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LUTHER
The Screen Actors Guild held its 22nd annual ceremony on Saturday, honoring the best performances in film and television from 2015. See the complete list of the night’s big winners.
The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on Wednesday, with Trumbo, House of Cards and Mad Men making strong showings. The SAG Awards will be held on January 30th.
The world’s grittiest detective is coming back for another go, as BBC America has announced that Idris Elba will return to his Golden Globe-winning role of John Luther once again for a one-night special.
Logline: A former death-row inmate suffering from constant hallucinations joins an amnesty organization to investigate capital punishment cases overturned by the state supreme court.
Round up of this weeks TV sales, pick-ups, attachments, renewals & deals.
The BBC series creator is also on board to produce and pen the Fox adaptation.
A round-up of the week’s TV casting!
JJ Abrams gets yet another show on the air, with one of the first series orders of 2011, Salman Rushdie eyes TV as his next challenge, Michael Bay & Jerry Bruckheimer eye Cocaine for their next series, BBC gives us more Elba, and two deals are lined up for vets and freshmen alike!
Logline: Follows the true story of Luther Burbank, a world-renowned botanist in the 20s and 30s, who bio-engineered his own strains of cacti to help feed families during the Depression.