New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to end the state mask mandate in schools starting on March 2, in response to key Covid-19 trends and consultations with health and education experts.
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K.J. Yossman “The Crown” producers Left Bank Pictures are making “Palomino – a new female-led series – for Netflix.The eight-part series revolves around Erin Collantes, a British teacher in Spain who gets caught up in a “brutal” supermarket robbery.
But when one of the robbers purports to recognize her, she finds her life slowly unraveling.“In Palomino, a town of secrets, Erin Collantes fights to clear her name and protect her family… But is she really who she claims to be?” reads the logline. The series is set to start shooting later this year in Spain.Casting has yet to be announced.“Palomino” is written by Jack Lothian (“Strike Back”) who will also showrun and exec produce the series.
Iram Haq (“What Will People Say”) is lead director while series producer is Nuala O’Leary (“Official Secrets”). Rob Bullock and Andy Harries exec produce alongside Lothian.Left Bank Pictures, which is owned Sony Pictures Television, has become a regular supplier of high budget drama for the streamer.
As well as smash hit series “The Crown,” which follows the royal family from Queen Elizabeth’s ascent to the throne following the death of her father in 1952, the oufit has made “White Lines,” fronted by Laura Haddock and also set in Spain, and thriller “Behind Her Eyes” for Netflix.The penultimate season of “The Crown” is due to be released in Nov. It will feature Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West, who are taking over from Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor as Princess Diana and Prince Charles in the series.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to end the state mask mandate in schools starting on March 2, in response to key Covid-19 trends and consultations with health and education experts.
HBO‘s new LA Lakers drama.The actor is set to portray former Lakers owner Jerry Buss in the forthcoming basketball drama Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty, which is due out next month.Reilly was the third choice for the role in the Adam McKay drama after Will Ferrell and Michael Shannon dropped out.“I’d been sitting at my kitchen table, thinking, ‘Man, I’m dead in the water, all this work, 80 movies, and I got nothing going on,’ when I got the text from Adam,” Reilly told The Hollywood Reporter.He landed the part after Ferrell fell out with his longstanding collaborator McKay over the role.“It ended not well,” McKay said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair after Ferrell, a die hard fan of the team, had his heart set on playing Buss.McKay thought that Ferrell’s Step Brothers co-star Reilly would be better suited for the role.“Ferrell just doesn’t look like Jerry Buss, and he’s not that vibe of a Jerry Buss,” added McKay. “And there were some people involved who were like, ‘We love Ferrell, he’s a genius, but we can’t see him doing it.’ It was a bit of a hard discussion.” To make things worse, McKay didn’t personally notify Ferrell of the choice.
Over $200,000 worth of props were stolen from the set of Netflix‘s The Crown.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said today that the county will relax its indoor mask-wearing requirement this week, allowing vaccinated people to remove masks in indoor spaces where people are checked for proof of vaccination. She says the change could take effect by Friday.
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EOne has signed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures exec Sharon Hughff as Creative Director, Scripted Television in the UK.
Manori Ravindran International EditorEntertainment One has hired Left Bank executive producer Sharon Hughff to serve as creative director of scripted television out of the U.K.In her new role, she will oversee the scripted team and pipeline from the U.K., while spearheading efforts to expand the slate into buyers in the U.K. as well as Europe and Asia.
BBC Radio 6's annual Music Festival will take place this year in Cardiff.
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It’s hard to think of other professional basketball teams that measure up to the Showtime Lakers era. NBA dynasties such as the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan had a predecessor with Magic Johnson and the Lakers.
It’s hard to think of other professional basketball teams that measure up to the Showtime Lakers era. NBA dynasties such as the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan had a predecessor with Magic Johnson and the Lakers.
Queen Elizabeth II met with Prince Charles before he tested positive for COVID-19 and is now being closely monitored, a royal source tells ET. On Thursday, Clarence House announced that Charles — who is vaccinated and boosted — tested positive for COVID-19 that morning and is now self-isolating. Our source tells ET that 95-year-old Elizabeth and 73-year-old Charles met on Tuesday after she returned from Sandringham.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona.
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Elisabeth Moss becomes an investigator in the first look at her latest series, Shining Girls.