Paul Wesley joins Icebreaker as college ice hockey coach

 Paul Wesley, who plays Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, will take on the role of coach of the college ice hockey team.He has joined the Netflix series Icebreaker as Neil Faulkner, TVLine has learned.

The series is adapted from the novel of the same name by Hannah Grace.Neil in the original book was a former NHL professional player. A drunk driver ruined his playing career and made him a strict coach; Netflix has not yet announced more details about the character in the drama version.

The story revolves around figure skater Anastasia Allen, nicknamed Stacey, played by Daisy Jelley, and ice hockey player Nate Hawkins, played by Connor Simos.When an accident forces the two teams to share the same ice rink, their lives collide.The plot introduction uses “discipline to give way to obsession” to describe their changes: What is more dangerous than the desire to win is the desire for each other.

Wesley has long played Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries and also appeared in Tell Me a Story.He will also star in the third season of the Apple TV series The Buccaneers.

Another drama adaptation of the novel is in production.The Good Wife actress Julianna Margulies will star in MGM+'s newly greenlit eight-episode drama The American Heiress.Author Daisy Goodwin brought her novel of the same name to the screen and was responsible for the overall creation and production of the series.

This is a romantic comedy about upper class etiquette, set in 1893.Beautiful, lively Cora Cash is reluctantly brought to England by her domineering mother Isabella in search of the one thing money can't buy in America: a title of nobility.Margulies plays her mother Isabella, and filming will begin in the UK in November.

Wilson Bethel, who has starred in Hart of Dixie, has joined the untitled Apple TV thriller starring Dakota Fanning and will appear in multiple episodes.Fanning plays a Treasury agent who infiltrates a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation. As she carries out her mission, she begins to believe that the subject of her investigation is a good person worthy of love, and is caught between her duty and her feelings.Details of Bethel's role have not yet been announced.

The Circle, a reality show, also announced its celebrity contestants for Season 8: Hannah Brown from The Bachelorette, Dominic DeAngelis from Vanderpump Villa, and Sasha Farber from Dancing with the Stars.Farber, and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Layla Taylor and Kate Racker.

《The Circle》The eighth season will be transferred from Netflix to Hulu and some competition formats will be adjusted. It will premiere on Tuesday, November 17th.Updates are scheduled every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9pm Eastern Time and 8pm Central Time.