Joel Edgerton To Star In ‘Dark Matter’ Sci-Fi Series Adaptation At Apple TV+; Blake Crouch To Showrun

Dana Calvo (Good Girls Revolt) has been tapped as showrunner and executive producer on ABC’s Avalon, a drama series based on Michael Connelly’s short story, from David E. Kelley (Big Sky, Big Little Lies), A+E Studios and 20th Television. It’s slated to be part of ABC’s 2022-2023 programming slate.

Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (The Craft), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJessica Alba will star in a series adaptation of the book “Confessions On the 7:45,” which is currently in development at Netflix.The show will be based on the Lisa Unger book of the same name. It is described as a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life.

Naman Ramachandran “Born Fighter,” the memoir of British-Bangladeshi Muay Thai World Champion Ruqsana Begum, is getting a limited series adaptation.The series will be co-produced by BlackBox Multimedia, which has several Ellery Queen adaptations in the works, and Seven Seas Films (“The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story”).Begum’s story is a coming-of-age sports drama, in which many of her biggest challenges take place outside of the ring. She battles through an arranged marriage, hides sporting glory from her parents, copes with mental health illness, and consistently defies the expectations of what a Muslim woman’s role ought to be.Dan Sefton (“The Good Karma Hospital”) will lead a diverse writing room, with Begum playing an integral role in the series development.

Donald Glover has found his new co-lead in the Mr. & Mrs. Smith reboot for Prime Video. PEN15 co-creator/star Maya Erskine will headline the project alongside Glover, succeeding Phoebe Waller-Bridge who had been initially attached in the role.

Jason Momoa is one of the more in-demand actors in Hollywood that have been able to juggle television series and film. With his Apple TV+ show “See,” appearing in multiple Netflix films like the upcoming fantasy film “Slumberland” from director Francis Lawrence, the supporting role in Denis Villeneuve‘s Oscar-winning epic “Dune,” and finishing up James Wan‘s “Aquaman” sequel in the United Kingdom, Momoa has been working non-stop for the last two years.

FX has given a formal green light to The Sterling Affairs, a six-episode limited series about the downfall of Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling amid the team’s drive to win a championship under coach Doc Rivers. Oscar-nominated actors Jacki Weaver and Laurence Fishburne have been tapped as two of the leads in the project, Donald Sterling’s wife, Shelly Sterling, and former Clippers Head Coach Doc Rivers, respectively. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force (American Crime Story, Pose) is producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Billie Piper, star of series such as Doctor Who and Penny Dreadful, has landed her next TV gig.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton will be seen reprising the role of “Star Wars” character Uncle Owen in Lucasfilm’s upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series starring Ewan McGregor as the iconic Jedi. Edgerton had a supporting role in David Lowery‘s fantastic film “The Green Knight,” and now he’s continuing his recent trend of tackling genre projects with plans to make another streaming series.

It’s undeniable, Andrew Garfield is having a serious moment. Coming off an Oscar nomination for “tick, tick…BOOM!” and his appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home”— a part so beloved people are demanding that the actor get to finish out his ‘Spider-Man’ trilogy and or join Sony’s Spiderverse—Garfield feels like he’s bigger than ever these days.

Joel Edgerton will star in a new “Dark Matter” series adaptation as a physicist who suddenly finds himself in an alternate version of his life, Apple TV+ announced on Tuesday. Blake Crouch will serve as writer and showrunner on the series, which is based on his 2016 novel.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple is adapting the Blake Crouch novel “Dark Matter” as a series with Joel Edgerton set to star, Variety has learned.The nine-episode series will follow Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor, and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived.

FX’s “Pistol,” the series based on the memoir from Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, has a premiere date.The show will begin streaming on Hulu May 31, with all six episodes of the limited series available at launch.“Pistol” has been described by FX as a show about “a rock and roll revolution. The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols — and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones.

Julia Fox arrives at the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday night (March 27) at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard revealed the sex of their baby on the way! The former Counting On stars shared the big news on their blog on Wednesday, March 23. Not only did they reveal the baby’s sex but also shared when Jill’s due date is. “We are thankful to have a healthy baby boy due in July! Your continued prayers are much appreciated,” they wrote in the post. The family of four also posed with blue balloons that read “baby,” which you can see here.

Drake has surprised a young basketball player with a very generous gift, after having what he described as an “incredible night” on the crypto betting website Stake. The acclaimed rapper wanted to share the joy and decided to use his winnings for a good cause, gifting $100,000 to a young athlete named Michael, who attends Toronto’s Royal Crown Academy.Drake posted a video of the special moment, accompanied by LeBron James, meeting with the family of the student and surprising them with the money at the Harbour 60 restaurant in Canada.“Anytime I get blessed like that, I always think it’s good karma that needs to be transferred.

Sharon Horgan’s first series for Apple TV+, an adapting of the Belgian version of Clan, will be titled Bad Sisters. The previously untitled project, co-written, executive produced by and starring Horgan (Catastrophe, Shining Vale), also announced Anne-Marie Duff (Suffragette), Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn), Sarah Greene (Frank of Ireland) and Eve Hewson (Behind her Eyes) as Horgan’s co-leads and released a first-look image of the quintet as the title characters (above).

Another one! Pregnant Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard are expecting a third baby boy.