‘Jade City’ TV Series Based On Books In Works At Peacock From Dave Kalstein, Breck Eisner & Dean Georgaris

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe life of Viv Albertine, the punk musician and guitarist of The Slits, is getting the TV treatment after Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films and Rachael Horovitz’ West Fourth Films teamed to acquire rights to her memoirs.Albertine has published two autobiographical books, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music.

Will Thorne Staff WriterArnold Schwarzenegger has settled on his latest mission.The action star has signed on to lead and executive produce an hourlong spy series which is in the works at Skydance Television, Variety has confirmed.Schwarzenegger will be making his TV debut with the series, which is described as a global spy adventure with a father and daughter at the center of the story.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO is developing drama series Sphere based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, from Westworld executive producer/writer Denise Thé, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films (Westworld), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Warner Bros.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Martin Lawrence and Snoop Dogg are teaming up to star in Game, a political drama set in Washington, D.C. The duo co-wrote the story for the project, which reunites Bad Boys star Lawrence with the feature franchise’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

The short was made by Colin Levy and has racked up over a million views since December.

The CW is developing a live-action Powerpuff Girls series, according to Variety.

Also Read: Hulu Snags Sarah Paulson Thriller 'Run' From LionsgateJohanna Stein (“Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny”) executive produces Dana Starfield (“Monster High: Welcome to Monster High”) co-executive produces.“Madagascar: A Little Wild” features the voices of Tucker Chandler (“I Lost My Body”) as Alex, Amir O’Neil (“Mann and Wife”) as Marty, Shaylin Becton (“Fast & Furious: Spy Racers”) as Gloria, Luke Lowe (“Big City Greens”) as Melman, Jasmine Gatewood (“Animal Kingdom”) as Kate and

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Timothy Ballard’s book Slave Stealers: True Accounts Of Slave Rescues Then & Now is set for TV adaptation with 6 Underground actor and consultant and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke penning the script with Cody Newton (formerly Cody Gifford).Emmy-winning Nick Nanton is directing the first season and will produce, alongside Brian Norton, Adeleke’s StoweAway Productions, and Ballard’s Operation Underground Railroad, the non-profit set up to combat

Justin Kroll, Nellie Andreeva In her first major foray into TV series, Rachel Weisz is set to headline and executive produce Dead Ringers, a reimagining with a gender swap of David Cronenberg’s cult classic 1980s film.

straight to your inbox Manchester City fans vented their anger after seeing their side suffer at the hands of VAR in the Champions League once again. Pep Guardiola’s side found themselves on the wrong side of the Video Assistant Referee as they fell at the quarter-final stages to Lyon in Portugal.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorA Clueless TV series, based on the hit 1995 feature, is in development at Peacock.As Deadline reported exclusively, the project, which hails from writers Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey (Will & Grace) and CBS TV Studios, has been in development since last October, but no network or streaming service was attached.The series centers around the Dionne character played by Stacey Dash in the movie and the 1996 series adaptation.Written by Reddout and Hickey, the new

Ayesha Curry, 31, got her Instagram followers’ attention when she posted the cutest video and pic of her daughters being cheeky for the camera, which included a dance session to Beyonce‘s “Already”, on Aug. 7.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterElle Fanning is attached to star in the Universal Content Productions (UCP) series based on the real-life case of Michelle Carter, which has landed at Hulu, Variety has learned.Titled “The Girl From Plainville,” Fanning will star as Carter, who was infamously convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 after texting her boyfriend encouragement to commit suicide three years prior.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios is developing Stay Tuned, a TV series adaptation of the 1992 cult classic which starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber. The project hails from Fear The Walking Dead co-showrunner/executive producer Ian Goldberg & writer/producer Richard Naing, who will write the series, part of Goldberg’s overall deal at AMC Studios.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with 10 bidders, Searchlight Television, along with Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures, have won the television rights to David Gauvey Herbert’s New York Magazine article “Boss of The Beach” for series development.Search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation, which Herbert will executive produce.Herbert’s June 23, 2020 article, published in New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer, chronicles the hopes, dreams