Новости за 26.08.2021

ABC’s top comedy series The Conners has set its second live episode — the upcoming Season 4 premiere on Sept. 22. The announcement was made during the network’s portion of the summer TCA virtual press tour. The cast of the blue-collar family sitcom will perform live for both the East and West Coast broadcasts, joined […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Avenue has acquired North American rights to The System, a newly announced film starring Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise), Terrence Howard (Crash), Jeremy Piven (Entourage), and Lil Yachty (Long Shot). The action-thriller picked up by Highland Film Group’s domestic distribution arm centers on a former marine (Gibson) who is recruited by authorities to go undercover in a notoriously […]

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars will be breaking new ground in the upcoming 30th season. During a TCA panel for the show Thursday, host Tyra Banks and executive producer Andrew Llinares revealed that the new season will feature a same-sex partnership for the first time in DWTS history. Llinares said that JoJo Siwa, who recently […]

Georgia Brown, Amazon Studio’s Director of European Originals, said that audiences have been increasingly turning to feature films on their service in the last few years and expressed plans for the company to beef up its film slate. Speaking in the penultimate conversation at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, the exec also touched on […]

ABC will ring in the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World in style with a television special hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Unveiled ahead of ABC’s TCA session on Thursday, The Most Magical Story On Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World is a two-hour program that will take viewers on a historical journey spanning half […]

Shark Tank will feature four new guest sharks when ABC’s freshly Emmy-nominated unscripted series returns for its 13th season in October, the network revealed Thursday during its virtual TCA presentations. Kevin Hart, whose entertainment companies include HartBeat Productions and comedy brand Laugh Out Loud, will swim into the tank for the first time, joined by […]

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that In the Heights star Corey Hawkins is getting back into business with Warner Bros. for their feature adaptation of Broadway musical The Color Purple based on the 1985 Steven Spielberg 11x Oscar-nominated movie. The role which Hawkins is being buzzed to play is Harpo. We’ve been hearing for some time about Hawkins circling The Color […]

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA Award-winner Tony Curran (Your Honor, Ray Donovan) has joined the cast of the CW’s The Flash in the role of Despero. He is currently filming the upcoming eighth season of the series. The character is described as a powerful and intelligent alien possessing incredible telepathic powers who left his homeworld—Kalanor—under mysterious circumstances. Now […]

Keep calm and carry on… that’s the message from Discovery+ chief Lisa Holme to producers as the factual giant goes through the merger process with WarnerMedia. Holme, who, as Group SVP of Content and Commercial Strategy for Discovery+ oversees programming for the company’s streaming service, echoed comments from colleagues such as David Zaslav with Discovery […]

The Television Academy on Thursday began rolling out its list of presenters for this year’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which will be held across three ceremonies September 11-12 at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. The first batch features some nominees in the running this year including Debbie Allen (Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square), RuPaul […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a two-season order to a hybrid docuseries about African Queens, from Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios and Nutopia, with Pinkett Smith set to executive produce. Written by Peres Owino (Bound: Africans vs African-Americans) and NneNne Iwuji (Yellow), the as-yet untitled series will focus on a different queen each […]

W. Kamau Bell has won three Emmys for his CNN show United Shades of America, a docuseries which sees him deploy incisive commentary and humor to explore complex social issues, especially ones relating to race and racism. His show is nominated again this year, for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, but an industry giant […]

Netflix will be releasing the eight-episode second season of The Baby-Sitters Club on Oct. 11, it was announced on Thursday. With the news, the streamer dropped new images featuring Season 2 additions Kyndra Sanchez, Vivian Watson, and Anais Lee. “In Season 2, we really get to see a maturation of the club, and of the […]

Forbes Global Media, the business information brand that started with a 104-year-old magazine, is going public by merging with a SPAC — or special purpose acquisition company — in a deal that values the company at $630 million. The news hits amid a wave of digital media deals including a major one earlier today when […]

EXCLUSIVE: Inanna Sarkis (After) has set a strong cast for her new scripted podcast Zaya, including Suki Waterhouse (The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Hayley Law (Riverdale), Evan Ross (Star), Samer Salem (The Expanse), Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: Far from Home), Matthew Noszka (Star), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Melvin Gregg (Snowfall), Ghaith Mansour (Cherry) and Matthew Reis (Last […]

UK sci-fi series Intergalatic will not be returning for a second season at Sky, Gabriel Silver, Director of Commissioning for Drama, confirmed today. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV festival, the exec said the company had been “disappointed with audience figures” for the show, which follows a crew of female convicts who break free and go […]

Formula 1: Drive to Survive is getting a fourth season on Netflix, the streamer announced today. The popular documentary series is the first to give exclusive and intimate access to the greatest racing competition in the world, revealing the true story of the sport – not only the fight to be number 1, but the battle […]

EXCLUSIVE: Pascal Breton and Lionel Uzan’s Federation Entertainment, the production company behind Canal Plus’ cult spy series The Bureau, is extending its reach to the UK. The prolific indie player is partnering with former eOne Head of Scripted Polly Williams and former eOne VP of Scripted Arielle Gottlieb to launch a new London-based production outfit. […]

Actor Edgar Ramirez has shared via Instagram a very personal story about his loss from Covid-19. The Venezuelan actor is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominee who has appeared in such films as Carlos, Zero Dark Thirty, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hands of Stone, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and Wrath of the […]

The Food Network is aiming to be more than Bobby Flay and Guy’s Grocery Games. It’s now in the movie business. Ree Drummond will costar in Candy Coated Christmas, the first original scripted film to appear on discovery+. The production is a collaboration between the streaming service and Food Network. In the film, Drummond plays […]

On September 1, all eight Harry Potter films return home to HBO Max. September also brings Clint Eastwood’s latest film Cry Macho on the 17th and director James Wan’s Malignant on the 10th. Both Cry Macho and Malignant will be available in theaters and on HBO Max the same day. They will stream on the […]

A little more than two years since it debuted the first trailer for the first Downton Abbey movie at CinemaCon 2019, the sequel to the Focus Features hit big-screen transfer also got a Las Vegas unveiling during Universal’s slate presentation Wednesday. Downton Abbey 2, whose official title is now Downton Abbey: A New Era, is […]

Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady galloping after dinosaurs in a snowy mountain landscape, Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing being chased by them on European rooftops, and the legacy trio of Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern returning. These are some of the images from the BTS reel Universal presented for Jurassic World: Dominion. While the […]

Netflix has a bumper crop of new content in September, a list of which is organized below alphabetically by date. For a deeper dive on the 42(!) original films the streamer plans to release this fall, see Deadline’s trailer-laden story here. September 1 A Cinderella Story Agatha Christie’s Crooked House Barbie Big City Big Dreams […]

Out of all the studios giving presentations during CinemaCon this week, Universal showed great respect to exhibition workers by including them as presenters in its theatrical release reel. Before rolling a clip on each film set for release before March 2022, talent from the project would reflect on their favorite cinema, and then the reel […]