Matt’s Inside Line: Scoop on Walker Finale, The Bear, Presumed Innocent, The Way Home, Melrose Place, The Rookie, Criminal Minds and More!

How much does The Way Home‘s Del really know about the pond? Or has she definitely been in the dark this whole time? –J.D.
“That’s something that is going to be looked at a lot closer, under a bigger microscope, in Season 3,” co-showrunner Alexandra Clark told TVLine. “In a weird way, even at the top of our Season 1 writers’ room, we always did think that Season 1 was really a journey for Alice and bringing her family back together, but also finding herself. Season 2 is really the story of Kat and her quest to find Jacob and bring him home. So we do really love the idea of putting Del a little bit more under the microscope in a Season 3, because we know who she is, but we don’t. If you actually really look at it, there’s a lot under the surface that we have yet to really mine.”

Any information on The Rig Season 2? It feels like forever since Season 1 wrapped. –Josh
I am hearing that Season 2 of the supernatural thriller wrapped filming and is currently in post-production, to premiere Stateside on Prime Video possibly by early 2025.

There is this fabulous Danish show on Netflix called Rita, which Showtime was planning on remaking and had even cast Lena Headey as the lead character. The last we heard of it was about four years ago when the pilot was being developed, but it’s been quiet since. With all the changes at Showtime, is the show dead now, or did that happen long ago? –Denis
You answered your own question there — a rigorous Googling tells me that Headey’s Rita indeed died on the vine more than two years ago.

With the mentions of Elsbeth‘s son, might we meet Teddy’s dad in Season 2? Elsbeth had no love life in Season 1. –Ken
When I last spoke to series lead Carrie Preston, she seemed in no rush for Elsbeth to get romantically entangled, just yet. “She’s single, and that’s wonderful about the show,” she said. “She’s come to New York from Chicago, reinventing herself in some ways, so I think it’s great she’s not attached to anyone except her self and her career, her son…. It will be interesting to see if we ever see a love interest for her, because she’s very busy — and happily so!” (Note, Ken: A TVLine reader reminds that Will Patton played ex-husband Mike Tascioni in several Good Wife Season 7 episodes.)

Do you know if Almost Paradise (starring Leverage’s Christian Kane) has been cancelled? It is or was almost the only series with a tropical climate left, after Magnum P.I. and NCIS: Hawai’i were cancelled. –Daniel
I asked around for you, lots, but there is simply nothing to report at this time (one way or the other).  

Are we going to see how Criminal Minds‘ BAUGate impacts the rest of the team and JJ this season? –Kate
Suffice to say, JJ is still very much on edge about the whole deepfake porn thing, and that pent-up frustration leads to her well-teased, long-awaited first eruption with an F-word this Thursday. Bonus scoop: More smoking Prentiss ahead! Indoors! But seriously, this week is a very intense episode. Things happen. Oh, and I never mentioned that Kirsten Vangsness told me at the start of the season that Voit “smells”; well, this week, you’ll find out like what. Bonus, non-carcinogenic scoop: Next week, Prentiss sings!

With The Rookie already filming Season 7, are there any updates to hold me over until the premiere in 2025? –Emily 
Coming out of a lean-and-mean, strikes-shortened Season 6, and looking ahead to an 18-episode Season 7, “I do think we’ll go back to being more of a standalone show with serialized elements,” showrunner Alexi Hawley told me, “because it’s going to be a longer season and I think people really do like that. Also, there are the many different ways we tell stories — whether it’s the big event-type episodes, the more rom-com episodes, or with a big guest star — so it’ll be fun to go back to that.”

Anything on my new obsession, Presumed Innocent? –Delilah
With the murder trial about to get underway — and in the wake of Rusty’s latest antics/pummeling of a possible Liam Reynolds accomplice — Rigo will be put in quite a spot when called to the stand by Tommy and Nico. “The conflict that’s set up in the previous episodes comes to head with her testimony,” Nana Mensah, the detective’s portrayer, told me, “because [Rusty is someone] she believes in but also is suspicious of, as is the audience. She will be a wonderful proxy for the audience in that moment.”

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