Latest in Series Orders

Netflix will turn a cast of characters made popular by Japanese messaging app into an original animated series. The streamer is working with Line Friends, the character brand that started as Brown & Friends stickers on the Line messaging service, to create the non-verbal, computer-animated series. Los Angeles-based…

EXCLUSIVE: What started with a viral short will become a shortform series. Quibi said today that it is developing a Code 8 spinoff series starring cousins Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell, who also topline the independent sci-fi thriller that hits theaters Friday. The film’s director Jeff Chan will helm the Quibi series…

Quibi has added three more programs to its Daily Essentials lineup. Sex,/dating/relationships talker Sexology with Shan, fashion review show Fashion’s a Drag and black culture series The Nod with Brittany & Eric are set for the shortform digital platform that launches on April 6. Here are the descriptions of the new…

HBO has given a series order to The Untitled Lakers Project, a one-hour limited series drama based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, produced by Oscar winner Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries. The project marks the first limited series under…

HBO Max has picked up to series Lena Dunham-produced half-hour dramedy, Generation, marking the streamer's first pilot to get a series order. Created by Zelda Barnz and her father Daniel Barnz, who also directs, Generation is a dark yet playful half-hour following a group of high school students whose exploration of…

EXCLUSIVE: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is expanding its Saturday night lineup of unscripted shows that focus on love and relationships, giving a straight-to-series order to #LoveGoals. The celebrity relationship series hails from John Irwin’s Irwin Entertainment, which has a track record in the celebrity/relationship…

Swimming with Sharks will infest the shortform waters. Quibi has ordered a Lionsgate-produced drama series that will be a contemporary update of the 1994 movie. Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) will write and produce the series, for which production will begin in February. Tucker Gates (Homeland) will direct Sw…

Netflix has given a series order to Maid, a female-driven dramedy inspired by Stephanie Land’s New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. The project is from writer Molly Smith Metzler (Shameless, Orange Is the New Black); John Wells Productions; Margot Robbie’s…

The Vikings saga will continue on Netflix. The streamer has picked up Vikings: Valhalla, a sequel to the hit series that is heading into its sixth and final season on History. I hear Netflix has ordered 24 episodes of the new series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and studio MGM Television, which continues the…

UPDATED, 9:20 AM: Quibi has ordered Varsity Blues to series. “For all those who cheered Mox’s refrain, 'I don’t want your life,' as well as all those who never heard of the West Canaan Coyotes, we’re thrilled to bring Varsity Blues to Quibi and into the 21st century,” executive producer Mike Tollin said. Read details…

Quibi has greenlit Slugfest, a new documentary series executive produced by Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame) that will delve into the pitched rivalry between Marvel and DC Comics, the publishers whose combined IP has become a dominant source material for today’s film and TV. The directors of Framing John DeLor…

Travel Channel has greenlighted Trending Fear, a paranormal docuseries from Adam Ellis, author of the #DearDavid stories. The six-part series will premiere at 11 PM Friday, December 20. In 2017, Buzzfeed author and illustrator Ellis captured the image of a ghost child in his New York City apartment and wrote his first…