The CBS series killed off the wife of its Kevin simply as a way to reset a show that wound up getting cancelled anyway. Considering how Murphy garnered actual sympathy for a character that started out as a Real Housewives spawn, doubtless she’ll find so many facets to play to long-suffering sitcom housewife Allison. The series has no release date, but its first season will include ten episodes.
Eugene Levy (Johnny Rose)
Levy will reunite with his onscreen wife very soon… but this time they’ll be animals. He and Catherine O’Hara will lend their voices to The Beast, Heroes of the Wildfire, an animated short reimagining of one of Canada’s largest wildfire evacuations. Levy will play Fire Chief Ducky (but will he have those eyebrows?); the rest of the voice cast includes Mena Suvari, Michael J. Fox, Marlon Wayans, and Martin Short.
Catherine O’Hara (Moira Rose)
In addition to playing Mayor Owl in The Beast, Heroes of the Wildfire, O’Hara has another voice acting project in the works: She’ll play a “flummel” named Alma in the animated film Extinct. The movie, due in 2021, follows these fluffy, donut-shaped animals as they are transported from 1835 Shanghai to present day… only to learn of their species’ extinction and have to go back in time to save their future. The cast includes Rachel Bloom, Ken Jeong, Alex Borstein, and more.
Emily Hampshire (Stevie Budd)
Hampshire, who previously was a series regular on Syfy’s 12 Monkeys, is trading dramedy for horror: She has three chilling projects lined up over the next year. In the psychological horror film Home (on which Hampshire has an executive producer credit), she plays a grieving mother convinced that her newborn is still alive, when instead sinister forces are gathering. The film’s expected release is sometime in 2020.
She will also star opposite Adrien Brody in Chapelwaite, Epix’s TV adaptation of Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot,” the short story prequel to his vampire novel Salem’s Lot. And on Quibi’s horror anthology series 50 States of Fright, each bite-sized episode built around one state’s urban legend, she’ll appear in an episode called “Scared Stiff.” The series, executive produced by Sam Raimi, is expected to premiere this month.
