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TNT is getting back into the Caleb Carr business, following up their successful limited series adaptation of The Alienist with a limited series order for Carr's follow-up novel in the Dr Laszlo Kreizler series, The Angel of Darkness. TNT Reuniting Alienist cast mates Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning, the project will mine more source material from[...]

After nearly four decades since NBC's award-winning miniseries event helped firmly cement the "event series" in the television landscape, FX is ordering a 10-episode limited series adaptation of James Clavell's best-selling novel Shogun Announced by FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf during today's Televison Critics Association's (TCA) summer press event, the project is set to[...]

With filming on Wonder Woman 1984 currently underway, TNT is giving us our first look at their "side project" I Am The Night (originally One Day She'll Darken): a mystery-thriller limited series from executive producer/director Jenkins, and starring executive producer Pine. Credit: TNT Inspired by a true story and focusing on Fauna Hodel's (India Eisley) search for her real[...]

television debut by tackling the life of one of the most controversial figures in news media, late Fox News founder Roger Ailes, in an eight-episode limited series from Showtime and Blumhouse Television. The still-untitled project (previously titled Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes) is based on Gabriel Sherman's bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the Room; as[...]

A smart, thrilling story, coupled with and extremely high production values, makes this project a perfect fit for our linear network and streaming service – it's exactly what our discerning audience craves." – Jan Diedrichsen, General Manager, SundanceTV/Sundance Now Currently in production in Italy, here's a look at the trailer for Hollywood's cinematic attempt at Eco's acclaimed[...]

HBO is set to premiere its eight-episode limited series adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects on Sunday, July 8th at 9 p.m Adapted by Marti Noxon (Dietland) and directed by Big Little Lies' Jean-Marc Vallée, the project also stars Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Perkins, Madison Davenport, Chris Messina, and Eliza Scanlen. https://youtu.be/DgljcMqPG98Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sharp[...]

Ware, the limited webseries is described as an offbeat surreal comedy that's directed by Amanda Cowper and executive produced by Trish Harnetiaux, with music by Missy Mazzoli, Rob Cantor, and Rob Erickson. To see if Driver Ed is a road we want to continue travelling down or something painfully on par with our first experience with[...]

That's the situation Amy Adams finds herself confronting in the first trailer for HBO's limited series adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, with Big Little Lies' Jean-Marc Vallée directing all eight episodes Marti Noxon (Dietland) adapted the novel for series, with Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Perkins, Madison Davenport, Chris Messina and Eliza Scanlen rounding out the cast. Here's[...]

Credit: GIO_LE / Shutterstock.com Netflix has tapped actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Misérables) to bring the story of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen to life in their six-episode limited series The Spy Written and directed by Gideon Raff (Prisoners of War), the series will debut globally on the streaming service outside of France; and on OCS in France. Legende Films[...]

The epic saga of legendary conqueror Hernan Cortes has found a home at Amazon Studios, with Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) set to lead the four-hour miniseries Cortes.

Created by Oliver Lansley (Whites, Alice's Adventures Underground) and directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), the limited series of six hour-long episodes is expected to begin production in London later this month. Paquin said in a statement: "Oliver Lansley has written six of the best scripts I've ever read He walks that fine line between intense character-driven[...]

Credit (left): HBO / (right) Sam Aronov – Shutterstock.com HBO and Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) are ready to pull back the curtain on one of the most important moments in the history of modern cyber warfare with the new limited series Stuxnet (working title)[...]

With the creative dividing lines between television and film continuing to fade comes word that action film icon  Arnold Schwarzenegger (True Lies, Predator) is attached to star in and executive produce western event series Outrider for Amazon.

With the limited series set to bow next month, Hulu has released the official trailer for a series that examines how it was a lack of communication and not a lack of solid intelligence that stifled law enforcement's ability to predict and stop the attack. You can check out the trailer for Hulu's The Looming Tower here: https://youtu.be/zPnSe3KYrwA Based[...]

Actress Kate Beckinsale is going from Underworld to underground in the new drama-thriller The Widow, an eight-episode original series from Harry and Jack Williams (Fleabag) for Amazon and ITV.

Tindle wrote pilots for two different versions of a possible The Haunted Mansion animated series: one would be an ongoing series, while the other a limited series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-6qJzeb3A Kubo and the Two Strings is an epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA[...]

With Robert Kirkman covering the history of comic books, AMC is going to another heavy-hitter to tell the story of science fiction: James Cameron, with his new series James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction.

Is there a point to enforcing the law in the face of certain destruction? With the end of the world looming, how far would you go to make things right? Those are just some of the themes to be tackled by Neil Cross' (Luther) Hard Sun, a six-part "pre-apocalyptic" crime drama from BBC One and Hulu. Written[...]

To say any more would result in me spoiling a taut little thriller that deserved a ton more eyeballs during its initial 2014 run; but here's what I'm certain is a spoiler-filled look at Badaki's Keira as well as an overview of the Crackle limited series: Credit: Crackle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFaHwEdtsEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sequestered[...]

Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0], Wikimedia CommonsAndrea Levy's bestselling and critically acclaimed 2010 novel The Long Song has found a home at BBC One, with producer David Heyman (Gravity, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) set to adapt the story into a three-part historical limited series Produced by Heyman's Heyday Television and written by Sarah[...]

Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22 is making its way to the small screen, with George Clooney set to direct and star in a six-part limited series for Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Co-written by Luke Davies and David Michôd and directed by Clooney and Grant Heslov, the project is looking at early 2018 to begin shooting. Set in[...]

If you're Elyse Levesque's (Orphan Black) Daisy Channing, you really need the people who are coming after you to understand that the title of WGN America's newest limited series, Shoot the Messenger, isn't supposed to be taken literally Co-created by Jennifer Holness and Sudz Sutherland, the eight-part thriller also stars Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), Lucas Bryant (Haven)[...]

Less than two months after the release of the limited series' first trailer, the Paramount Network has released a second trailer for Waco Now while we definitely get some new scenes from the miniseries to chew on, there's also a major difference that you might not realize at first viewing Unlike the first trailer, the[...]

In January 2018, Soderbergh will premiere his interactive limited series Mosaic on HBO. With only a week to go before Netflix premieres Steven Soderbergh's (Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Knick) new seven-part original limited western series Godless, the streaming service has released a new trailer spotlighting widower and town outcast Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery) As[...]

As the nation approaches the 25th anniversary of the federal siege on cult leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound that ended in flames and lives lost, the Paramount Network is offering viewers their first extended look at their six-part limited series Waco. The series is set to be executive produced by Weinstein Television, written by John[...]

Steven Soderbergh's (Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Knick) new seven-part original limited western series Godless will premiere on Netflix on Wednesday...

Just one day after Marvel revealed the details and creative team of Spirits Of Vengeance, the book has been undercut with the announcement that it will run for just five issues, which is, according to top Marvel brass, "the death knell" for anything in the Marvel Universe that isn't Star Wars. Back in April, during Marvel's terrible, horrible, no[...]