Television

Vertigo Films is lining up a new horror TV series dubbed The Last Days of Jack Sparks, based on Jason Arnopp’s genre-bending novel of the same name. Screenwriter Gaby Hull (Two Weeks to Live, We Hunt Together) is adapting the book and UK horror master Rob Savage (Host, Dashcam) is set to direct.  The project sees Savage
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UPDATED with Night 2 winners: The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Jennifer Hudson, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls and books from Viola Davis, Stacey Abrams and the late Michael K. Williams scored wins on the second night of the 54th NAACP Image Awards. Organizers are rolling out winners across the week leading up
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EXCLUSIVE: Showmax’s next original drama will explore marital power structures in Ghana. The Billionaire’s Wife is a 10-part series set to launch next month (March 2). New episodes will stream every Thursday and represent Showmax’s increasing investment in Ghana.  The show marks the third Showmax Original-branded show from the country, following Shirley Frimpong-Manso drama ENO and docu-reality series My Perfect Funeral,
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Rutina Wesley plays Maria on HBO’s The Last of Us and she recently admitted that taking on the role was something terrifying. “It’s terrifying playing a character that’s been established, even though it’s a game,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an interview. “But I also was up for the challenge of playing her in my
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“I think we need to find a way to avoid the U.S. brainwash,” said Newen Connect CEO Rodolphe Buet at this morning’s Berlinale Series Adapting to the Market session. The head of the French distributor urged global buyers to stop “copying too much from the U.S. audience” as he cited research that showed the streamers
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Everything Everywhere All At Once, Babylon and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery took top film honors at the 27th annual Art Directors Guild Awards tonight. Yvette Nicole Brown hosted tonight’s awards for the second consecutive year at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Check out the full list below. Everything Everywhere All At Once won
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Gerald Fried, a composer for some of television’s biggest moments in the 1960s, died Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95. Fried won an Emmy for the miniseries Roots, rescuing the project when Quincy Jones missed several deadlines. His career included scoring five early Stanley Kubrick films, including “Paths
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Netflix’s Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has told an audience of Indian filmmakers that they “ain’t seen nothing yet” in terms of the streamer’s ambitions in the country. Sarandos was in Mumbai for a fireside conversation with celebrated Indian director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is making the sweeping new series Heeramandi for Netflix. Sarandos said India is
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EXCLUSIVE: CBS is taking an alternative approach to comedy development with A Lot, an improvisational-style multi-camera series starring June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. The project hails from Grace and Frankie creator Marta Kauffman through her Okay Goodnight banner and Lionsgate Television. The project reunites Raphael with Kauffman after her run as a series regular
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EXCLUSIVE: Molly Yeh has inked a two-year exclusive deal with Food Network, which will include more episodes of her Midwest-inspired cooking show Girl Meets Farm. In the series, which debuted in 2018, Molly embraces her country life on the border of Minnesota and North Dakota and makes dishes inspired by her Jewish and Chinese heritage
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