Looks like a one-nighter for ABC News. With the field of Democratic candidates who qualify for the debate stage reduced to ten, the next face-off will be limited to one night, instead of the previously planned two, on September 12. It will be the first time front runners, former VP Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator […]
Netflix won the bidding war and gave a series order to drama The Girls on the Bus, from Legacies creator/exec producer Julie Plec, Berlanti Productions and Warner bros. TV. Inspired by the like-titled chapter of Amy Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, project is based on the […]
HBO unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming Jude Law and John Malkovich drama The New Pope, which is slated to premiere at the Venice Film Fest on September 1.
After five years and two Emmy noms, Leslie Jones is leaving NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The popular cast member has a full dance card, with an upcoming Netflix stand-up special and film roles. Another busy SNL stand-out whose future was in question, Kate McKinnon, will be back for season 45, which premieres September 28.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, based on the best-selling novel by Mitch Albom, landed a script-to-series commitment from Fox. Albom will write, and Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment produce. Albom EPs with Keith Eisner (Designated Survivor).
Viola Davis is heading to the White House. The actress will portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a drama series being developed at Showtime with a three-script commitment. Davis will also executive produce the project, from writer Aaron Cooley (novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, The Guns of Ridgewood).
Family Feud is going international. Steve Harvey announced plans to launch and host versions of the Fremantle game show in South Africa and Ghana. Harvey’s media company Steve Harvey Global obtained rights to license the format for African versions of the game show, which will be produced Rapid Blue, Fremantle’s local production partner in the […]
Laurence Fishburne teamed with Kermit the Frog during Disney Television Animation’s panel at the D23 Expo to announce Disney Channel’s new animated series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Show following the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, is executive-produced by Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, Marvel […]
HBO’s Ballers will end with season five. The sports comedy, which kicked off its final run on Sunday, “was an opportunity to not only embrace culture, not only embrace ambition, not only embrace success – which we do in the show – but also embrace the failures, which is a key and critical thing in […]