David Duchovny To Star In Series Adaptation Of His ‘Truly Like Lightning’ Book In Works At Showtime With ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Filmmakers

Mónica Marie Zorrilla HBO’s “The Nevers” drew over 1.4 million viewers across linear telecasts and digital during its premiere on Sunday night, scoring the best debut for a new HBO original series on HBO Max and surpassing viewership for other popular shows on the streamer, including “Lovecraft Country” and “The Undoing.”More to come… 

Showtime has ordered a new anthology series, Cinema Toast, created by Jeff Baena (The Little Hours) and produced by the Duplass Brothers (Room 104), set to stream later this month. The series is described as a post-modernist reinvention of older movies that turns pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head to tell new unique stories. All 10 episodes of Cinema Toast will premiere on Showtime’s on-demand streaming and partner platforms on Tuesday, April 20.

It seems Netflix continues to be in the business of making new adaptations of books that were turned into classic thriller movies by Alfred Hitchcock. Last year saw the release of the disappointing new adaptation of “Rebecca,” and now, the streaming is developing a new adaptation of “The 39 Steps” as a limited series, with Benedict Cumberbatch starring.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the Christina Clancy novel “The Second Home” currently in the works at Sony’s TriStar TV, Variety has learned.The story follows the Gordon and Shaw families beyond a fateful summer on Cape Cod. Told through two generations, the story explores how a devastating secret can derail young love, tear apart families, and change the fate of countless individuals forever if they let it.

Elizabeth Gabler's3000 Pictures is getting its summer reading in order. The Sony-housed label hasoptioned the rights to Summer of ’69 byNew York Timesbestselling authorElin Hilderbrand for a limited series.

David Duchovny is looking back at a pivotal moment in his career.

Nearly 30 years after its debut, The X-Files and its star David Duchnovy maintain a diehard fan base. But once upon a time, Duchovny wasn’t quite sold that the show would be a success.

Randall Park is set to make his directorial debut with a feature film adaptation of the Bay Area-set graphic novelShortcomings. Adrian Tomine is behind story that followsa trio of young urbanites — Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim — as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.

Aquarius Films has acquired development and production rights to dystopian sci-fi thriller novel, The Subjugate, and is teaming with Anonymous Content to produce a TV adaptation.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJack Reynor has been cast in a lead role of the Amazon series adaptation of the William Gibson novel “The Peripheral,” Variety has learned.Reynor will star as Burton. He joins previously announced cast members Chloë Grace Moretz and Gary Carr, with Moretz set to play Flynne and Carr set to play Wilf.

Brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson are bringing the laughs to Amazon Prime Video with the new comedy series “Frank Of Ireland”.

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax TV has teamed with Dominic Treadwell-Collins’s Happy Prince on a series adaptation of Jim Cartwright’s award-winning play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which inspired the 1998 Miramax film Little Voice.

Sure, you might best know actor David Duchovny as the star of series such as “X-Files” and “Californication.” But did you also know that he’s an accomplished fiction writer that just released his fourth novel, “Truly Like Lightning?” Well, he is, and that latest work is now the source material for a new Showtime series that he’s going to write and star in.

Katie Holmes is taking on an exciting new project!

25 years after playing the role that helped launch his career in A Time To Kill, Matthew McConaughey may be getting ready to make his return to the courtroom. Sources tell Deadline, HBO has acquired the rights to the John Grisham novel, A Time For Mercy, the sequel to Grisham’s classic novel, and are developing it as a limited series with McConaughey in final negotiations to reprise the role of defense attorney, Jake Brigance.

Naman Ramachandran Award-winning author Paul McAuley’s acclaimed science fiction novel “Austral” is set for an epic series adaptation from Circle of Confusion Television Studios and ITV Studios’ Big Talk Productions (“Baby Driver”).“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there.

Inhaler have announced their debut album It Won't Always Be Like This.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated actor David Strathairn will join Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith and Harris Dickinson in 3000 Pictures and Hello Sunshine’s film adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’ best-selling novel. Set up at Sony, the film is being directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated scribe Lucy Alibar.