TVLine Items: This Is Us Vet to L&O: OC, Hulu’s Tell Me Lies Series and More
Law & Order: Organized Crime is putting a face to a name it dropped in the Season 1 finale: Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) will recur as Congressman Leon Kilbride during Season 2 of the NBC drama, Give Me My Remote reports. The character, who was mentioned by Nick Creegan’s Richie in prison, is described as a “born politician who fosters connections and always plays his cards right.”
Additionally, Vinnie Jones (Arrow, Galavant) will appear in multiple episodes as Albi Briscu, a Eastern European gangster “who is the last remaining member of the organization from the old country.”
Law & Order: Organized Crime returns Thursday, Sept. 23 at 10/9c.
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* Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to Tell Me Lies, an adaptation of Carola Lovering’s novel starring Grace Van Patten (Nine Perfect Strangers). The drama follows “a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years,” per the official synopsis. “When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them. “
* HBO Max’s Sex and the City revival And Just Like That… has tapped Julie Halston to reprise her role as Bitsy Von Muffling, a New York socialite who married cabaret singer Bobby Fine (Nathan Lane) in the original series, our sister site Deadline reports. She will appear in a recurring guest-star capacity.
* Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, starring Ashley Zukerman (Succession), will premiere Thursday, Sept. 16 on Peacock.
* Check out a new poster for Impeachment: American Crime Story, premiering Tuesday, Sept. 7 on FX:
FX’s award-winning, critically acclaimed series is back with an all-new installment. Impeachment: American Crime Story premieres 9/7, only on FX. #ACSImpeachment pic.twitter.com/1nbJcyUkKw
— American Crime Story FX (@ACSFX) August 2, 2021
* Apple TV+ has released a trailer for Truth Be Told Season 2, starring Octavia Spencer and Kate Hudson and premiering Friday, Aug. 20:
Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?
” ‘Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol,’ starring Ashley Zukerman (‘Succession’).”
It’s been 15 years since “That Thing You Do!,” so I guess Tom Everett Scott is now too old to play a young Tom Hanks.
He’s now older than Hanks was when he made The Da Vinci Code.
Seems they’re going with political corruption for season 2 hope it doesn’t blow up in their faces.
Excited for second season of OC. Any word on the hate crime spinoff that was supposed to be on Peacock?
Warren Leight said on Twitter that Law & Order: Hate Crimes still pre-production, whatever that means. Meanwhile there is social media teasing from Wolf Films that a Law & Order: Criminal Intent reboot could take place of For the Defense. Vincent D’Onofrio on Twitter tells fans and tags Wolf Films in tweets that he’s open to playing his signature character Goren. We shall see where this teasing goes.