NBC tweaks fall premiere lineup, moves ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ to 2021

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorLifetime has set the cast for The Christmas Setup, its first holiday movie with a lead LGBTQ storyline, and A Sugar & Spice Holiday, its first movie centered on an Asian American family.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, “The Nest” tops Deauville, ITV outlines plans for carbon neutrality, Abacus Media Rights sells “People You May Know” in key territories, Southeast Europe gets its first premium independent series co-production and Sky enlists Gabriela Sperl to document German’s Wirecard financial scandal.“The Nest,” directed by Sean Durkin and starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon, was the big winner at the recently concluded 46th Deauville American Film Festival, taking home

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to conspiracy thriller Wander starring Aaron Eckhart (Midway), Katheryn Winnick (Vikings), Heather Graham (Desperados) and Oscar-winner winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country For Old Men).The completed film follows Arthur Bretnik (Eckhart), a mentally unstable private investigator who, after being hired to probe a suspicious death in the town of Wander, becomes convinced the case is linked to the same

Stevie Lee, the wrestler and actor in projects such as Jackass 3D, American Horror Story: Freak Show and Oz The Great and Powerful, has died. Lee was 54.

Pro wrestler Stevie Lee Richardson has sadly died at the age of 54. The athlete, who was otherwise known as Puppet The Psycho Dwarf in the ring, also starred in Jackass 3D and FX’s American Horror Story. His family revealed that he passed away “unexpectedly” on September 9.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticStevie Lee, a pro wrestler who went by the name “Puppet The Psycho Dwarf” and appeared in the film Jackass 3D and TV shows American Horror Story: Freak Show and Spike TV’s 2010 reality series Half-Pint Brawlers, died unexpectedly at his home Wednesday. He was 54.Details of the death were not disclosed on the Go Fund Me page that announced his passing.

GoFundMe page to help with the funeral costs.The statement added: "He needs our help to give him one last curtain call."Please donate what you can, share his memories with everyone, and share this fundraiser to give the Psycho Dwarf the best resting place possible."All proceeds will be given to Jim Richardson to handle the services/burial costs."Thank you all so much and Puppet, we love you brother!"Stevie was known for starring in Jackass 3D as well as American Horror Story and Oz the Great and

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorABC has set fall premiere dates for its Wednesday night comedy block. The Goldbergs, The Conners and Black-ish will all premiere October 21 and American Housewife will join the lineup on October 28.The Goldbergs will premiere its eighth season at 8 p.m.

Spike Lee and David Byrne aren’t an obvious pairing. While the former’s oeuvre, for the most part, features unflinching stories about Black life in America, the latter became a hero to white college-educated teens everywhere.

just really has no part in any discussion of the work of Byrne or of director Spike Lee, who turned the former Talking Heads front man’s Broadway show into a film that premiered at the slimmed-down TIFF on Thursday, and will come to HBO in October.

If there ever was a year for the Toronto Film Festival to open with a musical pep talk for Americans, surely 2020 is it. American Utopia, the concert film of David Byrne’s 2019 Broadway show, directed by Spike Lee, provides a spark of optimism in the era of COVID-19 and civil unrest.

coronavirus pandemic, with a programme of 58 films from around the world — 50 of which will be premiering online.Steve McQueen’s Mangrove will be opening the festival, and the new film from God’s Own Country director Francis Lee Ammonite will be the closing night gala.Further films that are set to premiere include Spike Lee’s filmed take on David Byrne‘s smash-hit Broadway show American Utopia, as well as Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire and Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson

Will Thorne Staff WriterABC’s “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” returned from a three-week break to its lowest ratings yet.The “Bachelor” highlight show scored a 0.2 rating among adults 18-49 and drew only 1.5 million, roughly a 20% drop on both metrics from the previous episode.

Carla Gugino. (She starred as the matriarch of the anthology's first chapter, .) On Monday, Netflix dropped the teaser trailer for its follow-up in saga, promising a ghost story.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNielsen estimates that there are 121 million home with televisions for the 2020-2021 TV season, a 0.3% uptick from 120.6 million last year.According to the data analytic and measurement company, the number of persons age 2 and older in American TV households edged up 0.2% from last year to 307.9 million, including a 1.9% increase in Hispanic TV households, 0.9% rise in Black TV households and 2.7% increase in Asian TV households.The percentage of total U.S.

Kate McKinnon's Carole Baskin project has received a straight-to-series order at NBC. The network announced the news on Tuesday, sharing that the limited series — in which McKinnon will star as Baskin — will roll out across NBCU’s scripted entertainment platforms, NBC, Peacock and USA.

a major reorganization of the company’s television business. That reorganization placed a clear emphasis on the company’s future streaming plans while deemphasizing the importance of certain cable networks in the NBCU portfolio in order to cut costs.The bizarre world of Exotic and Baskin was most famously documented in the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.” The series dropped on March 20 and quickly became a media sensation.

the upcoming film “Ammonite.”Written and directed by Francis Lee, the film will be released by Neon in the United States and Lionsgate in the U.K.Set in England in the 1800s, Winslet plays Mary Anning, a fossil hunter who works alone on the rugged coastline in the south of the country. With her days of making famous geological discoveries behind her, she now searches for common fossils to sell to tourists to support herself and her sickly mother.