Новости за 22.09.2022

EXCLUSIVE: The biggest TV project to hit the marketplace in quite a while has landed with the biggest series commitment in quite a while. Apple TV+ has nabbed the new show from Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan, which will has Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn attached to play the lead. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Harlan Coben’s Shelter, Prime Video’s YA action-thriller from MGM International Television Productions and Amazon Studios, is rounding out its recurring cast. Didi Conn (Grease), Missi Pyle (Y: The Last Man), Hunter Emery (Orange Is The New Black), Antonio Cipriano (God Friended Me), Peter Riegert (Succession), Adrienne Barbeau (Criminal Minds), Stephanie March (Law & Order: […]

The TV ratings were celestial, the crowds unprecedented and the media downright reverential, so in purely show business terms the British monarchy’s new boss, King Charles III, should feel thrilled for having survived an historic week. Hollywood’s applause, to be sure, was more reserved: If the monarchy were a subsidiary of a Disney or a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones alum Jerome Flynn has joined the cast of 1923, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel series at Paramount+. Led by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, the next installment of the Yellowstone origin story will introduce a new generation of the Dutton family and explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Wilmer Valderrama has expanded his role with My Cultura Podcast Network from iHeartMedia by becoming a shareholder. In addition, Valderrama will help to curate the network’s slate of Latinx-focused podcasts and has committed to 5 new shows that will be executive produced by and/or star him. According to the company, monthly podcast downloads across […]

Tennis great Roger Federer, who recently announced his retirement from the game, will go out with a longtime friend and rival by his side: Rafael Nadal will partner with Federer tomorrow night for London’s Laver Cup. Federer, who has already started using the hashtag #Fedal on Instagram, will be paired with Nadal in a doubles match […]

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary Team, and Tyler Reynolds has been promoted […]

FX’s Reservation Dogs has been renewed for a third season ahead of the show’s Season 2 finale on September 28. The new season is expected to be released in 2023 exclusively on Hulu. From creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs follows the exploits of “Elora Danan” (Devery Jacobs), “Bear Smallhill” (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), “Willie […]

EXCLUSIVE: The cast of Amazon Studios’ rom-com Sitting in Bars With Cake is growing by 12 with the addition of Bette Midler (Hocus Pocus), Ron Livingston (The Flash), Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders In The Building), Rish Shah (Ms. Marvel), and Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser). Rounding out the group, led by previously announced […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Jackass Forever this year, director Jeff Tremaine has found a new set troublemakers to focus on as they cause havoc at the Happiest Place on earth. Tremaine is producing Stolen Kingdom, a documentary film chronicling the 30-year history of wrongdoing and debauchery at Walt Disney World Resort, and how it led […]

EXCLUSIVE:  Sunset Lane Media has pre-emptively optioned William Neuman’s non-fiction book Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela which they plan to develop into a TV series. The St Martin’s Press book explores the rich backdrop of a country in turmoil; once a gem of South America with its […]

Jeff Garlin, the former star of ABC’s The Goldbergs whose controversial real-life departure from the show saw his character killed off on the sitcom last night, says he suffers from bipolar disorder, a diagnosis he revealed for the first time in a brief Instagram post today. “Bipolar is a motherfucker,” Garlin writes. “Sometimes it’s just […]

Set to the tune of Beatles classic “I Am The Walrus,” a new trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo – full title: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – dropped today, giving viewers a taste of what Venice festgoers experienced earlier this month. The film received six minutes of applause in its three-hour […]

Heartstopper season two has set four new cast members and entered production. The critically-acclaimed heartwarming Netflix show following the exploits of two gay teenagers and their friends has signed up Leila Khan as student Sahar Zahid, Jack Barton as main character Nick’s older brother David, Bradley Riches as another student, James McEwan, and Nima Taleghani […]

EXCLUSIVE: Punchdrunk, the immersive theater company behind New York City’s long-running Sleep No More production, has signed with CAA. Founded and run by Felix Barrett, who returned to CAA as a client last month, Punchdrunk has been running Sleep No More, a loose adaptation of Macbeth, at New York’s McKittrick Hotel venue for 11 years. […]

Disney+ has unveiled trailer and first looks for David Beckham series Save Our Squad, which will launch on 9 November. Scroll down for the trailer. Co-produced by UK indie Twenty Twenty and Beckham’s Studio 99, the show sees the Manchester United and LA Galaxy star return to his East London roots to mentor Westward Boys, a […]

CNN is filling in some of the gaps in its nightly schedule, at least through the midterms, with Jake Tapper hosting CNN Tonight at 9 PM ET, and Alisyn Camerota and Laura Coates sharing anchor duties in the 10 PM-midnight block. The lineup is scheduled to run Oct. 10 to Nov. 8. The changes are […]

CNN announced that Alison Roman’s new project (More Than) A Cooking Show will join the network’s lineup this fall. It’s the latest CNN+ series to get a new home in the Warner Bros. Discovery universe. Roman’s show had yet to debut when the subscription streaming service was shut down after one month last April. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Video Solutions, the European media house behind the WeDoTV brand, has entered into a joint venture with international non-scripted studio Big Media to launch FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channels globally. The JV launches through Wedo Big Docs, a channel that will launch this Fall on Zattoo in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Waipu TV in Germany, and […]

Lori Loughlin is returning to Great American Family to headline Fall Into Winter, her first romantic comedy for the network. The casting follows Loughlin’s appearance on the network in When Hope Calls Christmas in a reprisal of her role of Abigail Stanton from Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart. Fall Into Winter begins production October […]

EXCLUSIVE: French director Alice Diop’s breakout feature Saint Omer has secured distribution in a raft of territories for Paris-based Wild Bunch International (WBI) following its Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize win. In Western Europe, the film has been sold to the U.K. (Picturehouse), Italy (Minerva Pictures), Spain (Surtsey Films), Greece (One From The Heart), […]

Kate Ward, Vice Studios Global President and the boss of Pulse Films, has joined BBC Studios to oversee factual. The signature hire was unveiled this afternoon and will see Ward take over from Tom McDonald, who departed to Nat Geo earlier this year. Ward will oversee a portfolio that includes the prolific Natural History Unit, […]

Maha Haj’s drama Mediterranean Fever, which world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard this year, has been selected as Palestine’s official entry in the best international film category. A committee consisting of Palestinian film professionals, overseen by the country’s Ministry of Culture, made their choice earlier this week. The Haifa-set drama co-stars Amer Hiehel as […]

Japan Latest To Remake Simon Cowell’s ‘Got Talent’ Japan’s Abema TV has become the latest to order a version of Simon Cowell’s Got Talent franchise. Airing next year, Yoshimito Kyogo will produce the local version of the hit format, which has been remade in 72 territories and sees performers of all varieties attempt to impress […]

European giant Bertelsmann has put M6 up for sale following the collapse of the French broadcaster’s merger with TF1. Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe confirmed to the Financial Times he has asked for non-binding offers for the company after saying he had been “inundated with expressions of interest” after last week’s mega merger news. “This is why we […]