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Today’s Premieres Saturday’s Premiere Sunday’s Premieres Sunday’s Finales Monday’s Premiere IN THE NEWS Discovery+ struck a licensing deal with NBCUniversal Global Distribution that will add a surplus of reality library titles to the streaming service’s roster. Seasons of “The Biggest Loser,” “Flipping Out,” “American Ninja Warrior,” “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “The Real Housewives” franchise are among content headed to the streamer. Telemundo Enterprises will debut content brand Tplus on sister NBCU streamer Peacock this fall. The launch coincides with Telemundo’s exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the World Cup in Qatar. Tplus content—including scripted and unscripted series and features, sports and music—will be available on Peacock’s premium tier. Among projects in the works are a docuseries about music star J Balvin; a film about soccer great Lionel Messi; anthology docuseries “Mysteries & Scandals” (wt); and “Young at Heart” (wt), a reality dating series from Kinetic Content (“Love is Blind”). Telemundo Enterprises also inked a first-look development deal with Bianca Quesada’s Arcus Studios, home of “Vida.” Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” HBO Max’s “Hacks,” Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and Disney+’s “Loki” rounded out the list in the best new TV series category for Writers Guild of America Awards, announced yesterday. NY-based LGBTQ+ film and mediaorganization NewFest launched the New Voices Filmmaker Grant in partnership with Netflix. Created to support emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers, the initiative will select four filmmakers this year and next who will each receive a $25,000 grant and receive custom mentorship. The partnership falls under Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, established to help create more behind-the-camera opportunities for underrepresented communities. The clock has run down on “60 Minutes+.” Paramount+ canceled the streaming version of the CBS News series after its freshman season. The program featured lengthier news segments and a new team of correspondents, who all had reported for “60 in 6,” the shortform newsmagazine that aired on short-lived service Quibi in 2020. Amid the Omicron surge, the Producers Guild of America is pushing back its 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards. The ceremony, originally scheduled for February 26, will now take place on Saturday, March 19. ViacomCBS and Comcast inked a multiyear distribution renewal that adds BET+ to the fold of CBS and cable networks the cable system carries in the US. |
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PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT In a hybrid model of streaming and theatrical distribution, MGM and Amazon closed deals for US and international rights, respectively, to Jake Gyllenhaal and Guy Ritchie’s untitled Afghan war movie. The big-budget action-thriller will see Gyllenhaal playing Sgt. John Kinley, who forms a fast bond with a local interpreter after they’re the only survivors of an ambush. Upon learning the interpreter and his family aren’t given passage to America as promised, Kinely returns to the warzone in an effort to retrieve them. They Can’t Kill Us All, the Wesley Lowery book that chronicles the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement, is on track to become a TV series at AMC. The network is developing an adaptation of the project, housed at Don Cheadle’s This Radicle Act and Brad Weston’s Makeready. Cheadle and Weston will exec-produce along with Lowery. WarnerMedia Kids & Family greenlit “Degrassi,” a new iteration of WildBrain’s youth franchise of the same name, slated to debut on HBO Max in 2023. The new series about the high school experience, helmed by showrunners Lara Azzopardi (“Backstage,” “The Bold Type”) and Julia Cohen (“Riverdale,” “A Million Little Things”), comprises 10 hourlong eps. HBO Max also has picked up US rights for the entire 14-season library of the franchise installment “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” which will be available on the platform this spring. Jenna Dewan (“The Rookie,” “Step Up”) is extending her relationship with Lifetime, inking a deal to star in and exec-produce two new movies for the network. One project is a film for the net’s annual It’s a Wonderful Lifetime holiday slate. Dewan previously starred in Lifetime’s “Witches of East End, “She Made Them Do It” and “Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal.” She’ll produce through her company, Everheart Production, alongside executive Kyle McNally. Disney+ is developing a series based on 2011 movie “Real Steel,” which centered around the reconciliation of a boxer and his son and starred Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly and Anthony Mackie. From Disney Branded Telev |
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