Amazon Studios has greenlit the contemporary global ten-part thriller “The Power.” Written and created by award-winning British author Naomi Alderman, “The Power,” which is based on Alderman’s international novel, will be produced by Sister Pictures and is executive produced by Jane Featherstone (“Broadchurch”, “The Split,” “Utopia”), Naomi de Pear (“The Bisexual,” “Flowers”), Naomi Alderman, and Reed Morano […]
Amazon Studios announced it has reached a new overall deal with “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. The pair will develop Amazon Studios projects that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. “Amy and Dan have a remarkable partnership, grounded in their complete trust in each other […]
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Netflix has announced “Bloodride,” a new Norwegian Netflix original series from Monster Scripted and scriptwriter Kjetil Indregard that will be produced in Norway in 2019. The logline: “Bloodride” is a Norwegian language tongue-in-cheek horror anthology series, where each story is set in its own realistic, yet weird universe. Six unique tales of terror, told with glee […]
Hulu has announced series orders for dramas ‘Reprisal’ and ‘The Great.’ The two series will go into production later this year with Reprisal premiering in 2019 and The Great in 2020. ‘Reprisal’ is described as a hyper-kinetic revenge tale following a relentless femme fatale (Abigail Spencer) who, after being left for dead, leads a vengeful […]
Netflix has greenlit eight episodes of a comedy series called “Special” from Warner Bros. TV, Jim Parsons’ That’s Wonderful, and Stage 13. The series premieres on April 12. The logline: Based on Ryan O’Connell’s part-memoir, part-manifesto ‘I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves,’ the series centers on a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who […]
Netflix has opted against a fourth season of science fiction drama “Travelers.” Debuting on October 17, 2016 and acquired by Netflix after original airing in Canada, the series took place hundreds of years in the future and focused on the last surviving humans who discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people […]
Netflix has greenlit comedy “Sex Education” for a second season, with an order for eight new episodes. Debuting on January 11, “Sex Education” follows “a socially awkward high school virgin (Asa Butterfield) who lives with his sex therapist mother (Gillian Anderson). He teams up with “whip-smart bad-girl” Maeve (Emma Mackey) to set up a clinic to […]
