Eric Stonestreet is set to join “The Santa Clauses”

Stonestreet’s Santa: Viewers are used to seeing Eric Stonestreet as bubbly Cameron Tucker in “Modern Family,” but for his next TV project, the Emmy-winning actor will be decidedly more "mad."

Stonestreet has joined the Season 2 cast of the Disney original series “The Santa Clauses.” He’s been tapped to play the role of Magnus Antas, a.k.a. the Mad Santa, who reigned during the 14th century. And Mad Santa (Stonestreet) is an important part of Season 2, as he tries to take down Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) and reclaim the North Pole.

A series followup to the “Santa Clause” films (1994, 2002 and 2006), the Disney comedy brought back the two film leads, Tim Allen (“Last Man Standing”) and Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost”), and was one of the streamer’s most-watched original series last year following its Nov. 16 debut. The first season centered on Tim Allen’s character, former businessman Scott Calvin. Years after assuming the role of Santa Claus, Scott was struggling to balance his work and his family, and he was even contemplating giving up the job.

He’s still Santa in the second season, since he had to put his retirement plans on hold due to his inability to find a replacement. Maybe Scott’s son, Cal (Austin Kane, “Bizaardvark”), can be counted on to take over the family business as Santa? We’ll see how that idea plays out in Season 2.

Stonestreet isn’t the only newcomer to “The Santa Clauses.” Marta Kessler (“The Mysterious Benedict Society”) will appear as Olga, Mad Santa’s surly gnome sidekick who doesn’t understand feelings or even empathy. Other guest stars include Liam Kyle (“Pinocchio,” 2022) and Laura San Giacomo (“Just Shoot Me!”) in the role of La Befana, the Christmas Witch.

‘Umbrella’ add-ons: Real-life couple Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) and Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”) have enrolled in “The Umbrella Academy.”

The pair have joined the cast for the fourth — and final — season of the Netflix superhero series. They’ll be playing the roles of Gene (Offerman) and Jean (Mullally) Thibedeau, a married pair of mild-mannered community college professors, and Netflix made a point of mentioning that the two will be rocking sensible footwear. More importantly, they “suffer from the most extreme case of deja vu this timeline has ever seen.”

Another famous comedic actor will also be popping up in Season 4: “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show” alum David Cross. Cross will play the role of Sly Grossman, “an upstanding, shy business owner and family man desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, who will stop at nothing to get her back” (according to Netflix).

Based on the graphic novels written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, “The Umbrella Academy” follows a family of adopted siblings with superpowers who try to stop the end of the world.

Production is currently underway in Toronto, with series regulars Elliot Page ("Tales of the City"), Tom Hopper ("Black Sails"), David Castaneda ("Sicario: Day of the Soldado," 2018), Emmy Raver-Lampman ("Central Park"), Robert Sheehan ("Misfits"), Aidan Gallagher ("Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn"), Justin H. Min ("After Yang," 2021), Ritu Arya ("Feel Good") and Colm Feore ("Chicago," 2002) all reprising their roles for the final season.

Also returning is series creator/executive producer and showrunner Steve Blackman ("Fargo"), who had this to say last summer when Netflix officially renewed the show for one more season: “I’m so excited that the incredibly loyal fans of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ will be able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began five years ago. But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead for Season 4, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the final minutes.”

No word yet (at least, not at the time of writing) on the official episode count for Season 4, but according to Variety, “multiple sources” have suggested the season will be shorter than the 10-episode count of previous seasons.

Managing expectations: “The Night Manager” has been off duty, so to speak, since 2016, but it will reportedly return.

An adaptation of John le Carré’s 1993 novel of the same name, “The Night Manager” was co-produced by BBC and AMC, which aired the series in North America. It starred Tom Hiddleston (“Loki”) as protagonist/hotel manager Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier recruited by a Foreign Office task force to infiltrate an arms dealer’s inner circle. His battle of wills with season villain Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie, "House") ended with (spoiler alert) Roper’s arrest at the end of Season 1.

It seems Amazon Prime Video is reviving the series and is bringing back Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine, according to Deadline, which first broke the news.

Keep in mind the series hasn’t formally been greenlit yet, but reports suggested filming would begin later this year in London and South America, and there is talk of a two-season run.

Original series writer David Farr would also return to pen Season 2, which picks up the story two years later, as Pine learns of Roper’s death and faces a deadlier challenge.