High school basketball is the perfect setting for laughs.
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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVHBO is developing Unruly, a six-part limited series about legendary boxer Jack Johnson to be played by two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The project hails from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone and will be written by Dominique Morisseau based the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, produced and directed by Ken Burns, and its companion book by Geoffrey C.
High school basketball is the perfect setting for laughs.
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straight to your inboxManchester City should have had at least one penalty which would have killed the game against Bournemouth.That was the claim of Gabriel Jesus, who went down under two challenges from Cherries defenders which were both big shouts for a spot kick.The second, a sliding challenge from Steve Cook in the second half, as Jesus danced his way into the box, initially saw referee Lee Mason point to the spot, but then had the virtual assistant referee (VAR) over-rule the on-field
During these turbulent times, HBO Max wants you to just … relax. The streamer has ordered “A World of Calm,” a series based on the popular app and narrated by a slew of big names.The 10-episode order co-produced by Calm and Nutopia is HBO Max’s first brush with the health and wellness space.
Also Read: Michael Che to Star in Sketch Comedy Series at HBO MaxHere’s how HBO Max describes the series:A timely antidote for our modern lives, each half-hour episode takes audiences on an immersive visual journey into another world. Building on the record-breaking success of Calm’s Sleep Stories – bedtime stories for grown ups with over 250m listens – each relaxing tale is designed to transform how you feel.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterBruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has optioned the rights to Christina Baker Kline’s “The Exiles” with plans to adapt it as a television series, Variety has learned exclusively.“The Exiles” follows a trio of women — two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl — in nineteenth-century Australia. The historical novel is set to be published by Custom House, an imprint of HarperCollins, on Aug.
Milky Chance and Jack Johnson's joint single "Don't Let Me Down" rises 3-1 to take over the top spot on Billboard's Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart dated July 18.The song is Johnson's 10th Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 and first since "I Got You" led for two weeks in August 2013.
Nellie Andreeva, Dino-Ray Ramos EXCLUSIVE: The suspense novel The Red Lotus from New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian is getting the TV treatment.
Michelle Williams and Oscar Isaac will lead the cast of an upcoming HBO limited series, Scenes From a Marriage.
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.
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
New Girl provided fans with laughs for days, but it also never failed to deliver some heartfelt moments. Most importantly, it introduced the world to some of the most lovable and quirky characters that have ever graced the small screen.Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the comedic series ran for seven seasons on Fox from 2011 to 2018.
Hair Love, the Oscar-winning short film from Matthew A. Cherry about a father's quest to do his daughter's hair, is now being developed into a 12-episode series at HBO Max.
Jake Kanter, Peter White, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox.The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer Alexander Cary, Sony Pictures Television and ITV Studios.
Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorUCP is adding another true crime series to its slate with Candy (working title) a limited event series based on the true story of Texas killer Candy Montgomery and her victim, Betty Gore, starring and executive produced by The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss, from The Act co-creator Nick Antosca and writer Robin Veith (Mad Men, The Act).
Thomas and Charles Guard, dubbed as the Guard Brothers, are on board to direct the film, reports hollywoodreporter.com.The film follows Irish paramilitary soldier Michael (Reynor), who after a border ambush, witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an SAS sergeant Tempest (Boyega).
Unruly.The show will be split into six parts, and has been described by Variety as “an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life.The statement added: “The first ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s rise to greatness and the costs he paid for his skin color and defiance.”The series will be based based on the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and will see Dominique Morisseau serve as writer and