TVLine Items: Marvel's Luke Cage Gets Boss, Devious New Night and More
Luke Cage, it’s time to meet your maker.
Cheo Hodari Coker (NCIS: LA, Southland) will serve as executive producer and showrunner of Netflix’s upcoming series Marvel’s Luke Cage, the streaming service announced Tuesday.
Coker, whose recent credits also include Ray Donovan and Almost Human, will write the first two episodes of the series, which centers on the street thug turned strength-enhanced hero originally seen in comic books.
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The Good Wife’s Mike Colter will headline the Luke Cage series, which was originally announced as part of the Marvel/Netflix team-up that kicks off April 10 with a Daredevil series starring Boardwalk Empire’s Charlie Cox, continues with AKA Jessica Jones (starring Krysten Ritter), also gives Iron Fist his own show and culminates in a miniseries event that reimagines The Defenders, Marvel’s dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters.
Marvel’s Luke Cage will bow in 2016.
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* IFC has ordered eight episodes of Benders, a half-hour comedy about a group of friends bonded by an irrational obsession for their amateur hockey league.
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* Justified actor/Lost alum Jeff Fahey has joined the upcoming second season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, El Rey Network announced Tuesday. He will recur as Uncle Eddie Cruickshank, the man who raised the Gecko Brothers after their father died and has a chance to get back in the game when Seth and Richie show up.
* Barbara Walters will return to TV in American Scandal, a newly announced series on Investigation Discovery in which the anchor will revisit compelling stories she has covered throughout the years, revealing never-before-heard details and offering personal insight.
* Bravo has ordered NeNe and Kim: The Road to Riches, a docuseries which will follow Real Housewives of Atlanta alums NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak Biermann as they drive from Atlanta to Los Angeles.
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