ABC Gives Production Commitment to Silicon Valley Drama From ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Creator

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has ordered the satirical limited series “The White Lotus.”Hailing from writer, director, and executive producer Mike White, the six-episode series is set at an exclusive tropical resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: How To Get Away With Murder alum Conrad Ricamora is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Fox’s hit medical drama The Resident.Ricamora will play Dr. Jake Wong, a handsome gay plastic surgeon, and amateur singer-songwriter in his off hours.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: ITV has commissioned Greenacre Films, the producer behind Michaela Coel’s Netflix feature Been So Long, to make a six-part series about a wealthy family forced to confront their past and future after a terrible event.How To Get Away With Murder writer Abby Ajayi will pen Riches, a series that spans New York and London, and spotlights a Black British family, their ambitions, and their response to tragedy.Self-made Stephen Richards has built a

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBobby Smith Jr. and his Ashore Entertainment and author Brenda Jackson have partnered to launch a film and television company to develop and produce titles from Jackson’s collection of romance novels.Smith Jr.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina King is set to executive produce a drama series currently in development at The CW, Variety has confirmed.Titled “Slay,” the series focuses on Carson Jones.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Insecure” star Nastasha Rothwell and Aziza Barnes have teamed to develop a series based on the Ibi Zoboi novel “Pride” at HBO, Variety has learned.“Pride” is described as a Haitian-Dominican coming of age story explores young love, teenage angst, and gentrification through magical realism fated by the gods of Santeria with an Austenian twist.Rothwell and Barnes both worked on the story for the project, while Barnes will be the writer.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJoshua Jackson is now set to play the lead role in the upcoming Peacock series “Dr. Death.”Jackson takes over the role from previously announced series lead Jamie Dornan, who had to bow out of the series due to production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given the near-apocalyptic state of the world right now, the international television executives preparing for the global TV market MIPCOM Online+ are remarkably bullish. Ahead of MIPCOM 2020 —an all-virtual event this year, due to COVID-19, which runs Oct.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max has set the cast for the drama pilot “Red Bird Lane,” with Oscar winner Susan Sarandon set to star.Along with Sarandon, Kiersey Clemons, Isidora Goreshter, Danny Huston, Ash Santos, Fiona Dourif, Dizzie Harris, and Tara Lynne Barr will also star.The show is described as a psychological thriller about eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house — all for different reasons — and quickly realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them.Sarandon will

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCary Fukunaga has signed on to direct the first three episodes of the upcoming Apple World War II drama “Masters of the Air,” Variety has confirmed. He will also join the show’s producing team.In addition, Fukunaga is nearing a first-look deal with Apple through his production company, Parliament of Owls.

President Trump said COVID-19 is “far less lethal” than the seasonal flu for “most populations” on his social media pages.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has given a production commitment to Valley Of the Gods, a drama from How To Get Away With Murder creator/executive producer Pete Nowalk, The Bold Type executive producer Joanna Coles and ABC Studios.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Nowalk, Valley Of the Gods is described as a sexy, high-stakes drama about the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and the hungry, underestimated outsiders trying to claw their way

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC is getting in the Sam Esmail business in a major way. The network has bought two dramas from the Mr.

murder young men and get away with it, his former boss has revealed. Iain Mackinnon, who was Nilsen's manager at a London job centre in 1980, said the Scot had spoken in the office about how nobody would notice if a "rootless young man" was picked up in a bar and killed.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC has handed a big production commitment to Mason Dixon, an hourlong drama from Lee Daniels (Empire, Star) and writer Julian Breece (The First). 20th Television, where Daniels is under an overall deal, is the studio.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersLee is set to direct the potential pilot written by Breece.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPatricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are set to collaborate once again on half-hour comedy series that has been ordered at Apple.Titled “High Desert,” the show follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.The series is written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and