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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominee Alex Buono (Documentary Now!, Russian Doll) has been tapped as producing director and will direct the pilot of Peacock’s Based on a True Story from Craig Rosenberg.

too niche for the network?“IFC has been an incredible partner, and for real I can’t believe that they let us keeping making it,” Meyers said with a laugh. “With that said, I think it’s very fair that they didn’t jump through the roof with excitement when we said we were doing Agnes Varda.”“It was a bit of a slower push up the hill,” added Rhys Thomas, who with Buono directs most of the episodes.

In 2015, pals Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas got together with IFC to create “Documentary Now!,” a mockumentary TV series that spoofs celebrated docs through film history. The show was an immediate hit, and now it heads into its fourth season, ready to premiere on IFC/AMC+ next month.

K.J. Yossman “Dodger,” the high-octane family drama based on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” is set to return to the BBC for three specials. Production has just wrapped in Bristol on the three one-off episodes, which include a Christmas-themed offering, with Christopher Eccleston (“Doctor Who”) returning as Fagin and Billy Jenkins (“Peaky Blinders”) returning as the eponymous child pickpocket. Also returning for high jinks in Victorian London are Ellie-May Sheridan (“Call The Midwife”), Aabay Ali, Connor Curren, Mila Lieu, David Threlfall (“Shameless”), Alex Kingston (“Doctor Who”), Rhys Thomas (“The Fast Show”), Javone Prince (“No Time To Die”), Lucy Montgomery (“Disenchantment”), Saira Choudhry (“Life”), James Fleet (“Vicar of Dibley”), Lenny Rush (“A Christmas Carol”) and Sam C Wilson (“Hanna”).

tiff.net.The full list of new additions:TIFF DOCS“752 Is Not a Number,” Babak Payami | Canada“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras | USA“Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On,” Madison Thomas | Canada“Casa Susanna,” Sébastien Lifshitz | France, USA“Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels,” Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro“The Colour of Ink,” Brian D.

TIFF just announced a whole lot more movies for this year’s festival.

Documentary Now! is back on IFC and it is set to premiere Season 53 on Wednesday, October 19 at 10 p.m. ET with two new episodes. The titles of the two-part season premiere are “Soldier of Illusion,” written by John Mulaney, and “Trouver Frisson,” which plays tribute to the Agnès Varda films.

Development on a live-action “Robotech” movie began back in 2007 at Warner Bros. with a fleet of writers each taking a crack at turning the beloved Japanese anime series from the 1980s into a Hollywood feature film.

EXCLUSIVE: After helping steer the ship as the main director on Marvel’s Hawkeye series, Rhys Thomas has been set to direct Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari’s Robotech for Sony Pictures. The film is currently in development with the script by Marcum & Holloway with a rewrite by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. Harmony Gold also is involved.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBBC family comedy “Dodger,” which launched on children’s channel CBBC and migrated to the flagship BBC One channel, has gotten an official soundtrack release.Universal International Studios and Back Lot Music released the official soundtrack, which features original music written by Joel Cadbury and Will Harper. You can stream the soundtrack now via all major global digital streaming platforms.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Documentary Now!” has unveiled the first details of its upcoming fourth season (or 53rd according to the show).While the new season of the IFC comedy series does not have a premiere date, it is expected to air on IFC and AMC Plus in 2022. The new season will consist of six episodes and is currently in production.Documentaries to be featured in the upcoming season include:· Paying homage to fashion documentaries “3 Salons at the Seaside” and “The September Issue,” “Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport” is a fly-on-the-wall portrait of a hair salon owner and her staff in the small coastal village of Bagglyport as they prepare their yearly stylebook.· In the vein “When We Were Kings” and other great explorations of sport, “How They Threw Rocks” chronicles the Welsh sport of Craig Maes, also known as “Field Rock”, and the iconic 1974 bout dubbed “The Melon vs.

Christopher Eccleston and David Threlfall will face off in the new CBBC show "Dodger", a ten-part family adventure set to air next year.

Disney+ has unveiled a new Hawkeye featurette and poster promoting assassin Yelena Belova’s (Florence Pugh) return to the MCU ahead of the Marvel Studios series’ December 22 finale.

In this episode of The Playlist Podcast directing duo, Bert & Bertie, join to talk about their most recent work on Marvel Studios “Hawkeye.” For those unaware, “Hawkeye” is the new Disney+ series featuring the title character played by Jeremy Renner, who finally is getting the spotlight for his own project. Previously, I spoke to Rhys Thomas, who directs episodes 1, 2, and 6, which is the finale, but crammed in between are episodes from Bert & Bertie, who work on 3, 4, and 5.

(This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Disney+’s “Hawkey”)“Hawkeye” director Rhys Thomas apparently loves putting Clint Barton in hilariously uncomfortable situations. In the second episode, “Hide and Seek” that included forcing the retired Avenger to seek out a LARP (live action role play) group and, ultimately, be forced to participate.

Hawkeye has a bit of a stigma in comics and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’s the dude that shoots arrows.

There’s less than a week before Hawkeye premieres on Disney+!

Marvel for a new ‘Hawkeye’ Disney+ television series.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amber Finlayson and Katie Ellwood (Troop Zero) and Rhys Thomas (Staten Island Summer) have been recruited to direct a block of episodes in the upcoming 6-episode series.Jonathan Igla, who was a writer on Mad Men is set to be writing and executive producing the new series.Jeremy Renner will be reprising his role as Clint Barton/Hawkeye but the series is reportedly introducing the character of Kate Bishop – a

Also Read: 'Hawkeye': Hailee Steinfeld in Talks for Kate Bishop Role on Disney+ SeriesBert and Bertie made their directorial debut with 2016’s “Dance Camp” and followed it up with their 2019 Sundance breakout “Troop Zero” which was acquired by Amazon. Thomas’ other credits also include “Staten Island Summer,” “Comrade Detective” for Amazon and “John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch.”Bert and Bertie are repped by Verve.

Spandau Ballet’s Gary and Martin Kemp are set to feature in a spoof documentary about them recording a new album.