EXCLUSIVE: ITN’s new CEO Ian Rumsey has said that his elevation was a surprise. In an email to staff (below in full), Rumsey acknowledged that he was as shocked as anyone to be replacing Rachel Corp, who stepped down from running the UK news producer with immediate effect on Tuesday. Rumsey’s promotion was all the […]
EXCLUSIVE: BET has picked up Lot Patrol to series, a new original comedy mockumentary from Manny Halley Productions. The network touts that the series offers a “laugh-out-loud look at Hollywood from a perspective the industry rarely lets you see.” Lot Patrol follows a mismatched squad of eccentric security guards who patrol the chaotic backlot of […]
EXCLUSIVE: It was an online phenomenon in the early 2010s and a licensing behemoth, and now Moshi Monsters is being reimagined for the late 2020s. Mind Candy, the company behind the brand, is working with former Netflix exec Alexi Wheeler on a new animated action-comedy series. The show will mark Moshi Monsters‘ “full-scale comeback as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps is set to play Oscar nominee Rooney Mara’s flame in Paris-set drama Quest For Love, which HanWay is selling at the Cannes market. Written and to be directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is in Us All), Mara will star as the lead Maris, a woman who “dances on the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated has secured the rights to Rest Stop, a recently published horror novella by Nat Cassidy, with an eye toward developing a feature adaptation. Cassidy will adapt the screenplay, with Dauberman and Mia Maniscalco to produce through Coin Operated. Rest Stop follows a young musician who finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom […]
Dare to Be Stupid: The Weird Al Musical, a new musical featuring the songs of Weird Al Yankovic, is being developed for the Broadway stage, with Moulin Rouge! director Alex Timbers and writers Scott Brown and Anthony King (Gutenberg! The Musical!; Beetlejuice) attached. Tony Award-winning Seaview (Every Brilliant Thing, The Fear of 13) is on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Producer and actress Marie Stark (Games People Play) has officially launched her production company, Stark Contrast Entertainment, and set its first project. White Coat will follow Dr Maya Sloane, a driven physician who returns to her hometown in Missouri, where she must confront unresolved relationships, navigate family expectations and balance the emotional demands of […]
The last two slots on ABC’s 2026-27 schedule went to R.J. Decker and The Rookie: North, both picked up during the weekend before the upfronts where the networks, including ABC, present their fall lineups. Early on, it looked like it may be one slot that would go to either the freshman drama series starring Scott […]
Keeping with the stability theme in the other broadcast schedules released so far, ABC too went for minimum changes, keeping multiple nights intact. But the one major move the network has made is pretty bold — it has left its No. 1 series, High Potential, off the fall schedule, keeping the hit crime drama starring […]
EXCLUSIVE: Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Fundamental Films has announced that Xin Zhilei, Best Actress award winner at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, will play Hollywood’s first Chinese star, Anna May Wong, in an upcoming biopic. Mark Gao’s Fundamental Films is financing and producing the film, Sunset Boulevard – The Anna May Wong Story, about the […]
