Epix Orders ‘Fiasco’, Docuseries Based On Podcast About Pivotal U.S. Events; Iran-Contra Affair Is Up First

When Tiler Peck started giving Instagram ballet classes from her mom's kitchen in California this spring — a way of staying in shape and keeping in touch with dance fans — she initially thought maybe 20 people would tune in.She was startled to discover that thousands of people were joining, from as far away as Iran and India, to take class with one of the world’s top ballerinas.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAmazon Studios has given a series greenlight to YA horror series I Know What You Did Last Summer, a modern take on the hit 1997 slasher film.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorCBS All Access has handed off a series order to Texas 6, a docuseries about a high school six-man football team’s quest for a third state championship. All eight episodes will be available to stream on Thanksgiving Day, November 26.The series from Jared Christopher (Titletown, TX) follows the Strawn High School Greyhounds and their coach, Dewaine Lee, as they pursue a Texas threepeat in the sport.

In a video from 2018, a woman stands at a busy traffic intersection in Tehran, takes off the headscarf mandated by law and waves it in protest. As we see in the stirring documentary Nasrin, other women follow suit in the next weeks.

Donald Trump made an unfortunate gaffe on Rush Limbaugh‘s radio show on October 9, amidst growing concern that he’s unfit for office while suffering from COVID-19. During a discussion about new Iranian sanctions, the president said, “Iran knows that: If you f**k around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.”

Tehran, Apple TV+'s nail-biting Israeli espionage thriller, is back for a new episode today, and the complications are escalating.In this exclusive clip, Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub), the Iranian intelligence officer who is trying to catch Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) before she completes her sabotage mission, learns that his beloved wife, who was in France getting brain surgery, has been kidnapped.He finds a cellphone on his doorstep, which rings from an unknown caller.

Gia Woods is one of the most exciting artists on the rise, and we want our Just Jared readers to get to know her even better.

Bolton Wanderers player is one of four people accused of providing Iranian nationals with false identification and travel documents, with a view to helping them enter the UK illegally.Alexander Samizadeh, who made two appearances for the club between 2015 and 2017, is on trial at the Lowry Nightingale Court, alongside his father Abolfazl Samizadeh, Maryam Fakourian, and Iman Kheyri.All four are charged with conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration, relating to a five-year period between

Jake Kanter International TV EditorWME has signed Niv Sultan, the breakout Israeli star of Apple TV+’s spy thriller Tehran.Sultan headlines the eight-part drama, playing Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent undertaking her very first mission in Iran’s capital, which is also her place of birth.She started her career in Israel, starring in series including She Has It and Temporarily Dead.

UTA has signed filmmaker andcontemporary artist Shirin Neshat. The Iran-born Neshat began her fine arts career in the '90s with her series of photographs titled "Women of Allah." She has since gone on to exhibit work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, LACMA, Tate Modern, the British Museum and the Guggenheim Museum.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: Virgil Films & Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Nasrin, a documentary about activist Nasrin Sotoudeh narrated by Oscar winner Olivia Colman.Sotoudeh is a human rights activists and an outspoken leader of Iran’s women’s rights movement. Last week, she cited serious health concerns in ending a six-week hunger strike in Evin Prison, where she has been serving a nearly four-decade sentence.

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has said he was “cleverly framed” to look like he supported the fatwa against author Sir Salman Rushdie.

Tehran executive producer Dana Eden says on-going U.S.-Iranian diplomatic tensions bode well for global audiences embracing the Israeli, but Iran-set espionage TV thriller from Netflix's Fauda writer Moshe Zonder as it premieres today on AppleTV+. "What's going on with Iran and the U.S.