TVLine Items: Emily Blunt on Amazon, GoT Vet Vs. Kevin Hart and More
Emily Blunt is making her streaming series debut: Amazon Prime Video has picked up the U.S. rights to The English, a Western starring the Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns actress, our sister site Variety reports.
The multi-part BBC drama hails from writer-director Hugo Blick, who was also behind the Maggie Gyllenhaal-led British spy thriller The Honorable Woman, which aired stateside on SundanceTV. Plot details for The English are not currently available.
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Blunt’s rare TV credits include the 2005 miniseries Empire and a voice guest spot on The Simpsons.
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* Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) will star opposite Kevin Hart and John Travolta in Quibi’s comedic action series Die Hart, playing a rival student to Hart at the greatest action star school, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Jan Luis Castellanos (Marvel’s Runaways) has joined 13 Reasons Why‘s fourth and final season in the series-regular role of Diego Torres, the football team’s leader, who is struggling to understand the loss of one of their own, Deadline reports.
* Hunter King (Life in Pieces) will star in ABC’s comedic Western pilot Prospect, about an idealistic young woman (King) who moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher and learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children, per Deadline.
* The IFC comedy Year of the Rabbit has been renewed for a six-episode second season ahead of its series premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 10:30/9:30c.
* Bravo has released a trailer for Top Chef All Stars LA, premiering Thursday, March 19 at 10 pm, with 15 fan-favorite cheftestants from previous seasons returning for another shot at the big prize:
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