Ruby Richardson walks away from her ordinary life in the suburbs to revisit her past with her college boyfriend, Billy Johnson. The two made a pact 17 years earlier: If either one of them texted the word "RUN" and the other replied with the same, they would drop everything and meet in Grand Central Station and travel across America together.
Netflix picks up limited series "Painkiller", with Peter Berg directing.Showtime has confirmed development of half-hour series The Auteur, starring Jude Law (The Young Pope) and directed by newly minted Oscar winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), who will also write with Peter Warren (Ghost Team). Signaling its intention to pick up the project to series, the network has ordered multiple scripts of The Auteur, produced by Showtime and Legendary with Endeavor Content serving as studio.
Based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, The Auteur is described as a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. In it, desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.
Waititi is set to direct the pilot episode. Directing followup episodes would be subject to availability due to his hectic feature schedule.
Raoul Peck Teams With HBO On Colonialism Docuseries 'Exterminate All The Brutes'; Josh Hartnett To Topline Scripted PortionsEric Newman, who has been examining the drug trade in Colombia and Mexico as showrunner of Netflix's Narcos and Narcos: Mexico, is turning his attention to the opioid crisis in America with Painkiller, a limited drama series for the streamer where he is under an overall deal.
Peter Berg (The Leftovers, Friday Night Lights) will direct all eight episodes of the limited series, written by A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood scribes Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.
The New Yorker article 'The Family That Built an Empire of Pain' by Patrick Radden Keefe and the book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author Barry Meier serve as underlying material for the series, with Keefe and Meier on board as consultants.
Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated director of I Am Not Your Negro, is teaming with HBO for Exterminate All the Brutes, an ambitious four-part hybrid docuseries that will explore the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism.
The project is being culled from three books: Sven Lindqvist's Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States and Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. The series will draw from documentary footage and archival material along with animation and interpretive scripted scenes, with Josh Hartnett to play the lead role in the latter sections.
The aim is to tell a sweeping story from America to Africa in which history, contemporary life and fiction are intertwined. Peck will deconstruct the making and masking of history through a personal voyage into some of the darkest hours of humanity.
That description sounds great:Nathan Fielder on showtime!
Showtime Orders ‘The Curse’ Comedy Pilot From the Safdie Brothers & Nathan Fielder
Showtime has given a pilot order to 'The Curse,' a half-hour comedy from 'Uncut Gems' duo Benny and Josh Safdie and Nathan for You's Nathan Fielder.deadline.com
It explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple who star in Flipanthropy, their troubled HGTV show, I hear.
'The Gordita Chronicles' Comedy Series From Claudia Forestieri, Josh Berman & Zoe Saldana In Works At HBO MaxWritten by Rapoport, the half-hour Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.
Written by Forestieri, The Gordita Chronicles, loosely inspired by Forestieri's life, centers around a Latina reporter looking back on her childhood as a chubby, willful and reluctant Dominican immigrant growing up with her eccentric family in 1980s Miami.
Huh. You would think there would be more adaptations of this guy given his popularity back in the day.‘Doc Savage’ TV Series In Works At Sony Pictures Television With Original Film & Condé Nast
The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen.deadline.com
The Watchmen and Zoo actor will star in the NBC drama pilot Ordinary Joe, TVLine has learned. Wolk will play Joe Kimbrough, who makes certain choices after graduating from college that "change the trajectory of his life, and the results of his decisions are seen" in three distinct timelines. "The series asks the question of how different life might look if you made your decision based on love, loyalty or passion," according to the official description.
oh nice, will watch just cause i liked him from zooLiving a double life wasn't enough for James Wolk. Now he's going to be living a triple life.
James Wolk to Star (Three Times!) in NBC’s Parallel Lives Pilot Ordinary Joe
'Watchmen' and 'Zoo' actor James Wolk will star as a man living three parallel lives in the NBC drama pilot 'Ordinary Joe.'tvline.com
Huh. You would think there would be more adaptations of this guy given his popularity back in the day.
Real Ryan Murphy gang would have posted the teaser for HALSTON:
Production of the Apple series Shantaram has been put on hold for the next few months and will resume after the end of the monsoon season in India. The series, based on Gregory David Roberts' best-selling novel and starring Charlie Hunnam, had fallen behind on scripts and will use the hiatus to catch up.
Creator/showrunner Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle), who comes from the feature world, had served as showrunner. He will remain as an executive producer. A search is underway for a showrunner with a solid TV series experience for the ambitious production which spans three continents.
Shantaram had been filming in Australia and India since October with a $5 million tax incentive from the Australian government.
Agreed. I liked how fast the dialogue and banter is. I binged my way through that series but stopped at season 6 since it was getting to be too much for me. I might pick it up again though.so i got bored last week and started to watch Letterkenny. its verrrrry canadian lol and it took a season and half to really start to get it and i think its funny for the most part. the structure was weird at first but the jokes/dialogue is so fast
Pitter patter get back at'er.Agreed. I liked how fast the dialogue and banter is. I binged my way through that series but stopped at season 6 since it was getting to be too much for me. I might pick it up again though.
It was Sunday before right? I'm guessing the comedies are about to end or 20-20 is one hour again.I don't know if I'm surprised or not that Shark Tank is returning to Friday nights.
I was just wondering a little while ago if Season 7 had maybe been a shorter season and what was going on with it. So it's just on a long break, AND it's not ending this year. Well alright then. It's still enjoyable enough, even if I've given up on caring what the deal with Reddington is. The final season could reveal he's actually God in disguise and I'd just shrug it off (and still expect the final scene to reveal maybe that's not the truth either)."The Blacklist" renewed for Season 8(?!)
‘The Blacklist’ Renewed For Season 8 By NBC
NBC has ordered an eighth season of The Blacklist, the second consecutive year the veteran drama has received an early renewal.deadline.com
Feud was clearly the better of the two, but The Politician was a fun watch.I hope this is more in the vein of "Feud" and not anything like whatever "The Politician" was
Feud was clearly the better of the two, but The Politician was a fun watch.
Feud was clearly the better of the two, but The Politician was a fun watch.
I only made it through the first 3 or so episodes. If season 2 is an improvement I might catch up.
It was Friday night for forever and had excellent ratings they switched it to Sunday for like 2 seasons and it dropped a significant amount.It was Sunday before right? I'm guessing the comedies are about to end or 20-20 is one hour again.
Yuuupnot really. there are so many other good shows to watch instead these days~
Yuuup
Not enough time in the day to watch all the good tv and also play video games
Although I still carve out time for some trash like Lucifer
'Shantaram': Production Of Apple Series On Pause, Showrunner Search Underway
‘Shantaram’: Production Of Apple Series On Pause, Showrunner Search Underway
Production is temporarily on hold for Apple series <em>Shantaram,</em> based on Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling novel, starring Charlie Hunnam.deadline.com
Fox [is] devoting what may end up being one-fourth of its drama development budget for an entire year to one pilot inspired by The Goonies
That is mind-boggling.re: that Goonies inspired show on Fox, from Joe Adalian's weekly newsletter:
holy shit what
re: that Goonies inspired show on Fox, from Joe Adalian's weekly newsletter:
holy shit what
Afterr failing to make it in New York and carrying a heavy secret with her, Stella Cooper returns to her distressed automotive hometown to substitute teach. She finds inspiration, hope and ultimately salvation when she agrees to help three students who are pursuing their filmmaking dreams by putting on an impossibly ambitious shot-for-shot remake of one of their favorite movies —The Goonies. Over the course of the season of the potential series, their passion will inspire a town in desperate need of hope in this love letter to the power of cinema, storytelling and dreams.