Netflix Orders ‘Grendel’ Series From ‘Supernatural’ Boss, Abubakr Ali to Star

From every angle. After Britney Spears broke her silence on her conservatorship earlier this year, the race to tell her story began.

Britney vs. Spears.The streaming giant dropped a trailer for the doc on Wednesday, September 22, and it promises an even more in-depth look at Spears's conservatorship.

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Television has acquired the rights to the novel Friends Like These, the new thriller from New York Times Bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, and will developing as a series.  McCreight will also adapt the script with Amblin’s co-Presidents of Television Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey exec producing. Alex Maggioni, SVP of television, will work with Frank and Falvey on the day-to-day development of the project.

EXCLUSIVE: After playing a part in making the Harry Potter franchise a multi-billion dollar global box-office hit, screenwriter Steve Kloves has found a more adult adaptation to take on. Sources tell Deadline, Kloves is set to adapt Flynn Berry’s New York Times best-seller Northern Spy for Netflix. Django Unchained producer Stacey Sher will produce. Kloves will also exec produce.

The trailer for Passing is finally here!

Brandon Short is in mourning.

Selome Hailu editorNetflix announced a series order for “Grendel,” based on Matt Wagner’s Dark Horse Entertainment comic book series of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Melfi, whose new film The Starling premiered last night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been set to adapt, direct and produce for Netflix Underworld, based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo. The novel is a sprawling tapestry spread across decades that has a through line of the home run Bobby Thomson hit in 1951 to win the pennant for the New York Giants in 1951, breaking the hearts of crosstown fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

NEW YORK -- The next book from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, will highlight her work as a translator.Princeton University Press announced Monday that Lahiri's “Translating Myself and Others” will come out next spring. Lahiri has lived off and on in Rome for nearly a decade, and her translation projects include "The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories” and her novel “Whereabouts,” which she first wrote in Italian.

New York Post. “After fighting through complex surgery some of Kathryn’s injuries include: broken pelvis in two places, both of her legs, her foot and her left hand,” her sister wrote.

NEW YORK -- Former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky is launching a studio for unscripted programming, with two 9/11-related documentaries debuting over the next two days.Zirinsky hopes the name See It Now Studios conveys a sense of urgency for younger viewers while reminding the historically-minded of the 1950s-era CBS News series, “See It Now,” featuring Edward R. Murrow.Her No.