Lena Horne's Granddaughter Developing Limited Series Based On Her Life at Showtime

In maybe the most absurd recent example of the ongoing national compulsion to immediately dramatize the news, HBO and Adam McKay are developing a limited series about the hunt for a vaccine for coronavirus (even though there’s no telling when such a thing will exist).

Lily James and Andrew Scott are set to star in the upcoming limited series The Pursuit of Love, which will be a joint venture between Amazon and BBC One.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorIn an era of captive TV audiences, Freeform is about to dive into Love in the Time of Corona. The four-part, two-night rom-com, which was ordered to limited series in early May, will air at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, August 22 and 23.

Also Read: 'Friends' Is HBO Max's Most-Viewed Show Since LaunchBorrell is a journalist based in Los Angeles whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Outside. Borrell’s narrative non-fiction book proposal for “The First Shot” was sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.CAA represented the television sale of Borrell’s “The First Shot” on behalf of the Waxman Agency.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterDiego Boneta has signed on to star in a limited series currently in the works at HBO Max, Variety has learned exclusively.Hailing from Legendary Television, the series is titled “Brujo” and will feature both English and Spanish dialogue. It is inspired by the true story of the infamous Adolfo Constanzo and the power he acquired as his acts of dark magic came to light.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal Pictures and Mattel Films are in the works on Wishbone based on the PBS TV series from the 1990s about the iconic Jack Russell terrier.Green Book Oscar-winning producer Peter Farrelly is producing the live-action feature alongside Mattel Films. The family film project reps the first theatrical collaboration between Mattel Films and Universal Pictures and the ninth Mattel Films project in development.

Nyle DiMarco has a new TV show in the works!

It’s interesting the talk of, “is it a series or is it a film?” that dominates film culture when a great filmmaker does something in the realm of television. David Lynch is really seen as a forerunner in the film-to-TV transition because of “Twin Peaks,” the ’90s version, and the more recent Showtime return, but Ingmar Bergman was already out there in the 1970s.

Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten With voting for this year’s Emmy nominations coming into the final stretch, today’s episode of our Deadline weekly podcast, TV Talk , once again dives into a handicap of some key races, in this case for Best Limited Series  and Best Movie Made For Television.  Among top contenders in the uber-crowded Limited Series race are so many top quality productions that TV Critic Dominic Patten has his own list , and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond

Joe Otterson TV ReporterOscar Isaac and Michelle Williams are attached to star in an HBO limited series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage,” Variety has learned.Bergman’s version aired on Swedish television in 1973, consisting of six episodes. Bergman directed the series with Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson starring.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO has given a green light to Scenes From a Marriage, a limited series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic series, starring and executive produced by Oscar Isaac and Michelle Williams, from Our Boys and The Affair co-creator Hagai Levi, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Endeavor Content.Written and directed by Levi, the series adaptation re-examines the show’s iconic depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a

Joe Otterson TV ReporterShowtime is developing a limited series about entertainment icon and activist Lena Horne.The series is currently titled “Blackbird: Lena Horne and America,” named for Horne’s favorite poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Jenny Lumet, Horne’s granddaughter, will co-write the first few episodes of the series with Alex Kurtzman, with both also executive producing.The series will span 60 years of Horne’s life, from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16,

Peter White Television EditorThe life of entertainer and activist Lena Horne is to be turned into a limited series by Showtime with Alex Kurtzman and her granddaughter Jenny Lumet.The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is developing Blackbird: Lena Horne and America and will tell her story from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the MGM years, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement and her triumphant return to Broadway.It will explore her relationships

HBO Max is breathing new life in an acclaimed short film with a sweetly powerful message.

Elisabeth Moss is ready to trade in her handmaid's bonnet for an ax.