Netflix has renewed sci-fi thriller “Stranger Things” for a fourth season and has signed series creators and showrunners The Duffer Brothers to a multi-year film and series overall deal. “The Duffer Brothers have captivated viewers around the world with Stranger Things and we’re thrilled to expand our relationship with them to bring their vivid imaginations […]
Netflix will introduce “Notes on Love,” a new original episodic anthology series under Shonda Rhimes’ overall deal. The theme of the series ranges across genres and explores the unexpected, life-changing, euphoric, hilarious, surreal, and all-consuming places where love intersects with our lives. Each installment of “Notes on Love” comes straight from the unique lens of […]
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 […]
Overall, HBO was the most honored network with 8 of the primetime 26 awards handed out (including “Game of Thrones” for Outstanding Drama Series). Next was Amazon Prime Video with 6 (including “Fleabag” for Outstanding Comedy Series); followed by four for Netflix; 2 each for NBC, BBC America and FX; and 1 each for Hulu […]
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 […]
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NBC’s veteran “Saturday Night Live” will open season 45 next month without Emmy nominated Leslie Jones. After five seasons, Jones opted to exit “SNL” to focus on her current career outside of late night, which will include upcoming indie films “I Am Maurice” with Chris Rock and “Queenpins” with Kristen Bell. Jones is currently filming the […]
