Showtime’s Limited Series ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Wins Peabody Award

EXCLUSIVE: One of the top books of 2020, Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, is headed to television with a high-profile limited series adaptation in development at FX. It is executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) who is set to star.

A year and a half after his surprise exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Justin Chambers is making a return to acting by taking on a screen icon.

Uzo Aduba, who is coming off acclaimed performances in two limited series, Mrs. America and In Treatment, and Matthew Broderick will lead the cast of Painkiller, Netflix’s upcoming limited drama series about the origins of the opioid crisis and the role of Purdue Pharma.

Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is set to star and executive produce Blitz Bazawule’s The Scent of Burnt Flowers, a six-episode limited series based on Bazawule’s upcoming novel, from Charles D. King’s Macro Television Studios and Bazawule’s production banner Inward Gaze.

Lily Rabe has been tapped to star as Betty Gore in HBO Max’s limited series Love and Death.

Kyle MacLachlan is set for a key role opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Paul Ben-Victor (The Irishman) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Lily James, Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen in Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s limited series based on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Nick Offerman also stars.

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Rabe is set as a lead alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons and Patrick Fugit in HBO Max’s Love and Death, a limited series about the true story of Wylie, TX, housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. Rabe will portray Gore opposite Olsen’s Montgomery in the series from the Big Little Lies and The Undoing duo of David E. Kelley and Nicole Kidman and Lionsgate Television.

William Fichtner has been tapped for a key role opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

The most ambitious crossover cranks out another volume as the worlds of Marvel and “The Simpsons” collide.

Netflix has greenlighted Echoes, a twin sisters limited series from 13 Reasons Why writer/executive producer/showrunner Brian Yorkey. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer will serve as executive producer and co-showrunner on the psychological thriller as part of a multi-year overall deal with the streamer for series and other projects.

Congratulations are in order for Gal Gadot, who has welcomed her third child! The Wonder Woman star, 35, gave birth to a little baby girl, Daniella, on June 29, she revealed in an adorable Instagram post. Gal, who also shares daughters Maya, 4, and Alma, 9, with her husband Jaron Varsano, shared a family photo with her new baby girl, writing, “My sweet family.

Gal Gadot has given birth to her third child, a baby girl she and her husband, Yaron Varsano, have named Daniella.The star shared a family photo with her husband and their two older daughters, 4-year-old Maya and 9-year-old Alma, holding the newest addition to the family.«My sweet family

Joel Marsh Garland (Orange Is the New Black) has joined Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s scripted limited series based on the Wondery podcast about the Tiger King character.

Good Morning America star Michael Strahan has shared a rare and adorable picture of his pet pooch, Enzo.The goldendoodle, four, posed for a picture that Michael shared with fans on social media, revealing that his dog is a good listener -  particularly when there is a treat in it for him."ENZO is actually a legitimately trained and certified service animal.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargePlaying John Brown in Showtime’s limited series “The Good Lord Bird” required an intensity from star and executive producer Ethan Hawke that pushed him to his limits. “It was the first time I knew what having a heart attack might feel like,” Hawke told Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

EXCLUSIVE: Darrell Britt-Gibson, Rob Brown, McKinley Belcher III and Larry Mitchell have been cast as leads in We Own This City, HBO’s upcoming limited series from The Wire’s executive producer David Simon and producer George Pelecanos. They will star alongside previously cast Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles and Jamie Hector in the project, which will kick off production in July.

FX has ordered a limited series based on Jon Krakauer’s Mormon crime drama Under the Banner of Heaven with Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones starring.