TVLine Items: Scott Foley’s Rom-Com, Babylon Berlin on Move and More

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Scott Foley is finding amore at Netflix.

The Scandal vet will star in the streamer’s romantic comedy movie La Dolce Villa, from director Mark Waters (the original Mean Girls). The actor will play a successful businessman who “travels to Italy to stop his daydreaming daughter, Olivia, from blowing her life savings on restoring a crumbling villa she purchased for €1. Italy, however, has different plans for him as it delivers on its legendary promise of beauty, magic, and romance,” reads the official synopsis.

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The cast also includes Violante Placido, Maia Reficco and Giuseppe Futia.

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* German drama Babylon Berlin — whose first three seasons previously streamed Stateside as a Netflix Original — will relocate to MHz Choice for Season 4, premiering Tuesday, June 25 in North America.

* Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Betty Gilpin (GLOW) have joined Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ upcoming Netflix historical drama Death by Lightning, which stars Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Shannon, per The Hollywood Reporter. Gilpin will play former first lady Crete Garfield, while Offerman will portray VP Chester Arthur, who took over as president after James Garfield’s death.

* 24 In 24: Last Chef Standing, a new culinary competition series hosted by Michael Symon and Esther Choi, will premiere Sunday, April 14 at 8/7c on Food Network. In the show, 24 chefs take on 24 food challenges in 24 consecutive, non-stop hours until only one, selected by a panel of judges, is left standing. The judge lineup includes Eric Adjepong, Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant, Stephanie Izard, Jet Tila, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, and Brooke Williamson.

* Friends in Low Places, a docuseries following Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and friends as they set out to build the ultimate oasis, a honky-tonk in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, will debut Thursday, March 7 on Prime Video.

* Prime Video has released a trailer for the new movie Música (streaming on Thursday, April 4). From the mind of writer/director Rudy Mancuso, who stars alongside Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Música is described as “a coming-of-age love story that follows an aspiring creator with synesthesia, who must come to terms with an uncertain future, while navigating the pressures of love, family and his Brazilian culture in Newark, N.J.”

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