Casting News: LEGO Masters' New Host, Miss Austen Returns and More
Fox has renewed LEGO Masters for Season 6 — to premiere during the 2025-26 TV season, with The Masked Singer's Nick Cannon succeeding Will Arnett as host.
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'We're thrilled to bring LEGO Masters back for another season,' Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network, said in a statement. 'Originally launched with the wonderful Will Arnett, the show now enters an exciting next chapter with Nick Cannon at the helm, who brings a new fun energy to the competition.'
For Season 6, LEGO Masters for the first time ever will film in-person audition episodes at LEGOLAND California Resort, on June 21 and 22; for more details, visit LEGOMasterstv.com.
LEGO Masters is currently airing Season 5 Mondays at 8/7c. This week, the eight remaining duos prepare to 'Get in Gear' as they create builds that burst with movement and tell a compelling story.
In other recent casting news:
* Keeley Hawes is set to reprise her role as Cassandra in Miss Austen Returns, a follow-up to MASTERPIECE PBS' Miss Austen that is based on Gill Hornby's recently published The Elopement. As producer Christine Langan told Deadline, 'The Elopement is drawn from very rich family history; the Austens were very fertile, there's a lot of them. This is a well-researched true story that happens later on [from Miss Austen], around the 1820s, and to a wing of the family that involves Cassandra.'
* Ryan Robbins (Sanctuary, Riverdale) will be a recurring guest star on Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot, playing Russell, a rough and grizzled settler, Deadline reports.
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