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Cornballer

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Has Kaitlyn Dever escaped this shit yet?
I haven't heard anything official, but she is in an upcoming Netflix limited series.
Toni Collette (United States of Tara), Merritt Wever (Godless) and Kaitlyn Dever (Last Man Standing) have been cast in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) and Katie Couric. In addition, Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) is set to direct and executive produce the first three episodes.

Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the "This American Life" radio episode about the same case, "Anatomy of Doubt." It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.

Collette and Wever will play detectives whose lives become intertwined in their mutual pursuit of a possible serial rapist. Dever's character was not revealed.
 

TheBeardedOne

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Damn. Too bad Molly Ephraim won't be back. It'll be odd seeing Mandy played by somebody else.

The show recast Kristen after its first season, as well
 

ZeoVGM

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I, for one, am shocked to see cast members no longer wanting to be associated with one of the worst shows on television in which its star is a bigoted idiot.

Shocked.
 

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'Mixtape': Netflix Picks Up Fox Musical Drama Pilot To Series
Fox's pilot Mixtape is going to series — at Netflix. The Internet network has given a 10-episode order to the musical drama starring Jenna Dewan, Callie Hernandez and Madeline Stowe. The project hails from Quantico creator Josh Safran, Annapurna Pictures, 20th Century Fox TV, which produced the original pilot, and its cable/streaming division Fox 21 TV Studios.
Written by former Smash showrunner Safran, Mixtape is a romantic musical drama that looks at the love stories connecting a diverse, disparate group of people in contemporary Los Angeles through the music that lives inside their hearts and minds.
 
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Im halfway through Lucifer S3 and saw that the next 11 episodes are leaving Hulu tomorrow,
when should it showing up on Netflix?
 

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Netflix Orders Salma Hayek-Produced Mexican Drama Series 'Monarca', Starring Irene Azuela & Juan Manuel Bernal
Netflix has ordered Monarca, an original drama series from Mexico, produced by Salma Hayek's Ventanarosa Productions, Lemon Studios and Michael McDonald's Stearns Castle, with Irene Azuela (Quemar las Naves) and Juan Manuel Bernal (Capadocia) attached to star. Production is scheduled to begin this fall for a global premiere in 2019.

Created by Diego Gutierrez, who also serves as showrunner, and written by Lemon Studios' Fernando Rovzar, Julia Denis, Ana Sofia Clerici and Sandra García Velten, Monarca will follow the world of wealthy Mexican elites riddled by corruption, scandal and violence. Set in the powerful world of Mexican billionaires, Monarca is a high stakes, multi-generational family saga about a tequila-born Mexican business empire, and the battle that ensues when a member of the family decides to fight the dirty system her family helped create.
 
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We're getting a second season of The Wine Show and I learn of this first now!? (though tbh; no Matthew Rhys, no sale. Then again, it's James Purefoy, so maybe a sale?)
 

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Could the Showtime show be a Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle?

Cohen's shtick is known to be very "dangerous", and the phrasing of the text in his video "Sacha Graduates...Soon" implies that there might be a new project of his coming soon. It isn't a film since he has no films on his docket and his next slated project is "The Spy" for Netflix. I could definitely imagine this new show could be a vehicle for Sacha's next "character."
 

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Could the Showtime show be a Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle?

Cohen's shtick is known to be very "dangerous", and the phrasing of the text in his video "Sacha Graduates...Soon" implies that there might be a new project of his coming soon. It isn't a film since he has no films on his docket and his next slated project is "The Spy" for Netflix. I could definitely imagine this new show could be a vehicle for Sacha's next "character."


Ooh, I would prefer this over a Kathy Griffin show (and I actually like her).
 
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Deadline has some details on the second season of The Night Manager which does seem to be a thing:
I understand that Humans and Black Mirror writer Namsi Khan and The Man In The High Castle writer Francesca Gardiner are joining British spy author Charles Cumming and up-and-coming British writer Matthew Orton in the room for the sophomore run of the BBC and AMC thriller.
There is a massive grains of salt attached to it though:
Although the show has yet to be officially recommissioned, and there's plenty of rumors as to what shape it will take and which stars will return, I hear that the foursome are in full swing, working on plots for the "slowly developing" drama.
Hiddleston has also said he would consider appearing in a second series, but it's unlikely the entire cast, which also featured Olivia Colman and Elizabeth Debicki, would return.
 

Sparky2112

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Much like the second season of Big Little Lies I just don't know why this should be a thing, even though I'm sure it will be watchable at worst.

There's nothing wrong with one and done.

Yeah, I'm not seeing it either, but then I do that with *every* show - 'Where can they possibly take it from here?' only to have them take it from here, so...
 

ZeroX

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I mean obviously the full cast wouldn't return Deadline, that's silly and nobody would expect that. But you'd need at least Hiddleston and Colman for there to even be a reason to bring it back.
 
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Man I finally got around to watching The People v O.J,
im really enjoying this so far(damn was that Nazi reveal a really well done scene, feels even more relevant now than when this released just a few years ago.)

How is the 2nd American Crime Story season?
 
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And this is how you predict, folks.

I'm not entirely sure how accurate Nellie Andreeva's predictions have been, but I was right! Showtime's new show IS a Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle, and likely yet another entrant into the Trump impressions contest.
Variety, which that Deadline article is partially based on says:
Baron Cohen is in talks with Showtime to distribute a new series in which he will star, sources tell Variety. The format is said to be similar to Baron Cohen's "Da Ali G Show,"
Details of the project beyond Baron Cohen's involvement are still sketchy. It's believed that at least one or two episodes have already been produced or at least roughly assembled

So maybe he's doing a new character or two, and with a political bent?
 

TheGhost

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Damn. Too bad Molly Ephraim won't be back. It'll be odd seeing Mandy played by somebody else.

The show recast Kristen after its first season, as well
I liked original Kristen

I will miss the True Mandy tremendously, she had amazing delivery playing such a smart yet ditzy character. Her scenes were she would bond or stick up for Eve were always touching and shit.
 

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Did we previously know that Better Things and You're the Worst are being held to "early 2019"? per TVLine
 

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Did we previously know that Better Things and You're the Worst are being held to "early 2019"? per TVLine
Better Things seemed like an inevitable delay considering the relationship between Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon, but I don't think we knew of "You're The Worst" being pushed.

Also, I had to laugh at what's going on with UnREAL.
Current status: Previously renewed for Season 4, which will first be released in Australia (yes, really!) on July 17, via the streaming service Stan. A Lifetime rep maintains that there is no Stateside premiere date (as of July 6) for Season 4, which may or may not go directly to Hulu.
To go from "Next Big Thing" to "Direct to Australia" in the span of 3 years must be some kind of record for decline in quality.
 

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Better Things seemed like an inevitable delay considering the relationship between Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon, but I don't think we knew of "You're The Worst" being pushed.

Also, I had to laugh at what's going on with UnREAL.

To go from "Next Big Thing" to "Direct to Australia" in the span of 3 years must be some kind of record for decline in quality.

Haha, jeez. I still need to get to the third season, but the fourth randomly dropping in a single country and a big shrug for elsewhere currently is wild. Getting eight more episodes only a few months after the other season aired (and on Hulu rather than on cable) is also super weird to see, but I guess they want to burn it off. Was the third season THAT bad?
 

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Also, I had to laugh at what's going on with UnREAL.

To go from "Next Big Thing" to "Direct to Australia" in the span of 3 years must be some kind of record for decline in quality.

Yeah lol. It's coming later this month in Australia and shrug.emoji for the rest of the world.

Was the third season THAT bad?

Season one wasn't that big of a hit to begin with (critics liked it but ratings were soft), but Lifetime stuck with it because they were getting a lot of critical praise and awards recognition. Season two was considered to be a disaster critically and the ratings dropped - season three was a definite improvement over season two, but the ratings were even lower and by that point the critics had stopped caring, so I guess they decided to cut their losses.
 

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Yeah lol. It's coming later this month in Australia and shrug.emoji for the rest of the world.

Season one wasn't that big of a hit to begin with (critics liked it but ratings were soft), but Lifetime stuck with it because they were getting a lot of critical praise and awards recognition. Season two was considered to be a disaster critically and the ratings dropped - season three was a definite improvement over season two, but the ratings were even lower and by that point the critics had stopped caring, so I guess they decided to cut their losses.

Yeah, the second season really hurt my interest in the show. But if the third's an improvement, I'll get to it soon. Checking that ratings difference from the first season to the third is disappointing, but at least it's getting that final season... kind of, someday.
 
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