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EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has acquired True Detective and This England exec Richard Brown’s Passenger, with Brown landing a senior role within the super-indie’s Global Drama division. The highly-acquisitive RTL-owned outfit already has an exclusive overall agreement with Passenger, which has spawned the…

Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc, and Joel D. Montgrand have joined HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, starring alongside leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis for Season 4 of the crime anthology series. In True Detective: Night Country, from writer-director-showrunner Issa López, when the long winter…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off starring in Toronto Film Festival drama North Of Normal, Sarah Gadon is set to make her directorial debut on feature Lullabies For Little Criminals, based on Heather O'Neill’s 2007 novel which won the Canada Reads competition. Alias Grace and True Detective star Gadon will adapt the screenplay and…

Actor, professional boxer and Indigenous rights advocate Kali Reis is set to star opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country. With both leads in place, Season 4 of the crime thriller anthology series has received a formal greenlight by HBO. Reis recently burst into the Hollywood scene with her acting debut…

Jodie Foster is heading into Night Country. The Silence of the Lambs star is to lead the fourth iteration of HBO's True Detective franchise, True Detective: Night Country. Foster, who will also exec produce the series, will play Detective Liz Danvers in the series, which comes from writer and director Issa López and…

Fred Ward, a prolific actor best known for roles in The Right Stuff, Tremors, Miami Blues, True Detective and many others, died May 8. He was 79. His death was announced by his publicist. No cause or place of death was disclosed. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Ward, a San Diego native, began his…

HBO is working on a fourth iteration of True Detective. Deadline understands that the WarnerMedia-owned cable network is developing a new take on the crime drama – tentatively titled True Detective: Night Country – from Issa López and Barry Jenkins. We revealed in February 2021 that HBO was in talks with new writers…

The chances for a True Detective revival are good, Curb Your Enthusiasm is likely to come back, Mare of Easttown could return when Kate Winslet and the creative team are ready, but In Treatment’s sessions are over. These are the thoughts of HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys. Deadline reported last year…

A fourth iteration of True Detective may well be on the cards with HBO in talks with new writers to bring the dark crime series back. The show, which was created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2019. Casey Bloys, chief content officer at HBO and HBO Max, told Deadline that it was…

Cutting deep into cable viewership on Sunday night, the wound on Cynthia Erivo's character's arm in the mid-credits scene of the finale of The Outsider was just the latest but surely not last twist in the tale of the HBO miniseries based on Stephen King's 2018 novel. Coming in with a season high of 1.37 million…

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the hit HBO anthology series’ original stars Matthew McConaughey are reuniting for Redeemer, a drama series headlined by the Oscar winner, which has landed a script-to-series commitment at FX. In conjunction to the sale, Pizzolatto has signed an overall production deal…

Limited series used to mean one and done but with the return of a number of previously standalone dramas, there's always the possibility of more, in success. HBO's President of Programming Casey Bloys updated Deadline on his thoughts of a slew of theses "limited" series on a day at TCA when The Night Of star John…