It’s official — the upcoming third season of National Geographic's scripted anthology series Genius will be devoted to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died in August at age 76. The announcement was made Sunday at TCA. Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright of Topdog/Underdog, will be…

A possible third season of National Geographic's anthology series Genius devoted to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is taking a major step towards becoming a reality. I have learned that music mogul and longtime Franklin collaborator Clive Davis is expected to join the Imagine TV/Fox 21 TV Studios project as…

EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming third season of National Geographic’s scripted anthology series Genius may be devoted to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died in August at age 76. Genius, which comes from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios, was renewed for a third season in April, with author Mary Shelley revealed…

National Geographic has renewed scripted anthology series Genius for a third season and has revealed that iconic author Mary Shelley, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, will be its subject. The network made the announcement at the conclusion of its upfront Wednesday in New York…

The seventh annual ATX Television Festival has added three series to its lineup and expanded the panels for two others. TV Land’s Younger is returning to the fest — set for June 7-10 in Austin — for a fourth time with a panel and sneak peek at Season 5. The Q&A will feature creator/EP Darren Star, series lead Sutton…

Antonio Banderas has played Zorro, a trapped Chilean coal miner and other iconic characters. But the actor says his latest role as iconic Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in National Geographic's Genius forced him to go to lengths he’d never gone to before. "What I knew I had to do from the beginning is just to…

Cast and creators of National Geographic channel’s Genius series came to TCA to talk about Season 2 in which Antonia Banderas plays artist Pablo Picasso. The Picasso bio-series is the second in the Genius franchise, following the debut season profiling Albert Einstein. The two men were similar, executive producer Brian…

“People say that I am a genius. That it all came easily to me. The truth is, the only way to be a true artist is to work day and night.” Those words are from Pablo Picasso, played by Antonio Banderas, in the trailer for National Geographic’s Genius: Picasso. It clearly wasn’t always easy for Picasso, one of the 20th…

Geoffrey Rush reacted to his Golden Globe nomination for Nat Geo’s Genius, saying that he believed in the  “complexity of humankind”. His nomination comes after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” emerged during an Australian play. Rush was nominated in the Best Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or…

Alex Rich (GLOW, True Detective) has been tapped as a lead, sharing the title role of Pablo Picasso with Antonio Banderas in the second season of National Geographic's anthology series Genius. In addition, Clémence Poésy (Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, In Bruges), Robert Sheehan (Fortitude, Misfits), Poppy Deleving…

Spanish-born Antonio Banderas has been tapped to play Pablo Picasso in the second season of National Geographic’s anthology series Genius, which will chronicle the life and work of the Spanish painter, one of the 20th century's most influential and celebrated artists. The new season, set for a 2018 premiere, is from…

For six years I served on the Television Academy's Board of Governors, representing the Writers' Branch. During that time there were attempts to downplay, eliminate, or move the category once known as Miniseries, and now more broadly referred to as Limited Series. There simply weren't enough contenders, or at least…