Showtime Developing Limited Series About Lena Horne With Her Granddaughter Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman

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).

Watchmen), (Self Made), and (Little Fires Everywhere). “3 out 5 of the actresses for limited series are Black,” one fan wrote on Twitter, while another posted, “The Black excellence is tangible.”It's tangible beyond the Limited Series category, as well.

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.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Hunters star Tiffany Boone is set as a lead opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Hulu’s tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty’s latest book, from David E.

pushed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic.Also Read: Bridget Everett-Led Comedy 'Somebody Somewhere' Set at HBOTold over the first three episodes, “Summer” follows Sam (Law), a man who is drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost, according to the premium cable channel and its new streaming offshoot.

“Until 1974, the medical establishment considered gay people sexually deviant and diagnosed them as mentally ill.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorFX has put in development 81 Words, a limited series about gay rights pioneers Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, from Pose co-creator Steven Canals, Pal Pictures and 20th Century Fox TV.Written by Canals, 81 Words is based on Alix Spiegel’s award-winning This American Life episode, “81 Words,” and soon-to-be-released PBS Independent Lens documentary, Cured.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Pose” co-creator Steven Canals has a new limited series in the works at FX.Titled “81 Words,” the series tells the true story of gay activists Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, who risked their career reputations to conspire with the GAYPA – a clandestine group of closeted psychiatrists – to challenge the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of homosexuality.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Grace Van Patten is set as a lead opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Hulu’s tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty’s latest book, from David E.

Diego Boneta will be starring in the upcoming limited series Brujo, which is in the works at HBO Max.

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.

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

Lena Horne will be the focus of a new limited series at Showtime.