‘The Wire’s David Simon & George Pelecanos Set ‘We Own This City’ HBO Limited Series About Baltimore Police Corruption

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorDavid Thewlis has signed on to star opposite Olivia Colman in “Landscapers,” HBO’s four-episode limited series from Sky Studios about a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an investigation when dead bodies turn up in their yard.Will Sharpe, who worked with Colman in the offbeat 2016 British comedy series “Flowers,” has signed on to direct all four episodes.

Fargo actor David Thewlis is to star opposite Olivia Colman in HBO and Sky’s limited series Landscapers, which tells the story of a couple who become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in a back garden.

Starzplay has picked up a bunch of international rights for Peacock’s true-crime limited series Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, and Christian Slater.

Sometimes passion projects are teased but never happen. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, these projects will eventually get made, even if it takes years to do so.

Jamie Foxx will be playing Mike Tyson on the small screen in a limited series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jamie Foxx is heading to the boxing ring.The Oscar winner will play boxing great Mike Tyson for an «authorized» biographical limited series, , it was announced Monday. Foxx will also executive produce alongside Tyson, Martin Scorsese and director Antoine Fuqua.will span the life of the boxing legend.“I have been looking to tell my story for quite some time,” said Tyson in a statement.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJamie Foxx will play boxing great Mike Tyson in a new biographical limited series, Variety has learned.The series, titled simply “Tyson,” is not currently set up at a network or streaming service, but will no doubt find one quickly given the names attached to it already.

Aretha Franklin‘s family is not happy with the upcoming NatGeo limited series Genius: Aretha based on the late singer’s life.

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Wisocky (Devious Maids) and Meagen Fay (Hightown) have been tapped for recurring roles in Dopesick, Hulu’s eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy’s bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television.

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.

Margot Robbie and John David Washington are getting ready for another day of filming!

EXCLUSIVE: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Trapped, The Missing) and Alex Dimitriades (The End, The Cry, The Principal) are set as leads opposite Jamie Dornan in HBO Max’s The Tourist, the six-episode limited series from Fleabag production company Two Brothers Pictures.

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.

FX has ordered a limited series based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s New York Times bestselling debut novel Fleishman Is in Trouble. 

Angelique Jackson Michael B. Jordan will pull double duty on the newest “Creed” installment, starring in and directing “Creed III.”MGM announced today that Jordan will make his directorial debut with the new film, which is set to be released in theaters on Nov.

EXCLUSIVE: Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon is getting the TV treatment with a limited series adaptation in the works with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe in talks to adapt.

Judas and the Black Messiah co-star Dominique Fishback is set as a lead alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Apple TV+’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey limited series. The White Tiger writer-director-producer Ramin Bahari has signed on to direct and executive produce the six-episode series based on the acclaimed novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley, who will write the screen adaptation and also executive produce alongside Jackson.

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