Last week, from June 11 to June 14, was the PromaxBDA 2018 Conference at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Learn, create and connect: it was a potpourri of attendees and represented companies including ABC, Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, A+E Networks, AT&T Entertainment Group, BBC, Bell Media, BET Networks, Bravo, CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, […]
Lifetime drama “UnReal,” featuring Shiri Appleby as a young reality television producer working with her unscrupulous boss (Constance Zimmer), is moving to Hulu for its upcoming fourth season. The series will shift from a cable show with a second-run window on Hulu to Hulu as its primary outlet (and Lifetime in second runs). A+E and […]
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has announced a first-look deal with Bob Cooper’s Landscape Entertainment. The first project in development through this new partnership is a scripted drama for Hulu centered on Michelangelo, written by South African-British author, Richard Mason (“The Drowning People”). The series will detail the life of the brilliant and troubled artist, told through a modern lens […]
FX has landed the first-run North American rights to The New York Times series “The Weekly,” in partnership with Hulu, which will be the exclusive SVOD streaming home to new episodes of the series the day after air. In addition to the FX linear telecast and Hulu, episodes will also be available on FX’s VOD […]
Hulu has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order for “Light as a Feather,” from AwesomenessTV, Wattpad and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet. The supernatural thriller is based on a story by Zoe Aarsen. Created by Lee Fleming Jr., “Light As a Feather” follows five teen girls as they deal with the supernatural fallout stemming from an innocent game of “Light as a […]
Hulu has opted against a fourth season of drama “The Path.” Debuting on March 30, 2016, the series followed a family at the center of a controversial cult movement. It starred Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Hugh Dancy, Kyle Allen, Emma Greenwell and Freida Pinto. The now series finale was on March 28. “While it’s sad that “The Path” […]
Hulu has ordered 11 new episodes of “I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman,” which will return on September 6th, 2018. The logline: Serving heady concepts in a big, bready, aggressively silly sandwich, Silverman tackles the symptoms of why we are where we are today. With monologues about this very moment coming from her personal point of view, this […]
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to “Little Fires Everywhere,” a limited series from and starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller of the same name. “Little Fires Everywhere” follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story […]
Hulu has opted against a third season of drama “Shut Eye,” starring Jeffrey Donovan. Debuting on Dec. 7, 2016, the series starred Donovan as Charlie Haverford who, along with his wife Linda (KaDee Strickland), run a chain of fortune-telling parlors, one of which occupies a room in their Los Angeles home. A lot of their […]
