David Shore Inks Big New 4-Year Overall Deal With Sony Pictures Television

Little Britain comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams have confirmed that they are working on a new series together.Speaking on a forthcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, as reported by The Independent, Walliams said that he and Lucas are in the early stages of creating the sketch series.“We just have an idea of something we want to do,” he told Ross.

William Earl Variety and Sony Pictures Television will host a monthlong immersive experience, the Variety/Sony Pictures Television Virtual FYC House, aimed to capture the attention of TV awards voters. The interactive, 3D experience kicks off with a special preview night for a select audience and then will open to a wider audience on May 27 through June 28.

EXCLUSIVE: The Flight Attendant star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco has closed an expansive new overall deal with Warner Bros. TV Group for her production company Yes, Norman, extending a 15-year relationship with the studio.

EXCLUSIVE:  Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar is adapting Laurie Fabiano’s bestselling 2010 historical novel Elizabeth Street for television, with Edoardo Ponti (The Life Ahead) attached to direct and executive produce. Tyler Hisel (Treadstone, Wayward Pines) has written a pilot for the project, based on Fabiano’s own great-grandmother’s epic struggles.

Sara Ramírez is joining HBO Max’s “Sex And The City” reboot.

EXCLUSIVE; Sony Pictures has set Will Speck & Josh Gordon to direct Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, based on the bestselling Bernard Waber children’s book. Will Davies is adapting the screenplay and it will be a live action hybrid film. The picture will be released July 22, 2022.

Fox has given a straight-to-series order to anthology drama Accused, based on the International Emmy-winning British series. The project comes from key creative auspices behind Fox’s two biggest drama series of the last two decades, 24 executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and House creator/executive producer David Shore. Sony Pictures TV, where Gordon & Gansa as well as Shore are under overall deals, will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

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Amazon and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced a multi-year agreement giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 WNBA games per season, as well as the Commissioner’s Cup Game on Sunday, August 12.

John Mayer is wishing Cazzie David a happy birthday! The 43-year-old musician took to his Instagram Story on Monday to send a sweet note to Larry David's daughter on her 27th birthday.In honor of the occasion, Mayer shared a shot of the birthday girl standing outside with a dog. «Happy birthday @cazziedavid,» he wrote.

Antonio Ferme editorSony Pictures Classics has updated its summer release plans for “I Carry You With Me,” “12 Mighty Orphans” and “The Lost Leonardo.” All three films are set to screen at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival both in person and virtually.The world premiere of the art documentary “The Lost Leonardo” will screen at Tribeca on June 13 at The Battery.

UPDATED, 11:18 AM: Sony Pictures Classics has set for release dates for two more of its pics that will screen at the Tribeca: Art world documentary The Lost Leonardo will bow August 13 in Los Angeles and New York, and GLAAD Media Award nominee I Carry You with Me hits L.A. and NYC theaters on June 25. Both will expand in the weeks after their debuts, with Lost Leonardo going nationwide.

Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the fantastical drama Nine Days in New York and L.A. theaters on July 30, with plans to roll the film out nationwide on August 6.