Jermaine Fowler In Talks To Star In Spy Comedy ‘The U.S.P.S.’ From Amazon Studios & Imagine Entertainment

"You don't seem like a man who would like a boring life," a character tells Dominic Cooper's Fielding Scott, a spy navigating the uncertain streets of divided Berlin circa 1961, in AMC+'s Spy City. It's unclear how she's making this judgment, since other than looking like a man who enjoys a well-tailored suit, Fielding Scott doesn't lend himself to much of a read at all — even after the six-episode entirety of Spy City.

Serena Williams is in the works at Amazon Studios. The studio made the announcement Tuesday, revealing that the untitled project is set to follow the tennis super star's life on and off the court.The documentary is the premiere project of a first-look TV deal Williams signed with Amazon Studios, in which she will work with the company to create scripted and unscripted television projects that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon Studios under which she will create scripted and non-scripted programming, including a docuseries that follows her exploits on and off the court, the tennis star said Tuesday.Williams made the announcement during a conversation with actor Michael B.

Tennis icon Serena Williams has inked a first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios, with an untitled docuseries already in the works.

Apple Original Films has ordered Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong, a documentary about the life and pioneering career of the jazz legend Louis Armstrong from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries. The biopic, to be directed by Sacha Jenkins, will tell Armstrong’s story through the musical great's own words.

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Mia Isaac has landed the lead role opposite John Cho in Don’t Make Me Go, the father-daughter adventure dramedy from Amazon Studios. Hannah Marks is directing the film, which follows a single father who takes his teenage daughter on a road trip to find her estranged mother, as he tries to teach her everything she might need to know for the rest of her life along the way.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a first-look television deal with award-winning director Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) and her newly formed production company, Zusa. Under the pact, Har’el will work with the studio to develop and create new television series to run exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Apple Original Films has green lit its Louis Armstrong documentary feature, Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong with Imagine Documentaries producing the documentary. The documentary, which is produced under Apple’s first-look agreement with Imagine Documentaries, will be directed by Emmy-nominated Sacha Jenkins , and produced by Jenkins, Julie Anderson, Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes.

Smart and stylish, AMC+’s “Spy City” captures a tumultuous time and place in world history: Berlin just before the forming of the Wall in 1961. The title of the show comes to life in the way writer William Boyd (“Chaplin”) and director Miguel Alexandre present an interlocking story of espionage that brings in multiple operatives from governments around the world.

AMC Networks has picked up U.S. rights to European espionage dramaSpy City in one of the first big domestic deals announced at the digital MIPTV market.

In today’s Global Bulletin, “Minari” star Han Yeri signs with Echo Lake Entertainment in the U.S.; Beijing and Cairo announce hopeful in-person festival details; AMC Plus snags Berlin-set Cold War drama “Spy City”; Cineflix Rights will distribute Israeli cop drama “Manayek”; Deepika Padukone steps down as head of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image; Australia’s Screenwest unveils Rikki Lea Bestall as its new CEO; “The Last Five Years” gets a West End run; Harry Collet to star in mental health

Leonine Confirms U.S. Date For Spy City

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is looking at the lighter side of the natural history world.

Amid the looming California recall effort, Politico spoke with a showbiz insider with a unique view on the process: Arnold Schwarzenegger. The last action hero, of course, was elected governor in the state’s 2003 recall election.

Sarah Michelle Gellar has been tapped to headline Hot Pink, a biting coming-of-age comedy for Amazon created by Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child). With Gellar on board, the YA project has been officially ordered to pilot.

Former Legendary Television President Nick Pepper is joining Amazon Studios.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNick Pepper is joining Amazon Studios as head of studio creative content, where he will be tasked with packaging and maximizing the studio’s intellectual property and talent deals.The hiring follows a restructuring of Amazon Studio’s executive leadership team last month, which included Marc Resteghini’s elevation to head of development and the addition of Laura Lancaster as head of series.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has signed on to finance and distribute the Hannah Marks-directed father-daughter adventure dramedy Don’t Make Me Go starring John Cho (Harold & Kumar, Star Trek).