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Stan & Ollie and Wild Rose producer Fable Pictures is turning the story of Joan and Jackie Collins into a six-part television series. This comes after the Sony-owned production company secured the rights to the sisters’ life stories.

Playwright Penelope Skinner, who wrote the Romola Garai and Greta Gerwig-fronted play The Village Bike as well as series such as E4’s Fresh Meat is writing the script for the series, which does not have a broadcaster attached. The Crown and Game of Thrones casting director Nina Gold is on board to cast the drama.

The series will look at story of the sisters from a teenage bedroom in post-war London to the glitz and glamour of 1980’s Beverly Hills.

Dame Joan Collins starred in a series of Hollywood movies in the 1950s including The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing and Rally Round The Flag, Boys! However, it was her role as Alexis Carrington in Dynasty that really defined her career, which has also includes a recent performance in American Horror Story.

Meanwhile, her sister, Jackie Collins OBE, wrote novels including The World Is Full Of Married Men and Hollywood Wives. She has written 32 best-selling books that have sold over 500M copies including The Stud and The Bitch that were adapted into films starring her sister. She died in 2015 from breast cancer.

The series, which will be distributed internationally by Sony Pictures Television, will be exec produced by Faye Ward, who worked on the first season of The Crown, Caroline Harvey, who was previously Head of Development at Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack’s production company Mirage Enterprises, and Suffragette producer Hannah Farrell.

Dame Joan Collins said, “I am delighted that such a prestigious team wants to tell our story, and I know my sister Jackie would be as excited as I am to be involved.”

Skinner added, “I am thrilled to be working on the fascinating story of these fabulous, iconic and powerful women. There is far more to Joan and Jackie than diamonds and shoulder pads: these are two very special sisters whose lives are both aspirational and inspirational.”

Juno Temple, who also starred in films such as Antonement and Killer Joe, is fronting Little Birds, an adaptation of Anais Nin’s infamous collection of erotic short stories.

Written by The Girl Who Fell to Earth author Sophia Al-Maria and directed by Billions and House of Cards director Stacie Passon, Little Birds is produced by The Last Panthers and This Is England producer Warp Films. Set in Tangier in 1955, in the famous international zone, one of the last outposts of colonial decadence, it follows troubled American debutante Lucy Savage, played by Temple, as she faces a culture shock.

Thrilled to escape her controlling parents, Savage arrives full of anticipation for her marriage to her English fiancée, Lord Hugo Cavendish-Smythe, little knowing that Hugo has already lost his heart to someone else. As Lucy fights to carve out her independence and identity, her life becomes intertwined with Cherifa Lamour, played by Submarine star Yumna Marwan, a Moroccan dominatrix who services the diplomats and foreigners of this colourful, bohemian world and Egyptian Aristocrat Adham Abaza, played by 24: Legacy star Raphael Acloque, and they all become entangled with some very dangerous characters,

The six-part series, which will air on Sky Atlantic, is exec produced by Warp Films’ Ruth McCance and Peter Carlton and will film in Spain and Manchester. Airing in 2020, the series will be distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment

Intergalactic is an action-packed sci-fi drama, set in the 23rd Century and written by Prisoners’ Wives and Secret Diary of a Call Girl writer Julie Gearey. It follows a crew of fierce female convicts who break free and go on the run.

The series follows Ash, a young flight cadet falsely imprisoned before becoming embroiled in an audacious prison break-out with a disparate gang of dynamic women, who fall in love and betray each other.

The ten-part drama, which will air on Sky One, is produced by Moonage Pictures, set up by the team behind Peaky Blinders and Motion Content Group in association with Tiger Aspect Productions. It will start shooting later this year.

Directed by Power director Kieron Hawkes, it is executive produced by Will Gould and Iona Vrolyk, Julie Gearey, Frith Tiplady, Matthew Read, Richard Foster and Tony Moulsdale and is being sold internationally by Sky Vision and Motion Content Group.

Gearey, who is showrunning, said, “With a fierce, funny ensemble at its heart, Intergalactic’s got everything I love about science fiction – action, adventure, monsters – but with its feet firmly on the ground. It’s been a joy to write and I’m excited to have such a creative team to bring it to life.”

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Cancelled

https://tvline.com/2019/02/18/friends-from-college-cancelled-season-3-netflix/

FunLover18 wrote: »

The Marvel TV shows like AoS and the Netflix ones aren't made by Marvel studios though hence they're not as connected as they once were. There was a falling out. The new shows however will be made by Marvel Studios for the streaming service which is why they can use characters from the movies. DC/WB aren't even pretending that their shows and movies are in the same universe. Isn't there something like 5 different Alfreds now?

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

there goes my plan to start watching that.

peteeeed wrote: »

tv series in the wizard of oz universe in the works

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/oz-tv-series-legendary-tv-ed-ricourt-1203144054/

It’s official — Fox has closed a deal for the new series reuniting original Beverly Hills, 90210 cast members Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling. Titled 90210, the show, from CBS TV Studios, has received a six-episode order to air this summer

sioda wrote: »

Second season for umbrella academy https://thegww.com/exclusive-netflixs-umbrella-academy-renewed-for-season-two-2/