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Grey’s Anatomy firefighter spinoff gets straight-to-series order

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ABC has announced a spinoff from the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, with THR reporting that the network has placed a straight-to-series order for a new series based around a group of heroic firefighters. Creator Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers will executive produce the spinoff, with Stacy McKee serving as showrunner, and the first episode will […]

Tracy Morgan’s new TBS series titled The Last O.G., Cedric the Entertainer joins cast

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TBS has announced that Tracy Morgan’s new comedy series is going by the title The Last O.G., and will see him starring alongside Cedric the Entertainer (The Soul Man), Tiffany Haddish (Keanu), Allen Maldonado (The Equalizer), Ryan Gaul (Identity Thief), Taylor Mosby (Criminal Minds) and Dante Hoagland (The New Edition Story). Created by Jordan Peele […]

Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams teaming for Lovecraft Country

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Fresh from the success of Get Out, Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions company are teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for a TV adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel Lovecraft Country, which has been given a straight-to-series order from HBO. The pilot is being written by Misha Green (Underground), who will also serve as […]

Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen and Common set to star in thriller Three Seconds

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Quite a cast has assembled for Andrea Di Stefano’s upcoming film. Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen and Common have been cast in Three Seconds, an action thriller based on the novel of the same name by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström. The screenplay is from Matt Cook, Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland, with Di Stefano […]

Dennis Quaid cast as George W. Bush in Katrina: American Crime Story

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Katrina: American Crime Story, the second instalment of the anthology series, has found its President. Actor Dennis Quaid has been cast as former President George W. Bush in the second season of Ryan Murphy and FX’s breakout show. The season will follow the events leading up to and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation […]

Ben Kingsley to star in Death of an Author

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Variety is reporting that Ben Kingsley has signed on to star in director Daniel Alfredson’s Death of an Author, the first instalment of a feature film adaptation of Hakan Nesser’s upcoming Intrigo trilogy of novels. Kingsley will star alongside Benno Furmann (North Face) and Tuva Novotny (Borg/McEnroe). “Hakan Nesser has fascinated millions of readers all […]

Rumour: Marvel developing Captain Britain TV series

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Every few months or so we get a new rumour sprouting up suggesting that Marvel is developing a TV series based around this character or that character, and generally these rumours turn out to be little more than speculation, based upon the fact that Marvel is no doubt considering many of its virtually endless roster of superheroes […]

Jonah Hill and Michael Cera join Adult Swim’s Shivering Truth

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Actors Jonah Hill and Michael Cera have joined the Adult Swim pilot Shivering Truth. The two Superbad actors will be voicing characters for the new stop-motion pilot which is written and created by South Park’s Vernon Chatman. Chatman will also be lending his voice to the project along with Starlee Kine. The show is billed as […]

Tommy Wiseau has filmed a cameo for The Disaster Artist

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Later this year, the James Franco-directed film adaptation of Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book The Disaster Artist, which chronicles the troubled production of what is oftentimes called the worst film of all time, The Room, will be hitting theaters. Franco will portray writer, director and star of The Room, Tommy Wiseau, but a recent […]