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Cornballer

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'Shantaram': Apple Nabs TV Series Adaptation Of Novel For Development
In a competitive situation, Apple has landed an international drama series project based on Gregory David Roberts' best-selling novel Shantaram, from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, to develop for straight-to-series consideration.

Anonymous Content and Paramount TV earlier this year won a monthlong bidding war for the rights to Roberts' sprawling 2004 novel set in Australia and India about love, forgiveness, courage and redemption. A deal was also made for rights to Robert's sequel novel The Mountain Shadow.

The book, published in 39 languages in 42 territories worldwide with 6 million copies sold, tells the story of Lin, a man on the run from an Australian prison looking to get lost in the teeming city of Bombay. Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in the slums, bars and underworld of India. The novel is a thrilling and profound exploration of love, forgiveness, and courage on the long road to redemption.
 

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I watched the second episode of Reverie and it's not getting better.

"There's a flaw in our program that endangers some users but we'll keep letting new users jump in even though we don't have a safe way to automatically get them out"
"Should we let new users know what the person that will help them looks like before they go in? No, we'll tell them it's not possible for a second person to enter the program so they'll mistrust the person we do send in to help!"

Those aren't actually real quotes but they might as well be. Still gonna watch. lol
 

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I watched the second episode of Reverie and it's not getting better.

"There's a flaw in our program that endangers some users but we'll keep letting new users jump in even though we don't have a safe way to automatically get them out"
"Should we let new users know what the person that will help them looks like before they go in? No, we'll tell them it's not possible for a second person to enter the program so they'll mistrust the person we do send in to help!"

Those aren't actually real quotes but they might as well be. Still gonna watch. lol
I'm surprised Spielberg/Amblin is involved with this turd in any way. That's just embarrassing.
 

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Greg Berlanti Inks $400M Overall Deal Extension at Warner Bros. TV
Greg Berlanti is staying put at Warner Bros. Television.

The prolific producer has inked a four-year contract extension that keeps him at the indie studio through 2024.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Berlanti's new deal is worth $400 million in all-cash guarantees. Berlanti — who has 14 scripted series on the air, a TV record — had two years remaining on his current pact and with multiple outlets pursuing the writer-producer opted to remain at his longtime home at Warners. By the time the deal ends in 2024, Berlanti will be 51.

The deal is for only TV, with Berlanti's film pact remaining at Fox, for whom he directed Love, Simon, this year. Sources note that Warners CEO Kevin Tsujihara and WBTV president Peter Roth aggressively pursued Berlanti for a new deal. Berlanti, who values loyalty, is said to have been happy at the studio and did not take meetings with any other outlet despite interest from Netflix, among other outlets.

The structure of Berlanti's deal is different from the nine-figure paydays that Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy inked at Netflix. The Arrow, Flash, Riverdale and Supergirl exec producer is said to have taken a cash payout for the pact, meaning he no longer will receive points on the back-end of his series. The new pact is also said to have incentives for Berlanti to become even more prolific than his current 14 shows, with additional cash clauses kicking in when he hits a specific number of series.

By comparison, Murphy's (American Crime Story, 911) $300 million pact is an all services deal at Netflix that includes TV and film with Netflix also buying out the back-end of multiple shows from the showrunner's longtime home at 20th Century Fox Television. Rhimes' (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) $100 million Netflix deal is structured in a way where she bet on herself and will earn additional fees based on the performance of the projects she creates for the streamer.
 

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Isn't he making movies for Warner as well? But good, 6 more years of BerlantiTV.
 

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Lizzy Caplan To Star In Apple Drama Series 'Are You Sleeping'
Former Masters of Sex star Lizzy Caplan has been tapped for a lead role opposite star Octavia Spencer in Are You Sleeping, Apple's upcoming 10-episode thriller drama series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and the scripted drama venture of Peter Chernin's Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content.

Are You Sleeping, created and written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman based on the true-crime novel by Kathleen Barber, provides a unique glimpse into America's obsession with true-crime podcasts and challenges its viewers to consider the consequences when the pursuit of justice is placed on a public stage.

Caplan will play twin sisters Josie and Lanie, whose lives have taken very different paths. I hear she has a one-year deal. Spencer plays the investigative reporter behind a hit true-crime podcast that reopens the case of Josie and Lanie's father's murder.
 
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Shades of Blue Final Season commercial (the longer one) is really making me get so interested in it, like wow, if it was this epic from the start I would have been into it
 

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I wonder when Apple finally announces their TV service, or whatever they will be using to stream their original content (maybe the TV app on iOS/TvOS).

It seems like we've been hearing about Apple having shows in production now for years with only some stuff on Apple Music to show for it.
 
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UK's Channel 4 & IFC Team On Matt Berry's Victorian Police Comedy 'Year Of The Rabbit'

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U.S. cable network IFC and British broadcaster Channel 4 have ordered Year of the Rabbit, a six-part comedy starring Toast of London's Matt Berry. The two broadcasters have commissioned the show from All3Media-backed Objective Fiction after it was piloted by C4 last year.

The series follows a group of Victorian detectives; Berry, who stars in Jim Hosking's An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn and Matt Groening's Netflix animation Disenchantment, plays Detective Inspector Rabbitt, a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all, and his new, hapless, by-the-books partner, played by Parade End's Freddie Fox. While investigating a local murder, the chief of police's lewd but insightful adoptive daughter, played by Chewing Gum's Susan Wokoma, becomes the country's first female officer. Together, the trio must fight crime while rubbing shoulders with street gangs, crooked politicians, Bulgarian princes, spiritualists, music hall stars and the Elephant Man.

Year of the Rabbit will be directed by Catastrophe's Ben Taylor and written by Veep writers Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil (Veep), as well as Berry
I'm so in.
 

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So it looks like His Dark Materials might actually start production soon-ish. Maybe. I think.
The production company have started hiring people (not crew for the shoot, just expanding the production company), their previous show is winding down production they were doing promotional photos this week per instagram (and it was stated that His Dark Materials would be next), and in a Facebook post they stated that His Dark Materials will go into production in 2018.

Yes I just spent way too long stalking them on social media, reading local news, and looked over the local government incentive program. I hate the UK TV industry so much when it comes to this, put out press releases dammit, it's not hard. I know you can, you just did it for the production start of Park Chan-wook's The Little Drummer Girl
Casting news today, so it sounds like things are moving in earnest:

James McAvoy & Clarke Peters Sign Up To BBC One Fantasy Drama 'His Dark Materials'
X-Men and Atomic Blonde star James McAvoy and The Wire's Clarke Peters have signed up to star in the BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy epic His Dark Materials.

The pair will start work on the eight-part series, which is produced by Bad Wolf, later this month. McAvoy plays Lord Asriel, the ruthless adventurer who was played by Daniel Craig in 2007 feature The Golden Compass. Asriel is the father of main character Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe, who is played by Logan star Dafne Keen. Meanwhile Peters, who recently starred in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, plays the master who raises Lyra.

His Dark Materials, which will air on BBC One, is written by National Treasure and Wonder writer Jack Thorne. It is based on Pullman's trilogy of books: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, a complex tale of physics, philosophy and theology featuring witches and armored polar bears. It tells the story of two children, Lyra and Will, who wander through a series of parallel universes.

Earlier this year, Deadline revealed that The King's Speech director Tom Hooper is to direct the series, which will also star Lin-Manuel Miranda as adventurer Lee Scoresby. It will be exec produced by Pullman, Tranter, Gardner, Toby Emmerich and Carolyn Blackwood for New Line; Piers Wenger and Chris Irving for BBC One and Deborah Forte for Scholastic.

Bad Wolf and distributor BBC Worldwide have also been talking to a number of international broadcasters and streaming services about the project, which is thought to be one of the most expensive British dramas to date. Apple and Netflix are among the suitors for the U.S. and global rights. Endeavor Content co-reps North American rights with BBC Worldwide.
 

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Also, I noted this in The Good Place S2 thread, but they started an official podcast a few weeks ago about the show. It's an excellent look at the production side of how they put the show together, in case anyone is interested in that. The first episode features Mike Schur, and the second episode has Alan Yang plus the casting directors. Spoilers for the first two seasons, obviously. I'd put it alongside something like the Better Call Saul Insider podcast in terms of in depth discussion of how shows are made.
 

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Mannnn having a show get cancelled (unofficially) due to suicide is awful :( Today's news of Bourdain really hit me, as I've been catching up with Parts Unknown... I really hope CNN completes the final episodes, in memorium. This isn't how I ever would want a show to end.... :(
 

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'Time Travelin' Jerk' Animated Comedy Series From Billy Eichner In Works At FX
FX has put in development Time Travelin' Jerk, an animated comedy series co-written and executive produced by Billy Eichner who also will voice a lead character. Eichner has teamed on the project with two key members from the producing team of his Emmy-nominated series Billy on the Street, Doug Brady and Anna Wenger.

Created by Brady and written by Brady, Eichner and Wenger based on a story by Brady, Time Travelin' Jerk is described as Back to the Future meets Groundhog Day with a female lead. It tells the story of Ashley, a hilariously irreverent, whip-smart millennial girl, who gets stuck time traveling and absolutely hates it… but tries to make the most of it along the way.

Eichner will voice the main male character, Parker, an awkwardly sweet accountant who becomes Ashley's time traveling partner in crime.

Brady, Eichner and Wenger all executive produce. The three also served as executive producers on Billy on the Street.

FX continues to be searching for an animated series companion to long-running hit Archer. It recently came close to launching one with the Marvel's Deadpool straight-to-seriesanimated adult action-comedy, from Atlanta creator/executive producer/star Donald Glover and writer Stephen Glover, before recently pulling the plug.
 

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EW: Game of Thrones prequel pilot ordered by HBO
HBO has officially greenlit a follow-up pilot to its acclaimed international hit Game of Thrones and it sounds just as massively ambitious as the original series.

The network has ordered a prequel drama from writer Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass) and author George R.R. Martin. The network has released an official description of the show's storyline, and it's another tale spread across multiple locations and clans: "Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros's history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East, to the Starks of legend … it's not the story we think we know."

According to Martin's books, the Age of Heroes began 10,000 years before the events in GoT. Some of the major names which could be characters in the new show include Bran the Builder (who founded House Stark, and oversaw construction of The Wall and Winterfell) and Lann the Clever (who founded House Lannister). The era led into the Long Night — a winter that lasted a generation — and the greatest war against the white walkers. Then again, that's what we think we know, and the logline for the new show says this is "not the story we think we know."

The pilot doesn't yet have a title. If greenlit to series, HBO has previously stated that no successor series will air until a year after GoT has its series finale. Since the eighth and final season of GoT is coming next year, the soonest we can see a successor series is 2020. If ordered to series, this will mark the first time in HBO's history that the premium cable network has made a successor series to one of its shows.
Thread here.
 

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Everyone talking about stuff while nobody mentions the secret best news of the day: Anne with an E season 2 hits Netflix on July 6.
 
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Jane is too good for this. (not really, it's right up her alley and I hope she gets mad cash for this)
Everyone talking about stuff while nobody mentions the secret best news of the day: Anne with an E season 2 hits Netflix on July 6.
You should subscribe to Ratsky's TV in June 2018 - What are you watching?
 

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Some interesting stats from Hulu, I don't recall any streaming service ever releasing real numbers like this before.

* Hulu viewers are watching, on average, ten different shows at a time.
* 60,000 Hulu subscribers have already watched all 60 hours (or 120 episodes) of "Boy Meets World," . The average "Boy Meets World" viewer on Hulu is 32, which means they were 7 years old when the show first premiered.
* The average "Family Matters" fan who watched the entire series in 2017 on Hulu — all nine seasons that aired from 1989 to 1997 — completed their binge within a month. That's equal to consuming more than two seasons of Urkel and company per week. And "Family Matters" average viewer age on the service is 34.
* Beyond TGIF, Hulu also shared that 35,000 watched all 10 seasons of "Futurama" in just 18 days — equal to more than eight episodes per day.
* More than 35,000 people watched every episode of "ER" (all 331 episodes) in the first two months it was available on Hulu.
* Hulu viewers watched more than 135 million hours of "South Park" and 105 million hours of "Law & Order: SVU" in 2017.
 

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Some interesting stats from Hulu, I don't recall any streaming service ever releasing real numbers like this before.

* Hulu viewers are watching, on average, ten different shows at a time.
* 60,000 Hulu subscribers have already watched all 60 hours (or 120 episodes) of "Boy Meets World," . The average "Boy Meets World" viewer on Hulu is 32, which means they were 7 years old when the show first premiered.
* The average "Family Matters" fan who watched the entire series in 2017 on Hulu — all nine seasons that aired from 1989 to 1997 — completed their binge within a month. That's equal to consuming more than two seasons of Urkel and company per week. And "Family Matters" average viewer age on the service is 34.
* Beyond TGIF, Hulu also shared that 35,000 watched all 10 seasons of "Futurama" in just 18 days — equal to more than eight episodes per day.
* More than 35,000 people watched every episode of "ER" (all 331 episodes) in the first two months it was available on Hulu.
* Hulu viewers watched more than 135 million hours of "South Park" and 105 million hours of "Law & Order: SVU" in 2017.

Pretty interesting stuff! Nice to see more insight, since Netflix's lips are (99% of the time) sealed.
 

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Some interesting stats from Hulu, I don't recall any streaming service ever releasing real numbers like this before.

* Hulu viewers are watching, on average, ten different shows at a time.
* 60,000 Hulu subscribers have already watched all 60 hours (or 120 episodes) of "Boy Meets World," . The average "Boy Meets World" viewer on Hulu is 32, which means they were 7 years old when the show first premiered.
* The average "Family Matters" fan who watched the entire series in 2017 on Hulu — all nine seasons that aired from 1989 to 1997 — completed their binge within a month. That's equal to consuming more than two seasons of Urkel and company per week. And "Family Matters" average viewer age on the service is 34.
* Beyond TGIF, Hulu also shared that 35,000 watched all 10 seasons of "Futurama" in just 18 days — equal to more than eight episodes per day.
* More than 35,000 people watched every episode of "ER" (all 331 episodes) in the first two months it was available on Hulu.
* Hulu viewers watched more than 135 million hours of "South Park" and 105 million hours of "Law & Order: SVU" in 2017.
Go Futurama. I've been watching more Hulu lately, and it's a pretty fun and nice service. Also, I've been planning a Boy Meets World re-watch once I saw they had all of the seasons.
 

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I wanted to watch Claws ahead of season 2. But the TNT app only has the back half of season 1. On demand has all 10 but the first 5 are paid. If I could see if I liked the first 5 I would consider paying for second half. Not paying to start the show from the beginning.

I didn't think that even the app wouldn't let me watch the whole season. Might just skip the series if I don't find something serviceable
 

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I wanted to watch Claws ahead of season 2. But the TNT app only has the back half of season 1. On demand has all 10 but the first 5 are paid. If I could see if I liked the first 5 I would consider paying for second half. Not paying to start the show from the beginning.

I didn't think that even the app wouldn't let me watch the whole season. Might just skip the series if I don't find something serviceable
I believe Hulu has the first season, that could always be an option if that works for you. Hopefully you find a way because the show is really good.
 
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