Hasan Minhaj Joins ‘The Morning Show’ For Season 2 Of Apple TV+ Drama Series

EXCLUSIVE: The critically acclaimed historical drama series Underground, which aired for two seasons on WGN America, is heading to OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. OWN said today it has acquired the series to air beginning Tuesday, January 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The series, from Sony Pictures Television, will have a revitalized presentation on OWN, with newly filmed episodic introductions by cast members, never-before-seen behind the scenes footage and more, according to the network.

EXCLUSIVE: Nepal-born actress Dichen Lachman is set as a series regular opposite Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette in Severance, Apple’s upcoming workplace thriller drama directed by and executive produced by Ben Stiller. Severance takes place at Lumen Industries, a company that’s looking to take work-life balance to a new level with a “severance procedure,” which separates work and out-of-work memories. Scott stars as Mark, an employee with a dark past trying to put himself back together.

Famed Spanish fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga is getting the biopic treatment, with ViacomCBS International Studios, a division of ViacomCBS Networks International, now developing a scripted series.

Former The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies has joined the Season 2 cast of Apple’s The Morning Show.

reported Wednesday that she will play UBA news anchor Laura Peterson on the drama, joining Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon on the drama’s fictional network morning show. The streamer previously announced that Greta Lee (“Russian Doll”), Ruairi O’Connor and Hasan Minhaj (“Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj”) also would join the show in the new season, which additionally stars Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Bel Powley, Karen Pittman and Desean Terry.

just added another acclaimed actress to its cast. Apple TV+ announced that Julianna Margulies is joining the Emmy-winning drama opposite Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. The former star will play Laura Peterson, an anchor at UBA News, the larger division which hosted by Alex Levy (Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon) is housed under.

Julianna Margulies is set to star in The Morning Show‘s second season!

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures Television has optioned Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s bestselling book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, for development as a drama series. A search for a writer is underway.

EXCLUSIVE:  IMDb TV is developing Motorheads from John A. Norris and Cavalry Media, a coming-of-age ensemble drama that leans into the escapism and joy that comes from everything from changing the oil on your first car to your first kiss. In a blue collar steel town trying to reinvent itself, some characters will navigate the hierarchy and rules of high school, while others will be running from a dark past looking for new beginnings.

Pablo Sandoval As Argentina state film finance has dwindled, Argentine writers and directors are looking ever more to drama series creation as an alternative. MipCancun caught Argentine talent pitching 10 projects that have been awarded development coin by Argentina’s INCAA film-TV agency.

Jennifer Aniston is back to work! The actress has made her way back on the sets of The Morning Show season 2 and she's sharing inside pictures. Jennifer had kicked off filming of the new season earlier this year.

Matthew Vaughn's MARV studio —behind the Kingsman franchise and last year's Elton John biopic Rocketman —is making its first venture into TV with an ambitious new project set in the world of English soccer. Titled Day 1's, the show has been co-created by Doug Ellin, best known as the Emmy and BAFTA winner and six-time Golden Globe nominee behind Entourage, and Chris Case, who produced Mad About You and Spin City, with both acting as showrunners on the 10-episode series.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterArmie Hammer has signed on to star in “The Offer” at Paramount Plus, which will tell the behind-the-scenes story of the making of “The Godfather.”Hammer will star as Al Ruddy, who produced “The Godfather” back in 1972.More to come…

EXCLUSIVE: As the mystery at the center of Big Sky unfolds, so do the stories of the various characters living in David E. Kelley’s world. Set to join the ABC crime drama’s family are Camille Sullivan, Chad Willett and Patrick Gallagher in recurring roles.

Apple TV+ has given a series order to Acapulco, a Spanish and English-language half-hour comedy executive produced and starring Eugenio Derbez. inspired by hit 2017 feature comedy How to Be A Latin Lover, which was headlined by Derbez, Acapulco hails from Lionsgate Television, studio-based The Tannenbaum Company as well as Derbez and Benjamin Odell’s 3Pas Studios.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw will be starring in Apple’s upcoming new thriller series called Surface.

Also Read: 'Tetris: The Movie' With Taron Egerton Falls Into Place at Apple“Swan Song” is produced by Apple Studios, Anonymous Content and Concordia Studio. Adam Shulman and Jacob Perlin will produce the film on behalf of Anonymous Content, and Jonathan King will produce on behalf of Concordia Studio.

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Awkwafina will join Mahersala Ali andNaomie Harris in Apple drama Swan Song. Plot details are scarce but, according to the studio, the movie is "a genre-bending drama set in the near future that explores how far someone will go, and how much they’ll sacrifice, to make a happier life for the people they love." In the movie, Awkwafina will play Kate, the close friend and confidant to Cameron, played by Ali.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAwkwafina has joined the cast of “Swan Song,” an upcoming Apple Original film starring Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali and Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominee Naomie Harris.Benjamin Cleary, also an Oscar winner for his short film Stutterer, wrote the screenplay and is directing the pic.