Новости за 15.01.2020

Will John Turturro be getting back into the eczema skin of The Night Of‘s New York City criminal attorney John Stone soon? In the series’ debut season, Stone was thrust into the biggest case of his career defending Pakistani-American college student Nasir (Riz Ahmed)  accused of murdering his one-night stand. Now the character is poised […]

HBO’s The Undoing debuts in May and creator/writer David E. Kelley was joined on the TCA stage by fellow EP and director Susanne Bier as well as EP/star Nicole Kidman and actors Hugh Grant and Noma Dumezweni to talk about the six-part limited series based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known. This […]

TruTV has set premiere dates for the sophomore run of its firefighter comedy Tacoma FD along with a pair of new series: Hot Ones: The Game Show and It’s Personal with Amy Hoggart.  Tacoma FD returns at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 26; docu-style comedy series It’s Personal launches at 10 p.m. Wednesday, February 26, and Hot Ones gets […]

TBS has greenlighted Lost Resort, an upstairs/downstairs look at the booming subculture of exotic wellness retreats. The announcement was made today during its panel at the TCA winter press tour. Produced by ITV America’s Sirens Media, the 10-episode unscripted series follows a group of strangers who are immersed in a three-week Costa Rican retreat led […]

TruTV has ordered Tirdy Works, an unscripted sitcom set in a small rural town with four paved roads and a booming new business: arts and crafts created out of moose turds. Set in Somerville, Maine, the series is described as an off-kilter look at entrepreneurship, parenthood and life told through the eyes of artist Mary […]

American Dad! is going to be around awhile longer. TBS has ordered two more seasons of Seth MacFarlane’s top-rated adult animated comedy, which will mark its milestone 300th episode this year. The renewal was announced Wednesday during Turner’s presentation at the TCA Winter Press Tour. A consistent, solid ratings performer, American Dad!, from 20th Century […]

During today’s HBO TCA panel for The Plot Against America, actress Zoe Kazan gave an emotional response when asked about her grandfather Elia Kazan and his actions during the McCarthy era, when the two-time Oscar winning filmmaker named former colleagues before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo is rounding out its cast for Genius: Aretha, the next installment of its popular anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios that stars Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul. Newcomer Shaian Jordan is set as a series regular in a recasting. Additionally, Dear White People‘s Marque Richardson, Pauletta Washington […]

The 27th edition of the SXSW Film Festival has unveiled its robust slate of feature and episodic premieres which will kick off with its opening night film, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island starring Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson. The fest is set to run March 13-22 in Austin. In The King of Staten Island, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading into eccentric dark animated comedy The House after teaming with animation firm Nexus Studios and a slew of leading stop frame animation directors. The SVOD service has ordered The House, which will be produced at Nexus Studios’ London unit. Nexus, which also has a studio in LA, is behind Academy Award-nominated […]

Tilda Swinton will receive a British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship this year, joining the likes of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, in recognition of her “her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy”. Swinton will be awarded the prize at the BFI Chair’s annual dinner, hosted by BFI Chair and Warner Bros […]

The Edinburgh International Television Festival has appointed Variety’s international correspondent Stewart Clarke as creative director and promoted Campbell Glennie to managing director. The pair will effectively replace Lisa Campbell — who stepped down as CEO in 2019 to become the director of communications at ITN — as the festival gears up to launch on 26 […]

Netflix has been accused of funneling as much as $430M of its international profits into tax havens, while at the same time receiving more than a $1M in tax relief in the UK. A report by British think-tank Tax Watch said that, like other major tech companies including Google and Amazon, “there is little doubt […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has renewed epic fantasy drama Britannia for a third season. The third season of the big-budget historical drama, which was written by playwright Jez Butterworth, is set to shoot later this year. It stars David Morrissey, Mackenzie Crook, Annabel Scholey and Eleanor Worthington-Cox. Created by Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth and James Richardson, the […]

Gordon Ramsay is to hunt for the next big innovation in the food and drink industry in a BBC One competition format made by his production company Studio Ramsay. Ramsay will front eight-part show Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars, in which 12 British candidates will compete to win the chef’s investment in a format that […]

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Tuesday finale of Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time ABC’s Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time tournament came to an end Tuesday, with Ken Jennings winning the title. During a Final Jeopardy! category titled Shakespeare’s Tragedies at the end of Match 4, Jennings was the only contestant […]

Monica Raymund can currently be seen in the Starz crime drama Hightown, but before she was navigating the rocky road to sobriety as Jackie Quinones, she was starring as the fearless paramedic Gabby Dawson, a fan favorite on Chicago Fire. After 6 seasons, she exited the show, but recently returned to NBC’s Chicago-verse for the season 8 […]

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll is piloting a new comedy about a group of Irish peacekeepers patrolling the border between Lebanon and Israel. O’Carroll told Deadline that The Lebanese Outpost was one of a number of projects that he was working on. The pilot comes a year after it emerged that the Irish comedian […]

Starz is to step up its international co-production strategy – eyeing originals out of Spain and India. Jeffrey Hirsch, President and CEO, Starz, said it was continuing to deepen its global presence following the launch of Starzplay platform, which is now in 49 territories around the world. The Lionsgate-backed company launched its international direct-to-consumer Starzplay […]

Warner Bros execs joined California Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday, for the official groundbreaking of the studio’s new Frank Gehry-designed “iceblock” office towers. Leading the event was Warner Bros Chair and CEO Ann Sarnoff, who welcomed 200 guests to the ceremony, including Gehry and Burbank Mayor Sharon Springer, as the studio embarks on an expansion of […]

UPDATE, 9 PM PT: In the minutes after the Democratic debate ended on Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were caught on stage, exchanging some words. It was unclear what was said, but their conversation was not what is typical at the end of most debates, as candidates smile and shake hands with each other […]

ITV and BritBox’s long-running detective drama Vera is returning for an 11th season. The announcement was made by star Brenda Blethyn at the Winter TCA Press Tour. The show stars Blethyn as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, a middle-aged employee of the Northumberland & City Police, who plods along in a disheveled state but has […]

Trevor Noah brought back his “Votegasm 2020” live coverage tonight for a recap of the seventh Democratic presidential debate. While the political face-off in Des Moines, Iowa may have started out slowly, there were some serious fireworks worthy of comedic analysis. The Daily Show host began by noting the lack of diversity on stage among […]

The first actual votes of the 2020 Presidential campaign will be cast on February 3, and tonight saw the six leading Democrats for the White House take the stage for the CNN cameras for their final debate before the Iowa caucuses. In a week of historic consequences as Congress moves towards the third presidential impeachment […]

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: George Cheeks has resigned from NBCUniversal after eight years, I have learned. The move comes three months after NBCU implemented sweeping changes, restructuring its broadcast, studio and digital operations and assigning new roles to a number of the company’s top TV executives, including Cheeks. His departure also comes several weeks after NBCUniversal CEO […]