Come From Away , the Apple Original Films adaptation of the Broadway hit musical, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 10 – the eve of 9/11’s 20th anniversary – with an ensemble cast that includes members of the original and current Broadway casts. Watch a new teaser below. Directed by the musical’s Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley, the live performance was filmed at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in May before an audience that included 9/11 survivors and front-line workers. The musical tells the true story of 7,000 people stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights into the US are grounded on September 11, 2001. As the people of Newfoundland graciously welcome the “come from aways” into their community in the aftermath, the passengers and locals alike “process what’s happened while finding love, laughter, and new hope in the unlikely and lasting bonds that they forge.” The cast of the filmed …
Bryan Brown & Greta Scacchi To Star In Australian Mystery Drama Series ‘Darby & Joan’ For Acorn TV
Cocktail star Bryan Brown and War & Peace’s Greta Scacchi are to play two strangers trekking on the road in the Australian outback in a new Australian drama series. Acorn TV has ordered Darby and Joan and will air the eight-part series, which comes from My Life Is Murder producer CJZ, in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Australia, Spain and Portugal. Brown plays a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and Scacchi, who also featured in AMC’s The Terror , as a widowed English nurse. The pair meet each other and embark together on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia. The series, which has received major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland, will air in 2022. Darby and Joan shines a light on isolated and often unseen areas of regional Australia, and a myriad of characters moving through a world where everyone seems to be searching for something – …
Rob Reiner Says He’s Working On TV Project About Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin
Archie Bunker might call this “Meathead vs. MAGA.” Rob Reiner said in an interview today that he is working on a “10- to 13-episode” TV project about the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin . Watch a clip from the sit-down above. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind films ranging from This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride and A Few Good Men to LBJ and Shock and Awe told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that he is prepping a project called The Spy and the Asset . “It’s all about Putin and Trump, and it takes them from their childhoods up to the point where they cross and what happens to democracy as a result of this convergence,” he said on the satcaster’s The Dean Obeidallah Show. Reiner later added: “I wanna do it because, for me, it’s like … taking the first real cut in history.” Reiner noted that he “hasn’t gotten the go-ahead yet” for the project — in fact, Reiner said, “I haven’t told anybody about it yet.” Watch on …
Inner Voice Artists & Immaterial Agents Set The Munoz Brothers To Adapt YA Novel ‘Iceland’s Mountain Factory’ For TV
EXCLUSIVE: Mexican filmmaking duo the Munoz Brothers, who made the 2019 comedy-drama Paper Boats , have been set to adapt Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir’s young adult novel Iceland’s Mountain Factory. The book was inspired by the Greta Thunberg movement. It follows a group of young graduates from a mountaineering academy in the south-east of Iceland who get stuck in a fierce storm, taking refuge in an old hut, where they decide to set up a free state dedicated to nature and sustainability. When one of the girls in the group, an established environmental activist and influencer, is found dead one morning, everything changes. The project, titled The Mountain Factory , comes from Los Angeles and Oslo-based management company Inner Voice Artists and Nordic literary agency Immaterial Agents , which recently struck a partnership to co-rep book rights for film and TV adaptations. Inner Voice Artists will produce the TV series, while also co-selling book rights …
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Netflix Announces ‘Baking Impossible’ & ‘School of Chocolate’ Series, Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Nailed It!’ & ‘Bake Squad’
Netflix is queueing up more cooking content with the addition of Baking Impossible and School of Chocolate to its library this fall. Baking Impossible , hosted by Justin Willman, pairs the most creative and innovative bakers with the best and brightest engineers to make wild creations in the kitchen. Each team will consist of one baker and one engineer — known collectively as Bakineers — who will compete in designing and baking creations that are both delicious and made to survive intense engineering stress tests. The series premieres on Oct. 6, and the finale is set for Oct. 13. School of Chocolate will see eight top pastry and chocolate professionals as they elevate their skills and careers under the tutelage of world-renowned chocolatier, Amaury Guichon. The winner of the competition after eight episodes will be offered a “career-changing” opportunity. No premiere date has been set as yet. Summer Premiere Dates For New & Returning TV Series On …
‘Lightyears’: Amazon Sci-Fi Series Adds Beth Lacke, Stephen Louis Grush, And Cass Buggé
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has added Beth Lacke ( Chicago Med , Hope Springs Eternal ), Stephen Louis Grush ( Chicago P.D. , The Alienist ), and Cass Buggé ( Better Things , Yes Day ) to its upcoming sci-fi drama series Lightyears in recurring roles. Lacke will portray the role of Chandra, a former student of lead protagonist Irene York (Sissy Spacek) who is dissatisfied with her job as a caregiver at a local nursing home and with life in general. A chance encounter with her teacher sends Chandra in a new direction. Grush’s character Nick is described as a socially awkward loner who operates the family drapery business and who boasts his own strange charisma. He’s eager to impress, and often finds himself on the wrong side of bad situations. Nick has an unexpected connection to Stella (Julieta Zylberberg). Jeanine, played by Buggé, has been married to Byron (Adam Bartley) for seven years and is newly arrived in Farnsworth. She works as a customer service …
Selena Gomez Slams ‘The Good Fight’ For “Tasteless” Joke About Her Kidney Transplant
Actress and singer Selena Gomez , who underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 as a result of her battle with lupus, doesn’t think a joke on The Good Fight about her operation was funny at all. Criticizing a scene that aired on the Paramount+ drama last month, Gomez tweeted last night, “I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently. I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.” The scene in question depicted Good Fight characters tossing around joke ideas for TV exec Del Cooper (Wayne Brady), with the characters listing off-limits topics such as autism, necrophilia and “Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant.” The reference stems from a 2020 episode of Peacock’s Saved by the Bell update, in which characters debated the identity of Gomez’s kidney donor. Peacock later apologized and removed the scene. …
OWN Teams With HGTV For Robert Hartwell Home Renovation Series From Drew & Jonathan Scott On Discovery+
Discovery+ is expanding its unscripted programming fare. Discovery today unveiled a slate of five new shows, produced by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network , ordered straight-to-series for the streaming service. They include Taking Back The House (working title) starring Robert Hartwell , from Property Brothers stars Drew and Jonathan Scott, co-produced by OWN and sibling HGTV in its first-ever partnership. Taking Back the House will chronicle Broadway Collective founder Hartwell’s room-by-room renovation of an 1820 colonial house he recently purchased. Hartwell will executive produce alongside the Scott brothers. Taking Back the House (wt) will premiere exclusively on discovery+ in 2022. Also ordered straight-to-series are The Great Soul Food Cookoff , a cooking competition series from Chopped producer Good Egg Entertainment; food truck competition series Burger Truck Brawl, from Guy Fieri’s Knuckle Sandwich Productions and Lando Entertainment set for …
Mel Brooks Memoir ‘All About Me!’ Set By Ballantine Books For November 30 Publication
EXCLUSIVE : The Random House imprint Ballantine Books has acquired and set a November 30 publication date in the U.S. for the Mel Brooks memoir All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business . The iconic director, producer, writer, and actor has also recorded an audiobook version that will be released simultaneously by Penguin Random House Audio. Century, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, will publish in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. The world publishing rights for the book were acquired by Ballantine Books Executive Editor Pamela Cannon from Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown. This is a long awaited memoir from a comic genius whose career includes the trailblazing irreverent films Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part I and Spaceballs , TV shows like Get Smart and Your Show of Shows , and bringing The Producers to screen and stage, winning an Oscar for Best Screenplay and the Tony Award for the effort. He is among a few entertainers …