Новости за 08.09.2021

EXCLUSIVE: First Wives Club will be back for a third season on BET+. The streaming platform of BET Networks has locked in a third installment of the popular dramedy starring Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jill Scott and Michelle Buteau, and has opened a writers room to work on the new installment. It is not clear whether […]

EXCLUSIVE: An animated series based on Robert C. O’Brien’s Rats of NIMH book series is in the works at Fox as the broadcast network further bolsters its animation drive. Deadline understands that the network has handed a script commitment to NIMH, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television. The animated drama, which is […]

Fox has navigated the challenges of Covid to get a number of its key non-scripted titles including upcoming A.I. singing competition series Alter Ego and breakout mystery hit The Masked Singer in the can. These shows, which both launch on Wednesday September 22, are joined in the completed roster by a reboot of Don’t Forget […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on on CNN’s AC 360 Tuesday night and minced no words about Texas’s new law limiting abortion or comments made earlier in the day by the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, defending the stricture. The controversial new abortion statute outlaws all such procedures six weeks after conception. It does not, however, provide exceptions […]

One of Fox’s popular drama series, The Resident, is heading into its fifth season without its female lead, Emily VanCamp. As Deadline revealed last week, VanCamp has departed the medical drama after four seasons, and the storyline of her character, Nicolette “Nic” Nevin, is expected to be wrapped up early into the upcoming season. (There […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is set to headline Hide, a drama series in development at Peacock. Tennant is attached to star and executive produce alongside his wife, actor Georgia Tennant. The project is written/executive produced by WGA Award-nominated showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters (Agent Carter) and directed/executive produced by Emmy-, BAFTA- […]

Our Kind of People, Monarch and The Big Leap – three of Fox’s new originals for the 2021-22 broadcast season – all took different routes to screen. The network has been shaking up its development process for the past couple of years, using a mixture of traditional pilot orders, straight-to-series orders, script-to-series greenlights and low-cost […]

Fox is hot on Fantasy Island. The network is considering a second season of the summer drama series, which is a reboot of the 1977 original. Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn told Deadline that as its “first real, recent attempt at a cost effective” drama series, the network and producers Sony Pictures Television are “really […]

The CW’s Charmed reboot has found its new “Charmed One”. Australian actress Lucy Barrett (Co-Ed) has joined Melonie Diaz, who plays Mel, and Sarah Jeffery (Maggie) as a lead in the upcoming Season 4 of the series, from CBS Studios. Barrett is succeeding Madeleine Mantock who played co-lead Macy for the first four seasons. The […]

Jack Bauer could well return to Fox. There are currently “active creative discussions” about bringing back classic Kiefer Sutherland-fronted terrorism drama series 24 with a new take. Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn told Deadline that there is “potential” that the show will return in some form. “There’s still a possibility, there’s still some discussions with […]

CBS News has launched See It Now Studios, led by longtime producer and former news division president Susan Zirinsky, to produce non-fiction content across ViacomCBS brands and other platforms. Zirinsky stepped down as president of CBS News in the spring, and reportedly had been in talks for a new production role. See It Now Studios, […]

You got to know when to hold ’em and know when show ’em. CBS is following that paraphrased lyric’s advice with Kenny Rogers: All In for the Gambler, an hourlong special featuring big names performing the late singer’s hits. It’s set to air at 9 p.m. Thursday, September 23, on the network and Paramount+. Chris Stapleton, […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, a new biopic tracking the life of The Chronicles Of Narnia author, has been set for an event cinema release in theaters this November. Scroll down to watch the trailer. On November 3, venues in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, […]

Pixomondo, the Oscar-winning VFX Studio, is launching a London division that will offer virtual production services. Alex Webster has been appointed as head of the London site, with a focus on growing the company’s virtual production services in Europe. Pixomondo has three LED ‘volumes’ in Canada, and has set its sights on building a UK […]

Sky Studios Hires Drama Chief Sky Studios has named Preethi Mavahalli as Creative Director, Drama, with a remit to develop and produce a slate of original drama for Sky’s networks and platforms across Europe. Mavahalli moves from Mammoth Screen, producers of Poldark, where she oversaw development and production on a range of series including McDonald […]

Ella Balinska, who stars in Netflix’s upcoming Resident Evil TV series, is to lead cast in sci-fi thriller The Occupant. Balinska will play Abby who, during a desperate quest for her dying sister’s survival, finds herself stranded and alone in the icy Russian wilderness where a mysterious helper may or not be her salvation. Co-written […]

Two new reports from leading UK producer group Pact show the stark impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK independent production sector, with the group’s CEO John McVay warning that “it may take many years for the industry to build back to where it was prior to the pandemic”. According to Pact, the findings […]

WarnerMedia will launch HBO Max on October 26 in six European territories, including Spain and the Nordics. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra will be the first markets to get the service, the company said. HBO Max will be available to new customers as well as existing customers of HBO España, HBO Nordic and HBO […]

EXCLUSIVE: UK TV firm Projector Pictures has secured the rights to the trilogy of espionage thrillers written by author and journalist Charlotte Philby, the granddaughter of ‘Cambridge spy’ Kim Philby. Projector, whose credits include upcoming Channel 5 drama The Holiday and ITV’s Kidnap and Ransom, is developing the trilogy as a returning drama series.  Part Of The Family is […]

On the occasion of the show’s 25th anniversary, Nick Jr. posted a long-awaited update from original Blues Clues host Steve Burns today. Burns’ character left the show way back in 2002, ostensibly to go to college. The new video has already been viewed over 6 million times. “You remember how when we were younger, we […]

Jimmy Kimmel returned from his summer hiatus concerned about Covid and baffled by the words and actions of InfoWars host Alex Jones. “It was not a fun Labor Day weekend Covid-wise,” said the late night host in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. “The number of new cases is up more than 300% from a year […]

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 7.0 temblor centered near the Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday Night. The earthquake was felt as far away as Mexico City, which is about 230 miles from the epicenter. Videos posted to social media showed buildings swaying, what looked like flashes from transformers blowing and lights going out […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Impeachment: American Crime Story debut episode. “Make her stay to watch,” a trapped Monica Lewinsky tells FBI agents of Linda Tripp in a January 1998 Ritz-Carlton hotel room after being snared mere hours before an unknowing Bill Clinton was scheduled to sit down before lawyers. “I want […]

Donald Trump has long fancied himself a boxing expert. In the ’90s, he put on the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks bout at his Atlantic City casino. As the 45th President of the United States, he pardoned heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in an Oval Office ceremony attended by Lennox Lewis, Deontay Wilder and Sylvester Stallone. He also […]

Linda Kahn, a children’s TV executive for more than 40 years who also was a former board president of New York Women in Film & Television, has died. She was 72. NYWIFT said she died August 30 but did not provide details. “NYWIFT mourns the loss of longtime member & past Board President Linda Kahn, […]