Streaming Development, Series Orders Recovering Faster From COVID-19 Than Linear, According to Industry Analyst

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is continuing its reality push and has ordered a new gospel-based non-scripted series in addition to renewing five existing franchises.

25 years after playing the role that helped launch his career in A Time To Kill, Matthew McConaughey may be getting ready to make his return to the courtroom. Sources tell Deadline, HBO has acquired the rights to the John Grisham novel, A Time For Mercy, the sequel to Grisham’s classic novel, and are developing it as a limited series with McConaughey in final negotiations to reprise the role of defense attorney, Jake Brigance.

EXCLUSIVE: Spectrum Originals has given a 10-episode order to Joe Pickett, a one-hour drama series based on C.J. Box’s bestselling novels. Michael Dorman (Patriot, For All Mankind) has been tapped for the title role in the project from Waco creators John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, Paramount Television Studios and Lucy Fisher’s Red Wagon Entertainment.

Haley Bosselman editorIn today’s TV news roundup, HBO Max ordered a new streetwear competition series, and Variety has an exclusive first look at Carey Mulligan in “My Grandparents’ War.”Angela Bassett will narrate Fox’s “Malika the Lion Queen,” a two-hour wildlife documentary that will air April 4 and be available on Tubi beginning April 18. Bassett will guide viewers through an educational exploration of the true queens and leaders in the lion kingdom.

Big Sean has announced that his 2012 mixtape ‘Detroit’ is finally coming to streaming services.The acclaimed project, which won Mixtape Of The Year at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards, features the tracks ’24K’, ‘Mula’ and ‘Sellin Dreams’, and includes guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Royce Da 5’9″ and Chris Brown.Yesterday (March 13), the city of Detroit celebrated its annual 313 Day (313 is the area code for Detroit).

EXCLUSIVE: Midori Francis (Dash & Lily), Gavin Leatherwood (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Christopher Meyer (Tell Me A Story), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (Queenpins), Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (Give Me Liberty) and Renika Williams (Modern Love) are set as series regulars in The Sex Lives of College Girls, Mindy Kaling’s upcoming comedy series at HBO Max.

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EXCLUSIVE: Production outfit EQ Media Group has will produce unscripted series Hopwood’s Castle, based on actor Hopwood DePree’s journey from Hollywood to northern England to rescue his dilapidated 600-year-old ancestral home.

EXCLUSIVE:  Corbin Bernsen’s Home Theater Films has optioned author Daniel Friedman’s Buck Schatz trilogy for a limited series.

EXCLUSIVE: The TV and film arm of Quality Control, the record label behind hip hop artists including Lil Yachty and Migos, has struck a co-production deal with Trioscope Studios, the company behind Netflix’s animated hybrid drama The Liberator.

Edinburgh Airport were wrongly stung with hefty fees amid travel restriction confusion in Scotland.All 36 arrivals on a flight from Dublin Airport were mistakenly asked to buy coronavirus test kits worth £210 by Border Force in a costly error with full refunds issued to each passenger.Those flying on the Ryanair service, which arrived in Edinburgh on Friday 26 February, told officials that they did not need the testing kits because they had come from Ireland - a "common travel area", Dublin Live

Lamar Odom is thankful.

Lamar Odom is looking back with love. The former NBA star took to Instagram on Thursday to share his thanks to his ex-wife's family while taking a walk down memory lane.Odom shared a clip of himself as he watched a marathon of his E! reality series, which detailed his romance with his then-wife Khloe Kardashian.The show — which was a spin-off of the long-running flagship series — ran for two seasons and a total of 20 episodes from 2011 to 2012.

Lamar Odom is looking back with love. The former NBA star took to Instagram on Thursday to share his thanks to his ex-wife’s family while taking a walk down memory lane.

“I’ll never forget the day I got married on TV,” Lamar Odom wistfully said while tuning into the E! network’s Khloe & Lamar marathon. The NBA star made the confession in an Instagram video of himself watching his old Keeping Up with the Kardashians spinoff show that he co-starred with his ex-wife, Khloe Kardashian, which he shared on March 3. The rerun of his series that aired between 2011-2012 had put Lamar in a sentimental mood.

Unless you believe all those ridiculous conspiracy theories on social media, as of right now, there aren’t any tech billionaires secretly trying to put monitoring devices into our brains. But in the upcoming HBO Max series, “Made for Love,” that’s a very real consequence in the failing marriage of a tech billionaire and his wife.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has extended the successful COVID insurance scheme from April through to the end of December as part of his annual budget, which was announced Wednesday.Known as the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, the groundbreaking £500 million ($698 million) fund assures productions that they’ll receive financial support in case of COVID-related losses.

EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Television and Israel’s Tadmor Entertainment are developing a scripted television series based on the lives of judo world champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki.