Welcome to Monday and this week's latest crime drama news:
AWARDS
The Emmy Award nominations announced last week saw FX’s Cold War spy drama The Americans achieve a rare feat by breaking into the top ranks of Emmy contenders in its fourth season. As expected, Game Of Thrones led all shows with 23 nods, while The People Vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story came in second with 22, and Fargo third with 18. Along with The Americans, the other Best Drama contenders include Better Call Saul, Homeland, and Mr. Robot. Another fun category is Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie, with a roster including Bryan Cranston (All the Way), Idris Elba (Luther), Courtney B. Vance and Cuba Gooding, Jr. (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), Tom Hiddleston (Night Manager), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock). For all the nominees, check out this link, or if you're interested in numbers by show click here, or by network, here.
MOVIES
There are plans afoot to bring the Idris Elba-starring crime drama Luther to the big screen. Luther creator Neil Cross indicated that the Luther movie would play as prequel to the series, meaning that some of the characters from early in the show could return, including Luther’s old partner Ian Reed (Steven Mackintosh), and his sidekick Justin Ripley (Warren Brown). Cross added, "It will follow his career in the earlier days when he is still married to Zoe, and the final scene in the film is the first of the initial TV series."
After months of speculation, it has been made (somewhat) official that Colin Firth will be somehow returning for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the follow up to the adaptation of the comic book The Secret Service created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. Firth played the dapper agent Harry Hart who — SPOILER ALERT — met his demise at the end of the first movie.
Bruce Willis has signed on to star in First Kill, a Steven C. Miller-directed action thriller, with Willis playing a police chief who tries to solve a kidnapping against a ticking clock. After a man and his son witness a thug shooting a bank thief while on a hunting trip, the bank robber takes the boy hostage, in order to recover the key to a locker that contains the loot from the bank heist.
TELEVISION
Sky is re-teaming with crime fiction author Harlan Coben for The Four, a stand-alone, character-driven thriller that tells the story of an idyllic family community irrevocably shattered by secrets, lies, suspicions and misguided trust. The new series follows the success of Coben's The Five, his first original story for TV, which debuted in April on Sky 1.
In the wake of yet another gun-related tragedy, USA has opted to postpone the premiere of the forthcoming series Shooter to July 26. The sniper drama, which opens with the sound of a gunshot along with real-life images of historical incidents of gun violence, is being held a week given the recent attack by a sniper on police in downtown Dallas. The show stars Ryan Phillippe and Omar Epps and is based on the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film of the same name.
NBC has put in a series order for the latest Dick Wolf-produced spinoff Law & Order: True Crime, with the first season set up to focus on the still-shocking murders committed by brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez.
South African actress Pearl Thusi is set to play a new series regular on Season 2 of ABC drama series Quantico. Thusi will play Dayana Mampasi, a driven, disciplined, type-A lawyer who struggles to fit in. She joins series stars Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Blair Underwood, and Russell Tovey.
Season 2 of the fantasy police procedural drama Lucifer has begun filming, and the latest rumors reveal that Tom Ellis (who stars as Lucifer Morningstar) will be getting romantically involved with Rush Hour actress Aimee Garcia, who will be playing a forensic scientist Ella Lopez at the LAPD.
Sandrine Holt (Terminator Genisys) has signed on as a series regular opposite Lucas Till and George Eads in CBS’ new fall series MacGyver, a reimagining of the 1985 show about a resourceful and ingenious agent who improvises his way out of sticky situations using everyday items like rubber bands, chewing gum and a Swiss Army knife. Holt will play Patricia Thornton, an ex-field agent turned director of operations for DXS (Department of External Services).
Lori Loughlin and Michael Imperioli will guest-star in the season 7 premiere of Blue Bloods. Imperioli (The Sopranos) will play Miller, a hard-charging lawyer in the attorney general’s office who spearheads an investigation into Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) and the shooting death of serial killer Thomas Wilder. Loughlin (Full House) will play Grace, the widow of a slain police officer who begs Frank (Tom Selleck) to stop her son from becoming a cop.
Blue Bloods alumna Jennifer Esposito has joined the cast of veteran CBS drama NCIS as a series regular. Esposito will play NCIS Special Agent Alexandra "Alex" Quinn, an experienced agent who left field work and became an instructor at the Law Enforcement Training Center. Gibbs (Harmon) will lure her back into the field as part of his team, where he will take advantage of her sharp wit, quick mind and immense talent as a federal agent. Her character will be introduced in the September 20 season premiere. The show also announced that Duane Henry, who guest-starred in the final two episodes of the Mark Harmon-led series last season, has also been promoted to a regular for the upcoming Season 14.
The Leftovers' Carrie Coon, twice nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for her role as the complicated Nora Durst in HBO's grim drama, is joining Fargo's third season in a lead role, playing Eden Valley police chief Gloria Burgle, a practical woman coping with a recent divorce.
A first-look photo from the filming of Season 4 of the BBC's Sherlock featured Benedict Cumbatch's titular detective with his new "partner."
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Gayle Lynds was interviewed by Libby Fischer Hellman for Authors on the Air. Lynds is a former journalist who turned her hand to spy thrillers and became a bestseller now published in over 20 countries.
THEATER
An opera based on the Swedish detective novels by Henning Mankell premiered Friday at the University of Tübingen, in Germany. Titled W: The Truth Beyond with music by Fredrik Sixten, the production will next ravel to Ystad in Sweden, the fictional Wallander’s home town.
A play based on the novels of Peter James is coming to Glasgow with the world premiere production of Not Dead Enough from April 3rd to April 7th 2017. The plot centers on a man who claims to have been sixty miles away when his wife was murdered. But as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace continues to deal with the mysterious disappearance of his own wife, he starts to dig a little deeper into the chilling murder case and it soon becomes clear that love can be a dangerous thing.
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