‘Gossip Girl’ Sequel Series at HBO Max Adds Four to Cast

© 2020 James Devaney NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 07: Celine Dion seen on the streets of Lower Manhattan on March 7, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images) She has been a giant in the music industry for more than three decades. 

Today (March 26), Billboard can announce that Drake and his co-manager Adel "Future" Nur will executive produce a new series on Quibi titled 48 Laws of Power. Based on Robert Greene's New York Times best-selling book of the same name, 48 Laws of Power will "detail the nature of power and how one can secure and maintain it."Drake will also direct an episode.

Monday night’s episode of ID’s “Torn from the Headlines: New York Post Reports” gives viewers an inside look at the infamous case of “Tuxedo King” Harvey Weinstein — kidnapped in August 1983 and held hostage in a sweltering underground tomb for 13 days before being rescued by NYPD detectives.

Amazon is developing a limited series based on the New York Magazine story “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, Reed Morano is attached to direct.

NEW YORK -- Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service's miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which sent five black and Latino teenagers to prison for a crime they were later absolved of committing.

“When I walked back through campus, all I saw were all my CDs I made thrown all over the ground,” says Derrick Milano. Fresh off a flight from Toronto, he sits comfortably on a couch at Billboard’s New York office, reflecting about the early days of his artist career back when he was attending college in Florida, stretching his last dollars to invest in making CDs of his music to pass out, only to find them spread out on the pavement. 

The reboot of Gossip Girl is gaining some new faces!

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

By Denise Petski

Uma Thurman is set to star in a new Apple thriller series, “Suspicion,” based on the award-winning Israeli drama “False Flag.”

The Interactive Advertising Bureau is strongly recommending that presenters at its annual NewFronts event move to streaming-only productions amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus. The group, which is set to hold NewFronts April 27-May 6 in New York, said "we will enable all presenters to stream your NewFronts presentations to the audiences you invite, giving your unique multimedia content, services and technology the widest possible exposure among qualified buyers in the U.S.

Uma Thurman has lined up another TV role, this time at Apple.

By Peter White

Hachette Book Group has abandoned plans to publish Woody Allen's autobiography following condemnation of the plan by the controversial director's estranged children, Ronan Farrow and Dylan Farrow, and a protest by the company's employees. Woody has not commented on the decision.

Eva Mendes is thankful for her platform to connect with other women.

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks’ abysmal season took yet another unfortunate turn this week after a purported mix-up at Madison Square Garden led to a public rift with one of the team’s most famous and stalwart supporters, director Spike Lee.

NEW YORK -- An upcoming memoir by Woody Allen is being blasted by daughter Dylan Farrow, who called it “deeply upsetting” and criticized the publishing house for putting it out.

There’s one HBO Max series whose cast is growing pretty quick, XOXO Gossip Girl.