Yahya Abdul-Mateen II To Star In Blitz Bazawule’s ‘The Scent Of Burnt Flowers’ Limited Series From Macro Television Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Vidyut Jammwal, one of Indian cinema’s biggest action stars, has set his first project as a producer, the espionage thriller IB 71, in which he will also star.

EXCLUSIVE: After officially hanging up his Iron Man suit in Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. looks to have found his big follow-up while also marking his first venture into the TV realm. Sources tell Deadline, HBO has ordered the A24 limited series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-Prizer winning novel The Sympathizer with Robert Downey Jr. attached to co-star in the series.

Amazon Prime Video secured its first ever Emmy nominations in the main drama series category, with The Boys, and in limited series, with The Underground Railroad today plus a pair of noms in the TV movie category.

A limited series about Effa Manley, aka the “Queen of the Negro Leagues,” is in the works from Alcon Television.The project is based on James Overmyer’s novel “Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles.” Byron Motley and Jeffrey Miiller are leading the adaptation, which is looking for talent and a showrunner.Anya Adams will direct the pilot.

EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of Effa Manley, the first and to-date only woman to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is headed to the screen.

EXCLUSIVE: One of the top books of 2020, Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, is headed to television with a high-profile limited series adaptation in development at FX. It is executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) who is set to star.

A year and a half after his surprise exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Justin Chambers is making a return to acting by taking on a screen icon.

Uzo Aduba, who is coming off acclaimed performances in two limited series, Mrs. America and In Treatment, and Matthew Broderick will lead the cast of Painkiller, Netflix’s upcoming limited drama series about the origins of the opioid crisis and the role of Purdue Pharma.

EXCLUSIVE: A Quiet Place star Millicent Simmonds is leading a television adaptation of Sara Nović’s upcoming book True Biz – a coming-of-age story of a Deaf teenage girl.

Lily Rabe has been tapped to star as Betty Gore in HBO Max’s limited series Love and Death.

Kyle MacLachlan is set for a key role opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Paul Ben-Victor (The Irishman) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Lily James, Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen in Pam & Tommy, Hulu’s limited series based on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Nick Offerman also stars.

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Rabe is set as a lead alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons and Patrick Fugit in HBO Max’s Love and Death, a limited series about the true story of Wylie, TX, housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. Rabe will portray Gore opposite Olsen’s Montgomery in the series from the Big Little Lies and The Undoing duo of David E. Kelley and Nicole Kidman and Lionsgate Television.

You’ll recall in late 2020, during Disney‘s major blitz where the company showed off its brand wares, Marvel, Pixar, and more, about ten new Lucasfilm projects were announced. Among things like “The Book Of Boba Fett” and an “Ahsoka Tano” limited series, a new anime anthology series, “Star Wars: Visions,” was announced.

Sutton and Richard ended up together with no plans to have a kid, Kat ended up with Adena (Nikohl Boosheri) and became editor-in-chief of Scarlet, and Jane ended up leaving Scarlet altogether to travel and write.And really, those endings came in large part from the minds of the actors themselves.

William Fichtner has been tapped for a key role opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Netflix has greenlighted Echoes, a twin sisters limited series from 13 Reasons Why writer/executive producer/showrunner Brian Yorkey. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer will serve as executive producer and co-showrunner on the psychological thriller as part of a multi-year overall deal with the streamer for series and other projects.