TV News Roundup: 'Grey's' Spinoff Casts Karla Souza, NBC's Snoop Dogg Xmas
Good morning! Here's a curated catch-up on Wednesday's TV headlines.
Previously on Matt's Inside Line.... I shared the good news about Adults' XL Season 3 order, apprised you of Emmy winner Julianna Margulies' "Naughty Nineties" rom-com, and detailed Fox's midseason plan for Murder in a Small Town and a half dozen other shows. Now, here's a handy recap of a few other Wednesday headlines.
◼️ Karla Souza is scrubbing in as the lead of ABC's Texas-set, as-yet-untitled Grey's Anatomy spinoff. The alum of Shondaland's How to Get Away With Murder will star as Carolina "Lina" Hall, a "haunted and cynical doctor" who runs a medical center in a small town in West Texas. The Grey's offshoot recently was bumped from a midseason launch to the 2027-28 TV season, after it was unable to secure California tax credits and in turn moved production to Albuquerque.
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◼️ Christmas with Snoop — a star-studded affair featuring appearances and musical performances from Wayne Brady, Kristin Chenoweth, Adam Devine, Anelise Foxx, Jamie Foxx, Jane Handcock, October London, Craig Robinson, Nicole Scherzinger, Gwen Stefani and Martha Stewart — will air on NBC Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 10 pm (following Christmas in Rockefeller Center).
◼️ Netflix released a teaser for Emily in Paris' sixth and final season, which drops Christmas Day:
◼️ The four-part Netflix docuseries World War II: Behind Enemy Lines, narrated by Josh Brolin and telling the story of the 101st Airborne's missions inside Nazi-occupied Europe, will premiere Wednesday, Dec. 2. (Watch a trailer here.)
◼️ The JLo Show — a concert film capturing Jennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas residency — is coming to CBS Thanksgiving evening aka Thursday, Nov. 26, at 8/7c — and we now have a trailer for the two-hour spectacle. (An extended cut of the special will stream on Paramount+.)
◼️ Paul Wesley (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Vampire Diaries) has boarded Netflix's Icebreaker, a college romance drama based on the best-selling novel by Hannah Grace, in the role of Coach Neil Faulkner.
◼️ Per Deadline, Wilson Bethel (Daredevil: Born Again) has joined Apple TV's upcoming, as-yet-untitled thriller starring Dakota Fanning as an undercover Treasury agent who grows conflicted that her target, the heir apparent to all that corrupt power, is at his core a good man and worthy of her love. Bethel's role, as the ridiculous saying goes, is "under wraps."
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