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Charles Esten is tuning up for a new TV role: The Nashville alum has signed on to star in Netflix’s young-adult drama series Outer Banks, the streamer announced on Friday.

The series, set to debut in 2020, centers on a tight-knit group of North Carolina teens who embark on a mission to find their ringleader’s missing father. In the process, they stumble across a treasure map that unearths a long-buried secret. Esten will play Ward Cameron, a wealthy, self-made businessman who exudes a casual authority. He also is father to Sarah (The Originals‘ Madelyn Cline) and Rafe (Love, Simon...

Despite much of the network’s airtime being devoted to procedurals, CBS has developed a recent tradition of devoting its summer programming slots to more out-there genre programming — shows that might defy expectations and represent more bonkers storytelling.

This year, look to “Blood and Treasure” as the latest show to follow in this tradition. A modern-day action thriller with touches of “Indiana Jones” and “National Treasure,” creators Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia deliver an odd couple globe-trotting adventure about an antiquities expert and a cunning art thief who team up to take down a notorious thief/terrorist (played by “The Mummy’s” Oded Fehr.)

Matt Barr, previously seen in the CW’s “Valor” and Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” leads the cast alongside Sofia Pernas, whose recent TV credits include “Jane the Virgin” and NBC’s “The Brave.” The series also stars Michael James Shaw, Katia Winter, James Callis, Alicia Coppola,...

Anne Heche and her former Hung costar Thomas Jane appear to be an item.

The actress, 49, and the actor, 50, were spotted attending a Tribeca Film Festival event for the film Crown Vic, which Jane stars in alongside Bridget Moynahan, David Krumholtz and Josh Hopkins.

A source tells People “they arrived at the afterparty holding hands.”

Another source says, “They have been friends for more than 20 years and really enjoy spending time with each other.”

The two attended the Sarasota Film Festival in Florida last month where Heche was honored with a Career Tribute Award.

Jane and Heche previously worked together on the HBO series Hung,...

Israeli black comedy Stockholm is being adapted for the U.S. by The Brave producer Keshet Studios.

The international sales division of the Israeli firm previously took worldwide distribution rights to the four-part series, which was produced by Artza Productions, and now its La-based scripted division, which is run by Peter Traugott, is developing a local remake.

Based on the novel by Noa Yedlin, it follows four friends who attempt to help their friend win the Nobel Prize in Economics even after he is found dead. They try to keep him “alive” for five days to help him win the prize but their quest to keep Avishai’s death a secret quickly turns into an overwhelmingly complicated challenge.

For this lively group of 70-somethings, what begins as a tribute to a friend – one seemingly borne purely out of loyalty – is the start of a revealing journey into their lives and their regrets,...