Judith Durham, an Australian folk music icon whose voice graced several international hits with her group, The Seekers, has died at 79.
21.07.2022 - 03:09 / deadline.com
It’s official: NBC has picked up a second drama pilot to series for the 2022-23 season, the missing-persons Found, from All American‘s Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. The pickup, which Deadline wrote about in yesterday’s Pilot Buzz, gives Carroll three series on broadcast TV next season: All American, on which she is an exec producer/showrunner; spinoff All American: Homecoming, which she created and serves as EP and co-showrunner on; and Found, on which she is creator, executive producer and showrunner. Found is expected to bring in a co-showrunner to work alongside Carroll as she juggle her shows.
Found, starring Shanola Hampton, was one of six NBC pilots for off-cycle consideration alongside fellow drama Unbroken and Blank Slate, which were in advanced stages of production during the May upfronts, The Irrational and Untitled Mike Daniels, as well as an untitled Mike O’Malley comedy pilot. As Deadline reported, Blank Slate, which had been well received inside NBC, and Unbroken, got a pass by NBC this week and are being shopped by producing studio Universal Television. The Irrational, Untitled Mike Daniels and Untitled Mike O’Malley remain in consideration.
NBC in May picked up to series its only drama pilot for fall consideration, Quantum Leap, as well as comedy Lopez vs. Lopez. NBC’s decisions so far lean into the network’s reliance on procedurals to complement its Dick Wolf portfolio.
Found, which will be in consideration for a midseason launch, was the only 2022 NBC drama pilot coming from an outside studio, Warner Bros. TV, where it had been initially developed by NBCUniversal content chief Susan Rovner. The NBC pickup wraps the project’s three-year journey, Found was originally
Judith Durham, an Australian folk music icon whose voice graced several international hits with her group, The Seekers, has died at 79.
EXCLUSIVE: We have the first big sale of the 2022-23 broadcast development season. NBC has handed a pilot production commitment to St. Denis Medical, a half-hour mockumentary-style workplace comedy from the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer, who created both series, and Eric Ledgin as well as Universal TV, where Spitzer and Ledgin are under overall deals. Additionally, Spitzer’s Uni TV-based Spitzer Holding Company has hired NBC comedy executive Simon Heuer as Head of TV Development.
Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30, while recovering from pnuemonia.
Marilyn Monroe revival. Between Kim Kardashian fitting into (and being wrongly accused of damaging) the infamous 1962 JFK “happy birthday” dress for the Met Gala in May, and the biopic, Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel and coming to Neftlix in September, we appear to be in the midst of another Monroe moment. The new film, with Ana De Armas leading the line, seems like a departure for its director, Andrew Dominik, though perhaps like his excellent The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, it will explore underlying myths of American culture, in whatever way they take shape.
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra.
EXCLUSIVE: The Long Game adds Cheech Marin (Spy Kids, Coco), Oscar Nuñez (The Office, The Lost City), and Brett Cullen (Joker, Winning Time) to its lineup, joining previously announced Jay Hernandez, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Dennis Quaid, and Julian Works.
Let The Right One In – check it out below.Based on the Swedish novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and the 2008 film from director Tomas Alfredson, the 10-episode series follows Mark (Demián Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Anika Noni Rose), whose lives were changed 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire.A synopsis reads: “Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.”The series also stars Grace Gummer (Mr Robot), Madison Taylor Baez (Selena: The Series), Kevin Carroll (Snowfall), Ian Foreman (Merry Wish-Mas) and Jacob Buster (Colony).Andrew Hinderaker (Penny Dreadful) serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series alongside Seith Mann (Homeland, Blindspotting). Mann has also directed a number of episodes, including the pilot.Let The Right One In‘s premiere will air October 7 on Showtime in the US.
A federal judge has granted summary judgment to ABC, CBS, The New York Times, Gannett and Rolling Stone, rejecting libel claims by former high school student Nick Sandmann over an incident at the Lincoln Memorial that went viral in 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the drama Manifest West, starring Lexy Kolker (Shooter), Annet Mahendru (Father Stu), Milo Gibson (Under the Stadium Lights), Tim Heidecker (Spin Me Round) and Michael Cudlitz (Clarice), slating it for release in theaters and on digital platforms this fall.
Vanessa Lachey wears many hats. She stars as Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant on "NCIS: Hawai’i," co-hosts the wildly popular Netflix dating shows "Love is Blind" and "The Ultimatum" with her husband, Nick Lachey, and has the most important role of mother to their three growing children — Camden, 9, Brooklyn, 7, and Phoenix, 5.
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