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EXCLUSIVE: Coyote co-creator/executive producer David Graziano has been named the new showrunner of Law & Order: SVU for the venerable NBC drama series’ upcoming 24th season.

The team behind Apple TV+‘s big-budget European drama Constellation took to the stage in Cologne this week to talk developing the psychological sci-fi drama, technical challenges of shooting zero gravity, almost casting Jeff Bridges and why they spent nearly $550,000 on space suits. You can watch a video of the session at the bottom.

Selome Hailu Apple TV+ has canceled “Constellation” after one season. The series starred Noomi Rapace as Jo, an astronaut who discovered that key pieces of her life seemed to be missing upon returning to Earth after a disaster in space, and set out on a quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover what she’d lost.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has opted not to continue with a second season of Constellation, its sci-fi psychological thriller series starring Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks. The news comes a month and a half after Constellation‘s eight-episode first season wrapped its quiet run on the streamer March 27.

Alison Herman TV Critic The new Apple TV+ series “Constellation” is a space drama, a category in which its deep-pocketed platform has developed something of a preoccupation. (There’s also “For All Mankind,” “Foundation” and, technically, the most recent season of “The Morning Show.”) But the show also exemplifies a type of series so recognizable it’s become practically a genre unto itself: a story that calls for the concision of a feature film that’s been stretched out to fill a TV-sized number of episodes.

Apple TV+ has unveiled the first trailer for Constellation, its upcoming eight-part conspiracy-based psychological thriller series, starring Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks, ahead of its February 21 debut.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The TV Academy better call Rhea when Emmy nominations are announced. The acclaimed actress has chosen to submit in the supporting drama actress category for the second half of the final season of “Better Call Saul,” Variety has learned exclusively. The actress joins her co-star, Carol Burnett, who will also vie for a nomination in the same category. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Emmy predictions in all categories. Despite the AMC “Breaking Bad” spin-off series airing last summer, it’s eligible for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, where it hopes to finally take home statuettes after being shut out for each of its six seasons.

Selome Hailu James D’Arcy will star as Jo’s husband Magnus in the upcoming Apple TV+ thriller “Constellation,” Variety has learned. Additionally, Oliver Hirschbiegel and Joseph Cedar have been set to direct three episodes each of the eight-episode series.The series follows Jo (Noomi Rapace), a woman who returns to Earth after a disaster in space — only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing.

James D’Arcy is set to star alongside Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks in Constellation, an eight-episode conspiracy-based psychological thriller drama series at Apple TV+. Additionally, Oscar-nominated Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) and Joseph Cedar (Footnote) are set as directors on the series, joining previously announced director/EP Michelle MacLaren.

A crime drama with a twist. Elisabeth Moss has added another prestige TV show to her resume with the new Apple TV+ series Shining Girls.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThere’s a moment late in the run of Apple TV+s’ new limited series “Shining Girls” in which one character puts forward an urgent question, and gets a mind-bending answer. “Is he going to kill me?” one woman asks. “He already has,” the other responds.

Serial killers are a popular source of inspiration whether true-crime adaptations, network procedurals (including a touted “Criminal Minds” revival), or fictional stories. Audiences have been lapping up gruesome material long before television entered the fray and subverting or introducing a different perspective in this genre is a tall task.

Actress Noomi Rapace and Emmy-winner Jonathan Banks have signed on to star in “Constellation,” a new science fiction thriller series set to air on Apple TV+, the streaming service announced Wednesday. The series will be Banks’ first new project following the end of filming on the final season of “Better Call Saul.”Created and written by Peter Harness (“The War of the Worlds,” “Doctor Who?”), the series from Turvine Studios and Haut et Court TV will be directed by Emmy-winner Michelle MacLaren (The Morning Show,” “Breaking Bad”).The show’s premiere date will be announced at a later time.Per the official description, Rapace will play JO, “a woman who returns to Earth after a disaster in space — only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has greenlit the pyschological thriller series “Constellations” with Noomi Rapace and Jonathan Banks attached to star, Variety has learned.In “Constellation,” Rapace stars as Jo, a woman who returns to Earth after a disaster in space only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing. The series is further described as a space adventure, an exploration of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and for her to recover all that she has lost.Apple has given the show a 10 episode order.

Apple TV+ has given a formal green light to Constellation, a conspiracy-based psychological thriller drama series starring Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul). The project was created and written by Peter Harness (The War of the Worlds), with Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad) set to direct the series from Turbine Studios and Haut et Court TV.

Apple TV+ series Shining Girls starring Elisabeth Moss.Based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist who is the survivor of a traumatic assault. When she learns of a recent murder that’s linked to her case, she teams up with journalist Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura) to understand her blurred reality and uncover the killer’s identity.Alongside Moss and Moura, the eight-episode thriller series stars Phillipa Soo, Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell.Moss serves as an executive producer and director on the series.

Elisabeth Moss, Michelle MacLaren and Daina Reid are set to take turns directing Apple’s upcoming thriller series Shining Girls.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Apple’s metaphysical thriller “Shining Girls,” based on the 2013 best-selling Lauren Beukes novel of the same name, has finally found its directors. The trio is made up of Emmy winner Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”), Emmy and SAG Award winner Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Mad Men”), and Emmy nominee Daina Reid (“The Handmaid’s Tale).

didn’t take Chiklis and his fellow executive producers, including Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad,” “Game of Thrones”) and David Graziano (“American Gods”), was to completion of the 10-episode series, which was shot in Baja, Mexico.“We were in the middle of Episode 7 when we got interrupted by COVID,” says Chiklis.

By Denise Petski