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Amazon Studios, Skydance TV and Paramount TV Studios have found their Jack Reacher. Alan Ritchson (Titans) has been tapped for the title role in Jack Reacher, the streamer’s drama series based on the character from Lee Child’s international bestselling series of books. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders SEE ALL The first season of the series, written, exec […]
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother and writer (Rashida Jones) teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father (Bill Murray) to tail her husband (Marlon Wayans) in a bittersweet comedy about relationships, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Watch Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks, an Apple Original Films and A24 […]
Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have acquired North American rights to Inheritance, the thriller starring Lily Collins and Simon Pegg. The news comes ahead of the film’s premiere at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival. Under terms of the deal, the Vaughn Stein-directed film will bow on DirecTV in April, a month before its May 22 theatrical release via Vertical. The plot scripted by Matthew […]
Watch today’s Daily Nerd News for February 19th 2020. The Daily Nerd News is brought to you by That Nerd News and hosted by Marcus Blake (Editor and Producer of That Nerd Show) Featured stories for today… Netflix Takes Adam McKay Meteor Movie ‘Don’t Look Up’; Jennifer Lawrence To Star Espen Sandberg To Helm Survival […]
The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television and Neal H. Moritz’s Sony-based Original Film have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted television series based on the Doc Savage pulp fiction franchise from the Street & Smith library. The project is part of the new three-year deal Original Film signed with the […]
Former Speechless star Minnie Driver has extended the pod deal for her Huge Fan Productions banner at 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the ABC comedy series. She has set up her first project under the new deal — a dramedy series based on the Texas Monthly article “A Tree is Known by Its Fruit,” which is in development at FX. […]
ITV is adapting Val McDermid’s series of cold case investigations Karen Pirie from Harlots writer Emer Kenny and Bodyguard producer World Productions. The British commercial broadcaster has ordered three, two-hour drama episodes of the adaptation, which is based on McDermid’s novel, The Distant Echo, the first in a series of best-selling novels about a young Scottish female detective set in the Scottish university town […]
Amazon has put in development a series based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross novels for television. The crime, mystery, and thriller New York Times bestselling novels focus on Metropolitan Police Department detective and father Alex Cross as he faces threats to his family and the city of Washington, D.C. The book series, which is ongoing, currently consists of 29 […]
via deadline.com #BadRobot #JusticLeagueDark Bad Robot, through its new deal at Warner Media, is exclusively developing both film and TV ideas based on DC’s Justice League Dark universe at Warner Bros. This deal is all very nascent and at this point in time there aren’t any specific projects or characters that are being specifically developed out of the […]
via deadline.com #Deadwater Fell #David Tennant Acorn will premiere the four-part drama — which is made by Tin Star producer Kudos — in April this year, general manager Matthew Graham announced at the winter Television Critics Association tour. Created and written by Daisy Coulam (Grantchester), Deadwater Fell centers on a Scottish community that is torn apart by mistrust and […]
via deadline.com #LukeEvans #ITV Murder Mystery and The Alienist star Luke Evans is to lead an ITV crime drama from Bodyguard producer World Productions. The actor, who also starred in The Fate of the Furious, will play police officer Steve Wilkins in The Pembrokeshire Murders. The three-part series, which depicts the pursuit of a cold-blooded serial killer, is based on true-crime book Catching the Bullseye Killer, written by […]
Join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Julie Jones as we talk about TV shows that are still binge worthy. There are so many great TV shows that are still fun to go back and watch. And there are definitely TV shows in the Nerd Universe that are still great to watch. We will let you […]
from hollywoodreporter.com Annapurna TV is producing the adaptation of the early 2000s docuseries. Harrison Ford is headed to TV for the first time in more than 25 years. The Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Blade Runner star is attached to a scripted adaptation of The Staircase from Annapurna TV. The potential series is a retelling of the 2004 true-crime docuseries about […]
Twenty years ago today one of the greatest TV shows premiered on NBC. I admit that I didn’t see the pilot episode on TV or really get into the show until years later. I was in college and I was in the Army so TV wasn’t really a priority, but like many fans, I came […]
from hollywoodreporter.com Neil Cross (‘Luther’) will serve as showrunner on the drama based on the novel and 1986 feature film of the same name. Justin Theroux is headed for Apple The Leftovers grad has been tapped to star in the tech giant’s adaptation of Mosquito Coast. The series, from Neil Cross (Luther), is based on the 1981 novel by […]
Join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Julie Jones as we talk about the Top 10 Characters in TV and Streaming Shows. In Continuing with our series of Top 10 characters, we move to TV and Streaming shows this week. Who are the best characters in TV and Streaming shows? Listen to the Show @ Thatnerdshow.com […]
Join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Special Guest: Chad Womack as we talk about whether Superhero movies and TV shows are on the downturn. Have we hit the peak with Avengers: Endgame? Should there be less Superhero movies and TV shows now or better storylines. Listen to the Show @ Thatnerdshow.com at 9am [spreaker type=player […]
from hollywoodreporter.com PlayStation Productions, headed by Asad Qizilbash and overseen by SIE chairman of Worldwide Studios Shawn Layden, will develop and produce projects based on the company’s catalog of more than 100 games Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched PlayStation Productions, a production studio that will mine the company’s extensive catalog of video game titles for […]
A Random Episode button that would allow users to shuffle episodes is being tested on Android mobile devices (From the Hollywood Reporter) In the age of streaming video, the experience of coming home, turning on the television and finding a random rerun of The Office to watch has largely become obsolete. Netflix might be bringing it back. […]
This week on the Saturday Morning Nerd Show, join Marcus Blake, Alex Moore, and Julie Jones as we talk about movie and TV critics. It’s time to reexamine how we critique movies and TV shows and start asking the right questions instead of doing reviews based on an old archaic guideline. We will remake the […]
This week on the Saturday Morning Nerd Show, join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Julie Jones as we talk about the Best Scary Movies and TV Shows over the last 20 years. Forget Classics…can there be anything good from the last 20 years? Join us at 10AM and Listen @ thatnerdshow.com LISTEN HERE! [spreaker type=player […]
The Dresden Files might be headed to the small screen, per a report from Deadline. Jim Butcher’s long-running fantasy series about Harry Dresden, a private investigator and wizard, has been optioned for development by Fox21. Ileen Maisel, who has a first-look deal with Fox 21, will be producing the project with Temple Hill Entertainment, with John Fischer and […]
(via comingsoon.net) Deadline reports that Universal Cable Productions is currently in the process of developing a TV series adaptation titled Ice Cream Man, which is based on Image Comics’ horror-fantasy comic book series of the same name. Ice Cream Man is an anthology series that will follow different dark tales which will be narrated by the Ice Cream Man. […]
This week on the Saturday Morning Nerd Show, join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Julie Jones as we talk about the present state of Superhero Movies and TV Shows…are they going downhill or is there more to look forward to. Has the Superhero era in movies and TV shows peeked. Listen to the show @ […]
(via comingsoon.net) Deadline brings word that HBO has partnered with BBC, Bad Wolf, and New Line Cinema to co-produce and distribute the upcoming series His Dark Materials based off of Philip Pullman’s fantasy book trilogy. HBO has also acquired worldwide rights to the series outside of the UK. The first season of His Dark Materials follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a seemingly […]
This week on the Saturday Morning Nerd Show, join Marcus Blake, Brendan Smith, and Alex Moore as we talk about Tom Clancy, from Books, Movies, and now TV. What they get right and what they get wrong. We will also be talking about the new Jack Ryan series on Amazon/. Listen to the show @ […]
(via comingsoon.net) While The Happytime Murders didn’t light up the box office, the Jim Henson Company has already set up its next project. As revealed at Dragon Con, Jim Henson Co.’s Lisa Henson and Halle Stanford are bringing The Witchlands to television. Author Susan Dennard created The Witchlands in 2016 with Truthwitch, and its first […]
(via comingsoon.net) For the better part of the last half decade, the Halo TV series has been stuck in development at Showtime. However, Halo once again has momentum and Showtime offered a few key updates at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. But perhaps the most intriguing news for fans of the video game series is that Master Chief […]
Straight from San Diego Comic-Con, DC Entertainment has revealed the first official trailer for Titans, their original series set to stream on the DC Universe platform later this year. Check it out in the player below, but be warned, this one ain’t for the kids! Titans stars Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) […]
Disney’s Bob Iger says ‘a few’ Star Wars TV series are in the works for their streaming service (via comingsoon.net) Today during an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that there are “a few” Star Wars TV series in the works for their upcoming Disney streaming app. “We are developing not just one, but a few Star Wars series […]
This is The Gifted’s first season, and they have had a lot of stiff competition in the realm of new shows. The season started off with an exciting bang and has had many intense episodes since then. It is hard to keep the momentum in a show like this, because much like its predecessors of […]
(via comingsoon.net) According to Variety, British comedy team Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are set to return to television with the paranormal series Truth Seekers. To be made through the pair’s new production company Stolen Picture, Truth Seekers will be a half-hour comedy-horror series about a three-man paranormal investigation team, with each episode focusing on a different paranormal incident in a […]
(via ign.com) A TV series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novels is officially moving forward at Amazon. According to Variety, Amazon has given the series a multi-season commitment in a deal with Warner Bros. TV and the Tolkien estate, after reports surfaced earlier this month. The series will be set in Middle Earth and serve […]
(via comingsoon.net) Amazon today announced it has closed an overall deal with prolific creator Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) and a first-look deal with Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment, co-founded by longtime collaborator David Alpert. Kirkman and Skybound — the entities behind television hits The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Outcast — will develop television projects to debut exclusively on Prime Video. This […]
