‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Executive Producer Tamra Simmons Inks Development Deal With Blue Ant Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Jurnee Smollett, hot off a SAG ensemble nomination and a Best Actress TV Drama series Critics Choice nom for the HBO series Lovecraft Country, is boarding the Netflix movie Lou as star and executive producer.

And they’re off! Kyle Richards, Ramona Singer, Kenya Moore, Cynthia Bailey, Luann de Lesseps, Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga are officially filming a new Real Housewives series in Turks and Caicos.

 mash-up series, which is currently filming in the Turks and Caicos.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorRobin Thede, the multi-hyphenate behind HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” is developing a zombie action-comedy feature “Killing It” with Jax Media and Amazon Studios.Thede wrote the screenplay and will produce. The story revolves around a group of underachieving friends who find themselves overrun by zombies while they are in Atlanta to visit Spelman College, 10 years after they dropped out of the prestigious HBCU women’s school.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Chris Kula, a co-executive producer on Star Trek: Lower Decks, has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the Paramount+ animated series.

confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter, saying Hellman had died in hospital after a fall at his home. Hellman was born Monte Himmelman in 1929, and after studying theatre at Stanford University set up a theatre company in Los Angeles.

Naman Ramachandran Tennis legend Martina Navratilova will executive produce a feature documentary on all-time greats from another era — Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills.“The Goddess and The American Girl” tells the story of French tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen and American sensation Helen Wills against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has come aboard to star in and executive produce Free Agents, a sports heist thriller that Deon Taylor will direct for Lionsgate. Taylor wrote the script with Joe Bockol and came up with the story.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Wings of Fire” books by Tui T. Sutherland are being adapted into an animated series at Netflix with Ava DuVernay set to executive produce.The “Wings of Fire” books have sold more than 14 million copies around the world to date.

Participant has boarded Lionsgate and Mandeville Films’ White Bird: A Wonder Story, the companion film to 2017’s hit $306M-plus grossing YA feature Wonder, as EP and co-financier.

Michael Corn, the top producer on ABC News’ Good Morning America, has departed the show in what was described as an abrupt exit.

's three-part reunion is going to bring the drama. In the first look at the dungeon-themed, multi-episode, season 13 reunion, Porsha Williams, Kenya Moore, Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, and Drew Sidora aren't holding anything back.The teaser kicks off with the ladies unintelligibly speaking over each other as host Andy Cohen watches from the sidelines.

Moritz Polter, the executive producer behind Sky’s German series Das Boot and Netflix’s Freud, is setting up a production label with ITV Studios in Germany.

Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia's restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta. Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp.

Truly Original, the Banijay-backed producer behind the Ink Master and Swamp People franchises, has been dipping its toes into new areas of unscripted television with a remake of a British panel show for The CW and is now working on a hybrid animated series.

Kandi Burruss' mantras is, «speak on it.» She even has a digital talk show with that name, but there is one topic she’s done speaking on: whether Bolo, a stripper she hired as entertainment for Cynthia Bailey’s bachelorette party, got intimate with any of her co-stars at said bachelorette party.

EXCLUSIVE: OZY Media has tapped two executives and three executive producers to help expand OZY Studios’ development and production.