'Lioness' Drops The Ops; Renewed For Season 2

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  Another Taylor Sheridan series is sticking around, this in particular with a simpler and previous title. Lioness , the drama starring Zoe Saldaña ,  Laysla De Oliveira   and Nicole Kidman, has been renewed for a second season at Paramount+ . The series ends a yearlong stint where it was known as Special Ops: Lioness , including for its first season which ran from July to September.  Inspired by an actual United States military program, Lioness is about Joe (Saldaña) as she attempts to balance her personal life and being the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror and their efforts to thwart the next major attack. The drama also stars Michael Kelly as Donald Westfield who co-runs the program with Kidman’s Kaitlyn Meade, and Morgan Freeman as Edward Mullins. “Our Paramount+ audience resoundingly has joined forces in support of  Lioness ’ gripping, global story and the powerhouse performances from Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira and Nicole Kidman,” said Jeff Grossman the Executive
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'Mayor Of Kingstown' Promotes Michael Beach, Adds 3 Recurrers For Season 3

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With Mayor of Kingstown heading back into production for its third season with the labor disputes resolved, it’s star Jeremy Renner’s first major work since his snowplow accident at the start of last year. The returns to work make apparent the new faces and increased capacities for who shows up. And for the show’s third season, the clarity is here.

Michael Beach, who first appeared as Kareem Moore, one of the prison guard captains in Kingstown in a recurring role in season 1, has been promoted to series regular for season 3. Richard Brake, Denny Love, and Paula Malcomson, are the newest recurrers alongside the returning Nichole Galicia and Necar Zadegan as Rebecca and Evelyn Foley. Brake is playing Merle Callahan, one of the Aryan shot callers currently serving a life-sentence in Anchor Bay, Malcomson is Anna Fletcher, a Kingstown resident with a request for Mike, and Love plays rookie prison guard Kevin Jackson. The other returning series regulars include co-creator Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Derek Webster, Hamish Allan-Headley and Nishi Munshi.


On their resumes, Beach also stars on another Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ series, Tulsa King. On film, he stars as Frank Hunt in If Beale Street Could Talk and plays the pirate Jesse Kane, Manta David Kane’s father in Aquaman. Brake is best known as Night King on Game Of Thrones and can be seen in Barbarian and Rob Zombie’s The Munsters, with other television roles including on Ray Donovan. Love starred in the miniseries Looking for Alaska and played Barry on Empire, appearing in the film Unpregnant and in minor roles in Lucifer and in Chicago P.D. Malcomson is best known for her roles as Trixie in Deadwood, Abby Donovan in Ray Donovan and Maureen Ashby in Sons of Anarchy, and can soon be seen as Rose Parish on AMC’s upcoming series Parish starring Giancarlo Esposito and Skeet Ulrich. She appeared in films like Tombstone and The Green Mile, and was Katniss’s mother in The Hunger Games films.

Co-created by Dillon and Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan the series centers on the McLusky family, who act as power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where prison is the only profitable thing in town as they attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither instead overrun with systemic racism, corruption and inequality.

Source: Deadline

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