‘Kingdom Business’: Yolanda Adams & Serayah To Lead Cast Of BET+ Gospel Drama Series

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Ahn (Memoirs of a Geisha, Lie to Me) has signed on to play a recurring role in Partner Track, the Netflix drama series based on Helen Wan’s 2013 novel from creator Georgia Lee, which is currently in production in New York.

Selome Hailu editorFormer “CSI” showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and producer Julie Weitz in early development on two drama series: “Honor” for NBC and “Body Farm” for CBS.“Honor” is based on “Heder,” the Swedish series created by Sofia Helin along with stars Julia Dufvenius, Anja Lundqvist and Alexandra Rapaport, which centered on a law firm that handles sexual crimes against women.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading into spy territory.

Charles Randolph is reteaming with Adam McKay for his latest project.

Starz is developing a drama series centered on the life of African Warrior Queen Nzinga with American Gods’ Yetide Badaki set to star in the main role.

The Apple TV+ drama Severance is set to premiere on Feb. 18 via its streaming service. A first look trailer featuring stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus, and Christopher Walken can be found above.

Fernando Coimbra (Narcos), Jessica Lowery (Heels), Marialy Rivas (La Jauría) and Nina Lopez-Corrado (A Million Little Things) have been tapped to direct Season 2 of HBO’s Emmy-nominated Perry Mason reboot, starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role.

EXCLUSIVE: Dear White People alum John Patrick Amedori is set as a series regular opposite Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy in Showtime’s Three Women, an hourlong drama series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo. Blair Underwood, Jason Ralph and Blair Redford also star.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox is developing the “Cliffhanger” novels by TJ Middleton (real name Tom Binding) as a one-hour drama series.The series is described as a darkly comedic one-hour drama following the quirky exploits of rideshare driver Audrey Greenwood, who emerges from the pandemic with a startling realization: she never wants to see her husband Al’s face again. So, one dark and stormy night, fueled by rage and tequila, she tries to kill him.

EXCLUSIVE: Eva De Dominici has been tapped for a heavily recurring role opposite Adan Canto on The Cleaning Lady, Fox’s adaptation of the Argentinean drama starring Elodie Yung, from The 100 writer Miranda Kwok, Stargirl EP Melissa Carter, who is showrunner, Shay Mitchell’s Amore & Vita Productions, Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment.

When Élodie Yung signed on to The Cleaning Lady, she relished the opportunity to play a character of many layers—a Cambodian immigrant coming from the Philippines to America who meets “extreme situations” with remarkable resilience, and will do whatever it takes to protect her son.

The new agreement between the TV Academy and The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences that realigns the Primetime and Daytime competitions based on content genre, not airtime, could bring a change to the Outstanding Daytime Drama race.

The story of Snoop Dogg’s murder trial and his hit single Murder was the Case are being developed as a series for Starz.

EXCLUSIVE: Sonia Mena (Invasion), Catherine Missal (The Blacklist) and Alicia Crowder (Bleecker) are set as series regulars opposite Grace Van Patten and Jackson White in Tell Me Lies, Hulu’s straight-to-series drama based on Carola Lovering’s novel, which is executive produced by Emma Roberts.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and musician Eliot Sumner (No Time to Die) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Andrew Scott and Johnny Flynn in Ripley, Showtime’s drama series based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian.

Stephanie March has joined the cast of the CW’s upcoming series Naomi, alongside star Kaci Walfall. The series comes from Ava DuVernay and Arrow writer and co-exec producer Jill Blankenship.

EXCLUSIVE: Hipster Death Rattle, a drama/satire with comedic elements from Rafael Agustín, Marvin Lemus, and Wilmer Valderrama, is in the works at The CW.