This information may make your head explode: HBO is growing a Scanners TV collection based mostly on the David Cronenberg film, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Cronenberg will executive-produce the undertaking, which is about in “the mind-bending world” of the 1981 movie. The potential collection follows “two ladies dwelling on the fringes of contemporary society who’re pursued by relentless brokers with unimaginable powers and thus should study to work collectively to topple an unlimited conspiracy decided to deliver them to heel.”
William Bridges (Black Mirror, Stranger Issues) will function author, government producer and showrunner, with Yann Demange (Lovecraft Nation, Prime Boy) connected to direct and exec-produce.
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* Ziwe Season 2 will return with six new episodes, starting Sunday, Nov. 20 at 11/10c on Showtime. Upcoming friends embrace Michael Che, Julia Fox, Amber Riley, Blake Griffin, Joel Kim Booster, Bob The Drag Queen, DeRay Mckesson, Drew Barrymore and Wayne Brady.
* For All Mankind Season 4 has added Tyner Speeding (Below the Banner of Heaven, The Terminal Record) within the series-regular position of Samantha, an area employee on the Mars colony, our sister web site Deadline studies.
* David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Present) has joined ABC’s Magnificence and the Beast: A thirtieth Celebration as Cogsworth, per Selection.
* Logan Lerman (Hunters) will star reverse Joey King within the Hulu restricted collection We Had been the Fortunate Ones, based mostly on Georgia Hunter’s bestseller a couple of Jewish household who is decided to outlive and reunite after being separated firstly of WWII, per Deadline.
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