Imagine Impact Clinches Series A Financing Round Led By Top Silicon Valley VC Firm Benchmark

Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and the world’s leading supermodels is headed to AppleTV+.The Supermodels will feature interviews with Campbell, Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington, who will all executive produce the project, alongside Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.Directed by Barbara Kopple, the show will revisit the careers of the four stars and how they impacted the world of fashion in the 1990s.

President Trump said COVID-19 is “far less lethal” than the seasonal flu for “most populations” on his social media pages.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe ’90s are back in a big way at Apple TV Plus.The streaming service has ordered docuseries “The Supermodels” from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries that centers on runway icons Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista.Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple directed the series, which starts from the 1980s, when the four models skyrocketed to superstar status, and through to their time in New York and the height of the

Peter White Television EditorApple TV+ is sashaying up the catwalk for its latest documentary series.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that model and skateboarder Evan Mock has been cast as a series regular in HBO Max’s upcoming reimagination of Gossip Girl.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has given a production commitment to a drama series from “How to Get Away With Murder’s” Pete Nowalk.Titled “Valley of the Gods,” the series is described as a high-stakes drama about the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and the hungry, underestimated outsiders trying to claw their way in.Nowalk will serve as writer and executive producer on the series, with Joanna Coles also serving as executive producer on the project. ABC Signature will produce.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has given a production commitment to Valley Of the Gods, a drama from How To Get Away With Murder creator/executive producer Pete Nowalk, The Bold Type executive producer Joanna Coles and ABC Studios.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Nowalk, Valley Of the Gods is described as a sexy, high-stakes drama about the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and the hungry, underestimated outsiders trying to claw their way

Usher Raymond revealed on Wednesday, September 30, that his third child arrived, his first with his girlfriend, Jenn Goicoechea.“We are feeling blessed and full of love with the arrival of our beautiful baby girl, Sovereign Bo Raymond,” the Grammy winner, 41, captioned an Instagram photo of the infant’s hand. “’Isn’t She Lovely’ by Stevie Wonder on repeat.”Us Weekly broke the news in August that the record executive was pregnant.

Jamie Lang Amazon Prime Video hosted a San Sebastian press conference for its new Spanish docu-series “The Challenge: ETA,” sharing a new trailer for the program and announcing that the series will be made available to stream around the world on Oct.

Peter White Television EditorParamount Network is set to rebrand to the Paramount Movie Network as it plots a focus on television movies.The move is the latest change at ViacomCBS following the merger and comes after the company revealed that its upcoming streaming service is to be called Paramount+.As part of the move, the network has cancelled a slew of non-scripted titles including Ink Master, Wife Swap and Battle of the Fittest Couples, while other titles including Bar Rescue and Lip Sync

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPatricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are set to collaborate once again on half-hour comedy series that has been ordered at Apple.Titled “High Desert,” the show follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.The series is written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and

Andreas Wiseman International EditorRon Howard, Imagine Entertainment, AGC Studios and CAA are teaming up for the movie biopic of virtuoso Chinese pianist Lang Lang.Two-time Oscar-winner Howard will direct the currently untitled film with Oscar-winner Brian Grazer producing alongside Imagine’s President of Features Karen Lunder, and AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford.The project plans to shoot in China and the U.S. and will feature both Mandarin and English.

David Robb Labor EditorAfter a two-day strike, 115 crew members on A&E’s America’s Top Dog have returned to work in Simi Valley under a contract negotiated by IATSE and Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399.“This was an important win for the America’s Top Dog crew, and their unity and resolve made it happen,” said IATSE vice president Mike Miller.

Dave McNary Film ReporterImagine Impact, an offshoot of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s production company Imagine Entertainment, has closed its Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark.Imagine Impact joins eBay, Hipcamp, Instawork, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, Yelp, and Zillow, in Benchmark’s investment portfolio.

George and Amal Clooney vow to watch over Rwandan activist Paul Rusesabagina during his upcoming trial.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmThrough the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, George and Amal Clooney have made a pledge to closely monitor the upcoming trial of Paul Rusesabagina in Rwanda, as part of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative. Rusesabagina’s actions to save lives during the Rwandan genocide were dramatized in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda.

US comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine will address police brutality in a new storyline.

Also Read: 'Good Times' Star Ja'net Dubois Remembered by Norman Lear, Viola Davis and MoreCarl Jones serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Brent Miller also executive produces via Act III, with Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith for Unanimous and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door.“We can’t think of anything better, at this time in our culture, than a reimagining of Good Times animated,” Lear and Miller said.