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With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting a Presidential act of clemency. “Joe Exotic seeks to require the…

Amazon Prime Video has taken in for development a scripted series starring Nicolas Cage as the infamous Joe Exotic, made a household name by the hugely popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King. The project, which had been in the works at CBS TV Studios, hails from Brian Grazer, American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, and…

NBCUniversal is going all in for Joe Exotic (working title), UCP’s limited series starring and executive produced by Kate McKinnon, which has received a joint straight-to-series order by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming divisions. In a sign of things to come for vertically integrated media companies, the high…

This is yet another twist in the decades-long bitter rivalry between Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage) and Carole Baskin, which is at the heart of Netflix’s wildly popular docuseries Tiger King. Baskin, the woman Joe was convicted of plotting to kill, and her Big Cat Rescue corporation have been granted…

A scripted series centered around Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic with Nicolas Cage attached to star and executive produce is in the works, Deadline has confirmed. The project hails from American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, Paul Young (Key & Peele), Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. The eight-episode limited…

The Tiger King phenomenon will continue. Netflix is extending its hugely popular docuseries franchise with The Tiger King and I, an after show hosted by Joel McHale, which will be released on April 12. It will feature brand-new interviews with Tiger King‘s John Reinke, Joshua Dial, John Finlay, Saff, Erik Cowie,Rick…

EXCLUSIVE: Looking certain to spend a lot longer behind bars, Tiger King star Joe Exotic has been hit with two big losses in his $89 million-dollar false arrest lawsuit, almost simultaneously. First, a federal judge yesterday scathingly advocated tossing out the March 17 initiated legal action by the former owner of…

SPOILER ALERT: If you are among the few who haven’t actually watched Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, this review contains a lot of details about what goes down in the sad big cat saga. With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it's time to come out and say…

The culture’s man of the hour, Joe Exotic, has spoken out from prison, thanks to a Netflix tweet. The star of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King answered four questions posed to him during an apparent visiting hour interview, thanking his husband for standing by him, admitting shame on how his chimps were treated, and…

UPDATED: The massively popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has sparked renewed interest in a missing person cold case in Florida that is featured in the docuseries. Authorities in Tampa confirmed Tuesday that they’ve received a slew of tips in the case of Jack Donald “Don” Lewis, who’s…

Robert Moor, host of the hit Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King, chatted with Andy Cohen Monday morning on Cohen’s show Andy Cohen Live on his SiriusXM channel, Radio Andy. Moor talked about the upcoming limited series based on the Joe Exotic podcast that is in development at UCP, starring and executive produced…

Back in November, UCP announced Joe Exotic, a limited series starring and executive produced by Kate McKinnon. Four and a half months later, interest in the project, based on Joe Exotic, the second season of Wondery's Over My Dead Body podcast, is skyrocketing because of the massive popularity of the Netflix…