Fox Entertainment Opens Writers Room On Country Music Dynasty Drama For Potential Series Order As Network Reexamines Development Process & Ownership

There are few things more stereotypically “American” than country music. To the average person, if you think of the country music legends of the past 50 years, many will just imagine the likes of Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and Patsy Cline.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNetflix has given a formal series green light to Dad Stop Embarrassing Me, a father daughter comedy starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx.

developed as an anthology — with a second season to potentially focus on Rosa Parks — but it will now be a limited series.The show will premiere in 2021.Also Read: Ratings: ABC Wins Broadcast's Convention-Coverage Battle on Final Night of RNCIt will be based on the book “Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement” by Devery S. Anderson.

FKA Twigs has shared a new video for her ‘MAGDALENE’ track ‘Sad Day’, directed by Hiro Murai, best known for his work on Atlanta and collaborations with Donald Glover.The accompanying short film was “co-conceived” by the pair and directed by Murai.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS Television Studios and production companies Rideback and Thinking Hat are again partnering on the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writer’s room.Three new creators have been selected for the second year of the room. They are writer Jeff Buhler, multi-hyphenate Gbenga Akinnagbe, and writer Katrina O’Gilvie.

trained to become a real pro kickboxer.Also Read: Idris Elba Will Train to Become a (Real) Pro Kickboxer on Discovery's 'Fighter'In addition to “Idris Elba’s Fight School,” BBC Two has commissioned a series about women in the 21st century and another about the Premiere League.In “The Premiership: A Whole New Ball Game,” BBC Two will have “unprecedented” access to players, agents, journalists and business brains.

Kate McKinnon's Carole Baskin project has received a straight-to-series order at NBC. The network announced the news on Tuesday, sharing that the limited series — in which McKinnon will star as Baskin — will roll out across NBCU’s scripted entertainment platforms, NBC, Peacock and USA.

Wondery podcast of the same name, “Joe Exotic” is a limited series based on true events following Carole Baskin (McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast, who learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit, she sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNBCUniversal is going all in for Joe Exotic (working title), UCP’s limited series starring and executive produced by Kate McKinnon, which has received a joint straight-to-series order by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming divisions.

Megan Fox has made some major life changes while in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic — and is hopeful that they’re the right ones.“My life changed so much during the quarantine. It’s crazy,” the Transformers star, 34, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview posted on Monday, August 24.

Reese Witherspoon is fulfilling her country music dreams as an executive producer of Apple TV+’s first-ever competition show. The former "Sweet Home Alabama" star announced the upcoming series “My Kind of Country” via Instagram on Monday.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterGlasgow-based Synchronicity Films, which has credits including ABC/BBC miniseries The Cry, is opening Melbourne-based offshoot Synchronicity Australia.Former BBC Drama Development Producer Ruth Underwood has been hired to head up the new outfit, which has locked its debut project as a TV adaptation of The Cry writer Helen FitzGerald’s upcoming noir thriller Ash Mountain.

Reese Witherspoon definitely knows a thing or two about country music thanks to her Oscar-winning work in Walk the Line and now she’s moving into that world as a producer!

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIn 2018, Stefani Robinson made Emmy history as the first Black woman to be recognized for multiple nominations in both the Outstanding Comedy category and in Comedy Writing for her solo-written Atlanta episode “Barbershop”.Now, the EP and scribe of FX’s comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, she continues to maintain that record with once again, noms in the Outstanding Comedy Series slot, as well as Comedy Writing for her episode “On the

Reese Witherspoon is bringing a new country music competition series to Apple TV+.