Max's The Pitt; MGM+'s The Westies; Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend; and Prime Video's Bloodaxe.
PRIME VIDEO's BLOODAXE
- Xavier Molyneux will play the lead role in the upcoming drama created by Michael Hirst and Horatio Hirst. He recently completed a three-year run on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
- The drama chronicles the rise of one of history's most famous Viking warriors, Erik Bloodaxe (Molyneux), and his formidable wife, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings. As they fight for the throne of Norway, the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties and bloody betrayals. With war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom, drawing in the ruthless kings of other Scandinavian countries and even a powerful English ruler, the stage is set for a thundering new Viking saga.
MAX's THE PITT
- Sepideh Moafi has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming second season. She previously starred for three seasons in HBO's The Deuce, three seasons in Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q and in the AppleTV+ limited series Black Bird.
- She will play an attending physician in emergency medicine.
PEACOCK's THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND
- Harlow Jane, David Denman, Josh Hamilton and Rob Huebel have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Jennifer Garner. Jane previously guest starred on AppleTV+'s High Desert. Denman starred in the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown and recurred on Prime Video's Bosch: Legacy. Hamilton starred in the 11th season of AMC's The Walking Dead and recurred on AppleTV+'s The Last Thing He Told Me. Huebel recurred on Prime Video's Transparent and Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls.
- Jane will play Caroline Shaw. Denman will play Kyle McKenzie. Hamilton will play Matthew. Huebel will play Charlie Kirtley.
MGM+'s THE WESTIES
- Tom Brittney will co-star on the upcoming drama starring J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver and Jessica Frances Dukes. He previously starred for six seasons in ITV's Grantchester.
- He will play James "Jimmy" Roarke, the fiercely loyal, streetwise leader of the younger generation of Westies, a rising Irish gangster mentored by Eamon Sweeney (Simmons), whose allegiances will be challenged as the Westies forge a partnership with the Gambino Crime Family.
