‘The Cleaning Lady’: Eva De Dominici Joins Fox Drama Series As Recurring

Even if you haven’t been watching the TNT adaptation of “Snowpiercer,” if you’re familiar with the plot, you know the series revolves around a post-apocalyptic hellscape where the only survivors are holed up in a perpetually moving train through the icy tundra.

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Ahn (Memoirs of a Geisha, Lie to Me) has signed on to play a recurring role in Partner Track, the Netflix drama series based on Helen Wan’s 2013 novel from creator Georgia Lee, which is currently in production in New York.

Selome Hailu editorFormer “CSI” showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and producer Julie Weitz in early development on two drama series: “Honor” for NBC and “Body Farm” for CBS.“Honor” is based on “Heder,” the Swedish series created by Sofia Helin along with stars Julia Dufvenius, Anja Lundqvist and Alexandra Rapaport, which centered on a law firm that handles sexual crimes against women.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading into spy territory.

Charles Randolph is reteaming with Adam McKay for his latest project.

EXCLUSIVE: Dear White People alum John Patrick Amedori is set as a series regular opposite Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy in Showtime’s Three Women, an hourlong drama series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo. Blair Underwood, Jason Ralph and Blair Redford also star.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox is developing the “Cliffhanger” novels by TJ Middleton (real name Tom Binding) as a one-hour drama series.The series is described as a darkly comedic one-hour drama following the quirky exploits of rideshare driver Audrey Greenwood, who emerges from the pandemic with a startling realization: she never wants to see her husband Al’s face again. So, one dark and stormy night, fueled by rage and tequila, she tries to kill him.

When Élodie Yung signed on to The Cleaning Lady, she relished the opportunity to play a character of many layers—a Cambodian immigrant coming from the Philippines to America who meets “extreme situations” with remarkable resilience, and will do whatever it takes to protect her son.

The new agreement between the TV Academy and The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences that realigns the Primetime and Daytime competitions based on content genre, not airtime, could bring a change to the Outstanding Daytime Drama race.

The story of Snoop Dogg’s murder trial and his hit single Murder was the Case are being developed as a series for Starz.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLou Diamond Phillips and his daughter, Gracie Phillips, have signed on to guest star on the upcoming Fox drama “The Cleaning Lady,” Variety has learned exclusively. This will mark the first time the father-daughter duo has acted together onscreen.The series stars Elodie Yung as Thony, a whip-smart doctor who comes to the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Sonia Mena (Invasion), Catherine Missal (The Blacklist) and Alicia Crowder (Bleecker) are set as series regulars opposite Grace Van Patten and Jackson White in Tell Me Lies, Hulu’s straight-to-series drama based on Carola Lovering’s novel, which is executive produced by Emma Roberts.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and musician Eliot Sumner (No Time to Die) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Andrew Scott and Johnny Flynn in Ripley, Showtime’s drama series based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian.

Former Starz head of communications Lauren Townsend has been named SVP of Communications for Fox Corporation. Townsend, who will be based in Los Angeles, will start Jan. 3, reporting to Fox Corp. Chief Communications Officer Brian Nick.

EXCLUSIVE: Hipster Death Rattle, a drama/satire with comedic elements from Rafael Agustín, Marvin Lemus, and Wilmer Valderrama, is in the works at The CW.

EXCLUSIVE: Sobini Films has tapped Bobby Smith Jr. (Jason’s Lyric) to write Voluptuous, a one-hour series based on the books Bare Essentials and Bound by Desire by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Brenda Jackson.