Southern Gothic dramedy, “Filthy Rich, and family sitcom “Outmatched,” starring Jason Biggs.

Find the 2019-20 schedule for the Fox broadcast network here. Readers can check out what TheWrap saw and heard at the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers at the Beacon Theatre in New York City today here.

Fox has released trailers for three of its new shows premiering on the network this fall, as well as a bunch for its midseason offerings.

New drama “Prodigal Son,” which features Michael Sheen, will join Fox’s Monday night lineup, “Not Just Me” will air Wednesday nights, and animated comedy “Bless the Harts,” from Amy Poehler, joins the network’s much-vaunted Sunday animated lineup, wedged between “The Simpsons” and “Bob’s Burgers.”

Fox has opted to hold back the majority of its new content for midseason, and the lack of a new live-action comedies in the lineup is an intriguing first.

Watch the trailers and read the official series descriptions for the new shows below.

“Prodigal Son” – Mondays at 9 p.m. Et

From Emmy Award-nominated executive producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter and writers Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, “Prodigal Son” is a fresh take on a crime franchise with...

Fox revealed its fall schedule on Monday, giving almost a complete overhaul to its Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday primetime lineups — including the expected shakeup of that last night there, which we previously knew would be devoted to the 2-hour “WWE’s SmackDown Live.”

On Mondays, Ryan Murphy’s “9-1-1” has been shifted up to 8 p.m. to make room for new Greg Berlanti-produced serial killer drama “Prodigal Son” in its old 9 o’clock hour.

Tuesdays have also been stirred up (as they were previously held by the now-canceled “Lethal Weapon” and “The Gifted”), with “9-1-1’s” former lead-in “The Resident” moving into the 8 p.m. slot that night, to be followed by “Empire” at 9, which is sliding over from 8 p.m. on Wednesday back to its old night and time for its final season.

And with the hip-hop drama off Wednesday and “Star” canceled, that night...

Aubrey Dollar, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Corey Cott & Mark L. Young are set to co-star opposite Kim Cattrall in Filthy Rich, Fox’s soapy drama pilot from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox TV.

Written and to be directed by Taylor based on the New Zealand series, Filthy Rich is described as a larger-than-life Southern gothic dramedy that revolves around two strong, sharp women, Margaret Monroe (Cattrall) and and Ginger Sweet, who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and...

Kim Cattrall is getting Filthy Rich. 

The Sex and the City actress has signed up to appear on Fox's in-the-works soapy drama series, Filthy Rich. 

Cattrall will take on the role of the matriarch of the family the potential series will focus on. 

It follows the Monroe clan, a wealthy family who is rocked when the patriarch dies in a plane crash. 

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Being the CEO of the world's largest Christian network, questions start to arise over what was going on before his passing. 

Things get crazier when Cattrall's character realizes that her late husband fathered illegitimate kids. 

Making things worse, the kids are all in his will, meaning there's less of the family fortune to go around. 

Margaret's immediate reaction is to pay some of them off, but that's easier said than done, especially when these heirs learn that there's a lot of money at stake.

Kim Cattrall is set to lead the cast of Fox’s Southern dramedy pilot, “Filthy Rich,” from “The Help” director, Tate Taylor, TheWrap has learned.

Here’s the logline for the project: A Southern Gothic dramedy revolving around two strong, sharp women who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town, but becoming part of the family empire

The “Sex and the City” alum will play Margaret Monroe, that “steel azalea matriarch of the family,” mentioned in the description above.

Fox has presumably shown Kim Cattrall a decent chunk of change, tapping the Sex and the City vet to both star in and produce its Southern-tinged family soap opera Filthy Rich, TVLine has learned. Cattrall, who is coming off of a one-season stint on CBS All Access’ horror anthology Tell Me a Story, will play the “steel azalea” matriarch of the family at the center of the series, which hails from Help auteur Tate Taylor.

Filthy Rich centers on the “larger than life” Monroe clan, whose patriarch — a wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network — dies in a plane crash.

Kim Cattrall is set to lead the cast of Filthy Rich. The Sex and the City alumna also will serve as a producer on Fox’s soapy drama pilot from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox TV.

Written and to be directed by Taylor based on the New Zealand series, Filthy Rich is described as a larger-than-life Southern gothic dramedy that revolves around two strong, sharp women who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not...

The cast of ‘Bad Mothers’

As parents, Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang agreed that being a mother can be an impossible job and that no matter how hard they try, women will sometimes feel they are bad mothers.

The Auckland-based founders of Filthy Productions came up with the concept of a comedy-drama about five mums whose kids go to the same school, overlaid with a murder mystery, and pitched it to the Nine Network.

Execs at Nine suggested Strawhan and Lang find an Australian partner, which turned out to be Jungle Entertainment. The result is Bad Mothers, which launches on Nine at 9 pm on February 18 and across the ditch on Tvnz on February 20.

The ensemble show stars Tess Haubrich as Sarah, whose perfect life as a Gp, wife and mother is shattered when she discovers her husband Anton (Daniel MacPherson) is having an affair. Even worse, her best friend is...

Fox has ordered two more drama pilots. They are Deputy, an hourlong police procedural from Bright helmer David Ayer, Aquaman writer Will Beall and eOne; and an untitled hourlong dramedy (fka Let’s Spend the Night Together), inspired by the French series Quadras, from Californication creator Tom Kapinos, Empire director and executive producer Sanaa Hamri, Endemol Shine North America and 20th Century Fox TV. Deputy had received a script commitment with penalty, and Untitled Tom Kapinos had gotten a put pilot commitment.

Written by Beall with Ayer set to direct, Deputy centers on Deputy Bill Hollister, a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors and utterly lost in a staff meeting. But when the La County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.

Related2019 Fox Pilots & Series Orders

Beall executive produces with Ayer and Long via their Cedar Park.

Fox has given a pilot order to one-hour police drama Prodigal Son, from Deception creator Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros TV.

This marks the first pilot from an outside studio for Fox this season, with at least one more, Deputy, from eOne, pending. Prodigal Son joins three other Fox pilots — comedies Richard Lovely and Geniuses and drama Filthy Rich — along with two straight-to-series animated comedies — Bless the Hearts and Duncanville — all from the network’s longtime corporate sibling 20th Century Fox TV, which is headed to Disney as part of the $71.3 billion asset acquisition. (Duncanville is co-produced by Universal TV.)

As part of decreasing the net’s dependence on 20th TV, Fox bass last summer revealed a plan to have half of the scripted development for next season come from outside suppliers vs. 10% last season. The network has ownership in all projects.

Written by Fedak and Sklaver,...

Fox has given its first live-action comedy green lights this season to the single-camera Richard Lovely, from Grace and Frankie executive producer Billy Finnegan, and the multi-camera blue-collar family half-hour Geniuses (working title), from La to Vegas creator/executive producer Lon Zimmet. The latter appears to be eyed as a potential companion to Fox’s flagship comedy series Last Man Standing.

So far, Fox has ordered three pilots, Richard Lovely, Geniuses and drama Filthy Rich, for next season, along with two straight-to-series animated comedies, Bless the Hearts and Duncanville. All five hail from Fox’s longtime corporate sibling 20th Century Fox TV, which is headed to Disney as part of the $71.3 billion asset acquisition.

While 20th TV traditionally had been Fox’s primary supplier, producing almost all of the network’s scripted series, in preparation for Fox Broadcasting Company’s future as an independent, its now-former brass this past summer...

Exclusive: Fox has given a pilot order to Filthy Rich, a soapy drama from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox TV.

This marks the first greenlight decision since AMC President and Gm Charlie Collier took the reins of the broadcast network as Fox CEO of Entertainment last month. I hear Collier, a big fan of Taylor’s work, committed to a pilot order in the room as he and Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn recently met with Taylor and Imagine TV’s Brian Grazer.

Filthy Rich also marks the fourth early pilot order for 20th TV, which is getting a head start on pilot season 2019. The studio, which is preparing for a move from Fox to Disney, also has pilot orders at CBS for drama Surveillance starring Sophia Bush and at ABC for an NYPD Blue sequel and comedy Happy Accident.

Written and to be...

The International Film Festival and Awards Macao and Variety combined forces for the second year running to put a spotlight on Asia’s acting talent.

A well-attended meet-the-stars press event on Friday afternoon in Macau was addressed by leading local official, Maria Helena Senna de Fernandes. She turned the microphone over the five actors from different corners of the region, who dazzled with poise and wisdom beyond their years.

In 2017 the talent selection included Celina Jade, Ludi Lin, Rajkummar Rao, Shioli Kutsuna, Piolo Pascual, And Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, better known as the star of “Bad Genius.”

The five in this year’s crop — Xana Tang (New Zealand), Ann Curtis (The Philippines), Zheng Kai (China), Zaira Wasim (India) and Iqbaal Ramadhan (Indonesia) – will be presented with trophies on stage this evening at the closing ceremony of the Iffam.

Xana Tang (New Zealand)

Best known in the role of an offbeat office assistant...

(L-r): Josh Thomson, Chai Hansen, Luciane Buchanan and Emilie Cocquerel (Photo: Geoffrey Short)..

See Saw Films and Jump Film & TV have kicked off production on.The Legend of Monkey for ABC, Tvnz and Netflix..

To be shot on location around Auckland, the 10x30. children.s series is an adaptation of the 16th century Chinese fable Journey to the West. It.follows a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a journey to bring an end to a demonic reign..

The Legend of Monkey will star Chai Hansen (Mako Mermaids, The 100) with Luciane Buchanan (Filthy Rich, Blue Rose), Josh Thomson (Terry Teo, 7 Days, The Project) and Emilie Cocquerel (Lion, An Accidential Soldier)..

Head writer is Jacquelin Perske (Seven Types of Ambiguity, Spirited), who will work alongside Craig Irvin (Nowhere Boys) and Samantha Strauss (Dance Academy)..

The lead director is Gerard Johnstone (Housebound, The Jaquie Brown Diaries), with Irvin to direct additional eps.