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Netflix seems to have checked the audience’s pulse for what the genre of the year is and is coming out with a medical drama to compete with Grey’s Anatomy and The Pitt. The streaming platform’s first foray into the genre will be the drama Pulse, which is set to premiere on April 3, 2025, and will see an emergency crew deal with hurricane victims.

The series comes on the heels of Max’s The Pitt, which has been garnering rave reviews so far. The cast of Netflix’s show seems to include former alumni from the streaming platform and some new faces. While Willa Fitzgerald headlines the series as the recently promoted chief resident, several others round out the cast. Here is the cast of Pulse.

1. Willa Fitzgerald – Danielle ‘Danny’ Simms

Willa Fitzgerald is best known for her work in the shows Reacher, House of Cards, and more. The actress...

Daredevil: Born Again has been growing on me since its sort-of disappointing premiere episode (I may have had high expectations after the Netflix originals). It was great to see Matt back in the suit again, and the parallels between him and Wilson Fisk are tastefully done. What is not tastefully done is the show’s proxy for Foggy and Karen: Cherry.

Clark Johnson’s Cherry shows up in the opening scenes of the premiere, with his retirement party being the setting for the battle between Bullseye and Daredevil. He gets to know Matt’s identity as Daredevil and later becomes a Pi for Murdock and McDuffie. He basically does what Foggy, Karen, and Brett Mahoney used to do on Daredevil, but he is so boring.

Daredevil: Born Again’s Cherry adds very little to the personality of the show McDuffie, Matt, and Cherry in Daredevil: Born Again | Credits: Marvel Studios...

BAFTA nominee Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter franchise) and Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) are set to take the lead roles in the Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, which Deadline reports will be directed by Will Graham, whose credits include an episode of Daisy Jones & The Six (which earned him an Emmy nomination). This is the second Daisy Jones & The Six director we’ve talked about today, as Nzingha Stewart – who was at the helm of four episodes of that limited series – will be directing the first episode of The ‘Burbs TV series.

Given that Radcliffe left the Harry Potter franchise behind 14 years ago, I should note that some of his more recent work includes Miracle Workers, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and The Lost City. In addition to Manchester by the Sea, Hedges’ credits include Honey Boy, French Exit, and Shirley.

Graham has...

Scream 7 adds to its star-studded cast by adding one of the most recognizable faces on the daytime talk show circuit. The anticipated slasher sequel sees award-winning host Mark Consuelos become the latest name to join the project.

According to Deadline, Live with Kelly & Mark co-host Mark Consuelos, also known for Riverdale, has joined the Scream 7 cast in an undisclosed role. Consuelos won his first Emmy Award last year for his work on Live with Kelly & Mark alongside his wife and talk show veteran, Kelly Ripa.

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While Consuelos has garnered more recent acclaim for his talk show exploits, the Spaniard has enjoyed a 30-year acting career dating back to his award-winning run on the popular soap opera,...

Stars: Michael Madsen, Bryan Clark, Paul Logan, Aaron Groben, Grace West, Lauren Parkinson, Savannah Goldstein, Jesse Bernstein, G.J. Echterkamp | Written by Blake Miller | Directed by Jim Wynorski

DinoGator is one of those movies I never thought I’d actually get to see, at least not this side of a bootleg copy. Originally shot in 2016 under the more accurate title CobraGator, it came close to release in 2018, only to disappear into the murky depths of the swamp of lost films. Not even the involvement of the legendary Roger Corman, who served as executive producer, could convince distributors to lure it out, until now. So, was it worth the wait? Well, that really depends on how much you enjoy the taste of cheese.

The story kicks off with a trio of doomed characters venturing into a cave. One of them plays a recorder like a snake charmer’s flute. But instead of charming any creatures,...

Strange Darling is one of the best movies of 2024, and here is a full breakdown of the movie's cast and characters. While the film was a surprise hit in theaters, Strange Darling has now been released on streaming, meaning that an all-new base of fans has found it. Many of the actors in Strange Darling may be new to fans, so here's who they all are and where else you can see them.

Strange Darling tells the purportedly true story of The Lady, a character who opens the film being chased down by The Demon. Strange Darling's non-chronological storytelling, shocking violence, and constant twists and turns make it an incredibly fun ride, and these are the actors who brought the characters to life.

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Willa Fitzgerald

The Lady

Kyle Gallner

The Demon

Ed Begley Jr.

Frederick

Barbara Hershey

Genevieve

Madison Beaty

Gale

Steven Michael Quezada

Pete

Sheri Foster Blake...

Before David Simon debuted his groundbreaking socio-political tapestry “The Wire” to audiences and helped garner the prestige HBO now only reserves for “Game of Thrones” and superhero spinoffs, he wrote the book on the world of crime and law enforcement in Baltimore. Published in 1991, his non-fiction book “Homicide: A Year of Killing Streets” pools two years of research from Simon’s time spent observing the Baltimore Police Department, which itself followed four years spent on the police beat for The Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Wishing to adapt the book into a feature film, Simon got a copy to filmmaker and Baltimore native Barry Levinson, who felt the material was better suited to a TV series. Levinson shared with Paul Attansio, a former Washington Post film critic whose would go on to write the Oscar-nominated “Quiz Show,” as well as “Donnie Brasco,” and together the team brought the project to NBC, where...

Michael Strahan recently talked about the possibility of taking a job on the big screen in the future. The Good Morning America host said that he thinks he and his co-star George Stephanopoulos would be great in a “buddy movie.” Fans seem to like the idea too. So, what would the movie be about? Continue reading to see if you’d buy tickets to the show.

Fans Are Shipping A ‘Buddy Movie’ With Michael & George

GMA fans have missed Michael Strahan. He recently returned to the morning talk show after taking a vacation. The former NFL player also took a lengthy hiatus from his hosting duties to spend time with his daughter, Isabella Strahan, as she battled brain cancer.

George and Michael were together at the Good Morning America news desk this week and Rebecca Jarvis sat in for Robin Roberts. Robin is currently traveling abroad for a “work assignment.

Michael Strahan thinks he and co-star George Stephanopoulos would be perfect in a “buddy movie” and their fans are ready for it.

After his lengthy absence, Michael recently returned to the GMA studios to help present the latest news and information to viewers.

He and George appeared at the GMA desk throughout this week, with Rebecca Jarvis replacing Robin Roberts for several episodes after Robin left the country for a “work assignment.”

In an exchange during one episode, Michael mentioned he and George were “matching today.”

They wore light grey suits with white shirts and pink-and-white striped ties.

“We got the twins in the house,” Rebecca said, reacting to her co-stars’ matching outfits.

“We haven’t matched in, I don’t know, months, maybe years,” George said to Michael.

Michael suggested a movie idea co-starring George

“George, you and me. You and me. [We] look like a buddy movie,” Michael stated on GMA,...

Chicago P.D. has added a notable new character for the upcoming episode, Escape.

In addition to Officer Dante Torres (played by Benjamin Levy Aguilar) finally getting screen time, several new characters get introduced on February 7.

As advertised in the new Chicago P.D. episode promo, Intelligence aims to take down the city’s biggest drug lord.

Torres must go undercover during the new episode to get more information, allowing the writers to showcase the character again.

For the first three episodes of Chicago P.D. Season 11, Torres has been furloughed to spend time with his mother.

Now, Torres returns for a case that could take a few episodes to resolve.

Who plays Gloria Perez on Chicago P.D.?

Actress Yara Martinez has been called on to play the role of Gloria Perez on the February 7 Chicago P.D. episode.

She is featured in many episode images that have been released, as well as the television promo running on NBC.

Exclusive: Multi-Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light is set to star opposite Billy Crystal in Apple TV+’s Before. Crystal also is executive producing the limited series, from Paramount TV Studios, which has tapped Adam Bernstein as director of the pilot episode.

Written by Sarah Thorp, Before is a 10-episode atmospheric, character-driven psychological thriller about Eli (Crystal), a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Light), encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past.

Seductively enigmatic, Lynn (Light) is the love of Eli’s life, but her recent death may not be quite what it seems. As Eli digs deeper into the hidden life of the wife he thought he knew, he soon finds Lynn haunting him from beyond the grave.

Thorp serves as showrunner and executive produces with Crystal, Eric Roth, Bernstein and Jet Wilkinson. Bernstein succeeds as director...

The Red, White & Royal Blue cast has propelled the movie to success, receiving great reviews for their performances in this LGBTQ+ love story. The charming and charismatic cast have brought the story to a higher level, with critics and viewers loving their portrayal of the characters. The movie features well-known actors like Uma Thurman and Stephen Fry, adding star power to the already talented ensemble cast.

The Red, White & Royal Blue cast has helped the Prime Video movie turn into a runaway success. The movie focuses on a feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince, which leads the two young men to start a fake friendship to ease tensions. However, that fake friendship turns into a real friendship, and soon it blossoms into a romantic relationship between the two men that no one saw coming. Based on the novel by Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue...

Exclusive: Clark Johnson is set to recur and direct two episodes of the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again, Deadline has learned.

Details about the character are being kept under wraps, but Johnson is believed to be playing Cherry. Marvel declined to comment.

Written and executive produced by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, the new installment will see Charlie Cox return to the role of Daredevil, otherwise known as Matt Murdock, an attorney by day and crimefighter by night. Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise his role as mob boss Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.

The cast also includes Margarita Levieva, Arty Froushan, Sandrine Holt, Michael Gandolfini and Nikki M. James. Jon Bernthal will also return as Punisher.

As a filmmaker, Clark has directed many film and TV projects including the pilot episode of The Shield, which earned him an Emmy nomination. Most recently, he directed three episodes of Your Honor and City on a Hill,...

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has revealed the nominees for its Golden Nymph Awards. The festival will open June 16 with the world premiere of the first episode of “Harlan Coben’s Shelter.”

Hollywood producer and writer Howard Gordon will receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award, the festival’s highest accolade, bestowed on a professional for their contribution to the entertainment industry.

In the Fiction competition are “Poker Face” (U.S.), starring Natasha Lyonne, “The Warrant: Breaker’s Law” (U.S.), “Ten Pound Poms” (U.K./Australia), “The Seed”, “Chorus Girls” (Denmark), “Fence” (Japan), “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” (France), “Miró” (Spain) and “Trust No One” (Israel).

In the News and Documentaries competition section are “First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler” (Canada), “Hezbollah Inc.” (France), “Life on the Donbas Frontline” (France), “Nazanin” (U.K.), “Russia, the Stolen Children of Ukraine” (France), “The Last Border” (Portugal), “The Man Who Played With Fire” (U.

Homeland co-creator Howard Gordon will receive the 62nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival’s Honorary Golden Nymph, an award that honors renowned professionals for their extraordinary contributions to the entertainment and television industry.

Gordon will be presented with the award on Tuesday, June 20, the closing night of the event. The 62nd Edition of the Fest runs June 16-20 in Monaco.

Gordon co-created with Alex Gansa the multiple award-winning series Homeland. He’s currently serving as executive producer on the second season of Fox’s Accused and he previously served as executive producer on the original Fox series 24 and reboot 24: Legacy, among numerous other credits.

Previous recipients of the honor include Darren Star Dick Wolf, Ted Turner, Jerry Bruckheimer, Anne Sweeney, Stephen J. Cannell, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner.

Additionally, it was announced today that Harlan Coben’s Shelter, a Prime Video Original series, will world premiere at the fest, with the...

Emmy-winning Roseanne star John Goodman will head up this year’s jury at the 2023 Monte-Carlo TV Festival, the festival announced Thursday.

The tireless and versatile film and TV actor, whose credits range from voicing Sully in Monsters, Inc. to supporting roles in several Coen Brothers’ films (Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski) to a phenomenally productive small-screen career that includes such series as Alpha House, Dancing on the Edge and Roseanne sequel The Conners, will head up this year’s fiction jury. Joining him are fellow jurors Camilla Rydbacken, senior vp, scripted content at Viaplay Sweden; Vikings actor Travis Fimmel; the Italian actress and presenter Francesca Chillemi; U.S. producer and Big Light Productions CEO Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle); and Marcus Ammon, managing director content for German production group Bavaria Fiction.

Acclaimed documentarian Tom Jennings (Apollo: Missions to the Moon) will head up...

Amazon’s queer take on Penny Marshall’s beloved A League of Their Own will get one last at-bat.

The retail giant/streamer, following months of negotiations, has handed out a second and final season renewal for the series from showrunners Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson. The Sony Pictures Television-produced show will conclude with a four-episode final season. The news follows months of renegotiations with Sony to lower the show’s licensing fee, and the cast had to sign new deals, given the order is for half the episodes that were featured in season one, sources say.

Reps for Amazon and Sony declined to comment as deals have not yet been completed for what sources say will be billed as a “limited series.”

In the works since early 2018, Graham (Amazon’s recently launched Daisy Jones & The Six) recruited Jacobson (Broad City) for the more modern take on Marshall’s...

Willa Fitzgerald is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the television shows Scream, Dare Me and Reacher.

Willa Fitzgerald Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Willa Fitzgerald was born on January 17, 1991 (Willa Fitzgerald: age 31) in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fitzgerald spoke exclusively to uInterview about how she started acting in the first place.

“I started doing Forensics. I grew up in Tennessee, Forensics is kind of like competition acting. It’s big in the South from what I know, and basically you go and perform a monologue and there’s many rounds and you either make it through the rounds or you don’t and somebody wins… it’s like sports, but it’s acting,” the actress laughed. “So I started doing that in fifth grade, and as happens when you’re a child, when you start winning prizes for something that you’re doing, you start liking to do it even more,...

"Ten years after its heralded release, on August 9, Lightyear Entertainment will unleash Yellowbrickroad for a new generation of horror fans. Meticulously remastered in 2K High Definition, the Updated Special Edition boasts more blood and bigger scares with enhanced visual effects. Available on all leading digital platforms and DVD, the special collector’s edition will also be available on extras-loaded Blu-ray for the very first time containing a treasure-trove of specially-created bonus features never before available including two behind-the-scenes featurettes, “Practical Blood FX on an Indie Budget” and “Walking the YellowBrickRoad”, new interviews with cast and crew and more!"

Ahead of the movie's Blu-ray release tomorrow, we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!

The story of Yellowbrickroad begins in 1940 when, after a viewing of The Wizard of Oz, the residents of the small town of Friar, New Hampshire, walked up a mountain trail and mysteriously disappeared into the wilderness.

Following its MGM purchase, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy anticipates a continued ramp-up of investment in entertainment as Prime Video content proves highly successful in spurring signups of Amazon Prime.

The biggest investment so far is its recently closed 8.45 billion acquisition of the studio behind James Bond and Rocky. “I think it’s still pretty early days for us in entertainment. We’ve invested a lot of money there and a lot of resources there, and I think you should expect we will continue to do so. We are very optimistic about what’s possible,” Jassy said on CNBC.

He was circumspect when asked about today’s business bombshell, Elon Musk’s hostile bid for Twitter. “I don’t know. I woke up and heard the news. It’s interesting. We all use Twitter obviously to some degree. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.” Asked if Amazon...

Exclusive: Redbox, which has been revamping itself in recent months ahead of an initial public offering, has hired Amazon and Tubi communications veteran Peter Binazeski as head of public relations.

In his new role, Binazeski will oversee all corporate, entertainment and industry communications.

Long known for its kiosks dispensing DVDs and video game discs at grocery stores and other retail locations around the country, Redbox has made a major shift toward streaming. The company launched ad-supported service Free on Demand, and also formed an in-house entertainment division, which is acquiring and producing a number of original titles. Last May, Redbox announced plans to go public in in a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, or Spac, called Seaport Global Acquisition Corp. The enterprise value of the company as of that filing was pegged at $693 million.

Redbox CEO Galen Smith said Binazeski “brings many years of entertainment and corporate communications experience,...

Exclusive: Molly Bernard, known for her role as feisty publicist and social media guru Lauren Heller on Darren Star’s hit Paramount+ series Younger, has signed with APA for representation.

Bernard has starred as fan-favorite character Lauren since the beginning of the series, which is now wrapping up its seventh and final season on the ViacomCBS streaming service.

Bernard also stars in and serves as executive producer on the upcoming Milkwater, the heart-warming indie film that premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival. She plays the lead role of Milo, a millennial in search of meaning in a film that explores the complexities and vulnerabilities of having children in a gay relationship.

Bernard’s other recent television credits include co-starring as medical student Elsa Curry on NBC’s Chicago Med, portraying the flashback version of Judith Light’s Shelly Pfefferman character on Amazon’s Transparent, a recurring role on Amazon’s Alpha House opposite John Goodman,...

Exclusive: Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television have cast the new group of teenagers (and a couple of adults) at the center of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series reboot.

Madison Iseman (Jumanji: The Next Level), Brianne Tju (Light as a Feather), Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), Sebastian Amoruso (Solve), Fiona Rene (Stumptown), Cassie Beck (Connecting), Brooke Bloom (Homecoming) and Bill Heck (I’m Your Woman) are set to star in the YA horror series, a modern take on the hit 1997 slasher film. Production will begin this month in Hawaii.

Written by Sara Goodman (Preacher) based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, the I Know What You Did Last Summer series has the same premise as the movie adaptation: In a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night.

Exclusive: Amazon Studios has acquired the Field Trip Productions-produced action-comedy Uncle Wick. Pic is to be written by Gabe Delahaye, and will be directed by Will Graham. Graham and Hailey Wierengo of Field Trip Productions are producing. Uncle Wick marks Delahaye’s feature writing debut and Graham’s feature directorial debut after cutting their teeth in TV.

Uncle Wick follows Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular 16-year-old, who is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting him for a weekend.

Delahaye is currently co-producing the Fox sitcom The Great North, which was already renewed for a second season ahead of its February 2021 premiere. He recently developed the IFC pilots Little Forks and The Last Hotel Detective. He also co-created and starred in Gabe & Max Need Help for Amazon. Previously, he served as an Executive Story Editor on HBO Max sitcom Close Enough,...

Matteo De Cosmo, a New York-based art director who worked on several ABC Studios projects including Marvel’s “The Punisher,” died on April 21 of coronavirus-related complications. He was 52.

De Cosmo was best-known for serving as the art director for ABC television shows “Emergence,” “Luke Cage” and “The Punisher.” De Cosmo began his career as a set designer, assistant art director and even a costume designer on films such as “Circus Lives,” “Arresting Gena,” “Louis & Frank” and “Spring Forward.”

Though he continued to work on films such as 2019’s “21 Bridges” starring Chadwick Boseman, De Cosmo focused more on television later in his career. He served as art director for “Chappelle’s Show,” “Are We There Yet?,” “Alpha House,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Affair” and “Wu Tang: An American Saga,” in addition to his work with ABC Studios.

Most recently, De Cosmo was working on the pilot for new ABC series “Harlem’s...

Amazon Studios has signed a new first-look deal with writer-director Will Graham and his Field Trip Productions. Under the pact, Graham has joined the upcoming Amazon original series Daisy Jones & The Six, from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, as showrunner. Field Trip is also producing Amazon’s pilot A League of Their Own, an adaptation of the Penny Marshall film from Sony TV, with Graham co-writing and executive producing alongside Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), who is in negotiations to star.

Based on the bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six is a 12-episode musical/drama detailing the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of a renowned (fictional) rock band in the 1970s. Graham will executive produce with Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion. Scott Neustadter and Michael H, Weber created the series and also serve as executive producers, with Taylor Jenkins Reid as producer.

The CW is getting into the mixed martial arts ring.

Variety has learned that the broadcaster is developing a one-hour drama about a young woman who begins training in Mma. Titled “American Fighter,” the series follows JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end town, hanging out with her friends because there’s nothing else to do and venting her frustrations with her fists in fights of her own making.

That is until she gets into it with the wrong people and is assigned community service at the veteran’s rehabilitation hospital. There she meets a wounded vet who teaches her how to hone her aggression in the form of Mma fighting. Through her training, she begins to find a sense of purpose and even a possible future, as long as the rest of the problems in her life, and her own self-destructive behavior, don’t take her down first.

The long-gestating drama “The Gilded Age,” which hails from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, has announced four members of its main cast.

Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Amanda Peet, and Morgan Spector have all been cast as series regulars in the drama project.

The series is set in the titular period of American history, beginning in 1882. It centers on young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a Southern general, who moves into the home of her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. Accompanied by the mysterious Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her stupendously rich neighbors, led by a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife struggling for acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set.

“The Gilded Age” had previously been ordered to series at NBC before moving to HBO in May with a 10-episode production commitment.

Baranski...

“It’s a little intimidating to come onto a show that has such a huge following,” admits production designer Judy Rhee, who joined “Better Call Saul” in its fourth season. Because the series “has already been established to some degree in terms of the look and its direction,” the veteran designer was excited to bring her own intepretation “while keeping the visual continuity of the show” intact. Watch our exclusive video interview with Rhee above.

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Season four, which aired last summer and fall, found the AMC prequel series edging closer and closer to where the story intersects with “Breaking Bad”; down-on-his-luck lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) is just a few steps away from morphing into Saul Goodman, lawyer for the criminal underworld. “The challenge for me was to keep track of what had already been said and shown and make sure you didn’t disrupt that timeline,...

Michael Pressman is expanding his relationship with Chicago Med and Dick Wolf, signing on as an executive producer and director on the NBC drama series beginning with Season 5 next fall.

Pressman has worked with Wolf directing episodes of his series Chicago Med, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. He directed the pilots for CBS’ Chicago Hope, The Guardian and The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. His other episodic directing credits include Elementary, Sneaky Pete, Alpha House and Justified, among others. His feature directing credits include To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday, Frankie and Johnny Are Married and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From Emmy-winning executive producer Wolf, Chicago Med follows the emotional day-to-day chaos of the city’s newest state-of-the-art trauma center and into the lives of the courageous doctors, nurses and staff who hold it all together. Nick Gehlfuss, Torrey DeVitto, Colin Donnell,...

Apple won’t be entering the Emmy race this year — but get ready for 2020. The tech giant’s not-so-surprise launch of its new Apple TV+ video service on Monday included a hefty roster of top producing and acting talent that will immediately make the service an awards contender when it launches in the fall.

That means Apple’s first major awards at-bats will be the Golden Globes and various guild kudos (such as the SAG and WGA awards). Those events will serve as a warm-up for Apple’s inaugural Emmy campaign season next spring.

It won’t be Apple’s first time in contention, however. Apple Music’s “Carpool Karaoke” won the Emmy last year for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and the show is back in the race again this year. And the company has also won several technical/engineering Emmys over the years,...

It’s crazy to remember it’s only been about seven years since Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu began making original series. From the humble beginnings of shows like “Lilyhammer,” “Alpha House,” and “Battleground,” the industry has witnessed a massive seismic shift — a complete explosion of the very concept of how we approach “television.”

Today, these platforms have added literally hundreds of shows to the TV landscape, which inspired IndieWire to evaluate and rank the 50 best that have debuted since those early days. From terrifying dystopias to intimate relationships, these are series which have made the most of opportunities presented by the distribution revolution — and transformed them into great storytelling.

50. “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”

The best of the Netflix/Marvel series, “Jessica Jones” begins with a bang, introducing a new kind of hero to Marvel fans: a super-powered young woman whose internal demons are stronger than anyone she has to fight...

Timothy Simons has set his next project at HBO to follow his run on Emmy-winning comedy series Veep, which is currently filming its final season. The premium cabler has put in development assisted suicide comedy Exit Plans, from Simons, who also stars, and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) via his Field Trip Productions.

Written, starring and executive produced by Simons, Exit Plans centers around assisted suicide. When assisted suicide is legalized in 2019, a man from California opens a small business helping people transition into death peacefully while struggling to keep ahold of his crumbling personal life. In short, he’s trying to figure out his life while ending yours.

Graham also executive produces for his Field Trip Prods.

Simons plays Jonah Ryan on HBO’s Veep. His film credits include Gold opposite Matthew McConaughey, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, Antonio Campos’ Christine, the Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg comedy The Interview,...

Peter Binazeski, who worked in publicity at Amazon Studios for the past five and a half years, has left the company to become Head of Communications for Tubi TV. Yesterday was his last day at Amazon.

Binazeski joined Amazon in 2013, just a few months before the premiere of the Studios’ first series Alpha House and Betas. During his tenure he launched the Studios’ Los Angeles-based PR team and handled trade communications and PR efforts for some of the Studios’ most critically-acclaimed shows, including Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, Catastrophe and Fleabag, among others. During that time, Amazon Studios garnered seven Golden Globe Awards including two for Transparent, along with numerous Emmy Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and a Peabody Award among other honors.

Prior to Amazon,...

The 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) — held Nov. 1-11 — will honor native St. Louisan John Goodman with a Lifetime Achievement Award at a tribute program that will include a clip reel of the actor’s career highlights, a conversation betwen Goodman and John Carney of Ktrs (550 Am), and a screening of “The Big Lebowski” on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. The program will take place at 7:30 pm Friday, Nov. 2, at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd. Tickets for the event are $25 and go on sale through the Tivoli website on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Goodman grew up in Affton and graduated in 1975 from Missouri State University (then Southwest Missouri State) in Springfield, Mo. He soon moved to New York City to begin his acting career. On Broadway, from 1985-87, Goodman starred as Pap Finn in Roger Miller’s musical take on Mark Twain, winning a Drama Desk nomination.

Amazon Studios has given a script-to-series order to a drama series project from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan and STXtv, the television studio of Robert Simonds’ Stx Entertainment.

Co-created and co-written by Kwan, in his first foray into TV, and David Sangalli, the yet-to-be titled series, which STXtv took in for development last year, is a globe-hopping drama set amongst Hong Kong’s most influential and powerful family and the business empire they control.

Mozart in the Jungle executive producer Will Graham has come on board to supervise the project via his company Field Trip Productions’s first-look deal at Amazon Studios. The company’s Hailey Wierengo will co-executive produce.

“This series is precisely the type of East-meets-West material that Stx is uniquely positioned to develop across all of our divisions. We are so pleased to be able to partner with Amazon, whose established relationship with Kevin and support...

Catch-22, Hulu’s high-profile limited series co-starring and directed by George Clooney, has cast its Merry Band. Daniel David Stewart (The Band’s Visit), Austin Stowell (Battle of the Sexes), Rafi Gavron (Counterpart), Graham Patrick Martin (Major Crimes), Pico Alexander (A Most Violent Year), Jon Rudnitsky (Saturday Night Live), Gerran Howell (Young Dracula) and Lewis Pullman (Battle of the Sexes) have joined the series, written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel, from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content.

Set in Italy during World War II, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.

Showtime is developing Hello Nancy, an original film based on the nonfiction book On Her Trail, My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star by CBS This Morning co-host John Dickerson, with Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee Colbert serving as executive producers.

The Zookeeper’s Wife scribe Angela Workman will pen the adaptation and co-executive produce. Dickerson serves as associate producer.

Hello Nancy centers on pioneering journalist Nancy Dickerson, chronicling her trailblazing journey through the high-powered world of 1960s Washington, D.C., to become a prominent political journalist and eventually the first woman to anchor a TV news show. Among her numerous milestones, Dickerson was the first female member of the Washington TV press corps, the first reporter to speak to John F. Kennedy after his inauguration and more — all of which established her as a role model for a generation of aspiring media professionals. The challenges she faced along the way,...

I'm starting to think that Gaffney's Ed might not be my first choice for treatment. 

Between all the misdiagnoses, surgeons manipulating Unos, and doctors calling cops on the families of patients, the events on Chicago Med Season 3 Episode 13 were a PR nightmare waiting to break. 

On the upside, Nat finally broke free of the babies and the pregnant women! It's a miracle! 

Landing an adult patient didn't free her from ethical issues or fighting with her boyfriend. The honeymoon period is definitely over for those two. 

Nat's certainly not always in the right when she comes up against these ethical challenges, but she's at least usually more deliberative than Will. 

I'm definitely team Nat for this case. At the very least, Will could have waited to call the police after giving social services or, I don't know, Dr. Charles a chance to weigh in.

It was a little bit of...

Streaming giant’s slate also includes comedy from creator of Gilmore Girls.

Amazon has announced its 2017 pilot slate, which includes space drama Oasis, with Game Of Thrones star Richard Madden, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a comedy from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Five pilots will debut on 17th March in the UK, Us, Germany, Austria and Japan.

Customer reviews will help determine if the pilots are turned into a series.

The pilots are:

The Legend of Master Legend (half-hour)

A dark comedy about the life of a homemade superhero whose mission is to protect the people of Las Vegas from evil doers. Executive produced by Youree Henley (20th Century Women), Joshuah Bearman (Argo) and David Klawans (Argo), along with executive producers and writers Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Transparent) and Noah Harpster (Transparent). The pilot is directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) and stars John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), Dawnn Lewis (Major Crimes), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) and newcomer...

CBS has unveiled its midseason premiere plan, and Grey’s Anatomy grad Katherine Heigl will start raising Doubt on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10/9c, a week after Code Black sews up Season 2.

Doubt stars Heigl as a brilliant attorney who falls for a client (Rescue Me‘s Stephen Pasquale) recently accused of murder. The ensemble also includes Laverne Cox (Oitnb), Dulé Hill (Psych), Dreama Walker (The Good Wife), Elliott Gould (Ray Donovan) and Kobi Libii (Alpha House).

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Bull‘s ex-wife is… not being played by Cote de Pablo. Rather, another familiar face is filling the role: Jane the Virgin‘s Yara Martinez.

RelatedBull, MacGyver Snag Full-Season Pickups at CBS

Per TV Insider, Martinez has been cast as Isabella Colon, a hugely successful fashion/health/lifestyle guru who in addition to being Jason’s ex is also, of course, Tac team member Benny’s estranged sister. Izzy reenters Jason and Benny’s world when it is alleged that one of her company’s products caused a customer’s death.

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Whether you’re with her or want to make America great again, “Graves” is the timely political comedy you didn’t know you needed to see. For one, it’s on Epix, a network new to the scripted original series game, meaning you might not know where to find it. But more to the point, the series’ basic premise might make you suspect the show has a liberal agenda hiding behind faux-conservatism; a show made to lure in Republican voters only to convince them they’re wrong.

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But that’s not the case — so far. While “Graves” may not be the barnburner debut series of, say, a “House of Cards,” it’s a big step up from Amazon’s “Alpha House.” Plus, through three episodes, the well-performed, warmly funny tale is also fair to both sides of the aisle.

Brooke Bloom (Alpha House) is set as a series regular and Kimberly Quinn (Terriers) will recur opposite Naomi Watts on Netflix's upcoming drama series Gypsy. Gypsy follows the journey of Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives. Bloom will play Rebecca, the smart, aware and newly enlightened daughter of one of Jean’s patients who has rejected her more traditional upbringing and…...

“Mary + Jane”

September 5 on MTV

What Is It? From the writer/directors behind the cult favorite “Josie and the Pussycats” adaptation, this series follows two “ganjapeneurs” who run a weed delivery service in Los Angeles.

I’ll Like It If I Like… The “Broad City” influence is pretty clear, as the show is focused on the tight friendship between Jordan (Scout Durwood) and Paige (Jessica Rothe) and their stoner antics.

Why Should I Care? Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont’s unique approach to satirizing La hipster culture really help this show stand out from the pack of other female-led comedies, while also promising a more surreal touch. Durwood and Rothe also make for an enjoyable pairing. For fans of the pot comedy genre, it’s an easy sell.

“Atlanta”

September 6 on FX

What is it? Donald Glover of “Community” fame returns to TV in his most ambitious project yet, which he produces,...

Here's a list of TV shows that aired (or were expected to air) during the 2014-15 season (roughly September 2014 through August 2015) and that also won't be back for the 2015-16 season.Latest updates: Queens of Drama (Pop), Alpha House (Amazon), America Unearthed (H2), Cold Justice (TNT), That Metal Show (VH1 Classic), Austin & Ally (Disney), The Sing-Off (NBC), The Briefcase (CBS), Foyle's War (PBS), The Crimson Field (PBS), Community (Yahoo), Other Space (Yahoo), Sin City Saints (Yahoo), Breathless (PBS), Big Time in Hollywood, Fl  (Comedy Central), A Young Doctor's Notebook (Ovation), The Red Road (SundanceTV), Cedar Cove (Hallmark), Transporter: The Series (TNT), Stewarts and Hamiltons (E!), The Brink (HBO), Married (FX), Your Family or Mine (TBS), Clipped (TBS), The Whispers (ABC), I Didn't Do It (Disney), Defiance (Syfy), Rookie Blue (ABC), Dominion (Syfy), Extant (CBS), Chasing Life (ABC Family), Graceland (USA), Wake Up With Al (Weather Channel), Lab Rats (Disney Channel), Mighty Med (Disney Channel), Proof (TNT), Mr. Robinson (NBC), King of the Nerds (TBS), Under the Dome (CBS), Complications (USA), Hindsight...

The set of a scary movie becomes the site of real-life frights in the first trailer for Found Footage 3D, a self-aware horror movie that will make its world premiere at Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival on August 20th in Chicago before enjoying its international premiere at London’s FrightFest on August 29th:

Press Release: Austin, Texas – Wednesday, August 10, 2016 – The terrifying trailer for the upcoming horror film Found Footage 3D was released today. Those with 3D TVs, Vr goggles, Google Cardboard, or red-blue 3D glasses can watch the 3D version of the trailer by signing up for the Found Footage 3D backstage area. The film will celebrate its World Premiere at Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival in Chicago on August 20th, and will also have its International Premiere at FrightFest in London on August 29th. Directed by Steven DeGennaro, Found Footage 3D gives found footage a shot in...

The Alpha House TV show on Amazon is effectively cancelled, but at yesterday's TCA press session, Amazon Studio boss Roy Price chose to categorize it as not being a "current" show. That said, there is a chance Garry Trudeau's Capitol Hill comedy, starring John Goodman, could be renewed for a third season. Matt Malloy, Clark Johnson, Mark Consuelos, Yara Martinez, Julie White, and Alicia Sable, also star.Should political events inspire another season, assuming the cast and crew were available, Alpha House could return one day in the hazy future. "I like to leave my options open, but I understand what you’re saying," Deadline reports Price said, in response to critics' frustration about Alpha House's nebulous status.Read More…...

Amazon Studios is on a TV spending spree – but there’s a ceiling.

The company doubled its series production budget in the second half of 2015 vs. the previous year, just as Amazon Prime subscribers were up 47% in the U.S. year-to-year.

“It’s on an upward trajectory,” said Amazon Studios boss Roy Price, who touted the service’s new and returning series to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. Upcoming new entries include David E. Kelley’s “Goliath,” starring Billy Bob Thornton, and Woody Allen’s “Crisis in Six Scenes.”

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The elusive Price was extremely light on details, frustrating reporters with a lack of specifics on the state of Amazon’s TV affairs.

“This year, we’re up considerable in terms of original series,” Price said. “Look at the number of original series this fall.

The D.C.-set, Garry Trudeau-created comedy Alpha House starring John Goodman is “not a current show,” Amazon studio chief Roy Price said this afternoon, closing out the streaming service’s day at TCA. Not maybe such a surprise, given that Tucker Carlon’s political website reported same in May. On the other hand, Price added, it could return, if political events dictate and other stars align. “I like to leave my options open, but I understand what you’re saying,” Price…...