The Lede

Group Discount? Fans of THE WHITE LOTUS had better hope that enough hotel rooms have been booked! Earlier this week it was announced that notable names Heather Graham and Rosie Perez have been added to the Season 4 cast, as have Frida Gustavsson, Tobias Santelmann, Ben Schnetzer, and Laura Smet. That brings the total to a whopping 24 cast members, and yet somehow casting is “still ongoing,” according to HBO. The fourth season of THE WHITE LOTUS will film in France, and follow a mostly new crop of predominantly wealthy guests on a weeklong vacation that likely won’t end well for some of them. The previously announced cast includes Chloe Bennet, Sandra Bernhard, Helena Bonham Carter, Max Greenfield, Alexander Ludwig, and Chris Messina. All previous seasons are on Crave now.

The Crying Game When you have good news to share, what’s the best way to share it? Personally! BOSTON BLUE star Donnie Wahlberg is also one of the executive producers of the series, and when he got the news that the show had been officially renewed for a second season, he asked the other EPs for a special favour. “I had the pleasure of calling all my castmates and telling them,” Wahlberg said. “Every cast member got tears in their eyes, every single one of them, and so did I. And when I called Jenny (McCarthy, THE MASKED SINGER panelist and Wahlberg’s wife) and told her, we shared a nice cry.” BOSTON BLUE – which is a spinoff of the long-running BLUE BLOODS – returns after almost a month off to air a new episode tonight on CTV, and streams tomorrow on Crave.