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‘People Of Earth’ & ‘Search Party’ Renewed For Season 2 By TBS

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TBS has given 10-episode second-season pickups to recent entries People of Earth and Search Party, wrapping 2016, in which the network renewed all new comedy series it introduced, Angie Tribeca, The Detour, Wrecked and late-night standout Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, as well as veterans Conan and American Dad! TBS has been experimenting with multi-platform series launches. As part of that, the serialized, young-skewing Search Party started off with a binge release of… Read

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Abby Huntsman Joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ As Co-Host

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Fox News Channel said that its correspondent Abby Huntsman will be the new co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, with her official first day on Saturday. She joins Clayton Morris and a rotating male co-host on the program, to deliver the latest news and conduct interviews. Huntsman replaces Anna Kooiman, who left in September to move to Australia; Kooiman continues as a freelance correspondent. Huntsman, formerly co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, joined Fox News as a… Read

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‘Foxy Brown’ TV Series Starring Meagan Good In the Works At Hulu From DeVon Franklin, Tony Krantz & MGM TV

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EXCLUSIVE: A cult movie title, the 1974 Foxy Brown, is headed to television a with a TV series adaptation starring Meagan Good in the iconic role. In a competitive situation, the project, executive produced by DeVon Franklin and Tony Krantz, has landed at Hulu for development. MGM TV is the studio. Malcolm Spellman (Empire) and Ben Watkins (Burn Notice) will write the TV version, a modern reimagining of the 1974 movie and the larger-than-life Foxy Brown character… Read

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Kelly Lynch Joins ‘Mr. Mercedes’ Audience Network Series Based On Stephen King Book

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Magic City alumna Kelly Lynch has landed a key role in Mr. Mercedes, AT&T Audience Network’s upcoming drama series. Based on Stephen King’s 2014 book of the same name, Mr. Mercedes follows a demented killer who taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he is able to strike again. David E. Kelley is writing the adaptation… Read

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Hulu Acquires UK Drama Series ‘National Treasure,’ Sets Spring Launch

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Hulu is taking a National Treasure from the UK. In a deal with All3Media, the four-part Channel 4 drama series from BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne will begin streaming stateside March 1 as a Hulu Original. National Treasure examines the fallout that occurs when accusations of sexual misconduct are lodged against a fictional public figure, exploring their impact on the accused and those most closely associated with him as he is brought to trial. It follows Paul Finchley… Read

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‘The Sense Of An Ending’ Trailer: Secrets Are Unearthed In Drama Starring Jim Broadbent & Charlotte Rampling

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“What you end up remembering is not always what you actually witness.” From CBS Films’ newly released trailer for the Ritesh Batra-directed film The Sense Of An Ending, based on Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller.  The pic, which stars Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer, Billy Howle, Joe Alwyn, Freya Mavor, Matthew Goode and Charlotte Rampling, will bow in select theaters March 10. Adapted by Nick Payne, the film… Read

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‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Shatters Worldwide Record For Most Viewed Trailer

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EXCLUSIVE: Talk about dropping a trailer into fifth gear. Universal’s Sunday launch of The Fate of the Furious trailer became the largest debut ever, setting a global record with 139M views in its first 24 hours and zooming past the 127.6M first-day views recently posted by Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. A perfect storm of events fueled the trailer drop for the eighth Fast & Furious title and drove it to great heights. First, Uni debuted the trailer in a historic Times… Read

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‘Vice’ Gets Season 5 Premiere Date On HBO; Order Upped To 30 Episodes

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HBO said today that Season 5 of Vice will premiere at 11 PM Friday, February 24. Hosted by Vice Media founder Shane Smith, the newsmagazine’s new season will feature 30 episodes, up from 18 last year. Vice correspondents travel the world to investigate stories that aren’t being told. Reporting on the world's most pressing issues, the series uses an immersive documentary approach to bring a unique perspective to the events shaping our future. Vice is executive produced by… Read

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Jake Gyllenhaal Will Open Broadway’s Newest House With Acclaimed ‘Sunday In The Park With George’ Revival

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Jake Gyllenhaal will open on Broadway this spring, inaugurating the newest house on the Street — but not in the show originally announced. The extensively refurbished Hudson Theatre will reopen in February with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday In The Park With George. The revival, starring Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, was first presented in October at New York City Center in concert form  and was acclaimed a highlight of the… Read

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‘American Idol’ Lawsuit: Core Media Sues Fox & Private-Equity Firm Over Buyout Deal

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Former American Idol producer Core Media is suing 21st Century Fox and private-equity firm Apollo Global Management over a deal to acquire Core in 2011, when the singing competition series still topped the primetime ratings. The suit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), alleges that Apollo Global worked with Fox and Endemol to swing an “elaborate joint venture arrangement designed to strip Core of its remaining cash, transfer Core’s corporate… Read

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Sony Acquires YA Novel ‘The Lost Property Office’

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EXCLUSIVE: Columbia Pictures has preemptively acquired screen rights to The Lost Property Office, Simon & Schuster's lead YA fall title by James R. Hannibal. Novel is the first in a series, and was published in November. It is one part Harry Potter, with some Dr. Who thrown in. A 13-year old teen named Jack Buckles, who is uncanny at locating missing things, tests his mettle and searches for his father, who disappeared one day in London without a trace. He ultimately… Read

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MGM’s Gary Barber Joins VR Studio Survios’ Board After Funding Round

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MGM just deepened its involvement with virtual reality by leading a $50 million funding for VR studio Survios. As part of the arrangement, MGM chief Gary Barber will join Survios’ board. The company, founded in 2013, mostly produces lifelike VR games including “Raw Data.” Some industry watchers deemed the first-person shooter title the first hit VR game after it generated $1 million in one month after going on sale in July. Survios will use the new cash infusion to… Read

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