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TV: ‘Supernatural’ Renewed, Latest ‘Eastwick’ Casting

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The CW is continuing their run of “Supernatural” as they’ve renewed the series for a fifth season this fall. The show stars Jared Padalecki (Friday the 13th) and Jensen Ackles (My Bloody Valentine). Slim at best are the renewal chances for “Reaper,” whose second season begins Tuesday. In addition, NBC is continuing to cast up their drama “Eastwick“, their TV series based on the movie The Witches of Eastwick. You can read all about the latest addition inside.Lindsey PriceThere’s great news for fans of the movie “The Witches of Eastwick” and not-so-good news for the fans of NBC’s dramedy “Lipstick Jungle”: “Jungle” star Lindsay Price has been cast as one of the trio of witches in ABC’s drama pilot “Eastwick,” which is based on the 1987 feature.

Coincidentally, on “Eastwick” Price is in the same setup as she has been on “Jungle,” which also is centered on three female leads — not to imply anything about the powers of New York businesswomen.

The Warner Bros.-produced “Eastwick” follows three young witches who come into their powers. WMA-repped Price will play one of them, Joanna, a hardworking, shy reporter for the local newspaper. She joins Jaime Ray Newman, who was recently cast as a fellow witch.

Price’s casting on “Eastwick” is formally in second position to “Jungle,” which has not been canceled. The show, which wrapped its second season, has developed a passionate fan base but has lagged in the ratings.

A couple of weeks ago, Price was quoted laying out possible future scenarios for “Jungle” moving to Bravo, Lifetime or airing in a split NBC/DirecTV window similar to “Friday Night Lights.”

NBC co-chair Ben Silverman and programming chief Angela Bromstad also have said that NBC and sister studio Universal Media Studios, which produces “Jungle,” are looking to find a way to keep the series alive.

But the chances for a third season of the show seem to be getting increasingly slimmer.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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