Alexi Hawley to Create TV Series About Hostage Recovery Efforts for Lionsgate TV

Coronation Street's newest star Sydney Martin has told how she brilliantly let her former employers know about her first-ever TV role before her family. The 22-year-old, from Rossendale, has already popped up in the ITV soap, simply referred to as Sabrina Adetiba's mate.

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting word about a series in the works from Sony Pictures Television‘s AFFIRM television and Revelations Entertainment which is centering around the Biblical Nazarene movement.

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Selome Hailu The “Prison Break” brothers are getting back together. Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller are set as the stars of “Snatchback,” a series in development at Universal Television.

Selome Hailu Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone have joined the cast of Amazon Prime Video‘s “Young Sherlock” as series regulars. Fiennes — the uncle of Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who plays Sherlock Holmes — has been cast as Silas Holmes, Sherlock’s father, who is described as a “scientist, explorer and self-made businessman.” McElhone will play Cordelia Holmes, described as “Sherlock’s devoted mother, artist and matriarch of the Holmes clan.” Fiennes is best known for playing William Shakespeare in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love” and Commander Fred Waterford in the first four seasons of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” His other prominent credits include starring in “The Mother” opposite Jennifer Lopez, the Cate Blanchett-led biopic “Elizabeth” and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Enemy at the Gates.” Most recently, he led the James Graham play “Dear England.” Fiennes is repped by the Artists Partnership and WME.

It’s no surprise we’ve seen some familiar faces show up in the early cast of the new DCU that James Gunn is working on. Gunn is famous for bringing back actors he enjoyed working with on new projects, with regulars like Nathan Fillion and Michael Rooker showing up in just about everything the director does.

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle has picked up global distribution rights to Hell Jumper, the BBC‘s upcoming doc series about a British aid worker who died in Ukraine.

Good news for Francis Ford Coppola earlier this week, as Lionsgate stepped up to snag distribution rights for his self-financed “Megalopolis.” But THR reports there’s a catch to the Lionsgate deal for FFC: the 85-year-old will need to spend up to $20 million in marketing for the film’s theatrical release. That’s on top of the $120 million Coppola already spent to finance his passion project in the first place.

Riz Ahmed is to create, star in and produce an Amazon comedy series about a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime with Modern Family EP Ben Karlin and Jax Media.

Taylor Hill has revealed that she suffered a pregnancy loss a few years ago.

Ted Field’s Radar Pictures has teamed with For Us By Us Studios to develop a scripted series about the iconic Fubu hip hop clothing brand.

Ariana DeBose helped pay tribute to the late Chita Rivera during the 2024 Tony Awards on SUnday night (June 16) in New York City.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Live theater always reflects the moment in which it’s presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed antisemitism, Israel and Gaza opened barely two months after the events of Oct. 7; climate protestors interrupted a 140-year-old drama about the threat of environmental calamity, and an onstage chronicle of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power opened even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine rolled into its third year.

Tove Lo and SG Lewis have teamed up for a new collaborative EP ‘Heat’ – inspired by their fans in the queer community. Check out our interview with the duo below.Released yesterday (June 14), the four-track dance project came with four interlinked music videos directed by David Wilson, who has previously worked with Lady Gaga and Christine And The Queens.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s Hilda director is creating a 2D animated preschool series that intends to inspire children to love and respect nature.

Lionsgate Television is developing the series The Envoy based on the June 2024 Vanity Fair article “Take No Prisoners” from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Adam Ciralsky.

EXCLUSIVE: More people are watching women’s sports than ever before, and Bunim/Murray Productions is betting that interest extends beyond the court or field.

A decade before Monica Geller came into our living rooms, Courteney Cox was just Bruce Springsteen‘s biggest fan.

Following her turn in the provocative thriller “Love Lies Bleeding,” Academy Award-nominated actress Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”) has set up one of her next projects, and it’s a first. Stewart will make her TV starring debut in the limited series “The Challenger,” about astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, best known as the first American woman in space.

Netflix has found the voice of its Terminator.