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 […]
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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 […]
Netflix has greenlit 10 episodes of mother/daughter coming of age series “Ginny & Georgia” for 2020 with newcomer Antonia Gentry (“Candy Jar”) and Brianne Howey (“The Passage”) in the lead roles, from creator Sarah Lampert. The logline: Angsty and awkward fifteen-year-old Ginny Miller (Gentry) often feels more mature than her thirty-year-old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia […]
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Netflix has greenit “The Big Show Show,” a half-hour, multi-cam comedy series starring WWE Superstar “The Big Show.” Production on the 10-episode series begins in Los Angeles on August 9. Logline: When the teenage daughter of The Big Show, a retired world-famous WWE Superstar comes to live with him, his wife and two other daughters, […]
Netflix has announced a second, and final, season for drama “Trinkets” with an order for 10 new episodes for 2020. The logline: When three teenage girls from different corners of the high school cafeteria find themselves in the same mandated Shoplifter’s Anonymous meeting, an unlikely friendship forms. Elodie (Brianna Hildebrand, “Deadpool”) — the grieving misfit, […]
Netflix has picked up the first series, “Basketball or Nothing,” resulting from its co-production partnership with Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour champion Rickie Fowler and his Main Event Productions. All six half-hour episodes of the docu-series will be available for streaming on Netflix on Friday, August 2nd at 3:01 a.m. ET. “Basketball or Nothing” was conceived by The WorkShop […]
