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For a TV series that features two Marvel characters that have appeared in numerous films, there’s still a lot of mystery that surrounds “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” Will Anthony Mackie’s Falcon become the new Captain America? What’s up with USAgent? And how does Zemo figure into all of this? We honestly don’t know what’s going to happen, as Marvel sure does love its secrecy. And according to writer Derek Kolstad, there are even more mysteries that we haven’t even speculated about already.

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Hasbro’s “Power Rangers” reboot is getting both the film and TV treatment.

First put in development in December, the upcoming reboot of the ’90s-era TV show will now span both big and small screens. Jonathan Entwistle, who co-created Netflix’s “The End of the F—ing World,” will shephard the entire franchise for Hasbro and Entertainment One, the studio it acquired earlier last year.

“Jonathan has an incredible creative vision for this iconic and hugely successful franchise, and is hands down the right architect to join us as we reimagine the television and film worlds of this property,” said Nick Meyer, President, Film, eOne and Michael Lombardo, President, Global Television, eOne. “Across our slate, we are looking forward to working with the most talented storytellers as we take on Hasbro’s rich fan-favourite brands and build entertainment universes around them.”

The ’90s TV show, originally called “The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers,

The enchanting world of “Willow,” created by George Lucas, is officially coming to the small screen.

Disney Plus has confirmed a sequel series taking place years after the events of the original Ron Howard-directed pic is heading into production next year. Howard is returning to the project as executive producer alongside original star Warwick Davis, who will once again play the titular hero Willow Ufgood.

The series has also tapped “Crazy Rich Asians” and “In the Heights” director Jon M. Chu to helm the pilot and exec produce. Jonathan Kasdan (“Solo”) and Wendy Mericle (“Arrow”) will serve as showrunners.

Dominic West is one of the final key players joining “The Crown.”

Sources tell Variety that West is in late-stage discussions for the role, though the deal isn’t done. The actor would play Charles in the final two seasons of the Netflix drama. He will star opposite Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana. Seasons 5 and 6 “The Crown” will take the royal family into the 1990s and early 2000s.

Charles was previously played by Josh O’Connor, and news of West’s casting comes just under a month before the series returns for season 4 on Nov. 15.

West is best known to U.

Netflix is not renewing science fiction drama series “Away” for a second season, Variety has confirmed. The cancellation comes just six weeks after the show’s first season was released on Sept. 4.

“Away” stars Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green, who leads the first crewed expedition to Mars aboard the spaceship “Atlas,” called the Mars Joint Initiative. Green leads an international crew with members from China, Russia, India and the U.K who are all experts in the field. Tension rises within the crew when some members do not trust Green’s leadership after her response to a problem at the start of the mission.

HBO will air two special episodes of Euphoria ahead of the show’s second season, Variety reports.

The first, “Trouble Don’t Last Always,” will air December 6th on HBO before streaming on HBO Max. A title and release date for the second episode has yet to be announced. Both episodes were reportedly made under Covid-19 safety guidelines.

“Trouble Don’t Always” last will pick up after the events of the Season One finale (spoiler alert), following Rue (Zendaya) as she celebrates Christmas after being left by Jules (Hunter Schafer

Netflix has (finally) locked in on a Season 2 premiere date for Virgin River, and it may be sooner than you expected.

Whereas the drama’s freshman run released on Dec. 6 of last year, its sophomore season will arrive in late November — Friday the 27th, to be exact.

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In Virgin River, Melinda “Mel” Monroe (played by This Is Us‘ Alexandra Breckenridge) relocates to the titular remote California town to work for Tim Matheson’s “Doc

Philippe Krakowsky will take over next year as CEO of New York ad giant Interpublic Group, the latest of the world’s big marketing-services conglomerates to enact a succession plan as the industry grapples with seismic changes in the way its business is conducted.

Krakowsky, 58 years old, was named chief operating officer of the ad-agency holding company in September of last year. He is widely seen within Interpublic as one of the architects of a strategy that is taking this longtime backer of big Madison Avenue shingles like McCann Worldgroup, MullenLowe Group and the agency once known as Foote Cone

With a quarantined season of “The Bachelorette” having gone off without a hitch, a new season of “The Bachelor” is underway, under strict Covid-19 safety and health protocols.

Cameras have been rolling for over a week on Season 25 of “The Bachelor,” which is filming completely in a bubble, mirroring the model of Clare Crawley’s current “Bachelorette” season.

The new star of “The Bachelor,” Matt James — who is the first-ever Black lead of the show — met the women vying for his heart during the weekend of Sept. 10, production sources say, when the limousine arrivals episode was filmed.

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In today’s Global Bulletin Vivendi’s 2020 finances are up 2.4%, the Young Artist Academy announces this year’s award recipients, All3Media picks up “A World of Calm,” West End Films sells “Rams” in key territories and Fremantle promotes Seb Shorr.

Finance

In a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, Vivendi saw its consolidated revenues go up by 2.4% to €11.6 billion ($13.7 billion) during the first nine months of 2020, and up 1.3 % during the third quarter.

The group’s subscription-based activities, especially at Universal Music Group and to a lesser extent Canal Plus Group, have bolstered Vivendi’s revenues. Canal Plus Group’s revenues

Shares of Netflix dropped in early trading Wednesday, after the streaming giant reported a gain of just 2.2 million subscribers for the third quarter of 2020 — a major slowdown from its record Covid-driven gains in the first half of the year.

Netflix stock was down 5.7%, to about $495.34 per share, after the market opened. As of 10:30 a.m. Et, it had dropped 6.3%.

Netflix execs downplayed the Q3 subscriber miss, and the company claimed that if the third quarter had been just two days longer it would have come in ahead of its guidance of 2.5 million net adds.

CFO Spence Neumann, on Netflix’s earnings interview Tuesday,

Blind chef Christine Ha won the third season of Fox’s MasterChef in 2012; earlier this year, 11-year-old Ivy Angst, a Little Person with achondroplasia, was runner up on “MasterChef Junior.” Season 1 of the Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games” included wheelchair user Chris Bales among its competitors. The BBC’s “Great British Baking Show” saw chef Briony Williams, born with a limb difference, make it to the 2018 semi-finals; the current season includes Marc Elliott, who started baking as a kind of therapy after he lost a leg in a 2016 motorcycle accident.

Great, right? Until you consider this: Competitive cooking shows dominate the food-tv landscape, with more than 40 series across a spectrum of networks; there are 61 million adults in the U.S. living with a disability. With thousands of episodes, and only a handful of handicapped people, it might suggest that a handicapped, professional chef is something of a unicorn.

“It’s a load of bollocks,

The Conners will be tackling “the reality” of the Covid-19 pandemic when it returns tonight, but showrunner Bruce Helford promises Season 3 will not be a downer.

“It’s not going to be depressing,” the EP maintains. “We’re not focusing on death and dying. We’re focusing on how to survive this [global crisis] with a smile on your face and a sense of humor.”

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Tyler Perry is entering a new phase — not just in his career as a media mogul who owns a 330-acre studio bearing his name, nor in his tax bracket, after being designated a billionaire by Forbes. Perry, who has consistently stayed above the fray for much of the time he has been a celebrity, is getting political.

“We’ve all been drafted on the worst reality show that’s ever been produced, and none of us have been paid for it,” Perry says. “For the last four and a half years or so, we have been dragged through the wringer,

ITV Studios has announced new international sales on “Romulus,” the TV series shot in Archaic Latin that takes its cue from the mythical tale of twins Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome. The drama is world premiering Friday at the Rome Film Festival.

The hotly anticipated skein, which is a Sky original in Italy, has been acquired for Germany by Deutsche Telekom for play on its MagentaTV streaming service, and by More TV Russia for Russia and all Cis territories. It has also been licensed by Greece’s Cosmote, which is the country’s top telco.

ITV Studios previously sold

Leading talent agency Markham Froggatt and Irwin, who represent a host of star acting talent on both sides of the Atlantic, has joined the Curtis Brown group of companies. Curtis Brown is Europe’s largest and oldest literary and talent agency.

Peter Froggatt set up the agency that would evolve into Markham Froggatt and Irwin in the 1960s, and Pippa Markham then took it into the U.S. market, establishing an international presence. Its present chief, Alex Irwin, and her team have continued that direction of travel, nurturing young homegrown talent alongside some of the biggest names of stage and screen.

Leading talent agency Markham Froggatt and Irwin, who represent a host of star acting talent on both sides of the Atlantic, has joined the Curtis Brown group of companies. Curtis Brown is Europe’s largest and oldest literary and talent agency.

Peter Froggatt set up the agency that would evolve into Markham Froggatt and Irwin in the 1960s, and Pippa Markham then took it into the U.S. market, establishing an international presence. Its present chief, Alex Irwin, and her team have continued that direction of travel, nurturing young homegrown talent alongside some of the biggest names of stage and screen.

Hilary Swank, who starred in Netflix’s sci-fi drama “Away” earlier in the year, reminisced about the show in an Instagram post on Tuesday following its cancellation by Netflix.

“Love and hope will always remain my ‘North Star.’ It was an incredible journey my compadres,” Swank said on Instagram. “And thank you to all my extraordinary followers who watched and supported our beautiful show. Wish we were showing you Mars. Until the next one.”

Swank starred in the series as Emma Green, a NASA astronaut who led the first astronaut expedition to Mars. The show also starred Josh Charles, Vivian Wu, and Mark Ivanir, among others.

“Away” premiered on Netflix on September 4. The show received mixed reviews from critics, including IndieWire’s Ben Travers, who, despite praising its polished look, referred to “Away” as a “stock family drama” that failed to capitalize on its sci-fi elements in his grade C review.

CBS is in advanced discussions with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Simon Cowell to produce the next big music competition series, Variety has confirmed.

The show will be called “50 States to Stardom” and will mix a music competition with a unique documentary format in order to discover America’s next greatest talent. The docuseries will profile all 50 states in the U.S. and narrow down one talented musician from each one. The process will culminate in a showcase competition ending in the determination of the most talented musician in the country.

There will be a panel of carefully selected judges,

HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” has been one of the fall’s most-discussed television shows, and viewers turned out in particularly high numbers for the horror title’s season finale on Sunday.

Per Variety, the tenth and final episode of “Lovecraft Country” Season 1 reached an audience of 1.5 million viewers on Sunday night. The statistic marks a season high for the show and a roughly 16 person viewership increase from the season premiere in August. Around 881,000 viewers tuned in to the season’s final episode via linear HBO broadcast, according to Variety. The show was also a hit on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service, where it stands as the streamer’s top-rated show.

The series, which serves as a continuation of author Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel of the same name, follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) and Letitia Lewis (Jurnee Smollett) as the former searches for his missing father in 1950s Jim Crow