Similar to what we shared last Spring, here are the updated PODS for the TV industry in 2021.
Paramount Television
Clooney will co-direct and star in the six-episode series based on Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel that was previously turned into a 1970 film directed by the late Mike Nichols.
“Girls Trip” co-writer Tracy Oliver is slated to pen the half-hour comedy series based on the 1996 hit Paramount movie starring Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Middler.
he popular book series The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice has been optioned by Paramount TV and Anonymous Content with the intention of developing a series written by Rice’s son, Christopher Rice.
Robert Heinlein’s classic 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land is heading to the small screen as a new TV series on Syfy. It’s being developed as a co-production between Paramount TV and Universal Cable Productions.
Iconic 1980 film American Gigolo is getting the television treatment as Paramount TV and Jerry Bruckheimer have set up an adaptation in development at Showtime. Playwright Neil LaBute has been tapped to pen the script.
After stepping into a spotlight as the first reporter to break a story on a murder in her hometown, 9-year-old Hilde Lysiak landed a book deal. Now, the rights to the forthcoming series of mystery novels, as well as the life rights to Lysiak’s story, have been optioned by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.
Just a few days after announcing that Paramount TV and Anonymous Content were pitching Maniac starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, Netflix has closed a deal giving the dark comedy a 10 episode series order.
Eight years after Superbad won over comedy fans everywhere, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are re-teaming for a new dark comedy series entitled Maniac, based on the Norwegian format, with True Detective helmer Cary Fukunaga set to direct. That and more in our daily TV casting round-up!
Netflix continues to fulfill its promise to create original content that appeals to all ages and demographics with its 13 episode straight-to-series order of YA series 13 Reasons Why, executive produced by Selena Gomez.
Paramount Television has teamed with Anonymous Content to produce a television series based on the hit mortician memoir “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: and Other Lessons From the Crematory” by Caitlin Doughty.
Never give up. Never surrender. The cult hit sci-fi comedy is getting revamped for television.
A round-up of the week’s TV news!
A round-up of the week’s TV News!
A round-up of the week’s TV News!
A round-up of the week’s TV News!
John Hlavin will pen the script for the small screen adaptation of the 2007 crime drama.
Nick has ordered the TV version of “School of Rock” straight to series.
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
