‘Myron Bolitar’ Netflix series adds 10 more to its cast

July 24, 2026 | 6:00 AM

A photo of Melissa Benoist. (Amy Harrity) | A photo of Griffin Dunne. (Martina Tolot) | A photo of Isaiah Hill. (Netflix)

The upcoming Myron Bolitar TV series adaptation has added even more to its cast.

Netflix has announced that Melissa Benoist, Griffin Dunne, Bebe Neuwirth, Isaiah Hill, Ra’Mya Latiah Aikens, Amanda Warren, Quincy Isaiah, Charlie Tahan, Jamie Hector and Sandrine Holt have joined the cast of the upcoming drama series.

They join previously announced stars Colin Woodell, KJ Apa and Diane Guerrero, who will play Myron Bolitar, Win Lockwood and Esperanza Diaz in the show. Also part of the main cast are Jabari Banks, Chloe Fineman, Jamie McShane and Ben McKenzie.

Myron Bolitar will be based on writer Harlan Coben’s longest-running series, which spans 12 books.

“After an injury ends his NBA dreams, Myron Bolitar reinvents himself as a sports agent — using charm, smarts, and a ruthless partner to navigate the high-stakes and dirty world of sports, where saving his clients often means risking himself,” according to the show’s official logline.

Benoist will play Valerie Simpson, a former tennis star launching a comeback. Dunne is set to play Alan Bolitar, Myron’s father, while Neuwirth will play Ellen Bolitar, Myron’s mother.

Hill will portray Jayden Elder, a generational basketball player primed to be the first overall pick in the NBA draft.

Aikens is playing Wanda Green, who is Dwayne Richmond’s fiancée, while Warren will portray Deanna Richmond, Dwayne’s mother.

Isaiah will play Rodney Keys, an NBA player and one of Myron’s clients. Tahan is playing Roger Quincy, “an off-kilter man who doesn’t want to be defined by his past,” according to the streamer.

Finally, Hector will play Avery Crowder, a man with a criminal past determined to make it in the sports business, while Holt will play Detective Sharon Steele.

Emmy winner David E. Kelley and Kyle Long are set to co-showrun, write and executive produce the series.

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Dolly Parton was the one person who could unite a deeply divided country

By CNN
August 25, 2026 | 7:54 PM

(CNN) — At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind.Her style was adopted by the LGBTQ community and is celebrated in drag shows.She starred in a feminist comedy and became an icon for feminists, but didn’t use that word to describe herself. She preferred “woman in business.”She laughed about her plastic surgery and said the joke was on the public.She talked about her deep faith and lent her name to a wholesome family-friendly theme park in her home state of Tennessee.She did all of this without seeming to offend anyone. Country music fans, pop music fans, Republicans, Democrats, presidents, faith leaders and drag queens all genuinely mourned her passing Tuesday.President Donald Trump announced after her death that flags will be lowered to half-staff to mourn her passing, an honor he has denied to perceived enemies.“There has never been anyone like her, and never will,” Trump said in a statement posted on social media.Former President Barack Obama seemed shocked when he was asked by then-“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert in 2020 why he hadn’t given Parton a presidential medal of freedom.“I’m shocked,” Obama said. “That was a screw-up.” He assumed she’d already been honored with the nation’s highest civilian honor.Parton worked hard to appeal to everyone.When it was erroneously reported she had endorsed Hillary Clinton against Trump in 2016, she issued a clarifying post on social media, saying that while she supported having a woman in the White House, it was not a nod to Clinton.“I try not to get political but if I am, I might as well just run myself ‘cause I’ve got the hair for it, it’s huge, and they could always use more boobs in the race,” she wrote, adding. “But seriously, I have not decided who I’m voting for, but no matter what we’re gonna be suffering from PMS, Presidential Mood Swings.”That doesn’t mean she wouldn’t take any positions. When access to bathrooms for transgender people was in the news in 2016, she suggested to CNN that people should be able to use the restroom where they felt comfortable.“I try not to get too caught up in the controversy of things,” she said, adding, “I hope everybody gets a chance to be who and what they are.”But then she added the kind of plain-spoken Dollyism that pierced through the debate.“I just know if I have to pee, I’m going to pee. I don’t care where it’s going to be.”Her popularity was exceptional. When the University of Massachusetts and YouGov surveyed 1,000 people in April about their views of a random assortment of people with global fame, Parton had, by far, the strongest net favorability of +65%, a figure that included strong majorities of both liberals and conservatives.The next most popular person on the list was Obama, with +14%. Trump was in negative territory, along with former President Joe Biden.“I have as many Republican fans as I do Democrats,” Parton told USA Today in 2020. “I don’t want to offend anybody, I have a right to myself.”That kind of professional political agnosticism, perhaps partly a function of her home base in the heartland and her start as a country artist, might seem like a cop-out in today’s political climate. But it’s also true that much of the country, like Parton, doesn’t talk about politics every day.She brought an earnest smile and an infectious giggle into any conversation. Her music was more focused on the sad songs, love ballads and duets that sold in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Today it’s breakup albums that get plays and attention.“Jolene,” sung from the perspective of an unnamed narrator whose man would leave her for the more beautiful Jolene if he could, comes across as a plea and a lament. If a similar theme were addressed today by another country/pop crossover artist, it might come off more like a beef track.Parton came from a time when division wasn’t necessary to build an audience. And she built the widest audience possible.“Dolly was raised in her grandfather’s church. She knew the Bible. And one of her favorite verses was judge not, lest you be judged,” her biographer Martha Ackmann told NPR in 2025.Parton lived by that principle, Ackmann said. The big hair and makeup might have created a persona upon which others placed their own expectations. But beneath it all, Ackmann said, Parton was best described by the word “decency” — “that hardcore decency that respects other people and treats others with compassion and openness.”This story has been updated with additional details.This article’s headline has been updated.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

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