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EXCLUSIVE: Jade Albany, who starred in Amazon original American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, has scored recurring roles in Nat Geo's The Right Stuff and Paramount Network's 68 Whiskey. The actress, who recently booked a role in Netflix's Japanese drama The Naked Director, will play Rene Carpenter in The Right…

EXCLUSIVE: Kaley Ronayne (Gotham) is set for a key recurring role opposite Jake McDorman in Nat Geo’s upcoming scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. The Right Stuff, from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, looks at what would become…

Nat Geo boss Courteney Monroe has opened up about the network’s strategy of balancing its slate of Disney+ originals against its linear commissions, as well as why it abandoned its take on Mary Shelley and its plan to turn Barkskins and The Right Stuff into anthology series. Nat Geo is responsible for two Disney+…

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo has recast one of the three leads in its upcoming scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. Former Once Upon a Time star Colin O’Donoghue will portray Lt. Gordon Cooper opposite Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, taking over for Joe Dempsie, who had to exit…

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Ladin (American Sniper), Patrick Fischler (Twin Peaks), Nora Zehetner (Brick), Eloise Mumford (Fifty Shades Freed), Shannon Lucio (Prison Break) and Josh Cooke (Grace and Frankie) are set to co-star in National Geographic's scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction…

EXCLUSIVE: Jake McDorman (What We Do in the Shadows) and Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) are set to star opposite Patrick J. Adams in National Geographic's scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. They will play three of the seven astronauts who comprised the famed Mercury…

EXCLUSIVE: In his first series-regular role since Suits, Patrick J. Adams will lead the cast of National Geographic’s scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. Adams will play Maj. John Glenn in the drama from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted…

National Geographic has handed a series order to the adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling nonfiction book The Right Stuff from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way. Production on the scripted series will begin this fall on the series, which tells the story of the early days of the U.S. space program. Appian Way Productions…

Tom Wolfe, the master prose stylist, journalist and novelist whose use of fiction techniques like dialogue, scene-setting and point-of-view energized non-fiction in the 1960s and ’70s, died Monday in New York. He was 87. Wolfe, perhaps the preeminent practitioner of what would come to be called the New Journalism…

National Geographic has inked a development deal with Appian Way Productions and Warner Horizon Scripted Television for a series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book The Right Stuff. The scripted project is executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, with Will Staples (Call of…

John Glenn, one of the most important figures of the early U.S. space program who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth, died today at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus following an unspecified illness. He was 95. His death was confirmed today by Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Glenn, a…