{"id":726517,"date":"2026-06-10T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:23:10","slug":"joanne-froggatt-joins-the-magnificent-seven-edward-bluemel-is-the-new-poirot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726517\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Froggatt Joins The Magnificent Seven, Edward Bluemel Is The New Poirot"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Joanne Froggatt is trading teatime for chow time:\u00a0The “Downton Abbey”\u00a0star has joined the cast of the MGM+ Western “The Magnificent Seven,”\u00a0Deadline<\/a> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She’ll play\u00a0Harriet Talbot, a widow who helps recruit a band of hired guns to protect her Quaker village. Also joining the cast:\u00a0Amy Forsyth (“The Gilded Age”) as gunslinger\u00a0Katie “Deadeye” Dalton, and Danny Pino<\/a> (“Law &\u00a0Order:\u00a0SVU”) as charming con man\u00a0Santiago “Santi” Vega.<\/p>\n

Based on the classic 1960 film, MGM+’s “The Magnificent Seven”\u00a0hails from writer and executive producer Tim Kring (“Heroes”) and “follows seven gifted but flawed mercenaries hired to protect a peaceful Quaker village after it is massacred by mercenaries working for a ruthless land baron trying to seize their land,”\u00a0per the official synopsis. Matt Dillon (“High Desert”) stars as stoic leader Chris Adams, joined by\u00a0Will Patton (“Yellowstone”) and Michael Ealy (“Power Book II: Ghost”).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Froggatt is best known for playing housemaid Anna on the PBS period drama “Downton Abbey,”\u00a0earning three Emmy nominations for the role. She currently stars opposite Tom Hardy on the Paramount+\u00a0crime drama “MobLand.”<\/p>\n

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Mammoth Screen \/ Jonathan Ford<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Edward Bluemel (“Killing Eve”) will star as the legendary detective Hercule Poirot<\/a> in the new BritBox series “Hercule,”\u00a0the streamer has announced.\u00a0Benji Walters (“Obsession”) will pen the adaptation, based on the novels of\u00a0murder mystery legend Agatha Christie.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0“New Girl”\u00a0alums Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. will reunite to star in a Hulu comedy pilot inspired by the Jim Carrey film “The Cable Guy,”\u00a0per Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Lesley Manville (“The Crown”) will play Brett Goldstein’s mother in the Prime Video male escort comedy “Escorted,”\u00a0according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* “The Boys”\u00a0veterans Chace Crawford and P.J. Byrne will play brothers in the Prime Video series “We Were Once Men,”\u00a0Deadline<\/a> reports. The satirical black comedy follows the brothers as they attend a wellness retreat for the modern man.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Apple TV’s “Your Friends &\u00a0Neighbors”\u00a0has added four to its Season 3 cast in recurring roles, according to Deadline<\/a>: Rick Cosnett (“The Flash”), Sydney Lemmon (“Love Story”), Mitchell Hoog (“Saved by the Bell”), and Gillian Zinser (“90210”).<\/p>\n


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