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Newsom Announces $116M In CA Vaccination Incentive Payments, Including $15M Lottery Drawing
After weeks of announcing big-dollar public programs based on California’s record budget surplus, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state is literally giving away money to those who have or will get vaccinated by June 15.
“This last week, those first doses are way down,” said the governor of Covid vaccinations…
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Shirley Jackson’s Classic Story ‘The Lottery’ Gets First Feature Film Treatment With Kennedy/Marshall At Paramount Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: It was an explosive and controversial story when it was published in 1948 and still remains so to this day. Shirley Jackson’s classic short story The Lottery, which centers on violence, inhumanity and judgment in a small New England town, is being adapted — for the first time — as a feature film by a…
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‘The Lottery’ Cancelled By Lifetime
Lifetime has made it official — opting not to review The Lottery for a second season. The cancellation was considered a foregone conclusion after the futuristic drama’s freshman season averaged a paltry 700,000 in Live+Same Day. Compare that to the 1.8 million average for the second season of Devious Maids, which <a href="https://deadline.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=854258&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2"…
Craig Bierko To Star In New Lifetime Series ‘Un-Real’, Michael Irby Joins ‘The Lottery’
Craig Bierko has been cast as a lead opposite Shiri Appleby in Lifetime's darkly comedic drama series Un-Real, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the chaos surrounding the production of a competition dating reality series. He will play the show’s sexy and arrogant creator Chet. The 10-episode series, from Marti…
Lifetime’s ‘The Lottery’ Debuts OK
A dystopian reproductive drama on Lifetime from Children Of Men scribe Timothy J. Sexton does seem to have all the right ingredients. However, it also needs an audience to show up and that was a bit of a struggle for the debut of The Lottery last night. With a new Witches Of East End as a lead-in, the Warner…
Steven Pasquale Joins ‘The Good Wife’; Ernie Hudson In ‘The Lottery’
Steven Pasquale has joined the cast of the upcoming sixth season of CBS’ The Good Wife. He is slated for a two-episode arc as Elfman, one of the top campaign managers in the country who Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) is trying to convince to run Alicia’s (Julianna Margulies) possible campaign. Pasquale, repped by ICM…
Athena Karkanis Joins Lifetime’s ‘Lottery’; Steven Berkoff In ‘Witches Of East End’
Low Winter Sun alumna Athena Karkanis has been cast in Lifetime‘s conspiracy thriller The Lottery. Produced by Warner Horizon, the 10-episode series is set in a dystopian future when women have stopped having children, threatening extinction of the human race. Karkanis, repped by Greene & Associates and Sanders…
Rick Eid Signs Overall Deal With Warner Bros TV, Joins ‘The Lottery’ As Showrunner
EXCLUSIVE: Drama writer-producer Rick Eid has closed an overall deal with Warner Bros TV. Under the two-year pact, Eid will develop new projects for the studio. He also is boarding Warner Horizon’s newly picked-up Lifetime drama series The Lottery as executive producer/showrunner. Written by Timothy J. Sexton and…
Lifetime Picks Up Dystopian-Future Drama Pilot ‘Lottery’ To Series
Lifetime has completed a deal for a 10-episodes order to conspiracy thriller pilot The Lottery. As expected, it will join Lifetime’s recently picked up new drama Un-Real, from A+E Studios, which also received a 10-episode order. The Warner Horizon-produced Lottery is set in a dystopian future when women have stopped…
Wilmer Valderrama In El Rey’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, David Alpay In Lifetime’s ‘Lottery’
Wilmer Valderrama is the latest addition to the cast of Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series for Latino-themed El Rey network. On the 10-episode drama based on the cult horror film by Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the That ’70s Show alum will play enigmatic crime lord Carlos. Valderrama has a…
Marley Shelton To Topline Lifetime Pilot ‘The Lottery’; Noah Bean In Syfy’s ‘12 Monkeys’
EXCLUSIVE: Marley Shelton (Eleventh Hour) is set as the lead in Lifetime's dystopian-future drama pilot The Lottery, written by Timothy J. Sexton and directed by Danny Cannon. The Warner Horizon-produced conspiracy thriller is set in a world where women have stopped having children, threatening extinction of the human…
Lifetime Casts Trio In Pilot ‘The Lottery’, Duo In ‘Deliverance Creek’
Michael Graziadei (American Horror Story), Lesley-Ann Brandt (Spartacus) and Louise Lombard (CSI) have been cast in Lifetime’s dystopian future drama pilot The Lottery, written by Timothy J. Sexton and directed by Danny Cannon. The Warner Horizon-produced conspiracy thriller is set in a world where women have stopped…
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