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We love to see a creative keep scaling up. Watching Pamela Adlon evolve and progress over the last few years has been terrific.

Oscar-nominated movie directed by Ava DuVernay follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches.

MGM+ has renewed sci-fi mystery thriller series Beacon 23 for a second season. The eight-episode season 2 will premiere on the streaming service in April.

Lena Headey‘s turn as Cersei Lannister helped make HBO‘s “Game Of Thrones” one of the most popular TV shows of the past decade. Will she do the same for MGM+‘s “Beacon 23“? The sci-fi series premieres on the streamer next month, which sees Headey’s government agent face off against an ex-soldier in a battle of wills that involves space travel, AI, and white-knuckle suspense.

Beacon 23, the sci-fi drama starring Lena Headey and Stephan James, has a new home.

BreAnna Bell MGM+ has picked up Zak Penn’s “Beacon 23” after the series’ fate was left to speculation last year due to the shutdown of Spectrum Originals in 2022. The sci-fi series is scheduled to premiere globally on Nov. 12 on the streamer.

The first four recipients of the 2023 Legacy Awards have been revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Michel Basquiat is set to be the subject of a new feature documentary, King Pleasure, from Val and Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? producer Boardwalk Pictures and Quinn Wilson, former creative director for Lizzo.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s feature adaptation of the play The Piano Lesson out of August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle” has added six to its cast: Malik J. Ali (Swagger), Gail Bean (Snowfall), Jerrika Hinton (Hunters), Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Jay Peterson (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) and Matrell Smith (The Equalizer).

Boat Rocker and Shamier Anderson and Stephan James’ Bay Mills Studios are developing Christopher Robin, an R-rated comedic reimagining of A.A. Milne’s beloved characters, Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh, as a television series.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is developing a one-hour drama about undercover FBI agents from Joy Blake (Beacon 23), The Nacelle Company and Fox Entertainment Studios.

Apple is heading to London for a new chapter of Gugu Mbatha-Raw-fronted drama series Surface after handing it a second season renewal.

EXCLUSIVE: Saving Hope and Burden of Truth showrunner Adam Pettle has joined a newly formed content arm at Canada’s Vanguarde Artists Management.

Canada’s first all-Black awards ceremony was a big moment for the two brothers who made it happen.

The Black Academy is honouring the best in Black Canadian talent.

Shamier Anderson and Stephan James, Scarborough natives and co-founders of the Black Academy, just announced the preliminary lineup of presenters and performers for the inaugural edition of the Legacy Awards — the first major Canadian award show to celebrate and showcase Black talent.

K.J. Yossman Ann-Helén Laestadius’ novel “Stolen” is getting a Netflix adaptation. Elle Márjá Eira (“The Sámi Have Rights”) is set to direct the feature based on a screenplay by Peter Birro (“Monica Z”). Laestadius will exec produce. “Stolen” will be Eira’s feature film debut. The film, about a young indigenous woman’s struggle in the face of xenophobia, climate change and the patriarchy, will go into production in Sápmi next year and is set to premiere in 2024. “I am over the moon!” said Laestadius. “For me as an author it is of course a dream to see my book adapted into a film and reach a whole new audience across the world. And I’m incredibly happy that Netflix – with their reach – chooses to highlight a Sami story in a big way.”

Naman Ramachandran “Me, My Mom & Sharmila,” the feature directorial debut of queer Muslim writer-director Fawzia Mirza, has set its cast. The film will feature Amrit Kaur, the breakout star of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble’s HBO Max series “The Sex Lives of College Girls”; Hamza Haq, who won best actor in 2021 and 2022 at the Canadian Screen Awards for CTV medical drama “Transplant”; and Nimra Bucha (“Ms. Marvel,” “Churails”). Set in 1999, the film follows Azra (Kaur) over 48 hours as she travels from her home in Canada to her parents’ homeland of Pakistan to bury her father (Haq). Azra struggles to connect with her conservative mother Mariam (Bucha), but her return to Pakistan launches her into memories both real and imagined that reveal their unexpected similarities.

EXCLUSIVE: Charter Communications is getting out of the original programming business. The decision to shut down Spectrum Originals comes as Katherine Pope, who launched and spearheaded the effort as Charter’s Head of Original Content, is leaving to become President of Sony Pictures Television Studios.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCharter is phasing out Spectrum Originals as the cable provider moves out of the original scripted series space, Variety has confirmed.The move comes after it was reported that Spectrum Originals head Katherine Pope would be leaving the company to take over Sony Pictures Television from Jeff Frost. Pope is due to begin her new role in the coming weeks, at which time Charter will begin to phase out the Originals division.Spectrum Originals first launched in 2018 with the acquisition of the “Bad Boys” spinoff “LA’s Finest” starring Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union after the show was not picked up to series at NBC.

EXCLUSIVE: Three months into production on Season 1 of Beacon 23, Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks’ psychological thriller series starring Lena Headey and Stephan James, has been renewed for a second season. Work on the second season of the series, produced by Boat Rocker Studios and Spectrum Originals, will start shortly with Glen Mazzara and Joy Blake as new executive producers and co-showrunners. They will succeed at the helm Zak Penn. He created the series, based on the book by Hugh Howey, and serves as executive producer/showrunner on Season 1, which is filming in Toronto for three more months. The plan is for Beacon 23 to stay in continuous production on Season 2 after Season 1 wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has locked down U.S. rights to the starry dramatic thriller Delia’s Gone, from writer-director Robert Budreau (Born to Be Blue), slating it for release in theaters nationwide on August 19.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Surface” is just good enough for a sympathetic viewer to want it to be better.Like Apple’s most recent glossy drama about a woman in danger, “Shining Girls,” “Surface” effectively evokes the confusion of not knowing who or where one really is; here, Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Sophie, a woman who suffered a brain injury in an apparent suicide attempt, and now has no sense of who she is. And as on “Shining Girls,” a crystalline depiction of inner turmoil coexists alongside absurdity that grows a bit tough to take.For conspiracy swirls around Sophie.

EXCLUSIVE: LA’s growing Micheaux Film Festival is to open with Travis Fimmel feature Delia’s Gone and will feature panels with Charlie Hunnam, AMPAS, Macro, Fremantle and Paramount. Scroll down for the lineup in full.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a woman desperately seeking answers about what really happened to her in the just-released trailer for Apple TV+’s psychological thriller series “Surface.”In the series, Mbatha-Raw plays Sophie, a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss. Per a logline from the streamer, the injury is believed to be the result of a suicide attempt.

What are we without our memories? It’s an intriguing concept behind “Surface.” The Apple TV+ series hails from Veronica West — who was behind the critically acclaimed streaming adaptation of “High Fidelity.” Set in San Francisco, the psychological thriller sees its central character waking to a nightmare featuring a forgotten past and secrets at every turn. The series stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman searching for answers after losing her memory.

Surface,” the new eight-episode psychological thriller series starring “The Morning Show” alum Gugu Mbatha-Raw, will premiere globally with the first three episodes on Friday, July 29 on Apple TV+. New episodes will air weekly every Friday after the premiere.The series follows Mbatha-Raw’s character of Sophie after a traumatic head injury has left her with extreme memory loss. Set in San Francisco, Sophie embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends.

Alongside Mbatha-Raw, Surface also features Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Francois Arnaud and Millie Brady.  

The Legacy Awards will be the first major Canadian awards show to celebrate and showcase Black talent.

Stephan James is set to star as graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in a brand new series, according to Variety.