‘The OA’ creators return with murder mystery series ‘Retreat’

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bass (Miracle Workers) is set as a lead opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of Super Pumped, Showtime’s anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

The cast and creators of Netflix’s Cobra Kai paid tribute to the legendary actor Ed Asner, who died peacefully on Aug. 29 at the age of 91.

John Carroll Lynch was killed off the ABC series Big Sky in season one, but he was just announced to be returning for the upcoming second season.

When Melanie Lynskey read the pilot script for Yellowjackets, she knew she needed to be part of the series, despite the fact that she’s typically “nervous” about signing on to long-term TV contracts.

Escapist mysteries have become a robust subgenre on Netflix with salacious hits like “Behind Her Eyes” and “You” landing in the streaming platform’s top ten every time new episodes are available. Twisting and turning narratives that sacrifice character for mounting revelations, these shows work because of their breakneck plotting, never allowing viewers to question if anything adds up because they’re too excited about the next shock.

Yesterday, it was announced by WarnerMedia that they’d added two more cast members to their cast of “Our Flag Means Death,” a pirate comedy series at HBO Max that will be led by New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi as history’s most notorious pirate, Blackbeard.

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Jeremy Garelick will direct the “Murder Mystery” sequel for Netflix, with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston expected to reprise their roles from the first film, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The film, with a script from James Vanderbilt, will shoot in Paris and the Caribbean.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Garelick has been set to direct a sequel to Murder Mystery, with the expectation that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler will reprise in the Netflix film. There is a script by James Vanderbilt, and Garelick will do a polish. The fast tracked film will shoot in Paris and the Caribbean.

The Netflix series “The OA” certainly had a following, and the team behind the sci-fi show is reuniting with another genre project.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla FX has ordered the limited series “Retreat,” written by “The OA” creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. The mystery series — a twist on the detective trope — follows an amateur sleuth named Darby Hart, as she attempts to solve a murder case at a secluded retreat.

“The OA” creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have set a new limited series at FX, the network announced Friday.The project, which will star Marling in a “key role,” centers on an amateur sleuth as she attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat. Marling and Batmanglij will both direct.The series centers on “gen Z amateur sleuth” Darby Hart, who is “invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a Retreat at a remote and dazzling location,” per FX’s series description.

Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling are teaming up again!

Grey’s Anatomy thrilled fans with the returns of several dearly departed characters during season 17, and the show plans to bring back another former star in the upcoming season 18. Kate Burton, who plays Ellen Pompeo’s character Meredith Grey’s mother, Ellis Grey, will return in the new episodes.

It’s hard not to get excited for a new series when it stars two actresses as talented as Zoe Kazan and Betty Gabriel. And that’s exactly what makes the upcoming Netflix series, “Clickbait,” so promising.

Jay Weissberg It was a bold move for Stefan Ruzowitzky (“The Counterfeiters” among many others) to conceive of a gritty Expressionist detective-thriller set in the aftermath of World War I, shot almost entirely on blue screen. Whether it’s also fully successful is open for debate.

Charlize Theron celebrated her 46th birthday in style.

The return of “My Life Is Murder” just got more epic thanks to a long-awaited reunion between “Xena: Warrior Princess” stars Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Twenty years after “Xena” ended, the two actors are sharing the screen once again in season 2 of the Acorn TV crime series starring Lawless as private investigator Alexa Crowe.