TV News: Landman, ABC, Honey, Rehearsal, Ferb

Landman
Following a highly successful debut this past Fall, Paramount+ has announced the start of filming on a second season of Taylor Sheridan’s drama “Landman” starring Billy Bob Thornton as a West Texas oil company operations executive.

Demi Moore, who plays the wife of an oil boss (Jon Hamm), gets second billing this time out with co-creator Christian Wallace confirming her character will have a decidedly larger role in the new run. Andy Garcia, Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland, Michelle Randolph, Paulina Chávez, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie, James Jordan and Colm Feore also star. [Source: THR]

ABC
ABC has renewed its last remaining non-renewed or cancelled series today with pickups for “Shifting Gears,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “9-1-1,” “The Rookie” and “Will Trent” alongside the already picked up “High Potential” and “Abbott Elementary”.

The one exception is the Joshua Jackson-led “Doctor Odyssey” which is now the only ABC scripted series in limbo with its fate unclear – ratings have been fine but not great, and the series is costly to produce. [Source: Deadline

Honey: Killing Eve
​The BBC has announced “Honey,” a prequel to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acclaimed spy thriller/dark comedy series “Killing Eve,” and one that will follow the early life of Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens during her stint as an MI6 deep-cover agent in East Berlin in 1982. Emma Moran (“Extraordinary”) will pen the series.

In it, 24-year-old Carolyn is known as ‘Marta’ and becomes romantically entangled with a reckless CIA operative while also trying to stay one step ahead of the Stasi’s new counter-espionage chief. No premiere date has yet been set. [Source: BBC]

The Rehearsal
HBO has released the trailer for the second season of Nathan Fielder’s comedy “The Rehearsal” as he tackles plane crashes and believes role-playing exercises could improve air traffic control. Fielder builds a replica of an airport and hires dozens of actors and real-life pilots to engage in his televised experiment which begins on April 20th.

Phineas and Ferb
Disney+ has released the trailer for the fifth season of the animated series “Phineas and Ferb,” the beloved Emmy Award-winning show returning to screens a decade after the fourth season seemingly closed out the show in 2015. The new run is set to premiere on June 5th on Disney Channel and will stream on June 6th on Disney+.

The new episodes will follow the inventive stepbrothers as they tackle another 104 days of summer. Candace is more determined than ever to finally bust her little brothers while their pet platypus, Perry, continues to lead a double life as the suave Agent P, whose sole mission is to thwart Dr. Doofenshmirtz from taking over the Tri-State area.

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