Austrian Formula One champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70, according to his family. “With deep sadness, we announce that our beloved Niki has peacefully passed away with his family on Monday,” The Austria Press Agency reported his family said. The racing legend earned F1 world champion titles in 1975, 1977…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UK producer Andrew Eaton, who has been behind films such as Rush and 24 Hour Party People and, more recently, TV shows The Crown and The Trip, is leaving Revolution Films after 22 years. The well-respected industry stalwart co-founded the Brit production banner in 1994 with director Michael Winterbot…

EXCLUSIVE: Who owns history? In the run-up to the Oscars, the critiques playing out in the press over the "accuracy" of events portrayed in Selma, American Sniper and The Imitation Game have never had a more powerful purchase on the public conversation. Few contemporary writers have tangled with the issue as…

USA Network has made decisions on the fate of its freshman drama series, opting to renew Satisfaction, from Universal Cable Prods., and cancel Rush, from Fox 21. Additionally I hear the network is close to giving a third-season order to the Jeff Eastin’s drama Graceland, produced by Fox TV Studios. There is no…

Stephen Bishop (Being Mary Jane) has been tapped for a lead role in Lifetime’s original movie With This Ring, slated to debut this year. Written and directed by Nzingha Stewart (The Game), the romantic comedy revolves around three single best friends, who after attending the lavish wedding of their best friend on New…

USA Network premiered two new dramas last night, Rush and Satisfaction, both of which which opened with 1.7 million viewers. That is low by USA standards, with the network’s two most recent original dramas, Common Law and Graceland, debuting with 2.5 million and 3.3 million, respectively. As is increasingly the case…

Check out the trailers for USA Networks’ new dramas as part of the 2014-2015 series orders. We’ve previously seen promos for these, but USA has made full trailers of everything available now that its upfront presentation has concluded. Rush – From Fox 21 and writer/director Jonathan Levine, along with Gina Matthews…

British actor Tom Ellis has inked with CAA. The Wales native will topline USA Network’s new medical drama series Rush from writer-director Jonathan Levine and Fox 21, set to premiere in July. Ellis has worked extensively in the UK, starring in the BBC2/BBC1 comedy Miranda and BBC’s EastEnders. He also has appeared on A…

Rescue Me alum Larenz Tate has been upped to series regular on USA's original medical drama series Rush, set to premiere July 17. From writer-director Jonathan Levine and Fox 21, Rush follows Dr. William Rush (Tom Ellis), a "medical fixer" who privately caters to LA's elite. Tate plays Dr. Alex Thomas, Rush’s best…

USA Network is shaking things up this summer with a schedule that features four returning series moving to new time slots, joined by two new shows, dramas series Rush and Satisfaction, paired together. This is a rare new drama series launch on USA where the newbies are not slotted behind established series. Rush and Sa…

USA Network‘s new medical drama series Rush, from writer-director Jonathan Levine and Fox 21, stars Tom Ellis as Dr. William Rush, who is not your average on-call doctor. He's not attached to any hospital, he's highly discreet no matter what the ailment — as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium — and he…

Former Shield executive producer Adam Fierro has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner of USA Network‘s newly picked up drama series Rush, written, directed and executive produced by Jonathan Levine. The project, from Fox 21, centers on Dr. William Rush (Tom Ellis), who is not your average on-call doctor: He's…