‘The Wire’ creator returning to Baltimore for new HBO series ‘We Own This City’

Beverly Cleary penned award-winning books for children and young adults including the popular “Ramona” series, notably the National Book Award-winning “Ramona and Her Mother” as well as “Ramona the Brave,” “Ramona Quimby, Age 8,” and “Ramona Forever.”Born Beverly Atlee Bunn April 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette Valley, Cleary initially didn’t seem destined for a career of writing beloved classics for young readers.

Ryan Murphy didn’t need to go far to find the man who will play his monster. Evan Peters, a mainstay on Murphy’s American Horror Story, will portray Jeffrey Dahmer in the Netflix limited-series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

ROME -- Cristiano Ronaldo’s games with Juventus are moving from ESPN to CBS in the United States starting next season.The Italian league on Tuesday approved a contract with CBS for Serie A and Italian Cup rights worth about 64 million euros ($75 million) per year for the next three seasons.Ronaldo has one more season remaining on his contract with Juventus.Serie A is concluding a three-year stay on ESPN, which streams most of the Italian games online — with a few matches on ESPN2.Previously, the

and most often captain, is speaking from Las Vegas about Foden, 34 caps at full-back and wing, shivering in New York. Both are preparing for Major League Rugby, which kicks off on Saturday with Robshaw’s San Diego Legion facing Foden and Rugby United New York.

took to Capitol Hill in Washington DC to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in Congress, which resulted in the complex being locked down and nearby office buildings having to be evacuated.The show comes from Billy Ray and Shane Salerno, creators of Showtime series The Comey Rule, which starred Brendan Gleeson and told the story of FBI director James Comey’s experience of serving under former president Donald Trump (played by Gleeson).Ray is also set to write and direct the

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Kremelberg (The Trial Of the Chicago 7) has been tapped as a key series regular opposite Bill Pullman in the upcoming fourth season of USA Network’s crime anthology series The Sinner.

During a panel promoting their upcoming series, Kung Fu stars Olivia Liang and Tzi Ma responded to the rising number of violent acts against Asian Americans, condemning the latest incident in Atlanta when a gunman killed eight people, a majority of whom were Asian American.

OWN is developing the network’s first animated comedy series The Mound from Munirah Safiyah Jones — who is no stranger to the animation space. Jones is the creator of OWN’s NAACP Image Award-nominated animated short form series Sincerely, Camille and the viral hit Junt Land.

NEW YORK -- Pedro Almodóvar exposed all his vulnerability in the semi-autobiographical film “Pain and Glory.” Now he returns his focus to women not only with the short film “The Human Voice”, an Oscar hopeful that arrives this week in the United States, but with an upcoming movie that reunites him with his muse Penélope Cruz.“Madres paralelas” (“Parallel Mothers”) will begin production on March 21 in Madrid “if the virus does not interfere,” said the Spanish director, who took advantage of the

HBO this month – watch its trailer below.Q: Into The Storm will air its first two episodes back-to-back on March 21, with subsequent pairs of episodes airing on the next two Sundays.The series, which untangles the story of the conspiracy movement related to former US president Donald Trump, begins its trailer with footage from the riots on the US Capitol on January 6.A synopsis for the series reads: “Spanning three years in the making and traversing the globe, the series follows Hoback on a

Lost co-creator JJ Abrams and series star Josh Holloway are set to reunite for a new crime drama.Holloway, who played Sawyer in Lost, takes the as-yet-unnamed lead role in Duster as a getaway driver for a crime syndicate in the ’70s American southwest.It’s part of Abrams and his production company Bad Robot’s lucrative new deal with WarnerMedia/HBO to produce new shows and movies for the company, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

NEW YORK -- Isabel Allende is not only the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist.

It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.Now, the many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very different governor, one accused of underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, sexually harassing female staffers and bullying colleagues.To New Yorkers who have watched

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime’s forthcoming American Rust has added Mark Pellegrino (Dexter) as a series regular. He joins Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney in the drama series which is scheduled to begin production in Pittsburgh in late March.

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions and Larenz Tate’s TateMen Entertainment are set to release the second season of Bronzeville. The six-episode audio scripted series premieres March 16.

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Wife alum Dallas Roberts, Clea Lewis (The Americans) and Nicole Chanel Williams (Boomerang) are set for recurring roles in Showtime drama series American Rust, starring Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. The series is scheduled to begin production in Pittsburgh in late March.

Dakota Fanning is set to pportray Susan Elizabeth Ford opposite Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford and Aaron Eckhart’s Gerald Ford in Showtime’s anthology series The First Lady, headlined by Viola Davis, Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Davis executive produces the series, directed and executive produced by Susanne Bier and produced by Lionsgate TV and Showtime.

Sing it! The Voice has been stunning viewers for years with amazing talent from across the United States, crowning 19 winners since it premiered in 2011.

Fresh off the successful debut of his recent concert film, “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” it appears Spike Lee is ready to keep his relationship with HBO going strong with another project, a new docuseries focused on New York City and the events of the past 20 years, “NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½.” READ MORE: Delroy Lindo Revisits ‘Da 5 Bloods’ & Chadwick Boseman’s First Day On Set [Interview] According to HBO, production has already begun on Spike Lee’s next documentary project, “NYC Epicenters