Новости за 10.06.2021

Rose Matafeo’s millenial comedy Starstruck will be back for a second go-round. HBO Max has renewed the series, produced by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Breeders producer Avalon Television, for a second season. News of the pickup comes the same day as the season one debut on the WarnerMedia streaming service. Created and […]

EXCLUSIVE: The final years and death of radio legend and entertainer Casey Kasem is explored in a new documentary podcast series narrated by The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Martin Kove. Bitter Blood: Kasem vs. Kasem comes from AYR Media and has been set at Audible as part of the producer’s overall deal at […]

If you’re thinking, “Never have I ever waited so long for a show’s new season,” read on. Netflix has set a July 15 premiere date for Season 2 of Never Have I Ever, the coming-of-age comedy starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan from creator Mindy Kaling. Check out some photos from the upcoming sophomore run above and below. Never […]

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is Muslim, but only 1.1% of the characters portrayed in the 100 top-grossing U.S. films from 2017-19 were Muslim, according to a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released Thursday. The study, “Missing & Maligned: The Reality of Muslims in Popular Global Movies,” paints a dark […]

The podcast arm of American Public Media, which is behind series such as In The Dark and Tig Notaro’s advice show Don’t Ask Tig, has struck a multi-year strategic partnership with Cadence13. The Audacy-owned Cadence13, which is behind audio series such as You Must Remember This and 4D with Demi Lovato, will serve as the exclusive […]

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has closed a raft of sales for Normal People’s follow-up series Conversations With Friends, as TV sales chief Prentiss Fraser has spoken in detail for the first time about how she has transformed the company’s distribution regime. Element Pictures’ adaptation of Sally Rooney’s second novel is again set at BBC Three and […]

Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird will return to Broadway on Tuesday, October 5, at the Shubert Theatre, with Jeff Daniels in a limited engagement reprising his originating role as ‘Atticus Finch’ and Celia Keenan-Bolger returning in her Tony Award-winning performance as ‘Scout Finch.’ The announcement was made today by producer Barry Diller. Scott Rudin […]

Top media firm GroupM says it expects 22% growth in media ad revenue in 2021 compared with 2019 levels, excluding political spending. Spending on ads will rise 15% over 2019, a marked improvement from the company’s prior forecast. Political spending, the company noted in its mid-year report, is not a significant factor in either 2019 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Just ahead of the North American and China releases of Sony’s Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway — and with World Food Day coming up in October — the film has joined forces with the United Nations, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Foundation to enlist more food heroes who, like the […]

A $16.1 billion federal program set up to provide emergency relief to distressed movie theaters and live venues has started distributing funds, but venue operators say the process has been slow and a key deadline has been missed. On Thursday, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, the League of Historic American Theatres, the National Association […]

The Revenant star Will Poulter and Bohemian Rhapsody’s Lucy Boynton are to lead the cast of Hugh Laurie’s three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?. Deadline revealed that The Night Manager and House star was behind the adaptation in April and the series is starting production this week. Based on the 1934 […]

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA has become the latest influential UK industry body to call for a high-level summit to address historical sexual misconduct allegations amid a growing #MeToo movement in television. BAFTA joined Time’s Up UK in requesting that key industry players gather to find a way of improving accountability when survivors of bullying and assault make […]