Casting News: Lucy Hale's Netflix Series, Sheryl Crow and LeAnn Rimes Mentor The Voice and More
The series adaptation of Caite Dolan-Leach's novel is in development at Netflix, with Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper's company Unwell producing and Rachel Caris Love (Physical, Blindspot) penning the project, our sister site Deadline reports. In addition to starring, Hale will also serve as an executive producer.
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The psychological thriller centers on identical twins Ava and Zelda (both played by Hale), the former of whom returns to their family vineyard after Zelda's murder. Before her death, Zelda knew she was in danger and left letters behind for Ava, sending her sister on a twisted scavenger hunt for the truth.
In other recent casting news…
* Sheryl Crow and LeAnn Rimes will serve as mega mentors on The Voice Season 27. Crow will mentor the artists on coaches Kelsea Ballerini and Michael Bublé's teams, while Rimes will help out John Legend and Adam Levine's singers.
* Taylor Ann Green is leaving Bravo's Southern Charm ahead of Season 11 and will instead 'focus on my new company, @resetathletic and all the exciting things that my business partner and I have been working on to continue to bring our dream into reality,' Green wrote on Instagram.
* Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Now You See Me) has joined Season 5 of the Israeli spy drama Fauda, which streams Stateside on Netflix, Deadline reports. No character details are available.
* The CBS soap Beyond the Gates has tapped Jason Vendryes (Tyler Perry's Ruthless) to recur as 'a mysterious stranger who impacts the lives of Clifton Davis' Vernon and Brandon Claybon's Martin,' per Deadline. He will make his debut in May.
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The only constant name across every major console generation is Nintendo. The Mario maker wouldn't become a household name until the NES arrived in the mid-'80s, but Nintendo has been spreading joy through gaming for well over half a century now. Currently, the Nintendo Switch 2 is the latest and greatest system on the market, but it wasn't a clear or smooth path to get there. While some hardware didn't hit the mark, hit franchises like Zelda, Pokémon, and Mario always delivered enthralling experiences that helped define multiple generations of gamers. With such a rich history, I want to walk down memory lane with you to recall every major Nintendo console released from its origins up to today. Note: I will be leaving out all the various versions and redesigns of consoles, such as the various Game Boy, DS, and Switch models. Color TV-Game – 1977 Even the most hardcore Nintendo fan who is always at the ready to hit you with the fact that Nintendo began in the 1800s selling Hanafuda cards is unlikely to know that the first true Nintendo console was the Color TV-Game from 1977. Nintendo partnered with Mitsubishi to create a line of five different models over the course of six years. These consoles had a set of built-in games, most of them versions of Pong, with newer versions having slight upgrades in hardware. While quaint by today's standards, Nintendo clearly knew what it was doing right from the start since it was the best selling system of the first generation. Game & Watch – 1980 The good old Game & Watch is where most Nintendo historians will mark the start of Nintendo's video game history. The story goes that designer Gunpei Yokoi was inspired to create a small, handheld game when seeing a businessman on a train entertaining himself by messing around with a pocket calculator. 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What was most appealing about the GBA, and would become a highly requested feature to this day, was backwards compatibility. All original Game Boy games fit right into the GBA as well as the new titles. Nintendo even toyed with merging the handheld with the home console with an adapter that allowed players to connect to a GameCube in certain titles. GameCube – 2001 That brings us to the good old GameCube. This block of a home console was a bit hit and miss in retrospect. It was the weakest-selling compared to the Xbox and PS2, but had some of the more contentious first party games at the time. While they are more appreciated today, Super Mario Sunshine and The Wind Waker were both seen as a letdown compared to previous entries. Nintendo DS – 2004 Rather than wait another decade to give us a handheld upgrade, Nintendo struck rather quick with the DS. 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