‘Losing Alice’ Trailer: Ayelet Zurer Makes A Faustian Deal In Apple TV+ Limited Series

In Losing Alice —an eight-episode Israeli series that premiered stateside this past weekend on Apple TV+ — a 48-year-old film director and mother of two, Alice (played by actress Ayelet Zurer), is feeling stuck professionally. She then meets, perhaps by chance, perhaps not, a young writer, Sophie (Lihi Kornowski) on a train who is a huge fan of her work.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth), Corey Stoll (House of Cards) and Tovah Feldshuh (Broadway’s Yentl) have been cast in supporting roles in HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage, a limited series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic miniseries. Starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, it comes from Our Boys and The Affair co-creator Hagai Levi, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Endeavor Content.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJamie Dornan has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming limited series “The Tourist.” In addition, HBO Max has boarded the project and will co-produce along with Two Brothers Pictures as well as serve as the show’s streaming home in the U.S.Alongside Dornan, the six-episode series will star Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, and Hugo Weaving. Filming is set to begin soon in Australia.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has put in development Mother Daughter Widow Wife, a one-hour limited series  based on bestselling author Robin Wasserman’s novel of the same name, with Wasserman attached to pen the adaptation. Sharon Hall and her Mom de Guerre productions will executive produce. Sony Pictures TV is the studio.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO is developing the third season of the hit podcast “Serial” as a limited series, with LeBron James onboard the project as an executive producer.The potential series will examine the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland, Ohio.

Taron Egerton is headed to television.

ABC has put in development Winter In Paradise, a limited series based on the first book in Elin Hilderbrand’s bestelling Paradise trilogy, from husband-and-wife writing team André and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men), Ellen Pompeo and her Calamity Jane production company, Andrew Stearn Productions and ABC Signature, where Calamity Jane is based.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the first three episodes of “Losing Alice,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.At the start of Sigal Avin’s “Losing Alice,” the titular character, a successful filmmaker who has taken some time away from her work to raise a family, becomes engaged in conversation with an up-and-coming writer named Sophie (Lihi Kornowski).

on Apple TV+, Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer stars as a middle-aged director who, during a train ride, encounters Sophie (Lihi Kornowski), a 20-something fan and aspiring writer.It’s a brief meeting that impacts both of their lives.“I love the fact that Alice is someone who is not perfect by any means, yet not bad,” says Zurer, 51. “She’s not something we’ve seen before; she’s very complex in a way that feels new.

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content Nordic, the Norway based division of Anonymous Content, is developing a limited series based on the high-profile trial of Laila Bertheussen, the partner of Norwegian ex-Minister Minister of Justice, Tor Mikkel Wara, and the events and circumstances that led to it.

Remember when the US landed on the moon? That effectively ended the space race and made it so America stood as the leaders in space travel for decades to come.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeVariety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for upcoming awards. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeVariety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for upcoming awards. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season.

Freida Pinto will be starring in the upcoming limited series Spy Princess!

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is set to star in and executive produce Spy Princess, a limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the definitive biography of Noor’s life, from writer Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Red Room Films.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s Women of the Movement has assembled a team of four Black female directors for the first installment of the potential anthology that celebrates the women of the civil rights movement. Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) will join Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), as directors on the limited series, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago’s first Black mayor Harold Washington, an influential figure to politicians including President Barack Obama, is getting the TV treatment.

FX is moving forward with a limited series all about the influential punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The band formed in the early 1970s and would go on to revolutionize the rock music scene going into the 1980s with their politically charged lyrics and often violent live performances.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeVariety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for upcoming awards. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season.