After months of negotiations, Gérard Depardieu has officially signed on to play the lead in Marseille, Netflix's upcoming eight episode original series which is being hailed as a tale of power, corruption and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the French port city. Read More
HBO has renewed their Dwayne Johnson comedy vehicle Ballers for a ten episode second season, only three episodes into the show's first season. The network has not yet decided on the fates of either True Detective or The Brink. Read More
At the Sherlock panel at San Diego Comic Con, the BBC and co-producer PBS released a new image and the first trailer for the upcoming Victorian era special, which is expected to debut on BBC One this Christmas and on PBS in the U.S. in 2016. Read More
Acorn TV – the North American streaming service owned and operated by RLJ Entertainment – has secured the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Partners In Crime, BBC One's upcoming Agatha Christie series starring David Walliams (Little Britain) and Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife). Read More
The feature film reboot craze is continuing into the 2016-2017 development cycle. Fox has handed out a pilot order to Urban Cowboy, an hour-long drama based on the 1980s John Travolta feature film of the same name. Read More
The Americans and The Millers star Margo Martindale has joined the cast of The Good Wife in a recurring role for its upcoming seventh season. She will play Willa Eastman, a top campaign operative responsible for past successes by underdog presidential candidates in Iowa who hides her intelligence and cunning Read More
Showtime has unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming 12 episode fifth season of Homeland, which is set to premiere this fall. The fifth season of the CIA drama will be set two years after season four, following Carrie’s ill-fated tenure as CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan. Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the “war on terror,” Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm. Read More
Cinemax has released the first images from Outcast, their upcoming exorcism drama from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, his production company Skydance Productions and Fox International Studios. Read More