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[03/08/21 - 11:11 PM]
Development Update: Monday, March 8
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
CLOISTER F*CKED (The CW) - Tessa Blake has been tapped to helm the drama pilot, in which "two strangers become sisters on a spiritual - and spirited - journey to understand their own faith and their place in the Catholic Church." (Variety.com)
DOWN TO EARTH WITH ZAC EFRON (Netflix) - Production has begun on a second season of the series in Australia for a 2022 premiere. Efron Michael Simkin and Jason Barrett of Ninjas Runnin' Wild and Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson and Darin Olien of The Nacelle Company will executive produce. (Deadline.com)
KINDRED (FX, New!) - Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has scored a pilot order from the cable channel for a small screen take on Octavia E. Butler's novel, "centered on Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family are most surprisingly and intimately linked. An interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the ties that bind." Courtney Lee-Mitchell, Darren Aronofsky, Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields will also executive produce for Protozoa Pictures and FX Productions. (Deadline.com)
LOUDERMILK (Amazon) - The Farrelly brothers took to social media with the news their former AT&T Audience Network series has found a new home at Amazon. Seasons one and two will roll out on Friday, March 12 with season three - which has yet to air - due 30 days later. (@farrellybros, 3/6)
POWERPUFF GIRLS, THE (The CW) - Maggie Kiley has been tapped to helm the pilot for the live-action take on the beloved Cartoon Network animated series. (THR.com)
QUEENS (ABC) - Brandy has scored one of the lead roles on the drama pilot, Naomi: "Twenty years ago, Naomi was better known as Xplicit Lyrics - the highly skilled musical engine of the Nasty Bitches. A true artist with boundless musical talent - Naomi was certain she'd go on to mainstream success after the group's demise. She hasn't, singing and playing her guitar in crappy dive bars where all people want is her old persona. When the group gets back together, Naomi is reunited with the only man she ever loved, and the rival bandmate who stole that man from her. But what Naomi wants more than anything is to build a relationship with the daughter she was never really there for - if she only knew how." (Deadline.com)
RURANGI (Hulu, New!) - The streamer has scored the U.S. rights to the New Zealand series, which "follows transgender activist Caz Davis who returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rūrangi after a decade away, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned." Elz Carrad, Kirk Torrance, Āwhina Rose Henare Ashby, Arlo Green, Ramon Te Wake, Aroha Rawson, Renee Lyons and Renée Sheridan star in the project, from director Max Currie and co-creators Cole Meyers and Oliver Page. Producer Craig Gainsborough of Autonomouse and co-producers Tweedie Waititi, Cole Meyers, Max Currie and Melissa Nickerson are also among the auspices for The Yellow Affair and Prospect Films. (Deadline.com)
RUST (Showtime) - Mark Pellegrino has joined the cast of the Jeff Daniels/Maura Tierney-led drama as Virgil Poe, "described as "wiry" and "hanging onto his good looks" - and he's also unemployed. He plays the field but remains technically married to Grace Poe (Tierney), to whom he returns when he misses her bed or just needs a bed in general." (Deadline.com)
SEE (Apple TV+) - Tom Mison is bound for the new season in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (TVLine.com)
WOMEN OF THE YEAR (Amazon, New!) - Filmmaker Alma Har'el is developing a scripted anthology series at Amazon Studios inspired by Time's Women of the Year Project which "will feature a selection of women visionaries who played critical roles in our society's greatest achievements over the past century. Each episode will focus on one woman through the lens of the 24-hour period that made her "woman of the year." Each pivotal and highly impactful day that changed this woman's life, and ultimately our world, will be directed by a different female filmmaker, showcasing very distinct and personal takes on the course of history." Jellywolf's Christopher Leggett will also executive produce for Time Studios and P&G Studios. (Deadline.com)
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[04/17/26 - 11:46 PM]
Development Update: Week of April 13-17
Updates include: CBS eyes expansion of "Fire Country," "Sheriff Country" universe; "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" season two locks in cast; and "The Copenhagen Test," "Law & Order: Organized Crime" among latest cancellations.
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[04/17/26 - 03:01 PM]
ABC News Is #1 on Sunday Morning and Friday Night
For the third week in a row, "20/20" built on its year-ago telecast in all key target demos: Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49.
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[04/17/26 - 01:03 PM]
Fourteen Elite Survivalists Compete for National Pride and the Ultimate Cash Prize in "Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown"
Divided into seven pairs representing their homelands, survivalists' skills will be tested by three brutal and unpredictable ecosystems in South Africa's Zululand.
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[04/17/26 - 11:31 AM]
A Magical Cast Summoned for the "Wizards Beyond Waverly Place" Final Season
Jennifer Stone, Gregg Sulkin, Maria Canals-Barrera, and Selena Gomez are among the featured talent.
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[04/17/26 - 10:10 AM]
TNT Sports Announces Commentators for 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs Presented by Geico First Round Games on Sunday, April 19
TNT Sports will drop the puck on its coverage of the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs featuring up to 28 First Round games.
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[04/17/26 - 09:31 AM]
2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs Presented by Geico Begin Saturday on ESPN
In all, 16 First Round games will play out over the first ten days on ESPN and ESPN2.
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[04/17/26 - 09:04 AM]
Video: "Glory" - Official Trailer - Netflix
In a small-town boxing hub, two brothers investigate a shocking murder while navigating a troubled reunion with their father, a renowned coach.
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[04/17/26 - 09:00 AM]
Hulu Adds "Handsome," "The Mess Around," "Prison Breaking," and "That Was Us" to Podcast Slate Beginning This Month
These new licensed additions join a growing slate of companion podcasts tied to Disney+ and Hulu's most popular series.
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[04/17/26 - 07:15 AM]
TNT Sports Acquires Multi-Year U.S. Broadcast Rights to FIA World Endurance Championship Races
A new era of endurance racing arrives in the U.S. as truTV airs three premier events in full: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo, and Lone Star Le Mans in Austin, Texas.
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[04/17/26 - 06:31 AM]
Bokeem Woodbine and Nona Parker Johnson Join Season Two of "Dexter: Resurrection" for Paramount+
In addition to Woodbine and Johnson's casting, Paramount+ recently announced that Brian Cox will join this season as "The New York Ripper," Uma Thurman will reprise her role as Charley and Dan Stevens will play "The Five Borough Killer."
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[04/17/26 - 06:14 AM]
All Roads Lead to Rome: Eternal City Tip-Off Featuring Notre Dame vs. Villanova Launches 2026-27 NCAA College Basketball Season on FOX & FS1
The contest between the two Catholic college basketball powerhouses promises to be an electric start to the 2026-27 season on FOX, with coverage highlighting the incredible atmosphere surrounding the event.
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[04/16/26 - 05:01 PM]
A Turn-of-the-Century Superpower Adventure of Goofy Misfits: "The WONDERfools" Premieres May 15
Set in 1999, "The WONDERfools" is an adventure comedy series about a group of neighborhood misfits who unexpectedly gain superpowers and must band together to take on villains threatening world peace.
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[04/16/26 - 01:11 PM]
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Renewed for Season 28 by NBC
The network confirmed the news on social media this afternoon.
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[04/16/26 - 12:01 PM]
NBC Sports Adds to Game and Studio Teams for WNBA Coverage Beginning May
Zora Stephenson, Noah Eagle, and Michael Grady will call games as the play-by-play voices, with LaChina Robinson as both studio host and game analyst, and Sarah Kustok as a game analyst.
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[04/16/26 - 12:01 PM]
Next on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN - May 2026
Highlights include "Travis Japan Summer Vacation!! in the USA," "The Punisher: One Last Kill," and "The Nightmare Upstairs: What Happened to Ty and Bryn."
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