‘Levittown’ Limited Series In Works From Amma Asante, Thomas Schlamme, Wiip & Gotham Group

Luca Villacis (Channel Zero: Candle Cove, Knuckleball), Prince Amponsah (Killjoys, The Handmaid’s Tale), Dylan Taylor (Fahrenheit 451, Bad Blood), Joe Pingue (Godless, The Expanse), Maxwell McCabe-Lokos (Tin Star, Chaos Walking), Ajahnis Charley (I am Gay, Untitled Black Sketch Project), Milton Barnes (The Flash, Locke & Key) and Kate Moyer (The Handmaid’s Tale, Holly Hobbie) are set for recurring roles in HBO Max’s Station Eleven.

Another day, another Ryan Murphy show. Deadline reports that Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in “The Watcher,” an upcoming Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

Newcomer Lex Mayson has been cast opposite Kate McKinnon’s Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell’s Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Hulu has set a stellar recurring cast for The Dropout, its upcoming limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth Marvel, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, Stephen Fry, Michel Gill, Michael Ironside, Bill Irwin and Josh Pais join Amanda Seyfried in the series from Liz Meriwether, Seachlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television. Production is scheduled to begin this summer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThere’s another limited series in the works about the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, an event that catalyzed a national civil rights movement for Asian Americans, this one from Participant.Participant announced that it is developing and producing a new limited scripted series inspired by the true story of Chin, a Chinese American who was brutally beaten and killed by two former autoworkers who blamed him for the economic downturn in Detroit.The project joins another

The story of Vincent Chin’s 1982 murder, which has been long overlooked in American history, will come to television.

Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete), Colin Hanks (Fargo) and Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts franchise) will join Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer.

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Goode has been tapped to play Robert Evans, the legendary producer studio executive, in the upcoming in Paramount+’s limited event series The Offer. Miles Teller was recently set to play producer Albert S. Ruddy, replacing Armie Hammer in the role.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is in the works for the small screen. Will Staples (Without Remorse, The Right Stuff) has teamed with Working Title and The New York Times to develop a limited series about Gallagher, who was acquitted of murder in a high-profile war crimes trial two years ago.

FX has been attempting to put together a new limited series adaptation of the James Clavell novel “Shōgun” for a couple of years now but kept running into bad luck and obstacles, between various development hiccups and last year’s pandemic, which led to further delays on the series that takes place in feudal Japan. READ MORE: FX CEO Warns Of Too Many Scripted Series And “Too Much Narrative” As He Announces New Drama ‘Shōgun’ However, things are finally being pushed into gear.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gaston (The Leftovers) has been cast alongside Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Molly Hager in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Hanish and Paul Jaconi-Biery’s Cannonball Productions has secured the rights to transgender pastor Dr. Paula Stone Williams’ just released book As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned, for development as a limited series based on Williams’ life.

Back in 2018, writer, executive producer and showrunner Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace, The Way Back) got talking to a police officer friend from back home in Delaware County, PA. An idea began forming: Why not write about a woman detective from that community?

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer has been tapped for a key role opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in The White House Plumbers, HBO’s five-part limited series that revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history, Watergate.

EXCLUSIVE: One Community has closed a deal for The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to adapt his 2007 novel A Thousand Splendid Suns into a limited series. The book has sold 17 million copies in 130 countries in 56 languages. Run by Scott Budnick, One Community is a social impact producer/financier whose first movie was the Michael B. Jordan-starrer Just Mercy, with Respect: The Aretha Franklin Story coming behind it this fall.

Dennis Quaid has entered the tiger’s den and will join Peacock’s Joe Exotic (working title) as Rick Kirkham.

Sophie Turner was cast in a role in the upcoming HBO Max limited series "The Staircase," which chronicles the real-life death of Kathleen Peterson that sent her family into a years-long court battle.  The case was previously covered in a French documentary also titled "The Staircase," which came out in 2004 and received multiple follow-ups that were eventually released on Netflix.