ABC Pilot Watch: Comedies ‘Public Defenders’ & ‘Motherland’ Remake ‘Keeping It Together’ & Dramas ‘The Hurt Unit’ & ‘Judgement’ Not Moving Forward

Holly Jones Inspired by the simmering one-man rebellion that kicked off a tremendous tide-change in Barcelona, writer-director Marcel Barrena (“Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea”) and Spain’s The Mediapro Studio have begun filming “The 47.” TMS has released first look images. The premise centers on social activist bus driver Manolo Vital, played by three-time Goya Award winner Eduardo Fernández (“Smoke & Mirrors”), as he grows increasingly outraged at the abject neglect faced by immigrant communities outside the city’s center, whose neighborhoods, peeled by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia, had only just achieved running water.

Gillian Anderson (The Crown, Sex Education) will star in Netflix’s The Abandons, the action drama series set in the West from Kurt Sutter via his SutterInk banner.

“One Cut of the Dead” is one of the most inventive and fun horror films to arrive in the past decade.

Travel blog by Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) – Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) - Travel & Lifestyle Hipster Blog LGBTQIA+ people can have a challenging time finding a supportive community. No matter where you go in the world, however, there are people you can turn to who will not only support you but also affirm you. It may even help to find a local counselor for affirmative therapy.

Stassi Schroeder offered a rare update about her falling out with Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright.

Hilaria Baldwin is giving a wide ranging interview and you may be surprised by some of the revelations she made.

“Trippin’ With Anthony Anderson and Mama Doris.” “It started out as a thank you to my mother for all the sacrifices that she made to get me to where I am,” Anderson, 52, told The Post.“It’s a way of just celebrating her. Because of my work schedule and my mom’s bingo habit, we don’t get to spend much time together at home. So, the six-week vacation was a time for us to go out and bond and see the world together.”Each half-hour episode of the series, premiering June 22 (10 p.m.) follows Anderson and his mother Doris Bowman, 69, as they travel to various countries including England, France and visit typical tourist attractions.

Manchester United could be used as an exercise in sportswashing should Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani take over the club, according to a leading academic expert.

Take That’s Howard Donald has been dropped from an upcoming Pride festival after liking tweets he admitted were 'derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community'. After outraged fans shared screenshots of tweets he had 'favourited', organisers decided to remove him from the line-up, the Mirror reports.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte waved to royal crowds on Saturday 17 June as they rode in a carriage with younger brother Prince Louis for the Trooping the Colour.The young royals were joined by mother, Kate Middleton, and Queen Camilla, who is colonel of the Grenadier guards, as they followed behind the King in a carriage. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, eight, were seen sweetly waving to crowds, with Prince Louis, five, sitting calmly between his two older siblings.

This story about the editors of “Yellowjackets” first ran in the Drama Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.The opening theme to “Yellowjackets” goes, “keep simple, nothing tired,” and this mantra could not apply more to the people who might actually be the true heroes behind the Showtime hit: the tireless editing team. The drama’s second season about a group of women grappling with the aftermath of a crash landing in the wilderness in their youth has pushed the envelope even further (cults! cannibalism!) and introduced more characters (including Elijah Wood’s wealthy amateur sleuth). But for two of the prominent editors on the show, Kevin D.

Editor’s note: The following interviews were done outside of the FYC event series, as there was no panel or screening.

The film adaptation of Red, White & Royal Blue is being released in just two months and the first photos from the movie have finally been revealed!

Things are about to get royally hot on Prime Video.

continues to build, Prime Video released the first official look at the gay rom-com starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine. And the new images not only give audiences a closer look at the expanded cast, it also teases the ups and downs of the rocky royal romance at the center of the movie. Adapted from Casey McQuiston's bestseller of the same name, tells the story of two high-profile sons, Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez) — whose mother, Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman), is the President of the United States — and Britain’s Prince Henry (Galitzine), and their unexpected romance that comes out of an ongoing feud. While the two share a number of things in common — among them, good looks, charisma and popularity — Alex and Henry have a notorious disdain for each other.

Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway’s rarified and beloved stages. Forget Covid – well, actually, don’t forget Covid, it’s still here one way or another – this year’s big potential disruption came with the WGA strike against the AMPTP.

ABC will not be moving forward with The Hurt Unit, which was set to star Ben McKenzie.

Deadline reported. As the WGA strike enters its fifth week, “The Good Lawyer,” with Felicity Huffman and “Nancy Drew” star Kennedy McMann, remains on the bubble as do “Home Economics” and “The Rookie: Feds.”The network is betting strongly on “strike-proof” unscripted series and reruns of its award-winning comedy, “Abbott Elementary” for its fall lineup.

ABC still has some decisions to make on its scripted slate.

BreAnna Bell Pilots for “The Hurt Unit,” “Public Defenders,” “Judgement” and “Keeping It Together” (which was formerly titled “Drop-Off”) are no longer moving forward at ABC. The news comes amid the ongoing writers strike taking hold of Hollywood. The Writers Guild of America decided to strike on May 2 after failing to reach an agreement on issues like wages and protections against AI. The medical procedural drama was ordered in December and starred Ben McKenzie. Per the official logline, the show is “a cutting-edge medical drama about a highly skilled team of trauma surgeons and nurses who race into the field to treat the patients who won’t make it to the hospital in time. When the sick and the injured can’t get to the ER, the Hurt Unit (Hospital Urgent Response Team) brings the ER to them.”