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HBO is taking a gamble on Riley Keough. TV’s erstwhile Daisy Jones is set to executive-produce and star in the new drama series “Advantage Player,” currently in development at the premium cabler,\u00a0Deadline<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n Will Graham, who served as a writer and co-showrunner on “Daisy Jones & The Six,” will write and executive-produce “Advantage Player,” which follows “a brilliant misfit” who “discovers the secret to beating casinos at their own game,” according to the official logline \u2014 at which point “she’s pulled into a world of obsessive outlaws who all live by one rule: the only way to beat the system is to outplay the people who built it.”<\/p>\n The series is\u00a0inspired by real-life advantage player Gina Fiore, who penned the forthcoming memoir “Advantage Player: Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings,” due out October 27.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n In other casting news…<\/p>\n HBO’s “Task” has added four recurring guest stars to its Season 2 ensemble, per Deadline<\/a>: Stephanie Sigman (“Narcos”) as Carmen Belandria, “a no-nonsense, fiercely loyal mother and wife of Edgar Ram\u00edrez’s Miguel”; Ala\u00edde (“Rebelde”) as Maria Delgado, “a sharp and resourceful cartel escapee fighting to reunite with her sister”; Roc\u00edo Guzm\u00e1n (“Every Minute Counts”) as Yvonne Delgado, “an innocent yet fearless immigrant farm worker determined to protect her family”; and Regina Nava (“Blood Pact”) as Fernanda, “a resilient and stubborn immigrant mushroom farm worker.”
\nEmilia Jones (of “Task” Season 1) will headline Netflix’s “The Retrievals,” Deadline<\/a> reports. Hailing from “Maid” and “Sirens” creator Molly Smith Metzer, and inspired by the podcast of the same name, the series “follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who come together to crusade against Yale University after they are operated on without anesthesia \u2013 because a nurse stole their fentanyl.” Jones will play Gabby Clemente, “a New Haven bartender and student teacher whose life is upended by her traumatic egg retrieval surgery.”
\nAmy Sedaris will star opposite Ben Stiller and Benicio Del Toro<\/a> in the Apple TV comedy “Protective Custody,” Deadline<\/a> reports. Character details are being kept under wraps.
\nRandall Park (“Fresh Off the Boat”) has joined the cast of Netflix’s “Minimum Wage” as Mr. Sylvester, the eccentric boss of a pizza shop. The show (which is based on the American High shorts series of the same name) follows an overwhelmed group of teens struggling to run a pizzeria \u2014 and will launch with the first 14 (of 28) episodes, all 12-and-a-half minutes, later this year. Previously announced cast members include Aidan and Ryan Micho (“Pizza Movie”), and Grace Reiter (“The Chair Company”).
\nNetflix has tapped Alma Marian (“Dave”), Isabella Fowler (“Just Roll With It”), and Erin Rose Park (“Midnight’s Hours”) to star in “Sunshine Girls.” The coming-of-age series (which will debut in December) will follow three young girls growing up in a California suburb who begin high school and must contend with “false starts, first kisses, and family drama.”<\/p>\n
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