Elizabeth Banks has been set to host Press Your Luck, the latest ABC game show revival that is set to premiere next month. The network in March ordered Press Your Luck and another revival, Card Sharks, both produced by Fremantle. Joel McHale has already been set to host Card Sharks. The newcomers will will debut…

Created by Ali Rushfield, Lindy West and Aidy Bryant, who also stars, Hulu’s Shrill was, right out the gate, resonating with audiences. Co-executive producer and co-writer Rushfield and executive producer Elizabeth Banks said during a panel Sunday at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys that how the show is a call to…

When it comes to the politics of abortion, the new Aidy Bryant Hulu series Shrill , much like its source material novel of the same name by Lindy West, is meeting the subject head on. A TCA reporter today asked the producers of the upcoming streaming series, which includes Elizabeth Banks, and EP/showrunner Ali…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned film rights to The Grace Year, and Elizabeth Banks will direct the adaptation of a novel by Kim Liggett that will be published by Wednesday Books in the fall. Banks and Max Handelman will produce through their Brownstone Productions banner, along with New Leaf Literary…

Fox has handed a pilot order to Patty’s Auto, a multi-camera ensemble comedy from writer and The Big C creator Darlene Hunt, Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. Television, where the company is based. Written by Hunt, Patty's Auto is inspired by Patrice Banks' Girls Auto Clinic, a…

“Once, everything was awesome,” Wildstyle broods. “Now everything is bleak.” That opening line from the new trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part might trigger some parents who endured “Everything Is Awesome” on daylong replay — possibly while contorted into the fetal position — but it sets up the premise for…

It’s Sony, Angels. We have a new date for you to go to work. The studio said tonight that its reboot of Charlie’s Angels now will open wide on November 1, 2019 — five weeks after its original date. If 11/1/19 sounds familiar, it’s because that’s the slot just vacated by Warner Bros’ superhero sequel Wonder Woman 1984…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Tucker has been added to the Elizabeth Banks-directed Charlie’s Angels reboot, which will focus on the next generation of elite crime-fighting detectives. Tucker joins Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, Luis Gerardo Méndez, as well as both Patrick Stewart and Banks playing Bosley…

Fox has put in development Patty’s Auto, a multi-camera ensemble comedy from writer The Big C creator Darlene Hunt, Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. Television where the company is based. Written by Hunt, Patty’s Auto is inspired by Patrice Banks' Girls Auto Clinic…

NBC has put in development Strong Justice, an hourlong drama from Wendy Calhoun (Empire), Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Calhoun, Strong Justice is inspired by Marlo McGuire Graham and Ethel McGuire. It centers on FBI's first-ever mother-daughter duo, Special…

Patrick Stewart has signed on for Charlie’s Angels, the reboot of the female crime-fighting franchise being directed by Elizabeth Banks in the works at Sony’s Columbia Pictures. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska have already been set as the trio of elite detectives. Banks had already been set to play…

NBC is doubling its bet on series projects with basketball pedigree from NBA star LeBron James and his SpringHill Entertainment. The network has given a script commitment plus penalty to basketball-themed drama Hoops, from writer Jennifer Cecil (Notorious), LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment, E…