CBS All Access Becomes Paramount+ & Will Stream A Drama Series Based On The Making Of ‘The Godfather’

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Erik Feig’s Picturestart is making its first foray into animation, acquiring the rights to Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel Beverly to develop as an animated series.

Peter White Television EditorThe Great White North invasion continues as CBS All Access has ordered a comedic documentary series set in Ontario, Canada.For Heaven’s Sake was created by and stars Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe, two documentary filmmakers behind Trophy Husbands and they will exec produce alongside American Vandal duo Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault.The series, produced in partnership with Schitt’s Creek broadcaster CBC, is produced by Muse Entertainment, the Canadian production

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS All Access has given out a series order to the comedic documentary series “For Heaven’s Sake.”Created by and starring Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe, the series will follow the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. While local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, Harold was never found nor heard from again.

Sunday night played host to a historic evening at the 2020 Emmy Awards. At just 24, Zendaya became the youngest actress to ever win an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a drama series after starring in HBO's "Euphoria." The series saw the former Disney star play Rue, a teenager struggling with addiction, a tense home life and love, among other things.

here.Also Read: Emmys 2020: The Complete Winners List (Updating Live)The first season of “Euphoria,” which premiered in June 2019, follows 17-year-old Rue Bennett (Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab, who’s struggling to make sense of her future.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerZendaya made history tonight, not only taking home her first Emmy Award win for HBO’s Euphoria but also becoming the youngest to ever do so in this category.

Also Read: CBS All Access to Be Renamed Paramount+ in Early 2021, Add Scripted Series on Making of 'Godfather'The streamer has opened a writers room that will be overseen by Cacicio, who worked with the Kings on the upcoming Showtime drama “Your Honor.” Cacicio will executive produce alongside the Kings and their CBS TV Studios-based King Size Productions head Liz Glotzer.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRobert and Michelle King are attached to executive produce a series adaptation of the iHeart Media true crime podcast “Happy Face” currently in development at CBS All Access, Variety has learned.“Happy Face” is inspired by the true story of Melissa Moore, who discovered at age 15 that her father, whom she loved dearly, was the prolific serial killer known as Happy Face.

Peter White Television EditorHappy Face, the podcast about Dr.

CBS All Access is rebranding!The streaming service — which features a library of more than 20,000 episodes and movies from the ViacomCBS family, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and more — will be known as Paramount+ starting in early 2021.«Paramount is an iconic and storied brand beloved by consumers all over the world, and it is synonymous with quality, integrity and world-class storytelling,» ViacomCBS CEO and President Bob Bakish said.

The Godfather, a reboot of the beloved 2000s sitcomThe Game, and a spy show from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan.Other than the name change and some new shows, you shouldn't expect much to change. Paramount+ will continue to feature content from across the ViacomCBS brand, including shows from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, and VH1.

NEW YORK -- ViacomCBS will rebrand its CBS All Access streaming service as Paramount Plus, set to debut early next year with new, original shows.The expanded streaming service has been in the works since February, when CEO Bob Bakish said ViacomCBS planned to add “substantial content” to CBS All Access by drawing from a number of its media platforms.The new service will add shows from BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, other Paramount Pictures and ViacomCBS brands, in addition to what CBS

Dade Hayes, Peter White ViacomCBS today confirmed Paramount+ as the new name for the company’s CBS All Access streaming service.The rebrand, which takes effect in early 2021, had been reported in recent weeks and the official announcement didn’t offer many surprises apart from original programming news.Showtime, the sister streaming service to CBS All Access, will continue to operate separately from Paramount+.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorViacomCBS hopes to become a bigger player in the global streaming business with the rebrand of CBS All Access as Paramount Plus early next year.The new name will coincide with another expansion of its original programming efforts and its archive of programming drawn from the newly combined Viacom and CBS Corp. archives.

Stephen King's seminal novel The Stand is once again getting the small screen adaptation treatment — this time with a nine-episode series coming to CBS All Access. King's 1978 book is one of his most popular (and currently, most relevant) titles and centers on a group of survivors who have managed to make it through a catastrophic plague, the Captain Trips virus, that cost the other 99 percent of the world their lives.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorEXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated actress Lucy Liu has signed on to star in the upcoming dramatic feature Rosemead directed by Eric Lin.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Closure, a one-hour drama loosely based on the life of baseball Hall-of-Famer turned funeral home owner, Andre Dawson, from Samantha Corbin-Miller (Swagger, Absentia), DeVon Franklin (Breakthrough) and his Franklin Entertainment and CBS Television Studios, where Franklin is under an overall deal.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Corbin-Miller, in Closure, a beloved baseball Hall-of-Famer