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EXCLUSIVE: ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Mourning Songs, a musical family comedy from former New Girl executive producers/co-showrunners Dave Finkel and Brett Baer; Michael Seitzman and Christina Davis’ Maniac Prods; and ABC Studios, where the company is based. Mourning Songs is based on the life and…

For Netflix limited series Maniac, a show that "lent itself to being creative and out there," production designer Alex DiGerlando thoughtfully crafted the many layers of a retrofuturistic world unlike any seen on screen before. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, with whom DiGerlando enjoyed a "great collaboration" on the…

“We chase our discomfort a lot,” revealed GLOW co-creator Carly Mensch on the Change in Focus: Flipping the Script panel last week of the creative process she and Liv Flahive go through for the Netflix female wrestling series. If that’s the case for the Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin-led GLOW, the other creatives all…

A futuristic dark comedy from Patrick Somerville and director Cary Fukunaga, Maniac was an exceedingly ambitious project, in terms of its makeup and hair design, with a series of characters that were visually reinvented for each new episode. Starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, the miniseries follows Annie and Owen…

UPDATE with details from a Moody’s report. Netflix said it is planning to raise $2 billion from an offering of bonds (mostly in euros and U.S. dollars) to qualified institutional buyers. The debt raised by the offering will be used for “general corporate purposes,” including content production, acquisition and…

Ahead of Netflix’s quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, new figures from a Wall Street analyst show it smashed all records in the third quarter by releasing 676 hours of original programming, up 50% from the second quarter. Cowen & Co. analyst John Blackledge delivered the eye-catching stat as part of his monthly…

Patrick Somerville knows about expanding the edge of the TV frontier. The novelist and screenwriter wrote for HBO's The Leftovers, which began by exploring the aftermath of a Rapture-like event and soon evolved into a multi-faceted meditation on relationships and human nature. Similar to that show, Maniac (whose…

There are more than a few moments in Netflix’s 10-episode Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed Maniac that are so aesthetically precise you might forget to breathe for a beat or two. Launching tomorrow on the streaming service, the multi-genre limited series starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill — and from Fukunaga, also the just…

The first-look trailer for the upcoming Netflix miniseries Maniac has been released (or maybe escaped) in advance of its Sept. 21 debut, along with its key art. The show is based on the Norwegian television series of the same name by Hakon Bast Mossige and Espen PA Lervaaq, is written by Patrick Somerville, directed…

Netflix announced today a premiere date for the limited series Maniac during TCA Summer Press Tour. The dark comedy starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill will be released on the streaming service Sept. 21. You can watch a teaser trailer below. Set in a world somewhat like our own and similar to our time, Maniac tells the…

Paramount Television has signed an overall deal with writer-producer Patrick Somerville, creator of the studio’s high-profile new Netflix dark comedy series Maniac, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill and directed by Cary Fukunaga. Under the two-year pact, Somerville will develop new TV and digital projects exclusively…

Oscar winner Sally Field is set to recur opposite Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in the high-profile 10-episode Netflix series Maniac. Maniac, written by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 Norwegian series, revolves around the fantasy worlds of Hill and Stone's characters. Filming is underway on the Paramount…