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In a massive deal that expands on Legendary’s Monsterverse, Apple TV+ has ordered a new live-action series featuring Godzilla and the Titans. Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the untitled series explores one…

From the infamous murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls to the countless deaths of other rappers, the hip-hop community has long been hit by homicides. This is now being explored in an unscripted series for WEtv from Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The rapper is producing Hip Hop Homicides, via his G-Unit Film & Television…

EXCLUSIVE: Iron Chef is back in the kitchen after Netflix cooked up a deal to bring back the classic food format. The streamer has ordered Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, a reboot of the series that had a couple of incarnations in the U.S. including a Food Network series that featured the likes of Bobby Flay…

Wallace and Gromit are returning to screens for the first time in more than 15 years, with the BBC and Netflix snapping up Aardman’s latest animation, while Netflix has unveiled first look and cast for Aardman’s Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. The as-yet-untitled film will air in 2024, is creator Nick Park’s first…

Celebrities are reliving the classic dance moments in Dirty Dancing with the hope to become the next Baby and Johnny in a new competition series for Fox. The network is launching The Real Dirty Dancing on February 1. The series, which is hosted by Stephen "tWitch" Boss, host of Jimmy Fallon-exec produced Clash of the C…

PBS is telling the story of hip hop with Public Enemy frontman Chuck D. The public broadcaster has boarded four-part docuseries The Story of Hip-Hop with Chuck D (w/t). It comes from BBC Studios, the production arm of the British public broadcaster, and is a co-production with the BBC. The series, which was developed…

Netflix has ordered an animated comedy series starring Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus. The streamer has handed a 10-episode order to Bad Crimes, a dark comedy procedural from creator Nicole Silverberg — previously a writer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — and Greg Daniels and Mike Judge. Byer, host of the unscripted…

Tim Allen is returning to Disney — and to the North Pole. The actor-comedian is set to star in and executive produce The Santa Clause (working title), a Disney+ original limited series, in which he will reprise his role as Scott Calvin from the Walt Disney Pictures holiday franchise. Allen is reuniting with Jack…

Justified: City Primeval has been greenlighted at FX, with Timothy Olyphant reprising his role as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens for the limited series. Seven years on from the end of FX’s Justified, Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions are producing their latest Elmore Leonard adaptation, based on the author’s…

EXCLUSIVE: William Levy (Star, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter) is taking the lead in the newly announced dramatic thriller Montecristo, from Pantaya and Secuoya Studios. The series is set in Havana, Madrid, and Miami. The series, based on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, tells the story of Alejandro…

HBO Max has given a series greenlight to a new Degrassi series, and announced the entire 14-season library of Degrassi: The Next Generation will be available for streaming on the platform this spring. Degrassi, the new teen and family series from WildBrain, helmed by showrunners Lara Azzopardi (Backstage, The Bold Type…

The lives and stories of the world’s best golfers are to be revealed in a Netflix documentary showcasing a full PGA Tour season from the producer of Formula 1: Drive to Survive. For the first time, the PGA Tour has handed a network unprecedented access behind the scenes of all championships including the four majors…