EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, has acquired Hurricane Summer, a new contemporary YA novel by Riverdaleactress Asha Bromfield which will be tentatively slated for Spring 2021.
WME brokered the one book deal for North American rights, with Wednesday Books’ Sara…
The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote July 10 on possible easing of rules enacted in 1996 that require broadcasters to air a certain amount of children’s TV programming.
Judging by statements from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the likely outcome will be a much looser regulatory environment, given the multitude…
EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Dyer, star of NBC procedural drama The InBetween, is boarding Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Manfor Blumhouse-Universal.
Dyer joins the already announced cast of Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge and Storm Reid. The pic will shoot in Dyer’s native country of Australia next month, specifically Sydney.
The…
NBC’s Today Show celebrated 25 years of transparency – of the window variety – with a happy video tribute to its trademark see-through studio this morning. (See the video below.) And no doubt about it: Rockefeller Center’s Studio 1A has been home to, as Today‘s website puts it, “a quarter century of cheering crowds…
EXCLUSIVE:BET Networks has put into developmentBlack Mambas a one-hour drama from Rebel creator Amani Walker.
Black Mambas is the journey of four powerful women who are bikers and grow tired of the violent crimes and injustice in their hometown of New Orleans and decide to take justice into their own hands.
Salli…
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks refused to answer about 155 questions during her testimony Wednesday in front of the House Judiciary Committee, according to a transcript of her appearance released today.
Hicks appeared with a body of lawyers from the Trump administration and was stopped from…
One of the unexpected highlights and pleasures of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival was a discovery by the name of Jessie Buckley, who soars in director Tom Harper’s transcendent musical drama Wild Rose. Although she currently can be seen in the HBO limited Series Chernobyl and in a supporting role in…
EXCLUSIVE: Morena Baccarin is the latest to join the cast of the Tim Kirkby-directed action-thriller Waldo, starring Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam. Filming is currently underway. The pic is based on the novel, Last Looks, by Howard Michael Gould, who also adapted the screenplay.
It centers around a disgraced LAPD…
EXCLUSIVE: Director/producer Jason Ensler is expanding his relationship with 20th Century Fox TV, signing an overall deal with the studio, part of Disney TV Studios. Under the pact, Ensler will serve as the directing executive producer on 20th TV’s upcoming series Love, Simon for Disney+, inspired by the praised 2018…
Paramount Pictures and Entertainment One (eOne) will co-finance two upcoming wide theatrical releases: Clifford the Big Red Dogand Monster Problems. Â
eOne will distribute all rights in Canada and the UK (excluding TV in the UK) and Paramount will distribute all other rights including in the U.S.
Walt Becker is…
EXCLUSIVE:AXS TV has set a September premiere date for Paul Shaffer Plus One, starring the Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated musician, composer, author and TV personality. The weekly 30-minute program will kick off its eight-episode inaugural season on Sunday, September 15 at 8 PM.
Shaffer is known for his 33-year…
A&E Network and Essential Media Group (Saving Mr. Banks, Miracle on Everest) continue to push the boundaries in the genre of high-stakes stunts on live TV with new series The Impossible Live (working title). A&E has ordered five two-hour episodes of the series, which they describe as the most ambitious live stunt…
