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Peacock has released some of the first images of Apples Never Fall, Peacock’s upcoming limited series based on Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. Annette Bening and Sam Neill lead the cast, along with Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, Conor Merrigan-Turner and Essie Randles. The series is set to release on the streamer in March.

EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Palmer (The Clearing, The Fall Guy), Miranda Richardson (Good Omens, Spider) and Danielle Macdonald (The Tourist, Patti Cake$) and a host of other names have joined Nicole Kidman‘s light-hearted Australian drama series The Last Anniversary.

Nicole Kidman has shocked fans by revealing that a new season of hit HBO show Big Little Lies is on the way.Based on the novel by Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies was originally billed as a mini-series but its success led to a second season.Alongside Kidman, the show starred Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Kravitz, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern. The second season introduced Meryl Streep as Kidman’s mother-in-law in the show.While speaking onstage at a Q&A event this weekend (November 18), Kidman was asked about the show and revealed that a new season was in the works.“I loved Big Little Lies,” Kidman said (via E! Online), before adding: “because it sort of came along at a time in my life when I had my children and I was thinking I was going to retire.

EXCLUSIVE: Jillian Share, who was recently eOne‘s President of Film Production, has been named President of Teton Ridge Entertainment, a new Los Angeles-based independent studio.

has been renewed for a second season, ET has learned. The Hulu resort drama starring Nicole Kidman and adapted from Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name will be back for a second installment, this time with a whole new cast led by the Oscar winner.The news of a second season comes almost two years after first debuted in August 2021, with the premiere becoming the most watched Hulu original at the time.

“Nine Perfect Strangers” has been greenlit for a second season.

Hulu has officially renewed “Nine Perfect Strangers” for a second season.Nicole Kidman will return as star and executive producer, along with a new cast nearing deals to join in the Swiss Alps-set installment that includes “White Lotus” star Murray Bartlett, Liv Ullman, Dolly de Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Aras Aydin. Kidman stars as Masha, the lead counselor at Tranquillum House, who has her own traumatic past involving a dead daughter.

Hulu is proceeding with the long-rumored second season of Nine Perfect Strangers. Nicole Kidman is returning to executive producer and star, with a new group of the titular strangers around her. Two-time Oscar nominee Liv Ullman, Emmy winner Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus The Last Of Us), Dolly de Leon (Triangles Of Sadness), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Turkish actor Aras Aydin are set to star opposite Kidman, sources tell Deadline, with casting of the remaining roles ongoing.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Peacock limited series adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel “Apples Never Fall” has added six recurring guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively. Katrina Lenk (“Ozark,” “Little Voice”), Timm Sharp (“Enlightened,” “Blunt Talk”), Nate Mann (“Masters of the Air,” “Licorice Pizza”), Paula Andrea Placido (“Hacks,” “Shameless”), Pooja Shah (“L Word: Generation Q,” “Westworld”), and Quentin Plair (“Tiny Beautiful Things,” “Welcome to Chippendales”) have all joined the series. They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, ALison Brie, Essie Randles, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Georgia Flood, Jeanine Serralles, and Dylan Thuraisingham.

Heather Graham is happy with her decision to not have any children. In an interview with People magazine, the 53-year-old actress opened up about her choice and explained that having kids was not meant for her. "I think we all have different paths," she told the outlet.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Peacock limited series adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s novel “Apples Never Fall” has found its last two series regulars. Variety has learned exclusively that Jeanine Serralles and Dylan Thuraisingham have joined the series. They will star alongside previously announced cast members Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Essie Randles, and Georgia Flood. Serralles (“Hightown,” “Utopia”) will play the role of Detective Elena Camacho. The official character description states, “When Joy Delaney (Bening) goes missing, Detective Elena Camacho runs lead on the case. But she quickly grows frustrated — and suspicious— when Joy’s own family creates roadblocks in her investigation. Her pursuit of answers takes her deeper into her own struggles to balance the demands of motherhood and her job.”

Jurassic Park franchise star has spoken to various outlets about writing his new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, which he credits with giving him a “reason to live” following his diagnosis in March 2022.He told The Guardian: “I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live. I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow… that will entertain me.'”Neill told the BBC that he was diagnosed with “a ferocious type of aggressive” non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Jake Lacy and Alison Brie have joined the cast of Peacock‘s upcoming limited drama series “Apples Never Fall” as series regulars.

Jake Lacy (A Friend of the Family, The White Lotus) and Alison Brie (Somebody I Used to Know, GLOW) are set as leads opposite Annette Bening and Sam Neill in Peacock’s upcoming limited series Apples Never Fall, based on Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Alison Brie and Jake Lacy have joined the cast of Peacock’s upcoming limited series adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel “Apples Never Fall,” Variety has learned. The pair join previously announced cast members Annette Bening and Sam Neill in the series. The show was originally ordered at Peacock in February 2022. Per the official logline, the series “centers on the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family. Former tennis coaches Joy (Bening) and Stan (Neill) are parents to four adult children. After decades of marriage, they have finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. But after Joy disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh eyes.”

Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Peaky Blinders) has been tapped to star opposite Annette Bening in Peacock’s upcoming limited series Apples Never Fall, based on Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel.

Annette Bening is set to headline Peacock’s upcoming limited series Apples Never Fall in her return to television nearly two decades after starring in HBO’s 2005 TV movie Mrs. Harris, which earned her an Emmy nomination. Before that, she played herself in an episode of The Sopranos.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with Bruna Papandrea, Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky, Jeanne Snow and Sarah Harvey from Made Up Stories. The company is behind TV hits such as The Undoing, Anatomy of a Scandal, Pieces of Her and Netflix’s recent feature hit Luckiest Girl Alive. We talk with Papandrea and her team about growth in the UK and Europe and their continued ambition to champion unique female-led stories. 

Zoë Kravitz doesn’t think it’s likely that the third season of Big Little Lies will happen following Jean-Marc Vallée’s death.

Hollywood came to Manchester on Monday as Fast Furious star Luke Evans and director Phil Allocco were spotted filming new movie 5lb of Pressure in Manchester. Welsh actor and singer Luke, 43, stars in the story of a man on a quest for redemption and the Northern Quarter was transformed for the scenes, believed to be set in Brooklyn, New York.

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EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has added two key staffers to it scripted television division at Range Studios, with Sarah Brownstein joining as VP of Scripted Television, and Katheen Schenck coming aboard as a Creative Executive of Scripted Television.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Nine Perfect Strangers” is nearing a deal to return for Season 2 at Hulu, Variety has learned from sources.With the announcement, Season 1 of the series will now compete in the drama series category in this year’s awards race. The move will avoid the controversy that arose from fellow Nicole Kidman-David E. Kelley series “Big Little Lies,” which won multiple statuettes in the limited series category before a second season was announced.At this time, no casting or plot info is available about Season 2.

EXCLUSIVE: Samara Weaving, who most recently appeared in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and just wrapped starring opposite Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, has signed with CAA. The agency just dropped a memo to its teams announcing the deal.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her recent rom com Marry Me‘s weekend release, director Kat Coiro looks to have found her next project as sources tell Deadline, Coiro has been set to direct Sony Pictures’ The Husband’s Secret. The film based on Liane Moriarty multi-million copy #1 New York Times best-seller and named one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and People. The project is currently in development with plot details being kept under wraps.

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to Apples Never Fall, a limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers) bestselling novel.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLiane Moriarty’s novel “Apples Never Fall” is being adapted into a limited series at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively.In a competitive situation, Peacock has won the rights to the book, which was published in September 2021, and given it a straight-to-series order. Since its debut, the book has sold over one million copies.The series centers on the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family.

20th Century Television Studios drama exec Albert Page has become President of Clickbait and The Capture producer Heyday Television U.S.