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Four-part HBO/Sky miniseries Catherine the Great is set to begin filming later this year, with Oscar winner Helen Mirren (The Queen) in the titular role.

Mirren also executive produces the project, written by Nigel Williams (Elizabeth I, Wodehouse in Exile) and directed by BAFTA and Emmy-winning Philip Martin (The Crown, Mo, Prime Suspect)

Catherine the Great delves into the politically tumultuous and sexually charged court of the most powerful female monarch in history. Catherine wielded supreme power throughout Russia for nearly half of the 18th century – strong-minded, independent, brilliantly intelligent and sexually liberated, she was the definition of the modern woman.

The miniseries, produced by Origin Pictures and New Pictures, will follow Catherine towards the end of her reign and her passionate affair with Grigory Potemkin. Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, this is a story of obsessive love. Unable to publicly marry and famously promiscuous, they develop a unique and devoted relationship, overcoming their adversaries and together shaping Russia as we know it today.

The project originated with Mirren who approached Origin Pictures with the idea for Catherine the Great when she was working on the company’s Woman in Gold, saying it’s a part she’d always wanted to play.

“I am very excited by the possibility of embodying a woman from history who grabbed and then wielded great power,” Mirren said. “She rewrote the rules of governance by a woman, and succeeded to the extent of having the word Great attached to her name, Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great, produced by Origin Pictures and New Pictures, will air on HBO in the U.S. and be distributed to Canada through its output deal with Bell Media. It will air on Sky Atlantic and TV streaming service NOW TV in the UK and Ireland next year, and on Sky Atlantic in Italy, Germany, Austria and Sky’s recently launched service in Spain.

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The Greatest American Hero

‘The Greatest American Hero’ Reboot With Female Lead Gets Big ABC Commitment



http://deadline.com/2017/09/the-greatest-american-hero-reboot-female-lead-abc-commitment-1202164782/

Any excuse to post the theme.

ABC is moving forward with its female-driven reboot of The Greatest American Hero.

The Disney-owned network has handed out a formal pilot order to the single-camera, half-hour comedy that follows Meera, a 30-year-old Indian-American woman from Cleveland, Ohio, whose talents include drinking tequila, singing karaoke and not much else.

Fresh Off the Boat writer-producer Rachna Fruchbom penned the pilot and executive produces alongside FOTB showrunner/creator Nahnatchka Khan; her producing partner, Mandy Summers; and original series creator Stephen J. Cannell's daughter, TV director Tawnia McKiernan (Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods). The project hails from 20th Century Fox Television, where Khan's Fierce Baby banner is based, which will co-produce the potential series alongside ABC Studios as co-productions continue to be a big trend this pilot season.

A new live-action series titled Metropolis will show us the lives of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane and evil mastermind Lex Luthor prior to the Man of Steel’s arrival, Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment announced on Tuesday. The drama — which, like the superhero team-up Titans, will stream on the upcoming DC digital service — will go into production later this year on a 13-episode first season, with an eye on a 2019 premiere

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Without Adams or Markle, whats the point?

The drama marks the first TV show the prolific producer has written since 'Fringe.'

J.J. Abrams is expanding his relationship with HBO.

Following a bidding war with Apple, the premium cable network has landed the first TV series that the prolific producer has written since 2008's Fringe. HBO has handed out a straight-to-series order for Demimonde, expanding its relationship with Westworld exec producer Abrams. An episode count has not yet been determined.

Shopped as a spec script, sources say the Abrams drama is about a family — consisting of a mother who works as a scientist, her husband and their young daughter — who all get into a terrible car crash. After the mother winds up in a coma, her daughter begins digging through her experiments in the basement and winds up transporting to another land amid a world's battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. Her father then follows her into this new world. HBO is only describing the series as "an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama."

Sources note that Abrams was impressed with what the premium cable network did with Westworld, making HBO the front-runner for the series over deep-pocketed rival Apple.

Abrams, who created/co-created Felicity, Alias, Lost and Fringe, penned the script and exec produces via his Warner Bros. Television-based Bad Robot Productions banner topper Ben Stephenson. In addition to exec producing Westworld, Abrams and his Bad Robot banner also serve in the same capacity on Lovecraft Country, a straight-to-series anthological horror drama from Jordan Peele and Misha Green.

“Red Line,” from writers and executive producers Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss, hails from Warner Bros. Television. After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, the show follow three different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective. Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schechter also serve as executive producers. CBS Television Studios is producing.

Inspired by the life of Eric Holder, “Main Justice,” explores the tumultuous world of the 5th floor of the Department of Justice, where the U.S. attorney general. takes on the biggest legal and investigative cases in the country all while being the youngest person to ever hold the position. Sascha Penn is writing and executive producing the CBS Television Studios project. Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, and Holder are also exec producing.

Another CBS Television Studios legal drama, “The Code,” hails from co-writers Craig Sweeny and Craig Turk and fellow exec producers Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman. Sweeny will serve as showrunner. It tells the story of the military’s brightest minds as they take on our country’s toughest challenges – inside the courtroom and out – where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator – and a Marine.

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Also ordered to pilot by CBS

The Code


http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/l-a-confidential-cbs-pilot-eric-holder-ava-duvernay-projects-1202686384/