Sky Rolls Out 125 Films and TV Shows in 2021, Plans For Future Without HBO Output Deal

When Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed that there will be a "Sex and the City" revival, fans couldn’t help but wonder: what will happen to Samantha Jones? Kim Cattrall, who played the proudly promiscuous publicist in the hit Emmy-winning series, will not be returning. HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys told TVLine on Wednesday that the SATC follow-up, titled "And Just Like That…" will be a realistic portrayal of women in their 50s.

The coronavirus pandemic has made many things tough in show business -- least of all, launching a new network like Chip and Joanna Gaines are working to do. The duo is heading up Magnolia Network -- which will debut its full slate of original programming on July 15 on its app and on the new streaming service discovery+.

fans have some insight into how Samantha Jones might be written off of the new HBO Max revival. The 10-episode half-hour series, which will be titled,, will star Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbs, and Kristin Davis as Charlotte York.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is set to restart filming season eight in “the fairly near future,” Andy Samberg has confirmed.The actor, who plays detective Jake Peralta in the hit series, recently told LADBible that the team is “waiting to come back again” after a coronavirus-related shutdown.“We started shooting, then we shut back down. So we’re waiting to come back again,” Samberg said.“It’s scheduled for the fairly near future for us to return.

Sometimes, people drift apart. That’s likely the explanation the Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That, will go with when it debuts on HBO Max — without Kim Cattrall‘s Samantha Jones.

Droughtlander going on for longer than most, it feels like an age since we had our last update about season six. All had gone quiet after the cast offered updates from the Outlander costume department over the festive period.

In perhaps the smartest cost-saving move for a major award show this year but the worst technically, the 2021 SAG Awards nominations were announced by actors Daveed Diggs and Lily Collins via the ceremony’s official Instagram page. After a delay for Diggs to find Collins in the actual Instagram Live stream, the nominees were finally unveiled.

gave a Best Actress nod to Collins. Diggs landed a SAG nomination for Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series for his role in “Hamilton.”The SAG Awards are set to air April 4 on TNT and TBS, although the coronavirus pandemic created several obstacles for the oft under-appreciated show honoring the best in film and TV.Originally scheduled for Jan.

ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE Theo Anthony's gripping new documentary confronts the permeating presence in our lives of automated surveillance, and the false and dangerous premises it's built on.

Golden Globe nominations had you saying, «Wait… what?» then let the Screen Actors Guild nominees soothe your wary awards season soul. Whereas the Hollywood Foreign Press Association wakes up and chooses chaos — which makes for one of the most unexpected if not inexplicable shows of the season — the actorly voting body of SAG-AFTRA tends to be more reliable.And on the film side, SAG Awards are a much better gauge of Oscar nominations to come.

In perhaps the smartest cost-saving move for a major award show this year but the worst technically, the 2021 SAG Awards nominations were announced by actors Daveed Diggs and Lily Collins via the ceremony’s official Instagram page. After a delay for Diggs to find Collins in the actual Instagram Live stream, the nominees were finally unveiled.

Asbury Park Pictures, the U.S.-based production group from John Wick and Sicario producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, has signed an output deal with German mini-major Leonine Studios, giving Leonine exclusive German-language rights to Asbury Park's upcoming slate of mid-budget action titles.

Comcast’s European giant Sky has announced a major slate of films and TV series falling under its "Sky Originals" banner that it says is its biggest lineup to date. Among the new high-end scripted dramas announced are series from noted writers Paul Abbott (Shameless, No Offence), David Farr (The Night Manager) and Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Batman) in Wolfe, The Midwich Cuckoos and Extinction, respectively.

Indian streaming major Disney+ Hotstar has put the wheels in motion on major new project Special Ops Universe, a multi-series spin-off format of its recent espionage thriller Special Ops. Created by Neeraj Pandey, the project will span numerous incarnations, including Special Ops season 1.5: The Himmat Story, which will tell the back story of Kay Kay Menon’s character Himmat Singh.

Sign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and aboutWe're only mid-way through January but there's already plenty of newly released films for us to get stuck into.And one of the standouts for many over the past few weeks has been The Midnight Sky.Based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, The Midnight Sky tells the story of a lone scientist in the Arctic who races against time to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts returning back to