Apple TV+ Launches Non-Fiction Podcast ‘The Line’ To Complement Doc Series

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Meacham, the Pultizer Prize-winning historian, is expanding his relationship with Cadence13 with the launch of his own podcast studio.

Guy Lodge Film CriticTo take one glance at Joaquim Calçada, you might expect him to have a story as tall as his hair. Pushing 70 years of age, zipped tightly into a leather bomber as glossy and black as his shellacked pompadour, he has the look of a grizzled Elvis impersonator, way adrift in small-town Portugal.

Hulu’s Sasquatch is not really about bigfoot, although the mythical creature looms large in the three-part series.

Brian McCardie might think he has the right to be questioned by, er, a journalist one rank senior, the editor’s busy, so he’ll need to make do with me, Paul English. The Glasgow-born actor’s work was the subject of heated debate around the country last week, as Line of Duty fans try to work out if his character, organised crime boss Tommy Hunter, is connected to Kelly Macdonald’s Jo Davidson in the smash series.

Have you ever noticed Chrissy Teigen seems to post more photos of Luna than she does of Miles?

Proximity Media— the banner that is run by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, among others— has expanded its footprint behind features and television, into non-fiction content, podcasting, and music. Along with Coogler, Proximity, which recently released Judas and the Black Messiah, is now headed byZinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian (Searching), Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson,RCA Records alum Archie Davis and Emmy-winning documentarian Peter Nicks (Homeroom).

Sharon Van Etten will soon release epic Ten, the upcoming covers album celebrating just over ten years of her album Ten. The project contains a number of exciting gets — Courtney Barnett, Vagabon, Lucinda Williams, and more — but the most anticipated song on the project was undoubtedly the cover of "Love More" from none other than Fiona Apple.

Fiona Apple has delivered a rendition of Sharon Van Etten‘s ‘Love More’, recorded for the anniversary edition of the latter’s 2010 album ‘Epic’.While Apple’s version still maintains the tender feel of Van Etten’s string-led original, she substitutes the strings for rolling percussion, reminiscent of her work on her 2020 album ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’.Van Etten previously teased the cover on social media, sharing her performance of the track for her forthcoming film epic Ten: the documentary and

Manchester United soccer star Paul Pogba has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios and set his first project with the streaming giant: A documentary series about his life, titled The Pogmentary.

Apple Original Films has ordered Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong, a documentary about the life and pioneering career of the jazz legend Louis Armstrong from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries. The biopic, to be directed by Sacha Jenkins, will tell Armstrong’s story through the musical great's own words.

EXCLUSIVE: Conan O’Brien is continuing to grow his podcast empire.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon Prime Video is pushing out a podcast series about the making of “The Boys” Season 2, taking listeners behind the scenes of the superhero spoof — including what went into creating that life-size whale.The eight-episode podcast, aimed at both fans and Emmy voters, will be available for free on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

Apple Original Films has green lit its Louis Armstrong documentary feature, Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong with Imagine Documentaries producing the documentary. The documentary, which is produced under Apple’s first-look agreement with Imagine Documentaries, will be directed by Emmy-nominated Sacha Jenkins , and produced by Jenkins, Julie Anderson, Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple TV Plus announced “The Line,” its first combination podcast-TV original — a bid to exploit the tech giant’s podcast footprint to seed signups for its TV subscription service.“The Line,” from Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, comprises two non-fiction series: a six-part narrative non-fiction audio series that debuted Monday (April 6) on Apple Podcasts and a four-part limited documentary series premiering this fall on Apple TV Plus.The pair of original series

Considering how much of a hit Bridgerton was with audiences, there’s no surprise it’s coming back and with a very famous Merlin actor a happy addition to the cast of series two.

EXCLUSIVE: Von Dutch, the 2000s fashion brand known for its trucker hats worn by the likes of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake, is getting the documentary series treatment.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players prevailed in an auction for Quinceanerx, an original pitch for a musical that Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan and Enchanted) will direct with script by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona, who is writing What If for Billy Porter to direct at Orion.

Shannon De Lima has many beautiful qualities about her, one of them is course, her amazing hair. Have you ever wondered how she keeps her hair so silky smooth or what her go to products are? Read all of De Lima’s hair secrets in this exclusive interview with HOLA! USA below.

Naman Ramachandran Objective Fiction, producer of Netflix/Channel 4 show “Feel Good,” is setting up a permanent U.S.-based operation.Hannah Mackay, previously the outfit’s head of scripted, will be relocating to Los Angeles to take up the role of senior VP, Objective Fiction America, with immediate effect.Mackay’s focus will be on North American original commissions, alongside U.S./U.K. co-productions.