NBC News retracted a report on Today that aired on Friday about Paul Pelosi, explaining that it did not meet the network’s journalistic standards.
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UPDATE: CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin will debut a limited series on NBC News Now on Wednesday evening, starting with an interview with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla following back to back bouts with Covid.
Sorkin’s show, called Special Report with Andrew Ross Sorkin, will debut at 10:30 PM ET. An early clip of the interview here.
Sorkin is the co-anchor of CNBC’s Sqwawk Box and is a financial columnist for The New York Times and editor at large of DealBook. He’s the latest figure from NBCU to provide content on the streaming service.
In the interview, Bourla pushed back on claims that Pfizer didn’t test the Covid vaccine to see if it prevented transmission. He told Sorkin that “there is no other vaccine in the world that has been tested so intensively.”
PREVIOUSLY, March 9: CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin will host and produce a limited series for NBC News Now, the latest figure from NBCU’s broadcast and cable networks to provide content for the streaming service.
Sorkin’s show “will take an intimate look at the people, trends, institutions and forces shaping our world,” according to NBC News, with additional details to be announced.
NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde has boosted investment in streaming platforms, and the network has made a big promotional push for NBC News Now by highlighting shows featuring figures such as Hallie Jackson and Tom Llamas. On Tuesday evening, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt anchored a special report from inside Ukraine.
In a statement, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim called Sorkin “one of the most respected interviewers in the nation. His renowned expertise on all-things business and policy as well as his extraordinary talent to tell compelling stories make him the perfect addition to
NBC News retracted a report on Today that aired on Friday about Paul Pelosi, explaining that it did not meet the network’s journalistic standards.
Country music drama limited series George & Tammy, starring Oscar winner Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals), is headed to Showtime.
Netflix is heading back in to the wild with a major new natural history push.
The teaser trailer for The Bast Man: The Final Chapters dropped during the Urbanworld Film Festival, the same event where the film originally premiered in 1999. The Peacock limited series will premiere all 8 episodes on December 22. Watch the trailer in the video posted above.
EXCLUSIVE: Jerrika Hinton (Hunters) is set for a major recurring role in A Man in Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane, from David E. Kelley and Regina King based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.
“Ozark” only just ended earlier this year, but Jason Bateman already has another project with Netflix on deck. Deadline reports that Bateman will team up with Jude Law for “Black Rabbit,” a one-hour limited series for the streamer.
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman and Jude Law have teamed to develop Black Rabbit, a one-hour limited series for Netflix, Deadline has learned. Both are attached to star and executive produce and Bateman is set to direct. The drama hails from Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films, Law and Ben Jackson’s Riff Raff Entertainment, Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s Youngblood Pictures and Automatik Entertainment.
Rian Johnson has proven that he knows how to craft a solid mystery, as seen in his “Knives Out” franchise. Now, he’s taking those skills to TV with his new limited series “Poker Face.” READ MORE: ‘Knives Out’: Rian Johnson Confirms Daniel Craig’s Character Is Queer As seen in the teaser for “Poker Face,” Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie, a woman with the unusual ability to know exactly when someone is lying.
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, Entertainment 360 and The Picture Company have made deals to turn the 2021 documentary film The Lost Leonardo into a limited series. Gillian Weeks will write the script.
Ryan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series.
Katie Reul editor When executive producer and Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was tasked with casting a performer to play Amy Wheeler in “From Scratch,” Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Tembi Locke’s memoir, she looked no further than her dinner table. Witherspoon was dining across from Zoe Saldaña, who was accompanied by her Italian husband and exchanging bits of dialogue in his native tongue, when she realized the “Avatar” star would be the perfect actor to play Amy. The show is an epic love story about Amy’s whirlwind romance with a hunky Sicilian chef named Lino (Eugenio Mastrandrea), who she meets while studying abroad in Italy. When Lino is diagnosed with cancer, the couple must reconcile with family and navigate their love in the face of imminent loss.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing All Her Little Secrets, a one-hour limited series drama based on Wanda M. Morris’ bestselling novel, starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Uzo Aduba. The project hails from writer Aurin Squire (Evil) who penned the pilot, Deniese Davis’ Reform Media Group and CBS Studios, where both Aduba and Squire are under overall deals.
EXCLUSIVE: William Sadler (When They See Us), Happy Anderson (Mindhunter) and newcomer Adia Gill (The Midnight Club) have joined the cast of the HBO Max limited series Full Circle, from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. They join prevously announced cast Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, Jharrel Jerome, Sheyi Cole and CCH Pounder.
EXCLUSIVE: Andrés Delgado has landed a recurring guest star role in Hulu limited series La Máquina.
HBO Max is developing Heatwave, a limited series from director Shannon Murphy (Killing Eve), writer Anna Symon (Mrs. Wilson) and Banijay’s Tiger Aspect Productions.
. The first trailer gives a closer look at both of their characters, with Blunt playing an aristocratic Englishwoman named Lady Cornelia Locke while Spencer plays a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout named Eli Whipp. According to Prime Video, the two “come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.
It’s a small success, but the CW will surely take it these days: Tuesday’s series premiere of The Winchesters was The CW’s most-watched debut so far this season in total viewers.
Jeffrey Dahmer victim Tony Hughes, has spoken out against the Netflix series,, which depicts the serial killer’s murders. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she said. In an interview with the , Shirley, now 85, has joined the growing number of relatives who have slammed Ryan Murphy’s dramatization starring Evan Peters as the gruesome killer who murdered 17 men and teenage boys over 13 years.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Former network head Robert Greenblatt has set up a limited series for development at Hulu, Variety has confirmed. Greenblatt, via his first-look deal with Lionsgate Television, will executive produce a series adaptation of The Atlantic article “Death at a Penn State Fraternity” by Caitlin Flanagan. The project is currently titled “Death at Penn State.” Based on a true story, the series’ official logline states, “The limited series explores fraternity life and specifically tells the story of Tim Piazza who fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then it was too late.”
Television has dramatically evolved over the last ten-twenty years as it’s become the destination for adult stories, mid-budgeted dramas, and the filmmakers that have migrated across the threshold to tell those stories. With all that in mind, HBO is putting together two new series that star “Mare of Easttown” actress Kate Winslet with “The Palace” and “The Trust.” Certainly, this highlights HBO’s commitment to continue working with the Emmy-winning actress for the foreseeable future (also perhaps a sign that a “Mare Of Easttown” sequel isn’t coming anytime soon, but the two parties want to continue working together).