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Hugo Weaving heads the diverse cast of “Love Me,” a romantic drama series that is now in production in Melbourne, Australia.

The show explores modern love as experienced by different family members at different stages of life. It is adapted from the Swedish series “Älska Mig,” created by Josephine Bornebusch.

To be presented as a six-part series with 43-minute episodes, the show is directed by celebrated Australian director Emma Freeman with lead writer Alison Bell, and writers Leon Ford, Adele Vuko and Blake Ayshford.

“Love Me” is a Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia production in association with Aquarius Films for the Foxtel Group’s streaming service Binge. Major production investment came from Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria.

Binge is an SVOD service launched in May last year by Foxtel, the News Corp. Australia and Telstra-owned pay-tv service in Australia. It offers on-demand and live entertainment across the lifestyle,...

Exclusive: Tony winner Ali Stroker (Oklahoma!), Karen Robinson (Schitt’s Creek) and Rosanny Zayas (The L Word: Generation Q) are set as series regulars opposite Michelle Monaghan, Matt Bomer and Daniel Sunjata in Echoes, Netflix’s psychological thriller limited series from 13 Reasons Why showrunner Brian Yorkey.

Created and written by Vanessa Gazy, Echoes is a mystery thriller about identical twins Leni and Gina, both portrayed by Monaghan, who share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina secretly have swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: They share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing.

Stroker will play Claudia, the sister who can’t quite penetrate the mysterious community formed by the twins. After a tragic moment that left her in a wheelchair, Claudia has risen to become the caretaker of the family home,...

Network: Ion, Ion plus

Episodes: 60 (hour).

Seasons: Five.

TV show dates: February 11, 2018 — present.

Series status: Ending.

Performers include: Jason Priestly, Cindy Sampson, Ennis Esmer, Barry Flatman, Jordyn Negri, Clé Bennett, and Samantha Wan.

TV show description:

From creators Tim Kilby and Shelley Eriksen, the Private Eyes TV show is a comedy-drama based on the G.B. Joyce novel, The Code. The series, which originated on Global television in Canada, centers on former hockey pro Matt Shade (Priestly) and private investigator Angie Everett (Sampson).

When a professional hockey prospect goes down on the ice, Matt Shade promises his family he will find out what happened. Because of the fishy circumstances surrounding the incident, he ends up teaming with...

Big Little Lies vet Shailene Woodley is taking on another tale about complicated ladies, with a starring role in Showtime’s straight-to-series drama Three Women.

“In this intimate, haunting portrayal of American female desire, three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives,” reads the official synopsis. “Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life. Sloane, a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast, has a committed open marriage with Richard, until two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story.

A stray thought for Hollywood: Just because Donald Trump is campaigning for free speech—last week, he announced a class-action anti-censorship lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google—doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea.

Free speech, that is. I don’t know about the lawsuit, which will have to reconcile the tech giants’ First Amendment rights and legal protections with a claim that they have abused their immunity by acting as politically one-sided censors.

More heat than light will be shed as the suit works its way through the courts and media mill. But never mind Trump. Freedom of expression is something the movie business should start worrying about, sooner rather than later.

It’s no secret that the movies—like the rest of pop culture—have been operating in an ever-narrower field when it comes to what can be portrayed on-screen, and by whom. Even to identify the...

If you're putting the name of one character of an ensemble drama in the series' title, she had better be intriguing.

Sarah Cooper was all that on The Republic of Sarah Season 1 Episode 1.

The events of the episode forced Sarah to grow up a lot faster than she had been planning to.

Initially, twentysomething history teacher Sarah appeared to be like one of her students, having to be awoken by her roommate Aj to make it to school on time after staying out too late at a punk show.

Then, in some not-so-subtle foreshadowing, Sarah proclaimed that ordinary people can do extraordinary things during a lecture (using the term loosely) on the Revolutionary War.

Little did she know that the revolution was coming, brought on by an invasion of Lydon Industries, an international mining company there to pillage Greylock, an incredibly diverse small New Hampshire town.

People from such towns...

Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight knows we’ve all been through a lot recently, and that’s why he and the NBC series’ writing staff are going to take pity on us in Season 22’s final hour.

“It has been such a horrible year for so many people,” Leight tells TVLine. “We chose to end on a more hopeful note, rather than having somebody held hostage.” (And if you’re wondering whether Det. Stabler may be involved in that hopeful note… make sure to read to the end of this post.)

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Exclusive: Limitless and The Code creator Craig Sweeny has signed a new three-year overall deal with CBS Studios. Under the pact, Sweeny will continue to develop new projects and work on existing series for the studio.

Sweeny has been at CBS Studios for most of his career – he landed his first staff writer job on the studio’s USA drama The 4400 seventeen years ago and has been under back-to-back overall deals for more than a decade.

From The 4400, Sweeny segued to CBS Studios’ procedural Medium, on which he worked for 6 years, the last three as co-head writer with Robert Doherty under creator/showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron. After Sweeny did a stint as executive producer/showrunner on the USA/CBS Studios drama Common Law, he joined Doherty’s CBS/CBS Studios series Elementary. He spent five years on the Sherlock Holmes procedural, most of them as executive producer.

Sweeny...

Jupiter's Legacy creator Mark Millar has shared several new character posters and promos, each one showing off a member of the superpowered family. Led by Daredevil's Steven S. DeKnight, the upcoming adaptation of Millar and Frank Quitely's comic book of the same name is due to premiere on Netflix next month.

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— Millarworld (@mrmarkmillar) April 9, 2021

The Jupiter's Legacy posters each depict a different member of the principal cast, beginning with Transformers star Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson Aka The Utopian, "The leader of the Union of Justice and patriarch of the Sampson family." Alongside him is his wife, "Lady Liberty, played by @mslesliebibb, wife to the Utopian, mother to Chloe and Brandon, and an original member of the six."

The keeper of The Code. #JupitersLegacypic.twitter.com/OqPK7ihL5g

— Millarworld (@mrmarkmillar) April 13, 2021

Their son Brandon Sampson Aka Paragon, played by Andrew Horton, will play...

Viacom International Studios has inked a first-look deal with South Korean production studio Something Special.

Under the deal, Vis will have exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to 10 of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats.

Founded by Jin Woo Hwang, the company acts as a bridge between content creators and those wanting to tap into Korean talent following the international success of shows including The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice.

Something Special’s stable of talent includes those who have worked on shows including Korea’s Got Talent, 1vs100 Korea, Society Game, The Code, I Can See Your Voice, The Voice Korea, Running Man, and Crime Scene.

ITV Studios signed a co-development deal with South Korea’s Something Special last year.

Vis, part of ViacomCBS Networks International, has struck a partnership to develop formats and shows with South Korea-based Something Special. The deal expands the corporation’s activities in Korea and the Asian TV markets.

Founded at the end of 2019 by Hwang Jin Woo, former president of Cj Enm, and Kim In-soo, former head of formats at Sbs, Something Special pitches itself as Korea’s first-ever TV agency representing format producers.

The deal gives Vis exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to ten of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats. These potentially span music competition, food and cuisine, game shows and reality shows.

Vis will seek partners in Asia from within ViacomCBS’s networks and third-party platforms from the region and beyond to co-produce the selected formats.

Something Special is able to draw on some of South Korea’s top unscripted format creatives, including the...

At a moment when the difference in values between Senator John McCain and outgoing President Donald Trump could not be in sharper contrast, Stampede Ventures plans to turn the Arizona Senator’s sprawling life story into a feature film. They optioned rights to three books by McCain biographer Mark Salter: The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain, Faith of My Fathers and Worth the Fighting For. Salter will write the script with Craig Turk, whose credits include FBI, The Good Wife and The Code and who served as Chief Legal Counsel to McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. The film project has the support of the late Senator’s widow Cindy McCain — she will be exec producer — and the McCain family. Led by former Warner Bros production chief Greg Silverman, Stampede Ventures optioned the books and will finance development of the script.

“Could there be a bigger contrast in how two...

After nearly nine years as head of scripted at Fremantle Australia, Jo Porter is moving on to lead Playmaker Media.

Sony Pictures Television (Spt) announced her appointment as managing director today, starting in 2021.

Porter succeeds Playmaker founders David Maher and David Taylor, who announced their departure from company in July to return to independent production.

At Fremantle, Porter executive produced hits such as Foxtel’s Wentworth, which has sold to 171 countries worldwide and Picnic at Hanging Rock, which opened at Berlinale and sold to 160 territories, including Amazon for the US and the BBC for the UK. She also oversaw the production of Mary: Making of a Princess, Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You, Hoges and Wonderland.

Prior to joining Fremantle, Porter worked as a producer at the Seven Network, with credits that included Packed to the Rafters, Always Greener and All Saints.

Of her new role, Porter said: “I have...

In today’s Global Bulletin, Entertainment One picks up the rights to Australian drama “The Newsreader,” Banijay reorganizes in Iberia, “Downton Abbey” lands on BritBox, Sony Pictures Television hires Jo Porter and Warner Bros. International will distribute Hungry Bear Media’s new game show.

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Entertainment One (eOne) has acquired international distribution rights to “The Newsreader,” a new drama series coming to ABC TV in Australia, produced by Werner Film Productions.

Set in the 1980s, the series unspools in a high energy newsroom, turning on the relationship between a young TV reporter and the show’s star female anchor. The cast features several high-profile actors including Anna Torv (“Mindhunter”), Sam Reid (“Lambs of God”), Robert Taylor (“Longmire”), Stephen Peacocke (“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”), Chai Hansen (“The New Legends of Monkey”) and Marg Downey (“Fast Forward”).

“The Newsreader” is backed by major investments from Screen Australia and the ABC and financed with support from Film Victoria.

BAFTA Execs To Speak At British Urban Film Festival

Exclusive: The British Urban Film Festival (Buff) has set BAFTA Chair Krishnendu Majumdar and BAFTA Film Committee Chair Marc Samuelson for a 90-minute ‘in conversation’ session at this year’s festival, which is taking place later than usual and online as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. The pre-recorded Q&a, titled The Changing Faces of BAFTA, will be moderated by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe and streamed via the festival’s website next month. Viewers will be able to submit questions in advance of the Zoom session via the Buff Facebook page. Actor and producer Femi Oyeniran will once again helm the annual Buff awards ceremony. Winners last year included Noel Clarke, Terry Pheto and Aki Omoshaybi. The festival’s full program is due to be announced in coming weeks.

Sbs Begins “Most Ambitious Drama Yet”

Oz broadcaster Sbs has begun its “most...

24kgoldn’s and Iann Dior’s “Mood” ascended to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The track was originally released in July, and it vaulted into the Top Ten by mid-August. It’s been there pretty much ever since, hovering behind massive hits like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Wap” and Drake and Lil Durk’s “Laugh Now Cry Later.” After a remix to “Mood” with the stars J Balvin and Justin Bieber came out November 6, the single squeezed past Ariana Grande’s “Positions” and grabbed Number One,...

As if aliens weren’t enough to handle, a brilliant and sadistic newcomer will also cause trouble for the Legends of Tomorrow in Season 6: The CW series has tapped Raffi Barsoumian (The Vampire Diaries) to recur as Bishop, a once-in-a-generation genius, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Bishop has “seen the end of the world, and he thinks he has a way to save it,” per the official character description. “But despite his purported love of humanity, Bishop isn’t great with people. He pretends to be a groovy bon vivant with a taste for cognac and a killer vinyl collection,...

Kelly Lefever.

Prolific screenwriter, script producer and story editor Kelly Lefever is juggling multiple projects – not least a deeply personal series about disability.

Inspired by her own family’s experiences, Care will look at five families who each care for a family member who was born with or acquired a disability.

Her daughter Alexandra, who is 30, was born with Kabuki syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.

“This is a universal story,” Kelly told If. “There are more than 3 million people in Australia who care for a family member or a close relative.

“Most of us will have to deal with this at some time in our lives with aging parents. For me it has been a very grounding experience which has also brought tremendous joy and humour.”

Lefever is in talks with a producer and intends to pitch the project to the ABC, Sbs or streamers.

Another project she created is Sundown,...

CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time, has set Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire) and writer Katrina O’Gilvie (Swagger) for this year’s roster.

The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.

The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.

Even those who consider themselves experts in the subject will find a provocative treasure trove of images and anecdotes in “Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies.” Danny Wolf’s documentary is a breezy, open-eyed, and often encyclopedic compendium of all the ways the cinema has celebrated, exploited, and negotiated the power of the naked body. The film opens with a montage of actors and directors recalling the first movie they ever saw that had nudity in it, and that allows the film, in its early moments, to leap through some of Nudity’s Greatest Hits.

As it moves back in time, one of the documentary’s fascinations is the way it’s constantly juxtaposing big Hollywood movies and European art movies and softcore exploitation films and everything in between. That, of course, is just as it should be. Aesthetically, there’s a world of difference between “Vixen” and “The Virgin Spring,...

In the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda plays the founding father of the title who takes the spotlight, but let’s face it, Phillipa Soo’s Eliza Schuyler should take just as much of that spotlight because as Alexander Hamilton’s wife, she was the only one that could put him in his place. She stole his heart, supported him through his political journey and even after he cheated on her, she taught him a harsh lesson of love on being a real husband, father and man.

Soo played the original Eliza Schuyler when it hit Broadway alongside Miranda as well as Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Okieriete Onaodowan and Jasmine Cephas Jones. As we all know, it garnered an uproarious ovation as tickets were selling for thousands of dollars. More than that, it became a cultural movement and a watershed moment for inclusive casting and storytelling.

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“A Love Story… Not!”

By Raymond Benson

There’s no question that the 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s 1962 Tony-winning play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of the most important and influential motion pictures of the 1960s. It not only showcased four superlative acting performances, a jaw-dropping impressive directorial debut (by Mike Nichols), brilliant black and white cinematography and editing, but it also changed the Hollywood movie industry.

By the mid-60s, the archaic Production Code, which had been in force since July 1934, was in its death throes. When Otto Preminger began releasing titles in the 1950s without the Production Code Seal of Approval, he proved to the powers-that-be that the Code was not infallible. Then along came such fare as Psycho, Lolita, and The Pawnbroker in the early 60s, and it was clear that the American public wanted to see more “adult” pictures.

A sequel to the 2007 horror film “Black Water” about killer crocodiles has been acquired by Screen Media for theatrical and on-demand release day and date this August, it was announced Wednesday.

The North American rights for “Black Water: Abyss” were nabbed by Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, and the movie will open on Aug. 7.

The original “Black Water” from 2007 became an underground hit, and the follow-up is a similar survival thriller about a group of friends who explore a remote cave system deep in the forests of Northern Australia when a tropical storm hits. As rising floodwaters trap them deep below the surface, something even deadlier emerges from the darkness – killer crocodiles.

Also Read: Fangoria Horror-Western 'The Pale Door' Nabbed by Rlje Films and Shudder (Exclusive)

Andrew Traucki, who co-directed the original film, returns to direct the sequel. Ian John Ridley and Sarah Smith wrote the screenplay.

Altitude anticipates business with international buyers at Cannes virtual market.

Screen Media has acquired all North American rights from Altitude Film Sales to crocodile horror Black Water: Abyss.

Andrew Traucki directed from a screenplay by John Ridley and Sarah Smith that marks a follow-up to the 2007 survival story original Black Water.

The action takes place in a remote cave system deep in the forests of Northern Australia where friends get trapped with killer crocodiles when a tropical storm hits. Altitude handles international sales and will take the title to the Cannes virtual market.

Jessica McNamee (The Meg), Luke Mitchell (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D....

Screen Media has obtained all North American rights to the survival thriller Black Water: Abyss, the Andrew Traucki-directed sequel to the 2007 horror film Black Water, which will get a day-and-date release August 7.

The pic stars Jessica McNamee, who plays Sonya Blade in the upcoming Mortal Kombat feature at New Line, Luke Mitchell from ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Amali Golden (Bloom), Benjamin Hoetjes (The Code), and Anthony J. Sharpe (Robert the Bruce).

Written by John Ridley and Sarah Smith, the plot revolves around a group of friends who explore a remote cave system deep in the forests of Northern Australia when a tropical storm hits. As rising floodwaters trap them deep below the surface, something even deadlier emerges from the darkness – killer crocodiles.

Neal Kingston, Michael Robertson, and Pam Collis produced. The deal was negotiated by Screen Media’s Seth Needle with Mike Runagall, managing director at Altitude Film Sales...

David Taylor and and David Maher.

Playmaker Media co-founders David Taylor and David Maher reflect on the suspension of the local content quotas, the impact of the overseas talent drain and the key to longevity as the Sony-owned production company marks its 10th anniversary.

Q: Congrats on the 10-year milestone. There have been a lot of peaks and a few troughs?

A: Mostly peaks, thankfully, and valuable lessons learned from the occasional trough. It’s been a wild and varied wide, producing just under 200 hours of scripted drama. Some seismic shifts in the scripted content game along the way have enabled bigger budgets and bolder ideas.

Q: The Scribe Showrunner program which you launched in 2011 with Screen Australia’s support was a game-changing initiative that has been widely emulated. What inspired that idea?

A: Scribe came out of simply wanting to work with the best Australian writers who had the attributes,...

With May right around the corner, Shudder is making sure horror is in full bloom with another month of movies both old and new, with their upcoming titles including Brandon Christensen's Z, the second season of Wolf Creek, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, and the ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!

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Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights

Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival

A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...

Aaron Glenane and Liv Hewson.

Being in lockdown has prompted different responses from actors Aaron Glenane and Liv Hewson.

Glenane, who came back to Sydney from Los Angeles with his fiance and young child, admits he was “going nuts” so he had the idea of staging a live reading of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans, which he performed at the Old Fitz Theatre five years ago.

He put the idea to Red Line Productions co-founder Andrew Henry, who reached out to Kessler. In turn Kessler approached Alec Baldwin, who starred in the Broadway production in 2013, the story of two orphaned brothers living in a decrepit North Philadelphia house.

The result was the first live streamed reading of the play, featuring Baldwin, Glenane and Henry, with stage directions and descriptions read by lifetime member of the Actors Studio Judy Jerome, on April 11/12.

Hewson is happy to be in South Korea working...

From the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the Code has played a key part in the behavior and morals of characters. The Code is set out as a rulebook for pirates to follow, dictating how they should act and how they should conduct their business. Of course, like any society, some pirates take said code more seriously than others.

Related: Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

The Code itself always lurked in the background, but many viewers are still unaware of a lot of its background and what it actually dictated. Many because so many people ignored it.

Netflix has dropped the trailer for its new coming-of-age series “I Am Not Okay With This,” which reunites Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff, who played Beverly Marsh and Stanley Uris in the “It” franchise.

The trailer is packed with moments of excruciating teenage angst as Lillis, who plays a girl named Sydney whose life is upended after her father dies, realizes she’s going through puberty — and gaining superpowers.

Watch the video above.

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Here is the official description from Netflix:

“I Am Not Okay With This is an irreverent origin story that follows a teenage girl who’s navigating the trials and tribulations of high school, all while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.” The seven-episode, half-hour series comes from the...

ABC has ordered a drama pilot based on the book “Wreckage” by Emily Bleeker.

In the project, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash on the surface. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story, so they lie.

Jacquie Walters will adapt the book for the pilot and serve as co-executive producer. Marc Webb is attached to direct and executive produce under his Dark Lamb banner. Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly will also executive produce along with Mark Martin of Black Lamb and Keith Samples. Bleeker will serve as consultant. ABC Studios will produce.

Netflix revealed some premiere dates Tuesday, confirming the return date of a fan-favorite, and the series debuts of two new series.

Altered Carbon's long-gestating second season will hit the air Thursday, February 27 -- almost two years after Season 1 debuted.

Altered Carbon Season 2 stars Anthony Mackie as Takeshi Kovacs, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Quellcrist Falconer, Chris Conner as Poe, Dina Shihabi as Dig 301, Simone Missick as Trepp, Torben Liebrecht as Colonel Carrera, and James Saito as Tanaseda Hideki, and Lela Loren as Danica Harlan.

Altered Carbon is based on the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan. The world of Altered Carbon takes place over 300 years in the future.

Your re-sleeving is now complete. 2.27.20. #AlteredCarbon pic.twitter.com/h4VtaCp6Wh

— Altered Carbon (@AltCarb) January 21, 2020

Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent.

Meanwhile, I Am Not Okay...

Netflix has set a release date for I Am Not Okay With This, a well-pedigreed supernatural/coming-of-age drama from, fittingly, two Stranger Things executive producers and The End of the F***ing World Ep/director Jonathan Entwistle.

Based on the Charles Forsman graphic novel and co-created for TV by Entwistle and Christy Hall, I Am Not Okay With This is described as an irreverent origin story that follows a teenage girl (played by Sophia Lillis of Sharp Objects and the It film franchise) who is navigating the trials and tribulations of high school, all while dealing with the complexities of her family,...

First introduced as a national proclamation by Congress in 1981, Women’s History Month has been celebrated every year since then, using the 31 days of March to promote and amplify the voices of women across the country — and around the world.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we asked nine actresses to tell us about the books, films and television shows that have inspired them, as women, over the years. Many of their selections were written by female writers, or star strong female leads. The shared goal of these actresses is to not only commemorate the achievements of women this month, but to celebrate their voices — and the stories they continue to tell — all year long.

Michaela McManus, “The Village” (premieres March 19 on NBC)

I read “Just Kids” by Patti Smith about seven years ago and it has stayed with me ever since (read it here). I moved to New York...

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Are enough people keeping their eyes on these P.I.'s? Is the Private Eyes TV show cancelled or renewed for a third season on Ion? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Private Eyes, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   

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An Ion comedy-drama based on the G.B Joyce novel, The Code, Private Eyes stars Jason Priestly, Cindy Sampson, Ennis Esmer, Barry Flatman, Jordyn Negri, and Clé Bennett. Bree Williamson, Mark Ghanimé, and Samantha Wan recur in the second season. The series centers on former professional hockey player Matt Shade (Priestly), who first teams up with formidable P.I. Angie Everett (Sampson), to solve the mystery of why a top hockey prospect...

Are Matt and Angie still on top of things during the second season of the Private Eyes TV show on Ion? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Private Eyes is cancelled or renewed for season three (it's been renewed in Canada). Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we'd like to offer you the chance to rate all of the Private Eyes season two episodes here.

An Ion comedy-drama based on the G.B Joyce novel, The Code, Private Eyes stars Jason Priestly, Cindy Sampson, Ennis Esmer, Barry Flatman, Jordyn Negri, and Clé Bennett. Bree Williamson, Mark Ghanimé, and Samantha Wan recur in the second season. The series centers on former professional hockey player...

Exclusive: The CW has officially wrapped its 2019 pilot pickups with six orders, and three high-profile projects, The 4400, The L.A. Complex and Good Christian Bitches, were not among those getting a green light but neither is dead. All three have been rolled to next season, which is something the CW President Mark Pedowitz does with IP he believes in.

In 2017, there also were two big-title projects that did not make the cut to pilot, Charmed and The Lost Boys. Both were rolled and subsequently made it to pilot — Charmed did it last season, when it was picked up to series and was recently renewed for a second season. It took another year, but The Lost Boys too nabbed a pilot order last month.

The reasons for The 4400, The L.A. Complex and Good Christian Bitches being rolled vary from project to project.

For The 4400, the script could...

CBS has renewed freshman drama “God Friended Me” for the 2019-2020 television season.

“God Friended Me” centers on an “outspoken atheist” who receives a mysterious social media friend request from an account calling itself God and finds himself making new connections and becoming an agent of change in the lives around him.

It averages 10 million viewers, making it the second-most-watched new series and most-watched scripted program airing on Sundays.

“We’re thrilled with how ‘God Friended Me’ has performed on Sundays. It’s one of the top three new series on television, has improved its time period significantly, and continues a long tradition of prestige dramas for CBS on the night,” said Kelly Kahl, president of CBS Entertainment, in a statement.

“God Friended Me” stars Brandon Micheal Hall, Violett Beane, Suraj Sharma, Javicia Leslie and Joe Morton. Greg Berlanti, Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt, Sarah Schechter and Marcos Siega are the...

CBS has renewed the freshman drama “God Friended Me,” the network announced on Tuesday.

Led by Brandon Micheal Hall, the Sunday night drama centers on an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he receives a friend request on social media from “God” and unwittingly becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.

“We’re thrilled with how ‘God Friended Me’ has performed on Sundays. It’s one of the top three new series on television, has improved its time period significantly, and continues a long tradition of prestige dramas for CBS on the night,” CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl said in a statement.

Also Read: CBS Renews Trio of Freshman Series 'FBI,' 'The Neighborhood' and 'Magnum Pi'

Alongside the network’s “Magnum P.I.” reboot, the Dick Wolf procedural “FBI” and the multi-cam “The Neighborhood,” “God Friended Me...

Exclusive: Teen Wolf alumna Meagan Tandy, Camrus Johnson (Luke Cage) and Nicole Kang (You) have been cast in lead roles opposite Ruby Rose in Batwoman, the CW’s DC drama pilot from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

Written by Caroline Dries based on the DC characters and directed by David Nutter, Batwoman marks the first gay lead character — male or female — of a live-action superhero series. It centers on Kate Kane (Rose) who soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.

Tandy will play Sophie Moore. After graduating from military academy, Sophie rose through the ranks...

CBS has renewed the freshman shows “FBI,” “The Neighborhood,” and “Magnum P.I.”

“Each of these distinctive shows has made their mark in a variety of ways,” said Kelly Kahl, president of CBS Entertainment. “Our goals this season were to introduce new series that audiences are passionate about, add more strength to a winning schedule and create more inclusive programming.”

“FBI” stars Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, Ebońee Noel and Sela Ward and details the inner workings of the New York office of the titular government agency. Dick Wolf executive produces along with Rick Eid, Terry Miller, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski. The series marks one of Wolf’s few scripted projects to air on a network other than NBC.

Multi-cam comedy “The Neighborhood” follows a white family from Michigan that moves into a predominantly black neighborhood in Los Angeles. Cedric the Entertainer, Tichina Arnold, Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs,...

Berlin-based Films Boutique has acquired international sales rights to Wayne Blair’s “Tod End Wedding” and Jacek Borcuch’s “Dolce Fine Giornata,” which will have their world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.

Set to play in the premieres section, “Top End Wedding” marks Blair’s first Australian feature film since his critically acclaimed period musical “The Sapphires” which opened out of competition at Cannes in 2012.

The film follows an engaged couple who embark on a road trip across Australia to find the future bride’s mother who disappeared somewhere in the remote far north of the country days before their planned dream wedding.

“Top End Wedding” reunites Blair with Miranda Tapsell and Shari Sebbens, who starred in “The Sapphires.” They star opposite Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody), Kerry Fox (“Cloudstreet”), Huw Higginson (“Home and Away”), Ursula Yovich (“The Code”) and Joshua Tyler (“Plonk”).

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CBS is bringing in the new year with some new shows. Today, the network announced the premiere dates for The Red Line, The Code, and season three of Ransom.

An event series, The Red Line (April 28th at 8 p.m. Et/Pt) "follows three very different Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after a tragedy connects them all." Meanwhile, the new series The Code (April 9th at 9 p.m. Et/Pt) "is a drama about the military’s brightest minds who take on our country’s toughest legal challenges, inside the courtroom and out, in the only law office in the world where every attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator – and a Marine."

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In today’s TV News Roundup, “The Last O.G.” announces its Season 2 return date and Variety has the exclusive first look at Fox’s new legal drama “Proven Innocent.”

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Netflix has announced its new limited series “Black Earth Rising” will launch on Jan. 25. The contemporary thriller series stars Michaela Coel as Kate Ashby, a Rwandan girl raised in London by her adoptive mother after being orphaned by genocide. She attempts to learn the truth about her past with the help of lawyer Michael Ennis, played by John Goodman.

Variety has the exclusive first look at “Proven Innocent,” a new legal drama from Fox debuting on Feb. 15. Rachelle Lefevre plays Madeline Scott, a lawyer who has an uncompromising hunger for justice after she spent 10 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction. Riley Smith plays her brother, who was also convicted, Russell Hornsby plays her partner and lawyer who set her free,...

CBS is firming up its midseason roster.

The eye network has revealed premiere dates for new dramas The Red Line and The Code, as well as returning drama, Ransom.

The Red Line will get underway Sunday, April 28 and will air two episodes for four weeks.

"After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three vastly different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective," according to the official logline.

The cast includes includes Noah Wyle (ER), Noel Fisher (Shameless), Emayatzy Corinealdi (Hand of God), Howard Charles (The Musketeers), Michael Patrick Thornton (Private Practice), Elizabeth Laidlaw (Boss), Vinny Chhibber (No Tomorrow) and Aliyah Royale.

“The Red Line is a serialized drama with compelling characters and provocative themes that we expect viewers will want to watch more than one hour per week, so we wanted to eventize...

CBS has unveiled its lineup for the spring season, including the return of Ransom for its third season and the debut of two new series. So get out your calendar and mark these dates down.

In April, the network will introduce The Code, a military legal drama starring Luke Mitchell and Dana Delany

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CBS has announced a new batch of midseason dates, and before you ask, Instinct, Elementary and Life in Pieces remain Mia.

What TVLine can report, however, is that CBS has set April premieres for the new series The Code and The Red Line, while Ransom Season 3 will begin Saturday, Feb. 16 at 8/7c.

The Code will get a special showcase on Tuesday, April 9 at 9 pm, before moving to its regular Mondays-at-9 time slot on April 15 (after Magnum P.I. wraps its freshman run). The freshman drama follows the military’s brightest judge advocates as they tackle the toughest legal challenges facing the U.S. Marine Corps.

CBS has set spring premiere dates for new drama series The Code, The Red Line, which will air as an eight-episode event series, and returning Ransom.

The Red Line, from Greg Berlanti and Ava DuVernay and starring Noah Wyle, will air in two-hour installments over four consecutive Sundays beginning April 28 following 60 Minutes. The episodes will air from 8-10 Pm Et/Pt, after God Friended Me wraps its first season.

“The Red Line is a serialized drama with compelling characters and provocative themes that we expect viewers will want to watch more than one hour per week, so we wanted to eventize it and try something unique with two-hour blocks over four weeks,” said Noriko Kelley, Executive Vice President, Program Planning & Scheduling, CBS Entertainment. “Sundays have always been a night of prestige programming for the network, and 60 Minutes provides the perfect lead-in for this special series.”

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CBS has announced a pair of spring premiere dates for new series, “The Code,” and Ava Duvernay’s event series, “The Red Line.”

“The Red Line,” from Duvernay and fellow uber-producer Greg Berlanti, will debut on Sunday, April 28 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, following the conclusion of the first season of “God Friended Me.” The eight-episode event series will air on a truncated schedule — it will air two episodes, back-to-back, over four consecutive Sundays.

The series, which stars Noah Wyle, follows three very different Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after a tragedy connects them all.

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“‘The Red Line’ is a serialized drama with compelling characters and provocative themes that we expect viewers will want to watch more than one hour per week, so we wanted to eventize it and try something unique...

(L-r) Jai Courtney, Finn Little and Shawn Seet.

Shawn Seet was 12 when he saw Henri Safran’s Storm Boy, the 1976 family drama based on Colin Thiele’s acclaimed novel.

The director was born in Australia but lived in Malaysia until he was 12. His uncle took him to the movie which made such an impression he kept the film’s poster, which still adorns his bedroom.

So when producers, Ambience Entertainment’s Michael Boughen and Matthew Street asked him to direct a contemporary re-imagining of the movie, he did not hesitate.

“It was amazing,” Seet tells If. “I asked them, ‘Do you know my history?’ Safran’s film was wonderful, a classic, and as I left the meeting I wondered if I had what it takes to pull it off.”

Enthusiastic responses to previews staged by Sony Pictures and screenings at the St George OpenAir Cinema suggest he’s nailed it.