Octavia Spencer to Exec Produce FBI Docu-Series ‘Feds’ For ID, Discovery+

Selling Sunset star Vanessa Villela and Nick Harvey tied the knot in a beautiful and intimate ceremony and shared stunning pictures of their big day for the first time. The happy couple married at The Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, California, just five miles from the Pacific Ocean.

EXCLUSIVE: After announcing the Avengers: The Kang Dynasty at this year’s Comic Con, Marvel Studios looks to have found the writer who will now pen the highly-anticipated film. Sources tell Deadline, Jeff Loveness, who recently wrote Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania, will pen Avengers: the Kang Dynasty for Marvel. Loveness will join Destin Daniel Cretton, who was recently set as director on the project with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige producing.

Vanessa Villela has tied the knot with her fiance, Nicholas Hardy!

The FBI extensively tracked Aretha Franklin in the 1960s and 1970s, according to newly declassified files. The documents show that the US intelligence agency took particular interest in Franklin’s civil rights activism, and paid close attention to her performances for Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.The files were unsealed as the result of a Freedom Of Information request that journalist Jenn Dize filed all the way back in 2018.

K.J. Yossman Lorton Entertainment, who are currently working on highly anticipated Disney+ documentary “Wagatha Christie,” have set a new unscripted series titled “Horsepower” at Amazon, Variety can exclusively reveal. A four-part documentary series which is set to launch on Prime Video U.K. and Ireland from Sept. 23, “Horsepower” gives viewers a rare glimpse into the world of horce racing via its two protagonists, leading trainer Andrew Balding and his principal jockey Oisin Murphy as they compete over a nine month period culminating in the horse racing world’s most prestigious annual event: Royal Ascot. Audiences will get unprecedented behind the scenes access as they follow Balding (brother of sports host Clare Balding) and Murphy from fall 2020 to summer 2021, watching them train at Balding’s Hampshire stables and competing in events across the country. All seems lost, however, when Murphy tests positive for cocaine: will he be banned from the sport he loves or will he be able to re-build his once promising career?

A new documentary series will reveal what really happens on Love Island as stars of the hit ITV show tell-all. Channel 4 are set to air the explosive new series, which will feature exclusive interviews with Islanders dishing dirt on at the sometimes controversial reality show. Ex contestants will expose what really goes on behind the scenes as well as how they deal with instant fame and what happens when they go back to a normal life after their time in the Spanish villa.The Sun, which first broke the news, revealed the show will be titled Reality Check: Life After The Limelight.The reports come just a couple of weeks after Love Island host Laura Whitmore shocked fans by announcing she was quitting the show, after finding "certain elements" of the series "very difficult", including the travel requirements.

Armie Hammer is a subject of scrutiny in the new Discovery+ docu-series House of Hammer and there’s one moment in the series that viewers noticed might not be accurate.

One of the women who previously spoke out with accusations against Armie Hammer is now sharing her thoughts on the new House of Hammer docu-series.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix and the European Producers Club (EPC) have revealed the winners of a pitch contest for fictional series at the ongoing Venice Film Festival. The pitch contest is a joint initiative by EPC and Netflix to help create new opportunities for European women producers. It was launched at Series Mania in March, and open to EPC producers working for women-owned companies. Following a selection process by an independent jury, composed of Cia Edstrom, Francine Raveney and Olivier Kohn, the competition finalists pitched their projects to the Netflix content team. Anna Mannion of Tri Moon Films, Ireland, won the first prize of €50,000 ($49,762), while Ada Solomon of Microfilm, Romania, won the second prize of €20,000.

Armie Hammer‘s scandal is front and center in the new Discovery+ docu-series House of Hammer, which is now available on the streaming service.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Michelle Buteau comedy series Survival of the Thickest is adding to its team.

Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is set to executive produce Feds (working title), a six-part docuseries about the FBI, for ID and discovery+. The project is the second to be announced as part of Spencer’s multi-part deal with ID and discovery+, with her Orit Entertainment and October Films.

UPDATED, 11 AM: Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler and Octavia Spencer will help celebrate TV legend Norman Lear in ABC’s upcoming special Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter, the network announced Thursday.

announced on July 27, which coincided with Lear’s centennial.“I’ve always believed music and laughter have added time to my life. I’ve seen a lot throughout my 100 years, but I would’ve never imagined America having a front-row seat to my birthday celebration,” Lear said.

BreAnna Bell ABC has enlisted celebrity assistance from Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler and Octavia Spencer as they come together to celebrate TV legend Norman Lear in the upcoming special, “Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.” The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday. “I’ve always believed music and laughter have added time to my life. I’ve seen a lot throughout my 100 years, but I would’ve never imagined America having a front-row seat to my birthday celebration,” said Lear.

“racist” Little League World Series scandal that explains the full context of the short clip — and it’s as innocent as 12-year-olds playing baseball. During the Sunday broadcast of the MLB Little League Classic between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox, the ESPN cameras showed white Little Leaguers from Davenport, Iowa, putting stuffing from a plush animal in their black teammate’s hair. People on Twitter cried foul, saying it was a blatantly racist act.