TVLine Items: Y: The Last Man‘s New Boss, I’m Sorry Renewed and More
FX’s adaptation of Y: The Last Man has found its new showrunner: Eliza Clark (Extant, Animal Kingdom) has been tapped to oversee the series, two months after Michael Green (American Gods) and Aïda Mashaka Croal (Marvel’s Luke Cage) parted ways with the show due to creative differences.
The drama — simply titled Y — is based on Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comic book series, and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a cataclysmic event has decimated every male except for one lone human named Yorick. In his travels, Yorick encounters a new-world order of women who explore gender, race, class and survival.
Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) stars as Yorick, with Oscar nominee Diane Lane, Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men), Imogen Poots (Roadies), Lashana Lynch (Still Star-Crossed), Juliana Canfield (Succession) and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) rounding out the ensemble.
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* The comedy I’m Sorry, created by and starring Andrea Savage, has been renewed for a 10-episode Season 3, to air in 2020 on truTV. Additionally, truTV has renewed the firehouse-set comedy Tacoma FD for Season 2, premiering next year.
* Michelle Forbes (The Killing, True Blood) has joined USA Network’s Bourne franchise series offshoot Treadstone as a savvy CIA veteran, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Season 11 of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee will premiere Friday, July 19 on Netflix. Guests include Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogen, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Sebastian Maniscalco, Martin Short, Mario Joyner, Melissa Villaseñor, Bridget Everett and Barry Marder.
* D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) and Ken Jeong (The Masked Singer) have been tapped to announce the Emmy nominations on Tuesday, July 16 at 11:30 am ET.
Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?
Prediction: Y…cancelled mid season
*Dead on Arrival (DOA)
Lol, yeah, I was gonna say. Sounds like it should just be scrapped at this point.
It’s not meant to be mean spirited. It’s simply reality. Scify series like that rarely does well on network tv.
New series got it tough.
Kinda difficult to get cancelled miseason when FX shows do not do spilt seasons. Also the last scripted series cable series to get pulled was Those Who Kill (A&E) in 2014. A better prediction would be quietly dumped on Hulu (another Disney owned property), if you are in the pessmistic prediction business
“split”
Wow! Jerry got Eddie Murphy for Comedians in Cars….?!? That’s amazing! Looking forward to next season of that show.
YAY! I’m sorry is the best comedy on right now! Wish there was more than 10 episodes
Y: The Last Man. Dream casting: Ashton Kutcher as Yorick, and Jada Pinkett Smith as the Secret Service agent that’s assigned to protect him..