Exclusive: The Girls on the Bus, Warner Bros. TV’s upcoming HBO Max series about female political reporters on a presidential campaign trail, has tapped Abby Phillip, senior political correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics Sunday at Wbd corporate sibling CNN, as a consultant.
Additionally, Brandon Scott has been cast as a series regular opposite Melissa Benoist, Natasha Behnam and Christina Elmore. This Is Us alum Griffin Dunne has joined Scott Foley on the list of recurring players for the Berlanti Prods. series alongside Leslie Fray (Reacher), Pj Sosco (Chicago Med) as famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Becky Ann Baker (Girls), Kyle Vincent Terry (Power Book II: Ghost), Tala Ashe (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Richard Bekins (Armageddon Time).
The Girls on the Bus, from writers Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, is inspired by a chapter in Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary.
Additionally, Brandon Scott has been cast as a series regular opposite Melissa Benoist, Natasha Behnam and Christina Elmore. This Is Us alum Griffin Dunne has joined Scott Foley on the list of recurring players for the Berlanti Prods. series alongside Leslie Fray (Reacher), Pj Sosco (Chicago Med) as famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Becky Ann Baker (Girls), Kyle Vincent Terry (Power Book II: Ghost), Tala Ashe (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Richard Bekins (Armageddon Time).
The Girls on the Bus, from writers Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, is inspired by a chapter in Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary.
- 8/30/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Last night’s 60 Minutes segment on Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation understandably was forced to lead with the filmmaker/star’s controversial 17-year old acquittal on rape charges and the suicide of his accuser 12 years later, but they really did leave some compelling historical stuff on the cutting-room floor that is worth watching.
The segment showed a white man bring out for Parker and Anderson Cooper the sword that Nat Turner used to lead the 1831 bloody slave rebellion in Virginia. That county clerk carrying it, Rick Francis, is a direct descendant of the slave owner who owned the movie’s subject. He was interviewed alongside Bruce Turner, the third great-grandson of Turner. Those men now are pals, but they have a widely different view of whether Turner should be called a hero. It is perhaps understandable that Francis doesn’t see Turner as that, considering his family...
The segment showed a white man bring out for Parker and Anderson Cooper the sword that Nat Turner used to lead the 1831 bloody slave rebellion in Virginia. That county clerk carrying it, Rick Francis, is a direct descendant of the slave owner who owned the movie’s subject. He was interviewed alongside Bruce Turner, the third great-grandson of Turner. Those men now are pals, but they have a widely different view of whether Turner should be called a hero. It is perhaps understandable that Francis doesn’t see Turner as that, considering his family...
- 10/3/2016
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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