Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

20th Century Fox has added to the cast of the next Kingsman movie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. According to a Tweet from Channing Tatum, he is now involved in the project (although his role in the espionage film has yet to be announced), and Variety also reported that Elton John is in talks for a key role. Matthew Vaughn is returning to direct from a script he co-wrote with Jane Goldman, and Halle Berry has been in talks to star as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Tracking Board noted the rise of female villains at the movies and decided to compile a listing of the "Top 10 Trailblazing Female Villains." (So, do you agree with their choices? Any of your favorites left out?)

TELEVISION

Ethan Suplee (My Name Is Earl) has landed a series regular role opposite Hugh Laurie in Hulu’s drama series Chance, based on a novel by Kem Nunn. Chance is described as a provocative psychological thriller that focuses on Eldon Chance (Laurie), a San Francisco-based forensic neuro-psychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption, and mental illness. Suplee will play D, ex-military and a powerfully built tattooed man of few words.

Another Firefly reunion is coming to Castle, with Jewel Staite guest starring on the ABC crime drama in the May 2 episode, "Much Ado About Murder," playing a Broadway director whose movie-star lead ends up being murdered. Staite originally played mechanic Kaylee on the short-lived sci-fi series created by Joss Whedon that also featured Castle star Nathan Fillion playing the ship's "captain."

BBC America’s five-part limited series Thirteen will premiere on June 23, taking over the Orphan Black slot after that show’s season finale. Thirteen stars Jodie Comer as Ivy Moxam, who escapes from the cellar that has been her prison for 13 years and is reunited with her family who struggle to piece back together the version of their lives that existed before she disappeared. As police learn that her captor evaded arrest, two detectives are assigned to protect Ivy and one becomes consumed with the job.

ITV has announced new cast members for the third and final season of the crime drama Broadchurch. David Tennant and Olivia Colman will reprise their roles as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller, with Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan returning to play Beth and Mark Latimer. Arthur Darvill also returns as local Vicar Paul Coates, Carolyn Pickles as newspaper editor Maggie Radcliffe and Adam Wilson as Ellie's son Tom. The eight-episode season will feature a new case for Miller and Hardy with the detectives reuniting to investigate a serious sexual assault. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will present a new premiere every Sunday night during the month of June featuring four original mystery movies from the network's favorite franchises Garage Sale Mystery, starring Lori Loughlin; Aurora Teagarden, starring Candace Cameron Bure; Murder She Baked, starring Alison Sweeney; and Flower Shop Mystery, starring Brooke Shields.

AMC released a new trailer for The Night Manager, the six-part miniseries based on John le Carré's novel, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki. The Night Manager premieres April 19.

A trailer was also released for Season 2 of the USA series Mr. Robot, starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater, which premieres this summer.

PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomed two noir crime fiction authors, Steve W. Lauden (Bad Citizen Corporation) and Alex Segura, author of the Miami crime novels featuring Pete Fernandez.

Authors on the Air Radio 2 featured a Q&A with Kimberly McCreight, the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

THEATER

The Olney theater in Olney, Maryland (right outside Washington, D.C.) is presenting Dial M for Murder through May. The Frederick Knott play, which won a 1952 Edgar Award (and was later made into an Alfred Hitchcock film), centers on an aging former tennis pro who marries for money and hatches a seemingly foolproof plan to do away with his rich wife.

GAMES

Frogwares released a trailer for its newest action-packed Sherlock Holmes game, a sequel to Sherlock Holmes: Crimes And Punishments. As with the predecessor, players must scavenge for clues and link them together to solve the mystery.