Sophie Turner will perpetually be Queen within the North within the hearts of Sport of Thrones followers. Now, the actress is including one other jewel to her crown because the star of Joan, an bold interval drama that’s among the many fall choices that The CW introduced throughout TV Upfront week
Set within the Nineteen Eighties, the restricted collection casts Turner as real-life diamond thief Joan Hannington, who turns to Danny Ocean-style heists to make a dwelling after her gangster husband goes on the lam. It’s the X-Males: Darkish Phoenix star’s first main TV position since HBO’s hit 2022 miniseries, The Staircase, and in addition options Frank Dillane, Kirsty J. Curtis and Gershwyn Eustache Jr. among the many supporting forged.
The CW’s different fall drama for the 2024-25 season additionally entails a little bit of time touring. The Librarians producer Dean Devlin dusts off his TNT franchise for the all-new spinoff, The Librarians: The Subsequent Chapter, which stars Callum McGowan as a card-carrying member of the traditional Librarians group who unexpectedly rockets from the previous to the current. Trapped in a world he by no means made, McGowan assembles a brand new group of booksmart avengers to battle magical adversaries.
Talking of great readers, Studying Rainbow icon LeVar Burton will lead off The CW’s new Monday night time foray into sport reveals because the host of Trivial Pursuit, primarily based on the basic board sport. Burton was famously a fan-favorite option to be the brand new everlasting host of Jeopardy! after Alex Trebek’s passing, and he’s spoken overtly about why that chance didn’t pan out. Trivial Pursuit shall be adopted by Scrabble, a TV model of the word-making sport hosted by Raven-Symoné.
Taking a cue from Netflix, The CW is moving into the WWE ring by turning into the brand new residence for WWE NXT, which has aired on the USA Community since 2019. The collection will proceed to deal with cultivating the following era of wrestling stars who might sooner or later leap to Remaining Boss standing.
Looking forward to midseason, that well-known Baker Avenue detective, Sherlock Holmes, will clear up crimes alongside the daughter he by no means knew he had in Sherlock & Daughter. David Thewlis will don Sherlock’s deerstalker hat, whereas Blu Hunt performs his long-lost offspring—or is she?—Amelia. And staying within the familial crime-solving realm, Gossip Woman’s Leighton Meester and Katy Keene’s Luke Cook dinner play small-town sibling sleuths on Good Cop/Dangerous Cop, which additionally stars Clancy Brown as their father… and the native police chief.
