multi-year content agreement that Winfrey signed with the streaming service in 2018. Other projects in the works under the deal include a documentary series about the stigma surrounding mental health.
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered an action-thriller series from Mark Boal straight to series, Variety has learned.The 10-episode series is titled “Echo 3,” based on the Israeli series “When Heroes Fly” created by Omri Givon and based on the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund.In the series, Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family.
When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two
.multi-year content agreement that Winfrey signed with the streaming service in 2018. Other projects in the works under the deal include a documentary series about the stigma surrounding mental health.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterOprah Winfrey has set up an interview series at Apple.“The Oprah Conversation” will debut on the streaming service on July 30. Filmed remotely, the show will feature Winfrey engaging in dialogues with thought leaders and newsmakers from all over the world.In the debut episode, “How to Be an Antiracist,” Winfrey and bestselling author Professor Ibram X.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorNetflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series from The Witcher universe.Blood Origin will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the streamer’s series The Witcher.
John Slattery stars in Fox's new series, and the star is opening up about the white-knuckle techno-thriller.
All things considered, the past several months have been pretty terrible for just about everyone on the planet. Of course, for some of us, it’s been worse than others, but with a pandemic, civil unrest, and a political system that seems to be going off the rails, the outlook is pretty grim.
Elisabeth Moss will star in thriller series “Shining Girls” at Apple TV+, with Leonardo DiCaprio set to executive produce the adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ 2013 novel, the streaming service said Thursday.Per the official description, “The Handmaid’s Tale” star will play “a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.”Silka Luisa will adapt Beukes novel and executive produce the series, acting as showrunner.
Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorApple has given a series order to Shining Girls, a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel The Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
Peter White Television EditorArmando Bó, the Oscar-winning co-writer of Birdman, has unveiled his first television slate since launching his own production company, About Entertainment, earlier this year.The writer and filmmaker is developing two series based on well-known Argentinian stories.About Entertainment has acquired the rights to Las Malas, the 2019 autobiographic novel by Camila Sosa Villada, and is developing Cromanon, based on true events of the tragedy that took place at the venue
Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC is developing a drama series with both Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker attached as executive producers.Titled “Chicano,” the series is inspired by the novel of the same name Richard Vasquez. It tells the multi-generational story of the Sandovals, a Mexican-American family that immigrates to Los Angeles in pursuit of the American Dream.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Pose” co-creator Steven Canals has a new limited series in the works at FX.Titled “81 Words,” the series tells the true story of gay activists Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, who risked their career reputations to conspire with the GAYPA – a clandestine group of closeted psychiatrists – to challenge the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of homosexuality.
Amber Heard has accused ex-husband Johnny Depp of abusing her both physically and verbally while he was allegedly bingeing on alcohol and drugs, claiming that at various times during their tempestuous relationship she feared for her life. On the first day of her testimony Monday at Britain's High Court in London, Heard also denied accusations she was a heavy drug user and drinker as well as a controlling and abusive person.
Variety has reported that Apple TV+ has scored action-thriller “Echo 3” TV series from Oscar-winner Mark Boal, writer of 2010’s “The Hurt Locker.” The 10-episode series is based on Israeli series “When Heroes Fly,” which is based on a novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund. As Boal was also nominated for his work on “Zero Dark Thirty,” it’s no surprise to learn that “Echo 3” will be a war-based show as well.
Bryce Dallas Howard is back on Jurassic World: Dominion sets and shooting tirelessly. In a Twitter post on Thursday, the actress, 39, showed off several massive bruises from doing stunt work for the upcoming movie in the franchise reboot.
Bryce Dallas Howard is back in action — literally.
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Peter White Television EditorThe Hurt Locker writer and producer Mark Boal is adapting Israeli drama When Heroes Fly for Apple.The streamer has handed the series, which will be known as Echo 3, a straight-to-series ten-part order.It will be produced by Keshet Studios and Apple and will be set in South America.The series follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, the emotional center of a small American family.
Apple TV+ has ordered a new action-thriller series called “Echo 3” from “The Hurt Locker” writer Mark Boal, the streaming service said Thursday.Based on the Keshet Broadcasting series “When Heroes Fly,” which was created by Omri Givon and inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel of the same name, “Echo 3” follows Amber Chesborough, “a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family,” per Apple’s description.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorNetflix has set the first animated TV series based on the long-running Usagi Yojimbo comic books by Stan Sakai.
Johnny Depp’s former estate manager today claimed Amber Heard “drank two bottles of wine a night” in 2014 while the Pirates of the Caribbean star was tee-total.Ben King said he was informed that Depp “had been a drinker” when he was first hired in London in 2014, but was told the actor was in recovery and not drinking alcohol at the time.He said he saw “a relatively large number of cases of wine” at the property Depp was staying at with then-wife Heard in London.“You found it strange given you
Joe Otterson TV ReporterUSA Network is no longer moving ahead with the limited series about Evel Knievel starring Milo Ventimiglia, Variety has confirmed.It was announced last September that Ventimiglia, who stars on the hit NBC drama “This Is Us,” was to play the famous daredevil. However, the coronavirus pandemic shut down the series on March 13, right before production was to begin.