Netflix has greenlit “GLOW” for one final season, which will take it through four seasons by 2020. The series explores a fictionalized version of the real-life wrestling series (as in Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling). Struggling actress Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) joins the wrestlers and finds herself facing an old best friend Debbie Egan (Betty Gilpin). The […]
If you have a subscription to one of the streaming TV shows, you can look forward to an interesting autumn. Leave the football fans in the den and the online poker enthusiasts on their consoles while you curl up next to your bedroom TV set to enjoy some of this year’s most thoughtful, suspenseful and […]
Netflix has greenlit “Grace and Frankie” for a seventh and final season. With this final 16-episode order, the comedy, produced by Skydance Television, will make history as the longest-running Netflix original series ever (both comedy and drama) with 94 episodes. The pick up of “Grace and Frankie” comes ahead of the upcoming sixth season, which […]
Netflix will introduce its first series from Belgium, drama “Into the Night,” in 2020. The six-part series, directed by Inti Calfat and Dirk Verheye (“Over Water”) and produced by Entre Chien et Loup, tells the story about retaining humanity in the face of a cosmic disaster, as a flight departs Brussels. The series will feature an […]
Netflix has given a series order to “The Girls on the Bus,” a drama from “Legacies” creator/executive producer Julie Plec, Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros. Television (where Plec and Berlanti are under overall deals). The project is inspired by “The Girls on the Bus” chapter of Amy Chozick’s best-selling book “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and […]
Netflix has ordered multi-camera family comedy “The Upshaws” from comedian Wanda Sykes and Mike Epps. The series will center on a working-class African American family in Indiana struggling to make it work and make it right without the blueprints to do it. Wanda Sykes will star, executive produce, and serve as co-showrunner. Mike Epps will also […]
Netflix has greenlit “Masters of the Universe: Revelation,” a new anime series that will take place in the Matteltoy inspired world and will focus on some of the unresolved storylines of the 1980s show. Kevin Smith will serve as showrunner and executive producer. “I’m Eternia-ly grateful to Mattel TV and Netflix for entrusting me with […]
