Новости за 12.05.2022

In The Dark will end after its upcoming fourth season on the CW. Season 4 is slated to premiere June 6. The drama series, from CBS Studios, Warner Bros. TV and Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, was on the bubble, but had been boosted by streaming. In The Dark is written by Corinne Kingsbury and […]

There will be no Season 6 for the CW’s Dynasty. The CW has opted not to renew the reboot of the iconic 1980s soap, and it will end with the current fifth season. Dynasty was considered among the most vulnerable CW series to snag a renewal. It was the victim of disappointing ratings and its […]

How We Roll, the bowling comedy starring Crashing’s Pete Holmes, has been canceled by CBS. The multi-camera comedy, which was originally known as Smallwood, premiered on March 31 and has a first season of 11 episodes. It got off to a good start out of the pins with its opening throw scoring a 0.3 and […]

CBS is not proceeding with a fifth season of Magnum P.I. With Bull announcing in January that its current sixth season will be its last, Magnum P.I. is the most established CBS series to be canceled this season. As a Top 25 show in total viewers, it also may be the most watched broadcast series […]

NBC’s OneChicago slate returned strong and steady after a two-week break, with Chicago Fire tying with Survivor for Wednesday’s highest demo rating. Per fast nationals, the two primetime winners earned a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo.  This was a steady return for Chicago Fire, but a bit of a slip for Survivor from the […]

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has cut loose two top executives and announced a hiring freeze ahead of the company’s acquisition by Elon Musk, whose share purchases are reportedly being investigated by the SEC. Consumer product chief Kayvon Beykpour tweeted today that “Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take […]

The 4400′s comeback was short-lived. The CW has canceled the freshman series after one low-rated season. Based on the original TV series created by Scott Peters and Renee Echevarria, 4400 hails from Riverdale co-executive producer Ariana Jackson, who wrote the pilot; Sunil Nayar; and Anna Fricke and Laura Terry of Pursued By a Bear. In […]

The CW has canceled Roswell, New Mexico will not return after four seasons. Season 4 will air as planned beginning June 6. Written by Carina Adly MacKenzie and directed by Julie Plec, the reimagined Roswell, like the original, is based on the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz. After returning to her hometown of Roswell, […]

So long, gals: Charmed won’t make it for another season on The CW. Based on the original series, Charmed is from CBS Television Studios in association with Propagate Content, with executive producers Jeffrey Lieber, Nicki Renna and Joey Falco, Kevin Dowling, Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman , Brad Silberling, Howard Owens, Kruger and Shapiro. Cancellations […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sierra McCormick (American Horror Stories), Tony Todd (Candyman), Katie Sarife (Annabelle Comes Home), Gina Hiraizumi (Doom Patrol), Emmy nominee Morgan Fairchild (Murphy Brown) and Nicky Whelan (The Binge) have boarded Robin Givens’ mockumentary-style comedy, The Nana Project. They join an ensemble that also includes Oscar and Golden Globe winner Mercedes Ruehl, Nolan Gould and Will […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s superhero drama Naomi will not be back for a second season on the CW. Just two days after the Kaci Walfall-led DC series wrapped up its often pre-empted first season with a DuVernay & Jill Blankenship penned two-hour finale, the for-sale CW pulled the plug Thursday. With that, we hear that the […]

EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its film division last October, Castle Rock Entertainment has set a first project out of the gate that will have a familiar ring. It’s Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the fabled rock mockumentary that set the film company on a run of hits, many of them directed by Rob Reiner. He […]

EXCLUSIVE: Podcasts are evolving. Jujubee, one of the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is hosting dating game show podcast Queen of Hearts for Dr. Death producer Wondery and Finding Raffi producer Rococo Punch. Jujubee will serve as a wing woman as she guides real-life singles through a sexy game-filled quest for love. Building on the […]

EXCLUSIVE: We will likely see more of Francesca on Bridgerton next season, and she will look a little different. Hannah Dodd (Anatomy of a Scandal) is set to play the the elusive Bridgerton sibling in Season 3 of Netflix and Shondaland’s Regency-era period drama series based on Julia Quinn’s romance novels. She is joining the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pratt is getting back into the ring with a documentary about World Champion wrestler Helen Maroulis. The Marvel star has teamed up with Religion of Sports, the venture founded by Gotham Chopra, Michael Strahan, and Tom Brady, and Reserve Entertainment on Helen Believe. Pratt will produce via his Indivisible Productions banner. The documentary, directed by […]

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s CBC and the UK’s BBC are jointly working up a trio of podcasts, including one in which Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin explores J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to root out Communism in Hollywood and his obsession with her grandfather, silent movie star Charlie Chaplin. The project, from CBC Podcasts and BBC World Service, […]

NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo has ordered a slew of new scripted and unscripted series for both its linear network and TPlus brand on Peacock. The company unveiled its 2022/23 line-up ahead of its Upfront event on Monday. These include new projects from Wilmer Valderrama and Lawrence Bender. On TPlus, the company’s block on Peacock, NCIS […]

ITV boss Carolyn McCall has raised concerns that the British cost of living crisis could start hampering broadcaster revenues at a time when they are emerging from the pandemic, while BBC Director General Tim Davie warned against “complacency” over changing audience habits. ITV’s main source of income is advertising but this income is “heavily tied […]

Hollywood writer and director Kirk Jones is to helm Vertigo Films’ buzzy upcoming drama series You’ve Been Trumped, marking his first foray into television drama. The Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee and What to Expect When You’re Expecting director will write and direct the four part series, which is based on Anthony Baxter’s award-winning 2011 documentary of the same name […]

EXCLUSIVE: French distributor ARP Selection has just acquired Cannes Competition movie EO by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski. The film is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales and the deal was negotiated by Gabrielle Stewart and ARP’s Michèle Halberstadt. EO is presented by Skopia Film […]

Sky is making 200 originals in 2022, CEO Dana Strong has said, while talking up the pay-TV giant’s relationship with the Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) as having “never been stronger” and revealing that 30% of BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5’s content is watched on the platform. The number of originals has trebled over […]

Rapper and actor Ice Cube’s Cube Vision has signed a multi-picture production deal with Back on the Strip firm Luminosity Entertainment, in association with 5120 Entertainment and SmokeyScreen. The pair will co-produce feature films and TV series and the first is comedy Cube in My Head. This follows a hapless white guy, who begins to […]

Sky Orders Soccer Transfer Window Docs Series ‘The Window’ From Universal Pictures Content Group & Pitch Productions European pay-TV giant Sky has ordered a four-part doc series looking into the chaotic soccer transfer window, in which millions swap hands in last-minute deals as players join new clubs. Billed as a returnable format, The Window will […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lime Pictures has snapped up Channel 4’s The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan and Caroline Flack: Her Life & Death commissioner Becky Cadman to help steer its global formats push. Cadman, who has been a Factual Entertainment Commissioning Editor for the past five years, will join the All3Media-backed Dance Monsters and The Only Way is Essex label next month, reporting […]

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU), the UK production powerhouse behind Planet Earth and The Green Planet, has hired BAFTA-winning Mike Davis to lead a major push into CGI. Davis is one of a number of Executive Producers set to join over the coming months as the NHU continues to expand. He will start this summer, […]