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Meticulous research from a prominent paranormal researcher has revealed the most haunted postcodes across Greater Manchester.

EXCLUSIVE: Isaach De Bankolé (Godfather of Harlem), Phoebe Fox (The Great), Silvia Dionicio (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Coral Peña (For All Mankind) are the newest recurring cast members set for HBO‘s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title).

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Jamie Dornan will lead the cast of a new crime noir series that has been ordered at Netflix titled “The Undertow,” Variety has learned exclusively. “The Undertow” is based on the Nordisk Film Production AS television series “Twin” created by Kristoffer Metcalfe. Dornan will star in the series as twin brothers Adam and Lee.

EXCLUSIVE: Continuing to expand its cast, HBO‘s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title) has added five as recurring: Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Mickey Sumner (Snowpiercer), Brian Goodman (Fatal Attraction), Elvis Nolasco (Godfather of Harlem), and Colin Bates (American Rust).

EXCLUSIVE: HBO’s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title) has three new recurring cast members: Owen Teague (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), Dominic Colón (Power), and Margarita Levieva (The Deuce).

EXCLUSIVE: R.F. Kuang‘s bestselling fantasy novel Babel is in the works for the screen. Independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown, The Summer I Turned Pretty) has optioned the novel for television/film adaptation with Temple Hill Entertainment (Twilight) producing.

Fabien Frankel (House of the Dragon) and Alison Oliver (Saltburn) have been cast in key roles in Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby’s upcoming HBO crime drama series, starring Mark Ruffalo.

EXCLUSIVE: Raúl Castillo (Cassandro), Jamie McShane (Wednesday) and Sam Keeley (Burnt) have joined the cast of HBO‘s Mark Ruffalo-led series, the Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (w/t), currently in pre-production. 

BreAnna Bell Tom Pelphrey has been cast in HBO‘s untitled Task Force series from Brad Ingelsby. The drama is currently in pre-production. The “Guiding Light” alum will play Robbie, a sanitation worker and dreamer who has been knocked around by life, but has always gotten back up again.

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Ingelsby’s upcoming HBO crime drama series starring Mark Ruffalo has added to its exec producer and director ranks.

EXCLUSIVE: Wiip has snapped up rights to Adamtine, a horror graphic novel by award-winner Hannah Berry, to develop for film.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor This article first appeared as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter – to subscribe for early content and weekly updates on all things acting, visit the Acting Up signup page. Charlene Lee and Claire Koonce want actors to succeed. At CLCK casting, which they founded in 2019 after working together on various projects, they share similar work ethics and values.

Selome Hailu Jenny Han’s teen drama series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” has been renewed for a ten-episode third season at Amazon Prime Video. Though the news was announced on Thursday, Amazon says the greenlight was made official internally before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on strike, and that no work on Season 3 will begin until labor negotiations between the guilds and the studios have been resolved. According to Amazon, Season 2 of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is one of the 10 most-watched seasons of any series ever on Amazon Prime Video, with its July 14 premiere more than doubling viewership of Season 1 within three days of launch.

Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby has landed another series order at HBO – a crime drama starring Mark Ruffalo.

, set to Taylor Swift's «August,» and it's going to be an interesting summer for Belly. The YA series, based on Jenny Han's bestselling novels of the same name, follows Belly (Lola Tung) and the Fisher brothers, Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), as they spend summers together at Cousins Beach. And while a love triangle brews between the trio, the season 1 finale saw Belly and Conrad sharing a kiss.The season 2 teaser opens with Belly being sprinkled with water by Conrad as they're both committed to being together.

The drama continues for Belly (Lola Tung) and brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Calasegno) as Belly remains torn between the two in Season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty. Prime Video today unveiled a teaser trailer, set to Taylor Swift’s “August” from her 2021 Grammy-winning album folklore. Season 2 picks up following the Season 1 finale where Belly, who had seemed committed to a relationship with Jeremiah, surprisingly kissed Conrad at the conclusion of the season-ender.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor From Paul Lee’s perspective, the streaming boom that led Hollywood to binge on original content has evolved significantly during his half-dozen years as CEO of production company Wiip. Over the past year, the industry has been through “a moment where the streaming revolution went from a land grab to ‘This land needs to be fertile,’ ” Lee says on the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business.” Lee spent a dozen years at Disney, rising to become head of ABC Family and later head of ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios. He’s mostly kept a low profile since launching Wiip in partnership with CAA in 2016.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty.” The good news is Season 2 of the Prime Video series premieres on July 14. The bad news: this second season is rolling out new episodes weekly instead of all at once.The first three episodes of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Season 2 will be released on Amazon Prime Video on July 14, with new episodes rolling out weekly after that until the season finale on Aug.

Naman Ramachandran BAFTA-winning “The Last King of Scotland” writer Jeremy Brock will adapt independent studio Wiip and India’s Roy Kapur Films’ series based on the book “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company” by author and historian William Dalrymple. “The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.

EXCLUSIVE: Fisk University made history earlier this year by becoming the first HBCU gymnastics team to compete at an NCAA event.

EXCLUSIVE: Independent studio wiip has preemptively acquired An Honest Man, an upcoming novel by Michael Koryta, to develop as a television drama series, with Koryta attached to pen the adaptation.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s reality supremo Rob Wade has been elevated to CEO of Fox Entertainment.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” has expanded its cast for Season 2, adding Kyra Sedgwick and Elsie Fisher.The two join the Prime Video show in recurring roles, however no details were made available about their characters. Season 2 is currently in production.Based on the book of the same name by author Jenny Han, Season 1 of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” debuted on the streaming service earlier this year, going on to become the No.

Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty adds Kyra Sedgwick and Elsie Fisher to its Season 2 cast in recurring roles. Details regarding their characters are under wraps.

Wiip, the studio behind series such as HBO’s Mare of Easttown and Apple’s Dickinson, has secured further investment.

EXCLUSIVE: McFarlane Films is partnering with wiip and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Rooster Teeth Studios to develop RAW10, an adult animated series from creator Dan Dominguez (Gen: Lock), inspired by McFarlane Toys’ eponymous series of action figures.

Prime Video has given an early Season 2 renewal to The Summer I Turned Pretty, its series adaptation of Jenny Han’s YA novel, ahead of its June 17 premiere.

Wilson Chapman editor“Pistol,” a new limited series about the career of “Sex Pistols” guitarist Steve Jones, will premiere on Hulu this May 31, FX has announced.Based on Jones’ 2017 memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,” “Pistol” follows the brief but influential career of The Sex Pistols, a 1970s British punk band that only produced one album but are regarded as one of the most important acts in the history of rock-n-roll. The central viewpoint character for the series is Jones, who is portrayed by Toby Wallace. Anson Boon also stars as John Lydon, while Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious and Jacob Slater as Paul Cook round out the rest of the band as featured in the show.

FX’s “Pistol,” the series based on the memoir from Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, has a premiere date.The show will begin streaming on Hulu May 31, with all six episodes of the limited series available at launch.“Pistol” has been described by FX as a show about “a rock and roll revolution. The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols — and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones.

FX has set the date of its Danny Boyle-directed limited series about Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. Pistol will premiere May 31 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ in UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of one of America’s most beloved TV personalities, Johnny Carson, may finally be coming to the screen. A high-profile series, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Carson, written by Deadwood creator David Milch and to be directed by Jay Roach, was recently taken out and has been heating up the premium marketplace. The project, titled King Of Late Night, is a co-production between wiip and Anonymous Content.

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child, Landline) and Mathilde Dratwa (Milk and Gall) have been tapped to executive produce and pen the adaptation for Separation Anxiety, a limited series based on Laura Zigman’s bestselling novel, from independent studio wiip. Robespierre also will direct the pilot for the project starring Julianne Nicholson.

There’s no future in England’s dreaming but despite this FX is setting its Sex Pistol drama series for May.

EXCLUSIVE: On Valentine’s Day, Dickinson producer wiip has found its next love story.

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown) has optioned the rights to Gary M. Pomerantz’s bestselling nonfiction book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and The Making of Atlanta to adapt for television.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe success of HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” couldn’t have come at a better time for Wiip, the boutique production company behind Kate Winslet’s limited series. The murder mystery was nominated for 16 Emmys this year, earning raves for its unique storytelling and performances — and also for its twisty, satisfying ending.“Mare” has become a nice calling card for Wiip, which former ABC Entertainment chief Paul Lee launched with the backing of CAA in 2018.