Donald Trump will be accepting the Republican presidential nomination with a speech at the RNC tonight and the scene from the convention is pretty shocking.
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Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsHGTV will bring the business beginnings of Renovation Island stars Bryan and Sarah Baeumler to American viewers when Renovation Inc. debuts on HGTV Aug.
Donald Trump will be accepting the Republican presidential nomination with a speech at the RNC tonight and the scene from the convention is pretty shocking.
Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King.”The series, ordered without a pilot episode, will be based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” NBCUniversal Television and Streaming said Tuesday.It's planned for release across three corporate siblings: the NBC broadcast network, cable’s USA channel and the recently launched Peacock streaming service, NBC Universal said.McKinnon also will be an executiver producer for the show with the working title of “Joe Exotic,” Maldonado-Passage's nickname.
Jon Burlingame A main title sequence is often the only part of a show in which music can take center stage, and usually for just a minute. But it can also be the biggest challenge for a composer, who must somehow encapsulate the ideas, the story, the characters and the milieu of a series.
Kate McKinnon's Carole Baskin project has received a straight-to-series order at NBC. The network announced the news on Tuesday, sharing that the limited series — in which McKinnon will star as Baskin — will roll out across NBCU’s scripted entertainment platforms, NBC, Peacock and USA.
a major reorganization of the company’s television business. That reorganization placed a clear emphasis on the company’s future streaming plans while deemphasizing the importance of certain cable networks in the NBCU portfolio in order to cut costs.The bizarre world of Exotic and Baskin was most famously documented in the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.” The series dropped on March 20 and quickly became a media sensation.
Wondery podcast of the same name, “Joe Exotic” is a limited series based on true events following Carole Baskin (McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast, who learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit, she sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy.
Sure, it was only like five months, but it sure does feel like Netflix’s “Tiger King” took over the public discourse years ago, doesn’t it? Oh, how quickly the world can change in 2020, with each new month bringing yet another ridiculous obstacle. Frankly, I miss the good ol’ days of March 2020, when the pandemic seemed like only a minor inconvenience that would pass relatively quickly.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNBCUniversal is going all in for Joe Exotic (working title), UCP’s limited series starring and executive produced by Kate McKinnon, which has received a joint straight-to-series order by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming divisions.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Kate McKinnon-led series about Carole Baskin and the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic has received a multi-platform series order at NBCUniversal Television, Variety has learned.The limited series, currently titled “Joe Exotic,” is now set to air on NBC, Peacock, and USA Network. In addition, Etan Frankel has boarded the project as writer and executive producer under his overall deal with series producer Universal Content Productions (UCP).
Dave McNary Film ReporterMONDAY, AUG. 24The American Film Institute and Universal Pictures have launched a week-long “Black Stories Matter” series with “BlacKkKlansman,” “Get Out,” “Girls Trip,” “Loving” and “Straight Outta Compton” available for free through Aug.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVArrowverse architect Greg Berlanti is ushering in a new group of superheroes at the CW.The network has put in development The Powerpuff Girls, a live-action series based on the original Cartoon Network animated series created by Craig McCracken. The project, featuring adult versions of the three kindergarten-aged girls from the classic animated series, hails from Diablo Cody (Juno, United States of Tara), Heather Regnier (Veronica Mars), Warner Bros.
The American Film Institute and Universal Pictures are partnering on a week-long AFI Movie Club event, “Black Stories Matter.” Following the recent collaboration honoring Spike Lee and his film Do the Right Thing, the series will spotlight Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Malcolm D. Lee’s Girls Trip, Jeff Nichols’ Loving and F.
We Are Who We Are, an eight-part television series directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) will have its world premiere in San Sebastian as part of the festival's special screenings program. Produced by HBO and European pay-TV group Sky, the series is a coming-of-age tale exploring friendship, first love and sexual identity through the story of two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.
Foo Fighters have brought back the original designs of two of their 1995 tour t-shirts to help benefit the #SaveOurVenues campaign.The band are also supporting the National Independent Venue Association’s #SaveOurStages campaign in the US.
Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsMetro Sexual, Australia’s first sitcom led by LGBTQ characters, will come to North American audiences starting Sept. 1.The mockumentary-style series will begin streaming in America on Crackle, OUTtvGo and Prime Channels in Canada.
Congratulations are in order for Alyssa Bates and John Webster! The Bringing Up Bates stars are pregnant with their fourth child, they revealed in a statement. “We’re so excited to add one more little one to our family,” Alyssa and John told US Weekly. “After having some health scares and wondering if we would be able to have more children, God gave us a little surprise blessing.