’81 Words’ series from ‘Pose’ co-creator Steven Canals to explore queer history

Peter White Television Editor“You never see Indians on TV,” said Rutherford Falls co-creator and showrunner Sierra Teller Ornelas. “When you do it’s one guy and he has to transform into a wolf.”The Peacock comedy, which also comes from Ed Helms and Mike Schur is set in a small town in upstate New York and the Native American reservation it borders.

Jimmy Fallon brought back into the studio in July, a couple late-night hosts are following suit.

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Selling Sunset has become one of Netflix’s most addictive reality offerings.Following the employees of high-end real estate firm The Oppenheim Group at work and off duty, it harks back to the glory days of US reality TV (it’s no surprise that the show shares an executive producer with Noughties hit The Hills).As the show’s profile has risen, the antics of the cast have started to hit the headlines ahead of new episodes - making it easier for fans to pinpoint exactly what we can expect from

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe Hunger Games and Fortitude actor Stanley Tucci is to star in Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s first TV series La Fortuna, which is a co-production between AMC and Spain’s pay-TV broadcaster Movistar+.Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterWith drive-in theaters making a resurgence, UTA has teamed with New York City indie theater Metrograph for Metrograph Drive-In, an outdoor theater series.

coronavirus, will have an album released posthumously. Broadway Records said Wednesday it will release “Nick Cordero: Live Your Life” on Sept.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA recording of the late Nick Cordero’s one-man show will be released by Broadway Records on September 17, marking what would have been the actor’s 42nd birthday.Broadway Records and Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots announced the release today of Live Your Life, a live recording of the Broadway actor’s April 2019 show at New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below cabaret.“Nick would be absolutely thrilled to hear this news,” Kloots wrote on Instagram.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVHulu is developing Rodham, a provocative take on one of the most famous female American politicians of the past two decades, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

DEALSUniversal Music Publishing in the US has signed an admin deal with Grammy winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile and the sibling duo she has long collaborated with, Tim and Phil Hanseroth. UMPG boss Jody Gerson says she’s a big fan of Carlile.

“Until 1974, the medical establishment considered gay people sexually deviant and diagnosed them as mentally ill.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorFX has put in development 81 Words, a limited series about gay rights pioneers Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, from Pose co-creator Steven Canals, Pal Pictures and 20th Century Fox TV.Written by Canals, 81 Words is based on Alix Spiegel’s award-winning This American Life episode, “81 Words,” and soon-to-be-released PBS Independent Lens documentary, Cured.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Pose” co-creator Steven Canals has a new limited series in the works at FX.Titled “81 Words,” the series tells the true story of gay activists Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, who risked their career reputations to conspire with the GAYPA – a clandestine group of closeted psychiatrists – to challenge the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of homosexuality.

Dave McNary Film ReporterIFC Films nabbed North American rights to Stephen Dorff’s mixed martial arts drama “Embattled” and plans to release the film in November.The Blitz Films production marks Georgian-born director Nick Sarkisov’s English-language film debut.

A Hollywood bidding frenzy for the screen rights to Stephen King’s latest four-story novella, If It Bleeds, has ended with the horror author signing multiple options.

Maybe it’s just because 2020 has felt like a full decade already, but it’s surprising that we’re still waiting on Rosamund Pike’s new film, “Radioactive,” to be released in the US. Sure, it only just debuted at TIFF last year, but it sure seems like we’ve been talking about this movie for so much longer.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe 1986 World Series-winning run by the New York Mets will get multi-part documentary treatment by ESPN in a project under the 30 for 30 banner whose executive producers include Jimmy Kimmel.ESPN Films said Thursday the series would chronicle the team’s exploits on and off the field.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has landed the rights to develop the 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist New York Times story and podcast “The Jungle Prince of Delhi” as a drama series, Variety has learned.The story, written by Ellen Barry, delved into the history of the royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats living in a ruined palace in the Indian capital claiming to be the heirs to a fallen kingdom.Mira Nair is attached to direct the project and will also executive produce.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerEveryone’s favorite coach on The Voice will be bringing his own music to drive-in theaters this summer.Blake Shelton will have main squeeze Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins on board for the July 25 concert series debut, location TBD.