Here’s a wrap-up of all of the information it’s good to know from Friday, 28 February 2020.
CBS has suspended manufacturing on The Wonderful Race Season 33 over issues in regards to the coronavirus, Selection is reporting.
“Attributable to elevated issues and uncertainty relating to the coronavirus world wide, CBS and the producers of The Wonderful Race have taken the precautionary measure of briefly suspending manufacturing on the 33rd season of the sequence,” a community spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
“All contestants and manufacturing employees are within the means of returning residence.”
The assertion additionally said that “presently, no Racers or anybody on the manufacturing workforce touring with them have contracted the virus, or proven signs, and we aren’t conscious of anybody being uncovered to it.”
“Out of an abundance of warning, everybody concerned within the present will proceed to be monitored once they return residence. The well being and wellbeing of the Racers and the manufacturing workforce are our prime priorities.”
The Wonderful Race usually sends contestants on a globe-trotting journey, so provided that the coronavirus is interrupting flights, and the truth that it may well unfold, the community is taking the choice to make sure the protection of everybody concerned.
Filming solely kicked off a number of weeks in the past, and three episodes had been within the can. There is not any affirmation on when manufacturing will resume.
Over on the planet of Netflix’s The Witcher, beloved ebook character Vesemir has been solid for the forthcoming second season.
Killing Eve’s Kim Bodnia is ready to tackle the position because the oldest and most skilled Witcher.
“As one of many survivors of The Bloodbath at Kaer Morhen, a haunting slaughter that almost exterminated the Witchers, [Vesemir] is fiercely protecting of the remaining few, who he sees as an endangered group who can discover glory on ‘the Path’ slaying monsters,” the official character description reads.
Mark Hamill was mentioned to be a contender for the position after voicing his assist to fan calls for whereas the primary season was in manufacturing.
The Witcher Season 2 is presently in manufacturing, and is slated to return in 2021.
In the meantime, Sophia Bush is lining up a daily TV comeback. The Chicago PD alum is ready to star on the CBS pilot Good Sam.
This is the official logline.
A proficient but stifled surgeon embraces her management position after her famend and pompous boss falls right into a coma.
When he awakens and needs to renew surgical procedure, nonetheless, it falls to her to oversee this overbearing blowhard who by no means acknowledged her skills — and in addition occurs to be her father.
Bush will subsequent be seen in Hulu’s Love, Victor. The actress was hooked up to CBS pilot Surveillance final season, but it surely didn’t rating a sequence order.
Courteney Cox can be staging a daily return to the small display screen. The actress has joined the solid of Starz comedy pilot Shining Vale.
This is the logline:
Patricia ‘Pat’ Phelps is a former ‘wild little one’ who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked girls’s empowerment novel (a.ok.a. woman porn).
Quick ahead 17 years later, Pat is clear and sober however completely unfulfilled. She nonetheless hasn’t written her second novel, she will be able to’t keep in mind the final time she had intercourse along with her husband, and her teenage youngsters are at that stage the place they love their vile buddies and wish you useless.
She was a trustworthy spouse till her one slip-up: a torrid 15-night-stand with a scorching, younger artist/handyman/musician neighbor. In a last-ditch effort to save lots of her marriage, she and her household transfer from the ‘loopy’ of town to a big, previous home within the suburbs the place evil and humor collide.
“As Starz continues to broaden its slate of unique comedy sequence, we’re extremely proud to deliver a proficient actress equivalent to Courteney Cox to the community to topline Shining Vale,” mentioned Jeffrey Hirsch, President and CEO of Starz.
“Her earlier success within the style mixed along with her well-honed comedic chops make her the perfect actor to deliver Pat to life.”
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