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“One Tree Hill” and “Chicago P.D.” star Sophia Bush is about to put on some scrubs.

Bush has landed a recurring role on “Grey’s Anatomy,” joining the ABC medical drama’s 21st season as Dr. Cass Beckman, a trauma surgeon described as “amiable, fun and a little messy around the edges.”

She will make her “Grey’s” debut on the sixth episode of the season, which airs Nov. 7 on ABC.

Bush is no stranger to playing a doctor. In 2022, she produced and starred in the CBS medical drama “Good Sam,” playing the role of Dr. Sam Griffith, a cardiac fellow and interim hospital chief. Her credits also include the medical center-set “Chicago Med” and “Nip/Tuck.”

The actor also held roles in “Love, Victor,” “Partners” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and on the film side her credits include “The Narrows,” “Incredibles 2” and “False Positive.”

Aside from joining the ranks at Seattle Presbyterian,...

Exclusive: One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D. alumna Sophia Bush has been tapped for a major recurring role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. This marks the highest profile new cast addition to the venerable medical drama’s 21st season so far.

First appearing in episode 2106, which airs Nov. 7, Bush will play Dr. Cass Beckman, an amiable, fun and a little messy around the edges trauma surgeon at Seattle Presbyterian whose husband David Beckman is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Grey Sloan.

Related: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 21: Everything We Know So Far

Bush has medical drama experience — she played the title role, a heart surgeon, in the CBS 2022 series Good Sam, which she also executive produced.

Returning recurring Grey’s Anatomy cast members include Scott Speedman, Natalie Morales and the series’ director/executive producer Debbie Allen.

Ein toller Erfolg für Filmemacherin Sarah Miro Fischer und ihre Produzentinnen Janna Fodor und Nina Bayer-Seel, allesamt Absolventinnen der dffb: Ihr Abschluss-Langfilm „Blaue Flecken“ gewann in San Sebastián den Wip Europa Industry Award.

„Blaue Flecken“ von Sarah Miro Fischer mit Marie Bloching (Credit: Arkanum Pictures)

Im Wettbewerb des San Sebastián International Film Festival läuft in diesem Jahr zwar keine deutsche Produktion, aber trotzdem gibt es einen deutschen Gewinner: Die dffb-Absolventin Sarah Miro Fischer stellte ihren ersten, sich noch in Postproduktion befindlichen Langfilm „Blaue Flecken (At)“ mit Marie Bloching, Anton Weil und Proschat Madani in den Hauptrollen im Work in Progress auf dem Ssiff vor und konnte nach einem erfolgreichen Screening nicht nur das Interesse von Weltvertrieben wecken, sondern wurde sogleich ausgezeichnet als bester Film mit dem Wip Europa Industry Award.

Die Gewinner beim Work In Progress in San Sebastián (Credit: Ssiff)

Bei „Blaue Flecken“ handelt es sich um Fischers dffb-Abschluss-Langfilm.

General Hospital fans will fondly remember Vinessa Antoine, who played the original Jordan Ashford. After leaving the show in 2018, she became the first black Canadian actress to lead a primetime drama when she starred in Diggstown in her native country. Since the legal drama ended, she has appeared on streaming shows and in other Canadian series. And she has a brand new project that stars the most stylish Emmy winner to walk the face of this planet.

Booked and Busy The Madness, Netflix

On Vinessa Antoine’s Instagram account, she posted photos of her and the stylish Oscar-nominated Emmy-winner Colman Domingo took on the set of his upcoming Netflix limited series. The Madness drops November 28 and is about a media pundit who finds himself smack dab in the middle of a murder in the Poconos.

Source: Vinessa Antoine’s Instagram

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In Antoine’s native Canada, she...

Entries for the 2025 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 97th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 3, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between November 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 2.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to...

Maren Morris has opened up about an incident in 2021, in which she called out fellow country music star Morgan Wallen for using a racial slur and received dangerous threats against her family as a result.

Morris confronted Wallen for posting a video to Twitter in which he used the N-word. She called the lack of consequences he faced “representative of our town because this isn’t his first ‘scuffle,’ and he just demolished a huge streaming record last month regardless. We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word. We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.”

In a recent interview on Sophia Bush‘s Work in Progress podcast, Morris explained the repercussions she faced after speaking out, which included death threats to her son, who was one-year-old at the time.

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Maren Morris is opening up about coming out.

The 34-year-old “The Middle” country music singer spoke out on the Work in Progress podcast with host Sophia Bush, who also came out as queer in 2024, about announcing her sexuality during Pride month this year.

“I felt like I wanted to celebrate it… And just for myself, I just wanted to have everything out there, like yep, I think those are things that should be forward facing for me,” she explained.

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“Like, do you, but for me, I was like, my life is so open now. I’m not hiding any portion of myself.”

“So it was it was out of like true like celebratory nature,” she added of announcing her bisexuality.

The singer also said she wanted her coming out to be “lighthearted” rather than announce the news in a “stupid press release or whatever.

Country singer Maren Morris recently opened up about the frightening death threats she and her young son received after she spoke out against a fellow musician. Keep reading for all the details.

Maren Morris Doesn’t Regret Calling Out Morgan Wallen Or Jason Aldean’s Wife

Maren Morris is one of the most outspoken country music artists in recent years. She’s not afraid of speaking her mind, even if it means going up against some big names in the music industry.

She made headlines in 2021 for her response to the video of Morgan Wallen dropping the n-word. The scandal nearly torpedoed his career, but Maren Morris faced an equal amount of backlash for her response.

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According to Us Weekly, Maren Morris tweeted, “We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word. We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.” about the scandal.

Maren Morris opened up about a scary situation that she found herself in as a parent.

The 34-year-old musician is a mom to Hayes Andrew, 4, who she shares with ex-husband Ryan Hurd.

During an appearance on Sophia Bush‘s Work in Progress podcast, Maren revealed that Hayes received death threats after she called out country star Morgan Wallen for his use of a racial slur in a 2021 video.

At the time, Maren pointed out the sexism in the response to Morgan‘s behavior, noting that female artists would be “dropped, endorsements lost, social pariahs to music row.”

“We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no remorse,” she wrote, with other musicians agreeing.

The resulting backlash affected her son as well as her.

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“It wasn’t death threats against me; it was against my son, too. So it’s like, ‘Oh wow,...

Maren Morris shares her son Hayes received death threats after she spoke out against Morgan Wallen for using a racial slur in 2021.

While appearing on Thursday’s episode of Sophia Bush’s podcast Work in Progress, Morris said that the situation “as a young mother was obviously scary.”

The Grammy-winning artist continued, “It wasn’t death threats against me; it was against my son, too. So it’s like, ‘Oh wow, now we’re involving the kids.” She recalled that it was “incredibly dangerous and scary” to receive threats targeting her then-infant child.

Morris noted that when she looks back at her decision to call out Wallen, she doesn’t regret it and will not apologize for fighting against racism in the music industry. “I feel the exact same way as I did that day,” she said. “Would I maybe use the channels of Twitter again? Probably not. There’s...

Romanian director Raisa Razmerita’s Electing Miss Santa pitched in the Docu Rough Cut Boutique strand of CineLink, the industry platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival, was one of the stand-out projects of this year’s event, according to international attendees.

The film follows Elena, a struggling farmer in a Moldovan village who decides to run for mayor.

“I can’t remember the last time a marketplace presented such a compelling protagonist as Elena Santa,” said Polly Haythornthwaite, digital coordinator at the UK’s Java Films. “The film’s unique perspective comes not just from its focus on a rural village in Moldova,...

Dec. 2007. Nicolás, early twenties, has his life before him. He’s part of Europe’s student elite, living in Paris, up to study in London a master’s degree in architecture.

Then, in “Concert for a Single Voice,” from Peru’s Alejandra Carpio Valdeavellano, the past suddenly catches up with him. Just before Christmas, he learns his mother Diana has been released in Lima after serving 18 years for membership in an organization that took up arms against Peru’s government.

Yet Nicolás has inherited the family house in Lima, whose sale could finance his studies. He just has to fly there and sign some papers, although this means re-meeting Diana. Nicolás still boils with resentment at Diana for putting her political ideals before motherhood. Or, “You said you were fighting for a better life for Peruvian children,” he reproaches Diana. “You should have wanted to give Me something better!” Nicolás tells her,...

Nine feature-length projects in the CineLink Work in Progress selection of Sarajevo Film Festival include the new feature from Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko.

Kovalenko will present Frontline, a documentary filmed during her four-month stint in the Ukrainian army following the increased Russian invasion in February 2022.

Scroll down for the full list of Work in Progress projects

The project has previously participated in Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s Inspiration Forum, and the IDFA Forum, both in 2022.

It is produced by Kasia Kuczynska for Poland’s Haka Films, with Monica Hellstrom of Strom Pictures as co-producer.

Kovalenko has previously directed...

The year 2024 has been nerve-wracking for television fans. No shows are safe, and many reigning champs are seeing the end of their careers.

Did any of us really expect to see long-running success shows like Station 19 or Blue Bloods end?

But they are ending as networks try to tighten their production budgets. That means saying goodbye to some of our favorites to make room for the new and improved.

It can be tricky to get attached to a freshman season of any show. You can get attached to the characters, only to find out it was for naught when the season doesn't succeed.

Thankfully, that's not the case with Justin Hartley's new series, Tracker.

Related: Does Anyone Else Feel Ripped Off By This Ultra-Short Season?

Fans instantly loved the procedural suspense drama for its ten-episode freshman season.

We recently learned that a second season of Tracker is in the works.

A new original anime film Housenka by Baku Kinoshita , who directed the original TV anime series Oddtaxi , was announced on May 23 . Kinoshita will direct and handle character design, with Kazuya Konomoto (who wrote the script for Oddtaxi ) writing the screenplay. Animation creator and game art designer Michinoku-toge will provide the concept art. Anime production company Clap ( Pompo: The Cinéphile ) will work on planning and production. The company's official Twitter posted a visual that depicts the back of a man looking up at fireworks on a porch. Clap also announced that Housenka will participate in the “Work in Progress” program at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2024. "Work in Progress" is a program that introduces the production process of works scheduled for future releases. Director Kinoshita, producer and Clap president Ryoichiro Matsuo , and concept art designer Michinoku-toge , will give the presentation on June 12. "I am teaming up with Kazuya Konomoto again...

There are few shows on television quite like “Baby Reindeer.” The fact that Richard Gadd’s dramatic miniseries dropped on Netflix with little to no promotion makes it feel even more distinct.

Based on Gadd’s autobiographical one-man show of the same name, the seven-episode series follows Donny Dunn, an aspiring standup comedian and current bartender who makes the grave mistake of offering a woman a cup of tea on the house. That nice gesture upends his world, as “Baby Reindeer” chronicles one woman’s growing obsession with him, the complexities of both having a stalker and being flattered by her attention, and how Donny’s view of himself came to be so low. Both unflinchingly honest and at times bizarre, the series follows in the footsteps of art such as Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You,” Hannah Gadsby’s “Nannette” and Abby McEnany’s “Work in Progress.”

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler says she was told not to disclose her multiple sclerosis diagnosis on The Sopranos by the set physician.

While appearing on Sophia Bush’s podcast Work in Progress, the actress shared that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 20-years-old, a year after receiving a Lyme disease diagnosis.

Shortly after being told she had Ms, she had her cast physical and told the physician about her latest health update. “He’s like, ‘Uh yeah, I don’t think you should tell anybody about that and I’m not going to put this down [on your medical records],'” Sigler recalled.

“I just followed his advice because I also wasn’t that symptomatic at the time so it wasn’t something that I thought about, or that I had to think about all the time,” she explained. Sigler then confirmed she initially “told no one, absolutely no one” on the set about her Ms diagnosis.

Dr. Julius Hibbert first appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "Bart the Daredevil". In that particular episode, Bart (Nancy Cartwright) was toying with the idea of being an Evel Knieval-type stunt performer, aiming to leap over Springfield Gorge on a skateboard. As a warning, Bart was taken to see Dr. Hibbert who took the boy to a special wing of Springfield hospital. In it were nothing but children who had injured themselves after imitating stunts they saw on TV. "I won't even subject you to the horrors of our Three Stooges ward," Dr. Hibbert gravely intones. 

From 1990 through 2021, Dr. Hibbert was played by Harry Shearer. When viewers became sensitive to how many white actors have played animated Black characters throughout the history of animation, Shearer stepped aside and Kevin Michael Richardson took over the role. 

Dr. Hibbert was kindly, bemused, but possessed of a strangely cold bedside manner. When Bart comes to see Dr.

Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Toxic, a coming-of-age teenage tale, secured this year’s Work in Progress prize at Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv), the annual audiovisual industry event that takes place during the Vilnius International Film Festival, Kino Pavasaris.

The award lands the filmmaking team a €5,000 cash prize from the Lithuanian Film Centre,

Toxic is being produced by Lithuania’s Giedrė Burokaitė, with Bliuvaitė, the pair are looking for a sales agent and “a premiere at a film festival” for the title which they anticipate finishing by the end of May this year.

It is about a young girl abandoned...

Exclusive: It’s a big week for husband-and-wife production duo Luke Hyams and Sunita Mirchandani Hyams.

Not only does their debut documentary, The Sidemen Story, launch tomorrow (February 14) on Netflix in the UK, but this interview with Deadline is the first they’ve given since the launch of their indie cross-cultural producer Pangaea.

In a wide-ranging chat that interrupts a break in Jamaica — what they call their “first holiday in quite a few years” — they talk about the gruelling hours of work that went into shooting and producing a doc on British YouTube stars The Sidemen, the state of the UK production sector and a slate that includes Work in Progress, a talk show in which UK TV host, broadcaster and creative Julie Adenuga quizzes major public figures.

Hyams is the former Head of Originals for YouTube Emea, Director of Global Content for The Walt Disney Company and the creator...

Lilly Wachowski is bound to direct “Trash Mountain,” a queer comedy-drama starring rising comedian and actor Caleb Hearon. The film follows a young gay man living in Chicago who returns to his hometown in Missouri following the death of his hoarder father.

Along with starring in the feature, Hearon also co-wrote the script with Ruby Caster. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Hearon in “Jurassic World Dominion,” is producing the feature with his banner Metronome Film Co., alongside Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev for Sight Unseen.

“Trash Mountain” will mark the first solo directorial feature effort for Wachowski, who is best known for writing and helming the original “Matrix” trilogy with her sister, Lana Wachowski. The duo’s other projects include the lesbian crime thriller “Bound” and the colorful manga adaptation “Speed Racer.”

In recent years, Lilly has worked in television, as a co-creator of Netflix’s “Sense 8” and as a showrunner,...

The Wachowskis are seemingly no longer interested in working as a filmmaking duo. We’ve known this for a while, as Lana Wachowski went off and made the most recent ‘Matrix’ film on her own, while Lilly Wachowski worked on the acclaimed TV series “Work in Progress.” So, it’s still a little strange to see them working apart, but apparently, it’s time for Lilly to make her own feature film titled “Trash Mountain.”

Read More: Lilly Wachowski Found The Idea Of Returning To Direct ‘Matrix 4’ “Expressly Unappealing”

According to Collider, Lilly Wachowski is set to direct a comedy film, “Trash Mountain.” The film comes from the mind of comedian Caleb Hearon, who co-wrote the script alongside Ruby Caster and is set to star in the movie.

Continue reading ‘Trash Mountain’: Lilly Wachowski To Make Her Solo Feature Directorial Debut With New Comedy Starring Caleb Hearon at The Playlist.

Lilly Wachowski is officially making her solo feature directorial debut after sister Lana Wachowski helmed “The Matrix Resurrections.”

As confirmed to Collider, Lilly will direct upcoming queer dramedy “Trash Mountain,” with lead actor Caleb Hearon penning the script. Colin Trevorrow has signed on as a producer, along with Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev at Sight Unseen.

Per the official synopsis, “Trash Mountain” follows a gay Chicago man in his 20s who must return to rural Missouri to deal with the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through. “Human Resources” writer and “Fargo” actor Hearon cowrote the script with Ruby Caster.

“When my pal Caleb Hearon sent me ‘Trash Mountain,’ I leapt at the chance to direct it,” Lilly said in a statement. “So beautiful and sad and funny! Queer representation and stories are...

It's difficult to encapsulate the importance of Lana and Lilly Wachowski as directors. While the queer crime thriller "Bound" marked the sisters' directorial debut, it was their 1999 hit "The Matrix" that completely changed the landscape of science-fiction cinema forever. In 2021, the franchise's fourth installment, "The Maxtrix Resurrections" was released, but the film was a solo directorial venture from Lana Wachowski. Lilly has not directed a film since 2015's "Jupiter Ascending," but spent time directing season 1 of "Sense 8" and serving as the showrunner for "Work in Progress." The former was yet another sci-fi epic, but the latter is a sweet, semi-autobiographical queer dramedy starring Abby McEnany. It seems that working on this series must have inspired Lilly to continue similar creative ventures because according to a report from Collider, her next feature film is "Trash Mountain" starring Caleb Hearon.

Hearon co-wrote the film with Ruby Caster ("Bleeding Love"), and the...

Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia and France are all producing the title.

Urska Djukic’s Little Trouble Girls, a co-production between five European countries, is among the winners at the Les Arcs Film Festival Industry Village, which handed out its prizes this evening.

The film took the €10,000 post-production services award in the Work in Progress section. Slovenia’s Spok Film and Nosorogi, Italy’s Staragara I.T., Croatia’s Izazov, Serbia’s Non-Aligned Films and France’s Sister Productions are all producing the film.

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The feature debut of Slovenian director Djukic, Little Trouble Girls...

Tracker is ready to tackle Super Bowl Sunday, and TVLine’s #2024FirstLook series continues with a fresh batch of photos from the first episode of CBS’ new midseason series.

Based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker stars Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries — and while contending with his own fractured family.

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The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea Iff) is delighted to announce the winners of the Red Sea Souk Awards – vital funding and in-kind grants to develop and boost new talent from Saudi, Arab and African directors. Three juries deliberated to finally select nine winning feature ideas and two TV series, whose creative visions will now benefit from generous prizes awarded by the Red Sea Fund and its award partners.

A total of 24 new film projects screened as part of the Red Sea Souk, with 12 titles by filmmakers of African and Arab origin, alongside 12 Red Sea Lodge projects by Saudi, Arab and African directors which have been developed over the last year through intensive workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. The Red Sea Souk Project Market jury awards are supported by the Red Sea Fund, and in the selection were five Saudi projects, eight African projects...

Festival ran November 2-12.

Sofia Exarchou’s Animal has won the €10,000 Golden Alexander-Theo Angelopoulos prize for best film at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the first time in 30 years a Greek production has won the top prize.

The film’s lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou also won the best actress award ex aequo with Joanna Arnow for US production The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, which she also directed.

Vlagopoulou had previously won best actress at Locarno where the film had its world premiere.

The Greek, Austrian, Romanian, Cypriot, Bulgarian co-production follows a group of women...

Masterpiece on PBS has announced the premiere dates and released first look images for the upcoming seasons of Miss Scarlet and the Duke and All Creatures Great and Small.

On January 7, 2024, the two British dramas will return for their fourth seasons. Miss Scarlet and The Duke will kick off the night at 8 p.m. and will be immediately followed by All Creatures Great and Small at 9.

In the new season of Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Eliza (Kate Phillips) has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and things are not going entirely smoothly, although help comes from some familiar sources. Outside of work, her relationship with William builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives

The fourth season of All Creatures Great and Small will pick up in springtime of 1940 with change on the...

As LGBTQ characters and stories become the norm — mercifully, no longer an outlier or cause for surprise — it’s more important than ever to check your sources.

Just as you study the labels on your food or the sustainability of your clothing, audiences should be informed as to who is behind the camera (and pages) when it comes to queer stories. While we’d never dictate what stories creators are allowed to write, the proof is often in the pudding when it comes to queer film and TV. As proven by the diabolical gay delights of “The White Lotus” or the lustfully longing glances in “A Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” it just hits different when we’re in charge.

In an industry that often purports to celebrate difference until it comes to who gets the big bucks, LGBTQ talent often have to work twice as hard to get half as far in Hollywood.

Exclusive: Nina Bloomgarden (The Resort), James Tupper (Big Little Lies), Theo Germaine (They/Them) and Paige Collins (Big House) have signed on to star alongside Mary Beth Barrone in the indie erotic thriller Good Girl, which Lauren Garroni is directing, in her feature debut. No details on their roles have been disclosed.

The film currently shooting in Los Angeles watches as an enterprising Sugar Baby, offered ten grand to move in with her Sugar Daddy, comes to discover the dark secrets trapped within his home. Pic is described as part biting dark comedy, part erotic thriller — but above all, a story about sex work through a feminist and queer lens.

Kelly Parker’s Mary Ellen Moffat is producing the film based on Bree Essirig and Garroni’s script. Exec producers include Barrone, Garroni, Essrig, Simon Brook and Brook Productions.

Bloomgarden was part of the core cast of Peacock’s darkly...

Celebrating six decades as the animation industry’s premier international showcase and cementing a growing position as Hollywood’s preferred French getaway, the Annecy Intl. Animation Festival revealed its 2023 program in Paris on Thursday, unveiling a formidable selection of world premieres and industry debuts.

If only for the breadth of this year’s official selection, Annecy looks set to for its most fulsome and abundant edition.

Among the 11 titles competing for this year’s Cristal – Annecy’s top prize – Jérémie Périn’s sci-fi drama “Mars Express” and Jim Capobianco & Pierre-Luc Granjon stop-motion Leonardo da Vinci epic “The Inventor” will make their world premieres. Other eagerly anticipated titles include “Chicken for Linda!” from Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach, “Four Souls of Coyote” from by Áron Gauder, and “The Inseparables” by Jérémie Degruson.

Titles like Liu Jian’s “Art College 1994” and Sepideh Farsi’s “The Siren” will arrive in the idyllic French...

Justin Hartley’s (This Is Us) new drama series The Never Game has a new name: Tracker. CBS announced the change and dropped a short teaser for the upcoming primetime series that will join the network’s lineup for the 2023-2024 season.

Season one of Tracker will also star Robin Weigert (Deadwood), Abby McEnany (Work in Progress), Eric Graise (Locke & Key), Fiona Rene, and two-time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell.

Ben H. Winters wrote the pilot, based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver. Hartley, Winters, Ken Olin, and Hilary Weisman Graham serve as executive producers. Olin, a four-time Emmy Award nominee for This Is Us, directed the pilot.

“I am overjoyed to give the first new show order for next season to this thrilling new series led by the incredibly talented Justin Hartley,” stated Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment, when the series was announced in December...

Writ Large has upped TV and film literary manager Lauren Dineley to partner.

Dineley joined Writ Large in 2016 and was later promoted to manager in 2019. During her tenure at the company, she has cultivated a diverse roster of top tier clients including creator & showrunner Tanya Saracho (Vida), Black List scribes Azia Squire, Emma Dudley, and Holly Brix, writers Brittany Miller, Kim Shumway, Silvia Olivas, Calaya Michelle Stallworth, Carly Woodworth, and Jessica Mena Esteves, as well as filmmakers Veronica Rodriguez and Monica Zanetti (Ellie & Abbie and Ellie’s Dead Aunt).

Dineley is a graduate...

It’s been several seasons since Sophia Bush played Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D., but her legacy is still present. Not only was she part of the cast that successfully launched the second installment of the One Chicago universe after P.D. spawned from Chicago Fire, but she left an indelible impression on fans.

Chicago P.D. is now in its 10th season. Bush left after Season 4, which means she’s been gone for more than half the series. However, while on the show, she made every effort to portray the realities of being a police officer in Chicago. According to the actor, this included donning bulletproof vests during ride-alongs that led to real-life arrests.

Sophia Bush points out the criminal contrasts of living in Chicago

As with many stars on the One Chicago shows, Bush was based in Chicago while a cast member on Chicago P.D. Detective Lindsay was an early Fire-p.

Exclusive: Robin Weigert (Deadwood), Abby McEnany (Work in Progress) and Eric Graise (Step Up: High Water) are set as leads opposite Justin Hartley in CBS drama pilot The Never Game, an adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s novel. The quartet, as well as recently announced Mary McDonnell, comprise the core cast of the project from director Ken Olin and 20th Television.

Written by Ben Winters based on Deaver’s novel, The Never Game follows the adventures of Colter Shaw (Hartley), who was raised by his paranoid survivalist father to be an expert tracker and now makes his living as a “rewardist,” traveling America in his Airstream trailer, helping families recover their lost loved ones and their other most precious things — all while staying one step ahead of the memories that haunt him, and the unanswered questions from his past.

Weigert plays Teddi Bruin, a former touring manager for rock musicians who...

Showtime will not be moving forward with a third season of “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” Variety has confirmed. The news comes after the network aired the series’ Season 2 finale on Aug. 21.

The Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman comedy series followed the two creators as they settled into their new lives, struggling to survive in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson and Kareem Green were amongst the cast.

“We would like to thank the creators, executive producers and stars Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman, along with fellow executive producer Keith Heisler, our partners at Avalon, as well as our scene-stealing supporting cast of Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson and Kareem Green,” said a Showtime spokesperson in a statement. “We’re very proud to have taken Kevin and Dan’s distinctive shorts and expanded it into two seasons of excellent television. Those two funny and inventive seasons will live on our site for audiences to continue to discover and enjoy.

In his feature debut, which has just proved the biggest winner at Sanfic Industria’s 2022 Work in Progress strand, Chilean writer-director Alberto Hayden explores what has been almost an obsession with him. Inspired by the musings of South Korean-born philosopher Byung-Chul Han and his French counterpart Deleuze, Hayden questions whether people continue to exist past their physical selves through people’s memories of them, their photos, the possessions they have left behind or in this digital age, their social media imprint.

“Una Luz Negra” (“A Dark Light”) is among the 10 Work in Progress (Wip) titles participating at Chilean industry forum, Sanfic Industria. It ponders these questions in a story of two people. She is Josefina (56) and he is Jorge (45). She has contacted him because four years ago, she lost her son who bears his exact same name, Jorge Ferrer Buriard. The coincidence is all the more unusual because the surname...

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[This story contains spoilers for They/Them.]

In John Logan’s directorial debut, Peacock summer camp slasher They/Them, a group of LGBTQ young people find themselves at a conversion therapy camp — places banned in many U.S. states that allege they can “change,” “repair” or even “cure” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Run by Kevin Bacon’s Owen Whistler and designed to appear like a typical summer camp, Whistler lures the campers into a sense of trust with an oddly warm, inclusionary and unthreatening welcome before unleashing his and his family’s violent and discriminatory torture on the group. All there for different reasons, the group must band together to survive the psychological and physical abuse they experience.

But as the campers fight off a variety of queerphobic and transphobic camp counselors — including members of their own community — they soon discover that there’s another threat walking among them in the woods,...

Horror film “They/Them” (pronounced “They Slash Them”), from producers Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar, finally slashes its way onto screens in the first week of August.

Written, directed and executive produced by John Logan and executive produced by Kevin Bacon, Scott Turner Schofield, Howie Young and Michael Aguilar, the movie features Lgbtqia+ youth attending and a gay conversion camp.

The fear-based film marks gay playwright John Logan’s directorial debut. Logan has previously written Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator,” as well as Tim Butron’s “Sweeney Todd” and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo.” He also created Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful.” “The/Them” premiered at the 40th Los Angeles Outfest Film Festival in early July.

TheWrap has rounded up all the details regarding how to watch “They/Them” below.

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When TV academy voters sit down to fill out their 2022 Emmy nominations ballots, they have to consider 118 shows for Best Comedy Series; this is up by 50 contenders from last year. Since 2017, voters have not had to limit their choices to just 10 shows. The TV academy tells its members to “vote for as many achievements in this category that you have seen and feel are worthy of a nomination.”

Reigning Best Comedy Series winner “Ted Lasso” is back to try and defend its title, while six of its seven 2021 rivals have shots at redemption since they also aired during the eligibility period of June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. Those half dozen shows are “Black-ish,” “Cobra Kai,” “Emily in Paris,” “The Flight Attendant,” “Hacks,” and “PEN15.” The lone 2021 nominee missing from this ballot is “The Kominsky Method,” which ended its three-season run last May. Also back in the hunt is “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,...

Queer representation on the small screen has certainly come a long way over the past two decades, not only in terms of quality but also quantity. Back when I was a baby queer in the early 2000s, “The L Word” was pretty much all I had to see parts of my experience on TV, save for the rare gay subplots of popular teen shows — never forget Marissa’s brief but extremely hot dalliance with Olivia Wilde on “The O.C.” The stereotyped gays of “Sex and the City” and “Will and Grace” were replaced over the years by more fleshed out and nuanced queer characters across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and, finally, we’ve seen some actually well-written trans characters played by trans performers. Its mostly been in the latter half of the 2010s and early 2020s that we’ve really seen a rise in more dynamic and diverse LGBTQ+ storytelling, with...

A+E Studios is developing a series adaptation of the Peter Bognanni book “Things I’m Seeing Without You” with Alyssa Milano onboard to write, Variety has learned exclusively.

Milano will executive produce in addition to writing the project. Peter Farrelly, who won two Oscars in 2019 for his work on “Green Book,” will direct and executive produce. Tim Mason will executive produce and serve as showrunner. Mason was most recently the co-creator, showrunner, executive producer, and director on the Showtime series “Work in Progress.” Samantha Kurtzman-Counter and Abbie Schiller of The Mother Company will also executive produce. A+E Studios will produce in association with Range Media Partners. Milano is under a first-look deal with A+E. No network or streaming service is attached at this time.

In the show, sixteen-year-old Tess talks to Jonah every day; through texts, tweets and emails. So when she discovers he has committed suicide, her world implodes.

Titles include the latest Vietnam’s Ham Tran, whose ‘Maika’ played at this year’s Sundance.

South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan), Asia’s largest genre film festival, has unveiled 32 titles from 18 countries for this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market.

The 13 titles selected for the It Project strand include The Othered, from Vietnamese director Ham Tran, whose family sci-fi Maika premiered at the virtual Sundance in January and was picked up for distribution by Well Go USA Entertainment. East Films, which produced Maika, will also make The Othered as a Vietnam-Canada-us co-production.

Further...

Titles include the latest Vietnam’s Ham Tran, whose ‘Maika’ played at this year’s Sundance.

South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan), Asia’s largest genre film festival, has unveiled 32 titles from 18 countries for this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market.

The 13 titles selected for the It Project strand include The Othered, from Vietnamese director Ham Tran, whose family sci-fi Maika premiered at the virtual Sundance in January and was picked up for distribution by Well Go USA Entertainment. East Films, which produced Maika, will also make The Othered as a Vietnam-Canada-us co-production.

Further...

Titles include the latest Vietnam’s Ham Tran, whose ‘Maika’ played at this year’s Sundance.

South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan), Asia’s largest genre film festival, has unveiled 32 titles from 18 countries for this year’s Naff project market.

The 13 titles selected for the It Project strand include The Othered, from Vietnamese director Ham Tran, whose family sci-fi Maika premiered at the virtual Sundance in January and was picked up for distribution by Well Go USA Entertainment. East Films, which produced Maika, will also make The Othered as a Vietnam-Canada-us co-production.

Further titles include Left Hand Of The Devil,...

Starzplay has acquired Stephen Dunn’s reimagining of groundbreaking British series “Queer as Folk” for a slew of territories including the U.K., several continental European countries, and Latin America.

The Peacock-produced reboot of the Russell T. Davies series from the ’90s about three clubgoing men in Manchester’s gay village, has been acquired by the streaming service for Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Spain, Netherlands, the Nordics and the U.K.

The eight-episode show will premiere in the U.K. on July 1, with other local premieres rolling out exclusively in the other territories on July 31. Two new episodes will be available each week.

Produced by UCP, a division of the Universal Studio Group, “Queer as Folk” is Stephen Dunn’s reimagining of the cult show created by Davies which has been transposed from Manchester to New Orleans where it looks at a diverse group of friends...

The Málaga Festival Industry Zone (Mafiz) wrapped Thursday, March 25 with a slew of awards parceled out to productions from across Spain and Latin America.

Several projects by women filmmakers dominated the event, which kicked off on March 21.

Spanish documentarian Carla Subirana’s fiction feature debut, “Sica” made off with three private-sector plaudits, including the Aracne post-production cash prize of €20,000 as well as the Rec and Abycine awards, comprising participation in their respective industry labs.

Backed by Alba Sotorra’s Cinema Productions, Galician firm Miramira, Spanish pubcaster Tve and Catalonia’s Tvc, the coming-of-age drama turns on 13-year-old Sica who waits by the Costa da Morte, a Galician fishing shoreline, for the sea to give up the body of her fisherman father who perished at sea.

Other Work in Progress (Wip) awards went to documentary “Of Books and Women,” by María Elorza of Spain and “Nothing” (a working title) by Brazil’s Adriana Guimaraes.

Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled its VdR-Industry selection, which includes 27 projects in different stages of production.

The works will be invited to participate in three key forums – VdR-Pitching, VdR-Work in Progress and VdR-Rough Cut Lab – that run as part of the fest’s industry activities in Nyon from April 10-14.

Those who cannot make it to the festival will be able to participate online but organizers are focusing strongly on the in-person event.

“We can’t wait to finally welcome back project holders and industry representatives to the shores of Lake Geneva. We feel strengthened by the lessons we have learned from the digital and hybrid editions of the last two years. In fact, they have opened up new possibilities in terms of activities format and allowed us to widen the range of professionals participating in VdR–Industry,” said Madeline Robert, head of industry and artistic advisor of Visions du Réel,...

Showtime's "The L Word: Generation Q" has been renewed for a third season, four months after its sophomore finale aired in October 2021. According to The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan and creator Ilene Chaiken's groundbreaking drama series will be back for its season 3 run on Showtime, the Viacom CBS-backed premium network. This is especially good news for fans of "The L Word: Generation Q," considering that the show has been renewed amidst news of three other shows being axed: comedies "Black Monday" and "Work in Progress," along with drama series, "American Rust."

"Generation Q" is a sequel series to "The L Word,"...

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