Posted By: Staff May 6, 2021 @ 2:10 am Entertainment Daypop
ABC confirmed on Twitter that it has renewed the crime drama
Big Sky for a second season.
“There are more mysteries to solve out there under the #BigSky with Season 2!” the post reads.
Big Sky premiered in November and is in the midst of its first season. ABC said the show was the fall’s number one new series in total viewers and among adults 18-49.
Big Sky is based on
The Highway series of books by C.J. Box. The series, created by David E. Kelley, stars Kylie Bunbury and Ryan Phillippe as Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt, two private detectives who co-own their own agency. Katheryn Winnick co-stars as Jenny Hoyt, a former cop and Cody’s estranged wife. The show also features Valerie Mahaffey and Dedee Pfeiffer.
Big Sky : Kylie Bunbury, Ryan Phillippe series renewed for Season 2
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Kylie Bunbury stars on Big Sky, which will return for a second season on ABC. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Ryan Phillippe attends the People Magazine Awards in 2014. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Katheryn Winnick attends the Directors Guild of America Awards in 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Ryan Phillippe attends the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of The Bang Bang Club in 2010. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
Katheryn Winnick attends the New York premiere of The Dark Tower in 2017. File Photo by Dennis Van Tine/UPI | License Photo
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Early in Azazel Jacobs’s film
French Exit, a “tragedy of manners” per its screenwriter Patrick DeWitt, who also wrote the novel it’s based on a character wistfully remarks, “They broke the mold with that one.” They’re referring to Frances Price, an elegant, aloof sixtysomething widow who sells off the last vestiges of her dead husband’s large estate and retires to Paris with her adult son, Malcolm. Yet they just as easily could be talking about Michelle Pfeiffer, the actress who plays Frances in the film and one of the great movie stars of the back half of the 20th century. From the early 1980s through the mid-’90s, Pfeiffer worked with some of America’s most celeb
Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021
OPENING
Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou (
Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and Zhu Yawen) who return to their Japanese-occupied country in the 1930s to find that they’ve been betrayed by persons unknown. Also with Liu Haocun, Li Naiwen, and Ni Dahong. (Opens Friday at AMC Grapevine Mills)
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Film Shorts // April 21-27, 2021
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OPENING
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (R) A big-screen continuation of the
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