ABC Hands Pilot Orders To Zahir McGhee’s Hip Hop Drama ‘Queens’ & Brigitte Hales’ Fairytale Drama ‘Epic’

Joe Otterson TV ReporterQuinta Brunson has set up a single-camera comedy pilot at ABC which she will star in in addition to writing and executive producing.The project is titled “Harrity Elementary.” Per the official description, it is a workplace comedy about a group of teachers brought together in one of the worst public schools in the country, simply because they love teaching.

In just under a month, it will officially be 24 years since Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious BIG, aka Biggie Smalls, was murdered at the height of his fame. Sadly, at the time of his death, he was only 24 years old.

The team behind The Conners is preparing another family comedy for ABC.

Music industry icon Dr. Dre was spotted out on a dinner date on Wednesday night with a stunning woman who has now been identified! Dr.

Exactly two years after the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones premiered, cameras will start rolling on its successor, prequel series, House of the Dragon.

Pilot season at The CW is happening after all.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe CW has made a number of orders for the 2021-2022 season, including a pilot order for the live-action “Powerpuff Girls” series.In total, The CW announced three pilot orders and one straight-to-series pickup, with the latter being a reboot of the USA Network series “The 4400.” The other two pilots are for the DC project “Naomi” from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship and an untitled religious dramedy from Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir.

Hulu has greenlighted Punk Ass Bitch, a half-hour comedy pilot starring up-and-coming comedian Chris Estrada and produced by ABC Signature.

Earning his first two Golden Globe nominations in 2017 and 2019 for his turn in FX spy drama The Americans, actor Matthew Rhys returns to contention this month with HBO’s Perry Mason redux.

ABC has handed a pilot order to National Parks, the Kevin Costner drama written by the Yellowstone star, The Flash’s Aaron Helbing and author Jon Baird.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has picked up three comedy pilots for the 2021 pilot season.Two of the pilots — a reboot of “The Wonder Years” and “Maggie” — are single-cams and will be produced by 20th Television. The third, an untitled multi-cam from Regina Hicks, is produced by ABC Signature.The “Wonder Years” reboot was originally announced as being in development back in July.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has ordered two drama series to pilot in some of its first pilot pickups of the 2021 pilot season.The broadcaster has given out pilot orders to the one-hour shows “Queens” and “Epic.” Both will be produced by ABC Signature. They join the previously announced ABC drama pilot “Acts of Crime,” which hails from Sam Esmail.“Queens” is written and executive produced by Zahir McGhee and executive produced by Sabrina Wind.

Caroline Yim and Zach Iser have joined WME, where the pair will be partners and co-heads of the agency Music division’s Hip-Hop/R&B team. They come over from CAA, where their clients included Anderson .Paak, Jhené Aiko, Kehlani, Megan Thee Stallion, Daniel Caesar and Swae Lee.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCraig Mazin has extended his overall deal with HBO and HBO Max for an additional three years.The news comes as little surprise, given the success Mazin has had at HBO. He previously created the critically-acclaimed HBO limited series “Chernobyl,” which detailed the aftermath of the titular Soviet nuclear disaster in 1986.

Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is staying in business with HBO.

This is the kind of energy we need during a grim pandemic winter.

Ann-Marie Corvin Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision, the drama series and TV industry strand of Scandinavia’s biggest film-TV festival, has unveiled further details of its works-in-progress and project showcases, as well as keynote speakers from HBO Europe to Walter Presents.As HBO Max lands in Europe during the second half of 2021, Antony Root, executive VP original programming and production at HBO Europe and Christian Wikander, commissioning editor and VP of Programming, HBO Nordic, discuss the

Angelina Jolie, 45, kept her daughter Zahara, 16, near when the two went to Target on Jan. 16. The actress and her oldest gal were spotted holding hands while visiting the popular store as well as a Starbucks and looked like the perfect mother-daughter combination. Angelina wore a long black coat over a black top and matching pants with a black mask and Zahara was in a gray hoodie and black leggings with a black mask.