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American Gigolo

‘American Gigolo’: Leland Orser Joins Showtime Pilot Reboot

Leland Orser (Brand New Cherry Flavor) is set as a lead opposite Jon Bernthal and Gretchen Mol in Showtime’s pilot American Gigolo, an update of the 1980 film noir classic that starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The project hails from David Hollander, Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Additionally, Sandrine Holt (House of Cards, The Returned) has joined the pilot as a guest star/recurring on series.

Written and directed by Hollander, American Gigolo the series is a present-day reimagining of the iconic film. It centers around Julian Kaye (Bernthal), who is introduced 18 years after he’s been arrested for murder and struggling to find his footing in the Los Angeles sex industry, while seeking the truth about the setup that sent him to prison all those years ago and also hoping to reconnect with Michelle (Mol), his one true love.

Orser plays Richard Stratton, a self-made tech billionaire who has fallen too deep into the untethered world of the ultra-wealthy, losing the love of his prized wife Michelle (Mol), and his grip on morality along the way.

Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the original film, executive produces along with Hollander, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed. Bernthal also serves as a producer. The project is a production of Paramount Television Studios......

https://deadline.com/2021/01/american-gigolo-leland-orser-gretchen-mol-jon-bernthal-showtime-pilot-reboot-1234683708/

Frasier’ Revival Eyed at Paramount Plus

The long-rumored “Frasier” revival could soon be a reality at Paramount Plus.

Variety has confirmed with sources that a new iteration of “Frasier” is in discussions at the ViacomCBS streaming service, though those discussions are said to be in the very early stages.

Reps for CBS Studios and Paramount Plus declined to comment.

Series star Kelsey Grammer has been trying to get the revived show off the ground for some time. According to sources, one potential hangup for the show is the cost. After all, “Frasier” was a successful spinoff of the successful show “Cheers,” with both shows costing a pretty penny by the time they went off the air. Grammer and any other stars from the original series who would return for the revival would no doubt expect pay comparable to what they were making at the time the show ended.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/frasier-revival-paramount-plus-1234897318/

Amazon Lands Star-Studded Cast for 'Solos' Anthology

Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mackie, Helen Mirren, Dan Stevens and Constance Wu will star in Solos, a drama from Hunters creator David Weil and Amazon Studios. The seven-part series, set to premiere later this year, will explore the deeper meaning of human connection through the lens of the individual.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amazon-lands-star-studded-cast-for-solos-anthology

The Midnight Club

The Haunting of Hill House EPs to Adapt The Midnight Club at Netflix

The creators of The Haunting of Hill House and its follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor, are adapting Christopher Pike’s young adult novel The Midnight Club for Netflix, the streaming service announced Monday. Though Pike is known for penning horror stories, The Midnight Club takes place in a hospice for terminally ill teens and young adults and is known for its moving, emotional story.

https://tvline.com/2021/02/01/the-midnight-club-tv-series-netflix-zach-gilford-cast-season-1/

‘Quiz,’ ‘Brexit’ Writer James Graham Sets BBC Drama ‘Sherwood’

James Graham, creator of hit ITV, AMC and Sony show “Quiz,” and writer of Emmy nominated “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” has created crime drama “Sherwood” for U.K. broadcaster BBC.

Inspired in part by real events, the six-part series is set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where Graham grew up. The contemporary series sees two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history. Suspicion is rife and the tragic murders threaten to inflame historic divisions sparked during the miners’ strike that tore families apart three decades before.



https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/quiz-brexit-james-graham-bbc-sherwood-1234898134/

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Saved By The Bell & Punky Brewster

Reboots Set For NBCU’s Peacock Streaming Service

https://deadline.com/2019/09/saved-by-the-bell-reboot-nbc-streaming-service-punky-brewster-reboot-peacock-1202736699/

Jesus I thought Batwoman was toast. I wouldn't have put money on Walker being renewed either.

All cheap and cheerful to make and probably big sellers around the world for the CW.

Walker was nothing more than everyone jumping on board after Supernatural expecting greatness
Then watching the second episode hoping it would get better

Some terrible reviews, actually a lot of terrible reviews from critics and public alike - can see its numbers plummeting - I couldn't even finish the second episode its that bad

Mr E wrote: »

Jesus I thought Batwoman was toast. I wouldn't have put money on Walker being renewed either.

I'd say Walker has Supernatural viewers

‘Impractical Jokers’Renewed for Season 10 at truTV Ahead of Season 9 along with a first look deal on other shows

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/warnermedia-strikes-first-look-deal-with-impractical-jokers-stars-1234901059/

Y: 1883

Yellowstone Prequel Series in the Works at Paramount+

Yeehaw! Yellowstone’s origin story is soon to be told.

ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Group announced Friday that not only had they extended their deal with the series’ creator, Taylor Sheridan, they’ve set in motion a prequel series, to stream on Paramount+ (currently known as CBS All Access) in 2021.


Per the official logline: Y: 1883 “follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.”

Knowing Sheridan’s work on Yellowstone, it will also be… absolutely badass

https://tvline.com/2021/02/05/yellowstone-prequel-series-y-1883-greenlit-paramount-plus/

BBC/SundanceTV’s ‘The Split’ to Call It Quits After Season Three


BBC One and SundanceTV have ordered a third and final season of Sister’s “The Split,” created by BAFTA and International Emmy-winning writer Abi Morgan and produced by Jane Featherstone (“Chernobyl”), Lucy Dyke (“Black Mirror”) and Lucy Richer (“Small Axe”), with Dee Koppang O’Leary (“Bridgerton,” “The Crown”) boarding as lead director.

Unspooling in London’s high-end divorce circuit, “The Split” follows the lives of the Defoe sisters, Hannah, Nina and Rose, and their imposing mother Ruth. Season two ended with divorce lawyer Hannah’s own marriage in tatters and the couple negotiating the terms of their own split. As the dust seems to be settling, a new revelation comes to light, and the balances are tipped.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/the-split-bbc-sundancetv-1234903123/

The 4400 Reboot Gets Straight-to-Series Order at The CW

https://tvline.com/2021/02/09/the-4400-cw-series-order/

Live-Action Powerpuff Girls, Naomi Comic Adaptation From Ava DuVernay, Nun Dramedy Get CW Pilot Orders

https://tvline.com/2021/02/09/the-powerpuff-girls-live-action-series-pilot-order-the-cw/

List of currently announced pilots

https://tvline.com/lists/pilot-season-abc-cbs-cw-fox-nbc-2021-2022/

The Hot Zone: Anthrax

Harry Hamlin To Play Tom Brokaw, Dylan Baker Also Cast In Nat Geo Series

The Hot Zone: Anthrax takes place in 2001, just weeks after 9/11, where another deadly act of terrorism rocked the United States. Letters containing anthrax were sent to unsuspecting victims in Florida, Washington, D.C. and New York. The anonymous assault claimed five lives and caused panic throughout the country. Despite interagency turf wars and many false leads, an unlikely team of scientists, FBI agents and government departments slowly closed in on a shocking prime suspect.

Hamlin will portray Tom Brokaw, the respected journalist and anchor for NBC News. On camera, Brokaw is the steady voice of reason for a post-9/11 nation. Off camera, he is a protective father figure to those who work for him. Brokaw himself became a part of the anthrax story when a letter addressed to him contained a lethal amount of anthrax, sickening two of his assistants.

Baker will play Ed Copak, a high-ranking FBI lifer. His department is rocked by the recent events of 9/11 and is now charged with finding the anthrax killer. He feels the weight of responsibility for getting justice for a wounded nation.

Hamlin and Baker join previously cast Tony Goldwyn and Daniel Dae Kim who play, respectively, Bruce Ivins, a brilliant microbiologist who becomes embroiled in the hunt to find the 2001 anthrax killer, and Matthew Ryker, an FBI agent with a specialty in microbiology, who, just three weeks after the 9/11 attacks, risks his career to convince his superiors of the unthinkable, that the United States is under attack again.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-hot-zone-anthrax-harry-hamlin-cast-tom-brokaw-dylan-baker-nat-geo-anthology-series-1234690117/

Mare Of Easttown

Guy Pearce Joins HBO Limited Series ‘Mare Of Easttown’, Reuniting With Kate Winslet

A decade after Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce co-starred together on the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, the two are reteaming on another longform project at the premium cable network

Pearce has been tapped to co-star opposite Winslet in Mare of Easttown, HBO’s limited series focused on family and community, which is a co-production of HBO and wiip. He replaces Ben Miles who had been originally cast in the role but left due to scheduling conflicts over a year ago.

Written and executive produced by Brad Inglesby, who also serves as showrunner, Mare Of Easttown stars Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective whose life crumbles around her as she investigates a local murder.

Pearce plays Richard Ryan, a visiting creative writing professor who wrote a dazzling novel that won the National Book Award 25 years ago, but he has never lived up to his early promise.

The cast also includes Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice, Evan Peters, Cailee Spaeny David Denman, John Douglas Thompson, Patrick Murney, James McArdle, Sosie Bacon, Joe Tippett and Neal Huff.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/guy-pearce-joins-mare-of-easttown-hbo-limited-series-kate-winslet-reunion-1234690570/

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List of currently announced pilots

https://tvline.com/lists/pilot-season-abc-cbs-cw-fox-nbc-2021-2022/

ECHO (Drama)
WRITER: JJ Bailey
OTHER EPs: John Davis, John Fox
A high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile crimes by sending our heroes into the past… in the body of the victim. Assuming the victim’s identity, they must race against time to prevent the crime before it happens.

An idea the investigators came up with after watching Quantum Leap?

Redwall

Netflix Takes Rights To ‘Redwall’ Books & Plots Animated Films, TV Series Based On Brian Jacques’ Stories

Netflix has snapped up the rights to Brian Jacques’ entire series of Redwall books and is plotting an animated feature film and TV series based on the animal adventure franchise.

Netflix inked a deal with Penguin Random House Children for the rights to the books, which have sold 30 million copies worldwide and chronicle the adventures of the heroic animals that inhabit the forest haven of Redwall Abbey.

It is the first time that the film rights to the entire series of books have been held by one company and Netflix has already set to work adapting the stories, signing up Patrick McHale to write a feature. McHale created Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall and is working on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.

Netflix is also plotting a TV series based on the character of Martin the Warrior, a wise and ferocious mouse who co-founded Redwall Abbey along with Abbess Germaine.

“Brian often travelled the globe to tell his Redwall stories to young audiences, more often than not at their schools,” said Alan Ingram, representative of The Redwall Abbey Company, which owns Jacques’ intellectual property after he died in 2011.

“Brian would have been very happy to see that Netflix shares his joy and desire to bring his stories to life as a new universe of films, series and potentially much more for audiences of all ages to enjoy.”

https://deadline.com/2021/02/netflix-redwall-brian-jacques-1234691020/

Clone High & Velma

‘Clone High’ Reboot, Mindy Kaling ‘Scooby Doo’ Spinoff Velma & Pete Davidson Mars Comedy Set At HBO Max As Streamer Ramps Up Adult Animation

HBO Max is doubling down on adult animation and has ordered three series and set a bustling development slate.

The streamer has handed a two-season order to Clone High, the reboot of the classic MTV series with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, and ordered Velma with Mindy Kaling set as lead voice star and exec producer and Fired On Mars from Pete Davidson.

These projects are the latest to be ordered by HBO Max, which also has Harley Quinn, The Prince, Santa Inc., 10 Year Old Tom and The Boondocks. Last month, it also introduced a new landing page for animation.

Clone High, a reboot of the 2002 series set at a high school for clones of historical figures, comes from MTV Entertainment Studios. Lord and Miller are set as executive producers and writers, Lawrence is executive producer with Erica Rivinoja, who wrote on the original Clone High, named as showrunner.

Lord and Miller began their careers with writing, directing and executive producing Clone High, whose concept the duo first developed while at Dartmouth College in the 1990s, alongside Lawrence in 2002.

Velma tells the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. Voiced and exec produced by Kaling, Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register also serve as executive producers. It comes from Warner Bros. Animation.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/clone-high-reboot-mindy-kaling-scooby-doo-spinoff-velma-pete-davidson-mars-comedy-hbo-max-adult-animation-1234690967/

The Essex Serpent

Claire Danes Sets First Post-Homeland Role in Apple TV+'s The Essex Serpent

Carrie Mathison’s spying days may be over, but Claire Danes isn’t done with TV just yet.

The Emmy-winning Homeland alum has signed on to star in the Apple TV+ period drama The Essex Serpent, the streamer announced on Wednesday. Based on the bestselling novel by Sarah Perry and set in Victorian England, the series centers on Cora (Danes), a widow recovering from an abusive marriage who moves from London to the small village of Aldwinter and becomes “intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.”

Anna Symon (Mrs. Wilson) will serve as lead writer on the project, with Clio Bernard (Dark River) as director. Danes replaces Keira Knightley in the lead role; Knightley was originally announced as the star when Apple ordered it to series in August, but later had to drop out of the project for family reasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Danes already has a prolific TV career under her belt: She first broke out as teen Angela Chase on the short-lived ABC drama My So-Called Life, earning a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination in 1995. She went on to star in the HBO original movie Temple Grandin in 2010, earning a Globe and an Emmy for her portrayal of the autistic title character, before taking on the role of CIA spy Carrie Mathison on the Showtime drama Homeland the following year. Danes won two Emmys and was nominated for three more for Homeland; this marks the first role for Danes since Homeland wrapped up its eight-season run last year.

https://tvline.com/2021/02/10/claire-danes-the-essex-serpent-recast-keira-knightley-apple/

The upcoming “The Last of Us” series adaptation at HBO has cast Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey in the role of Ellie, Variety has confirmed.

Neil Druckmann, a writer and creative director for “The Last of Us” video game and a co-creator of the series, confirmed the news about Pascal on Twitter, writing: “Aaaaand there’s the other half. Stoked to have Pedro aboard our show!”


Pascal has seen great success as the star of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian.” He also recently appeared alongside Gal Gadot and Kristen Wiig as the villainous Maxwell Lord in “Wonder Woman 1984.”

Ramsey is best known for her role as Lyanna Mormont in fellow HBO series “Game of Thrones.” The character Ellie is a 14-year old orphan who has never known anything but a ravaged planet. In the show, she struggles to balance her instinct for anger and defiance with her need for connection and belonging as well as the newfound reality that she may be the key to saving the world.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-cast-bella-ramsey-ellie-1234905508/

David Benioff, D.B. Weiss to Develop Richard Powers Novel ‘The Overstory’ as Netflix Series

“Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are developing a series adaptation of the Richard Powers novel “The Overstory” at Netflix, Variety has learned.

Richard Robbins, whose past TV credits include “12 Monkeys” and “Good Girls Revolt,” wrote the pilot script and serves as executive producer. Benioff and Weiss will executive produce under their sizable Netflix overall deal. Hugh Jackman will also executive produce along with Bernie Caulfield of Benioff and Weiss’s Bighead Littlehead production banner. Powers is set to serve as co-executive producer.

The novel was originally published in 2018 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of a world alongside ours that is vast, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. A handful of disparate people learn how to see that world and are drawn into its unfolding catastrophe.

“The Overstory” is the latest series announcement for Benioff and Weiss since they signed their Netflix deal in 2019. They are also writers and executive producers on the Netflix series adaptation of the sci-fi book trilogy “The Three-Body Problem” alongside fellow writer and executive producer Alexander Woo. Rian Johnson also serves as executive producer along with Brad Pitt and Rosamund Pike among many others.

Benioff and Weiss are also executive producers on the half-hour dramedy “The Chair” starring Sandra Oh from showrunner and executive producer Amanda Peet. That show recently announced much of its main cast, which will include Jay Duplass, Bob Balaban, David Morse, and Nana Mensah alongside Oh.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/david-benioff-db-weiss-the-overstory-netflix-1234905521/