Lifetime is adding two new TV movies to their Ripped From The Headlines slate. The network has greenlit production on 53 Days: The Abduction Of Mary Stauffer, starring Alyson Hannigan (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, American Pie), and Saving Alex, a gay conversion therapy drama. 
Netflix has renewed comic book adaptation The Umbrella Academy for a second season. The pick up, which is for a further ten episodes, comes more than six weeks after the first season was released on the global streaming service. 
Arrow is losing a core cast member as it heads into its final season. Emily Bett Rickards, who has played Felicity Smoak since the show's first season in 2012, is exiting the series ahead of season eight. Rickards herself announced her exit in a post on Instagram. "Felicity and I are a very tight two, but after one through seven, we will be saying goodbye to you", the post reads. 
Harmon Rabb Jr is making a comeback. JAG star David James Elliott has signed on to reprise his role in a multi-episode arc on NCIS: Los Angeles. This marks the first time that Elliott has made an appearance on any of the NCIS spin-offs. His last appearance as Captain Harmon Rabb Jr was the series finale of JAG in 2005. 
Fresh off of scoring a record breaking renewal, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is losing a cast member. Philip Winchester (Strike Back, The Player), who plays Peter Stone, is exiting the long running drama ahead of its twenty-first season. The Stone character originated on the short-lived Chicago PD spin-off Chicago Justice and is the son of the mothership Law & Order's original lead prosecutor Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), After Justice was cancelled, Winchester joined the cast of SVU in a recurring role for season 19, before becoming a regular in season 20. 
SVU is breaking TV records. NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a twenty-first season. With the pick-up, the series breaks the record for longest running prime-time drama series that was previously jointly held by Law & Order and Gunsmoke. 
Freeform is making a move into the animated space. The Disney owned cable network has put two animated series into development: Betches, based on the multimedia brand of the same name; and Woman World, an adaptation of Aminder Dhaliwal’s graphic novel.