EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Hoppin, who oversaw animal-based programming across Nat Geo and Disney+, has joined Red Rock Films, the company behind Signourney Weaver-narrated Secrets of the Whales.
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Mónica Marie Zorrilla Gritty, psychological scripted drama “Swimming With Sharks,” starring Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger, will debut on The Roku Channel this April. The leads were previously announced back in February 2020, when the series was previously under Quibi. Donald Sutherland, Ross Butler, Thomas Dekker, Finn Jones, Erica Alexander and Gerardo Celasco also star alongside Shipka and Kruger.“Swimming With Sharks,” a modern update of George Huang’s original 1994 cult comedy about the Hollywood studio system, will feature six half-hour episodes.
Kruger (“In the Fade”) will play Joyce Holt, studio head of Fountain Pictures, while Shipka (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Mad Men”) will play Joyce’s intern, Lou Simms, who develops an extreme obsession with her boss. The show follows the great undertakings Lou — who is anything but a naive newcomer to the industry — will go to get closer to Joyce. “Historically, Hollywood has always represented reinvention, rebirth.
Starting over. There has never been a better time to embrace that” said showrunner and creator Kathleen Robertson in a statement. “My goal was to subvert this story and come at it from a place of both wonder and corruption, through the eyes of two complex female perspectives.
Their performances are quite extraordinary. Nobody will ever see Kiernan Shipka as ‘Don Draper’s daughter’ ever again.”“Swimming With Sharks,” which hails from Lionsgate Television, is written and showrun by Robertson and directed by Tucker Gates. Chris Cowles and Liz Destro executive produce.“Hollywood can be as cutthroat as it is glamorous,” added Colin Davis, Roku’s head of original scripted programming.
EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Hoppin, who oversaw animal-based programming across Nat Geo and Disney+, has joined Red Rock Films, the company behind Signourney Weaver-narrated Secrets of the Whales.
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