Star Wars actress Pernilla August is joining the cast of Glitch. The Swedish-born actress, who played the mother of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels, joins Black Sails actor Luke Arnold and Cleverman's Rob Collins in the second season of the ABC's critically acclaimed zombie drama. They join series star Patrick Brammall and cast members Genevieve O'Reilly and Rodger Corser. The series, produced for the ABC by Matchbox Pictures, is filming in Melbourne and will launch later this year. Glitch airs internationally on Netflix.

Willing, gracefully

It's official: the long-running hit comedy Will & Grace is returning.  Since the cast reunited late last year to film a Trump-themed webisode ahead of the US election, speculation has simmered in Hollywood that a full-scale reunion would follow. The US network NBC has confirmed an order of 10 half-hour episodes starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. The series will air later this year, NBC says. The reunion also brings back the show's writer-creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and director James Burrows. The original series aired on NBC between 1998 and 2006.

Trek delayed

Production on the new Star Trek reboot, Star Trek: Discovery, is under way but the US studio CBS has confirmed the series will not meet its May 2017 launch date. It is the second time the series has been delayed. In a media statement the studio said they were "excited about the world the producers have created. We've said from the beginning it's more important to do this right than to do it fast." The series stars Sonequa Martin-Green as the USS Discovery's first officer "Number One"; it will also star Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Yeoh and James Frain. The series launches on CBS All Access later this year; in Australia it will air on Netflix.

X-cessive

Bryan Singer is to direct an X-Men focused pilot for 20th Century Fox Television. Singer previously directed the 2000 and 2003 films in the X-Men franchise, as well as two more recent X-Men films, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse. The pilot is to be co-produced by Marvel Television. Though Singer is known primarily as a film director, his television credits include episodes of Battle Creek, House and the critically acclaimed Munsters reboot pilot, Mockingbird Lane. Fox is developing the X-Men pilot for the 2017 pilot season.