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Gemma Chan has an incredible resume overall, but she's especially made a name for herself with fantasy and science-fiction projects. One of her earliest roles was in an episode of "Doctor Who," and she's part of a elite group of actors who have played multiple roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portraying both Minn-Erve in "Captain Marvel" and Sersi in "Eternals." If you've enjoyed what you've seen out of Chan so far, then you owe it to yourself to check out one of the best sci-fi series of the 2010s — "Humans."

"Humans" premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom (and AMC stateside) in 2015. It's set in a world where artificial intelligence and robotics have become intertwined, raising a host of moral questions. Chan plays Anita, a synth purchased to help out around the Hawkins family household. Though she's designed to be helpful, the family's matriarch, Laura (Katherine Parkinson), is...

Philip K. Dick’s novella The Variable Man gets an adaptation from Humans co-creators Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent. The author, also behind Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle, has been widely regarded for his prominent impact on the sci-fi genre. Originally released in 1953, The Variable Man focuses on Thomas Cole, who is transported to the future amid a war between Terra and Centaurus.

According to Deadline, Brackley and Vincent are now adapting The Variable Man. Motive Pictures, the British company from Simon Maxwell, is collaborating with Electric Shepherd and the adaptation will air in the UK. However, Maxwell explains that having Brackley and Vincent on board and “exploring the modern world through a genre lens” can help garner a wide release in the United States. He adds that creating shows with strong talent can build “excitement to attract the commissions and co-finance...

Philip K. Dick‘s ever-prescient science fiction writing have been adapted into such works as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and “The Man in the High Castle.”

The Variable Man will soon join that list, as Deadline reports that Motive Pictures is developing a grounded sci-fi series based on the novella.

Motive’s Simon Maxwell is producing with Electric Shepherd, the banner that stewards Dick adaptations and is run by his daughter, Isa Dick Hackett.

The book is set in a distant future where humanity is locked in a protracted conflict with the reptilian alien species known as the Sirians. To gain an edge in the war, the military employs a team of scientists to develop a device capable of predicting future events with precision.

However, when a “variable man” named Thomas Cole accidentally arrives from the past, he disrupts the scientists’ plans. Cole’s presence introduces an element...

Exclusive: Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock has wrapped, Get Millie Black is on air, and with Ruth Wilson-starrer The Woman In The Wall and One Night with Jodie Whittaker already under its belt, Simon Maxwell’s Motive Pictures has a head of steam.

Next up, Maxwell tells Deadline, his Fifth Season-backed label will take original projects developed with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Alison Brie and Whittaker to market, as well as a Philip K. Dick adaptation from the writers behind Humans. Maxwell also reveals that Motive is working with Beau Willimon (Andor) and Jordan Tappis (Severance) through their Westward Productions banner, with scripted and documentary projects in the offing.

For a UK-based drama producer looking to tap into U.S. finance and partnerships, having HBO (Get Millie Black), Prime Video (Young Sherlock) and Showtime (The Woman In The Wall) as partners on your first shows – and the Australia/New Zealand arm...

As an artistic medium that has reached audiences across the board of entertainment, animated television shows can offer viewers rousing storytelling, fun characters and engaging visuals that stay in fans’ minds, and the decade of the 2000s delivered numerous series that have maintained pop culture relevancy. However, despite many of these big shows impacting the television landscape, some 2000s animated series have faded away with time.

Many of these 2000s animated shows have a lot to offer modern audiences regarding intriguing plots, expressive characters and thrilling animation that will undeniably reflect some of the best aspects of the decade as well as the timeless qualities within each program. As new generations take a look back at these unsung shows, their themes are likely to stay just as relevant (if not more so) as ever.

Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes Honors Marvel’s First Family The Series Entertains With Style and...

The Scooby-Doo franchise marked its 55th anniversary this September, and it's genuinely hard to keep track with all the different TV series, specials, and movies (both theatrical and mostly direct-to-video or for TV). Despite all of that and more than half a century of media, only two actors have canonically played Shaggy, the delightfully raspy Bff of the titlular Great Dane. First came the legendary DJ Casey Kasem, who voiced the character for something like 372 episodes of television and 14 made-for-tv movies. Then there was Matthew Lillard, who first joined the franchise in the form of star-studded live-action movies before becoming the voice actor behind Shaggy for approximately 27 direct-to-video movies, eight TV specials, and 156 TV episodes. There is technically one more Shaggy out there...

The adult animated series Velma takes the intellectual property of Scooby-Doo and completely reworks it in ways that fans of the franchise have absolutely hated. Fortunately,...

A Lego Ninjago live-action movie is now in the works at Universal Pictures. The creators of the long-running Ninjago animated series will work on the new film.

Deadline reports that brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman are working on the script for the Lego Ninjago franchise's live-action film, while Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Joe Cornish (The Kid Who Would Be King) were announced to be on board to direct different live-action Lego movies for Universal. The exact plot of the Hagemans' film has yet to be revealed, nor are any actors currently attached to the project. Ninjago was first introduced in 2011 by Lego to coincide with the animated television series of the same name and has gone on to spawn films, video games and comics.

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Sunny is a dark sci-fi comedy series created by Katie Robbins. Based on the 2018 novel titled The Dark Manual by author Colin O’Sullivan, the Apple TV+ series follows the story of Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan as her husband and son suddenly disappear in a plane crash. Soon after she is given a domestic robot by the robotic company her husband worked at. Then, Suzie finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery surrounding her husband’s death. Sunny stars Rashida Jones in the lead role with Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, annie the clumsy, and Judy Ongg starring in supporting roles. So, if you love the dark tone, goofy comedy, and neon visuals in Sunny, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Devs is a sci-fi mystery thriller series created, written, and directed by Alex Garland. The FX...

Get ready for a new month at BritBox! While the British streamer is only adding a handful of new titles this month ahead of more additions in February like Sir Lenny Henry’s “Three Little Birds,” its new picks, which includes psychological thriller mini-series “The Ex-Wife” and Season 2 of a popular Scottish crime series, are not to be missed.

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Initially released on Paramount+ in the United States, the psychological thriller based on Jess Ryder’s novel of the same name and adapted by “Downton” Abbey actor Catherine Steadman follows Tasha, a young woman living an idyllic life with a perfect house, a loving husband, and a beautiful daughter. However, her husband’s ex-wife will not leave their family alone, intent on staying in the picture,...

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (May 23, Max)

As reviewed by Ava Pener-Bushard, 9, Daughter of Degen Pener, THR Deputy Editor

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

I have never seen the Gremlins movie, but I know that gremlins smell bad and want to eat us. Just watching five minutes of Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, I think it is already a really good TV show.

The show is 25 percent happy, 25 percent sad, 25 percent funny, and 25 percent disgusting. The disgusting parts are when fingers come off. It’s about a kid, Sam (Izaac Wang), who says, “I have no faith in myself. I can’t do it.” He has to hide this gremlin named Gizmo, who is so cute, and return it to its home. He finds this girl, Elle (Gabrielle Nevaeh Green), and they go on a big adventure to find its home. He’s kind of like a goody-two-shoes and the...

The following article contains spoilers for "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania."

"Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" has been out for a few days now. We've had some time to digest the adventures of the buggy superheroes in the Quantum Realm and draw some parallels to other Marvel Cinematic Universe adventures. In the film, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) are sucked into the world beneath ours. While there, they meet a band of refugees who are fighting against the despotic ruler of the place, Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors). They band together to take him out, setting Scott (and the rest of the multiverse) on the path to their next chapter.

"Quantumania" has a whole lot in common with another uprising film in the MCU — "Thor: Ragnarok." Whatever you felt about both titles,...

Detective Inspector Lou Slack (Leila Farzad) is a smart, hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking, highly effective police officer in the West Yorkshire force. She’s also a bent copper. But a bent copper who we desperately want to believe is also a “nice” bent copper. Redemption, after all, usually makes for great drama. And a dash of corruption in the lead character in a police show makes an intriguing change. Unlike in Line of Duty, here the high-ranking corrupt police officer is the investigator, not the investigated, the antihero who is also the hero. And unlike Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley – a hard act to follow – she’s wealthy and content with her life, complicated and compromised as it is. We want to know what Lou did that got her so entangled with the wrong side, and how she’s going to survive it as her web of deceit goes wrong. It’s...

I am decades away from the target audience for the just-released Krypto the Superdog: the Complete Series. Ever since the Canine of Steel arrived in 1955, he has been a popular supporting player, and with all-things super-heroic now part of the pop culture zeitgeist, it made perfect sense to give him a series for the younger side of the television demographic.

All 39 episodes of the 2005 series are presented here, adapted by producer Chris Mitchell. Joining Krypto (voiced by Sam Vincent) on his crimefighting adventures are Streaky (Brian Drummond), Supergirl’s pet cat, and Ace the Bathound (Scott McNeil). They even created Stretch-o-Mutt (Lee Tockar) to round things out. And if there are going to be animal heroes, there have to be animal villains, who happen to include the pets of Lex Luthor (Brian Dobson) and Catwoman. When things look dire, they can count on help from the Dog Star Patrol.

With...

Burbank, CA – In 2005, a new breed of Super Hero claimed its place of prominence among Saturday morning cartoons with the premiere of Krypto the Superdog. On August 2, 2022, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings the acclaimed complete animated series to DVD (USA 44.98 Srp; Canada 49.99 Srp).

Created by Chris Mitchell, Krypto the Superdog follows the adventures of the title character – Superman’s beloved pooch – who also acquires the powers afforded his original Earthbound master. Alongside allies like Ace The Bat-Hound and Streaky the Supercat, Krypto fights the forces of evil, which include the animal companions of Lex Luthor and Catwoman.

Sam Vincent voiced the title character to lead the robust cast that included Brian Drummond (Monster Beach) as Streaky, Scott McNeil (X-Men: Evolution) as Ace the Bat-Hound, Alberto Ghisi (Trick ‘r Treat) as Kevin Whitney, Tabita St. Germain (My Little Pony franchise) as Andrea, Terry Klassen (Dragon Ball Z) as Tusky Husky, Ellen Kennedy...

BAFTA-nominated I Hate Suzie star Leila Farzad and Broadchurch’s Andrew Buchan are to lead BBC One’s Better, the latest drama from prolific Chernobyl producer Sister.

Farzad, who was BAFTA-nominated for her role in Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble’s dramedy, will play Di Lou Slack, a quick-witted policewoman whose success lies on a foundation of deceit and corruption.

Buchan, who is also penning Sister drama Passenger for ITV, plays Col McHugh, a charming businessman and property developer who heads a citywide drug trafficking gang.

The show from Humans scribes Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent tells of the pair’s bond set in a world where they have created their own version of “right” and “wrong.”

Farzad called it a “a brilliant fresh take on the morality tale,” adding: “I am excited to have the opportunity to play Lou Slack, the vehicle through which we explore the multivalent layers of good and bad.

BBC Drama has revealed eight new commissions from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England and announced four new commissioning roles.

From Northern Ireland, six-part BBC One series “Blue Lights” is a police drama created by the writers of “The Salisbury Poisonings,” Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. It follows probationary police officers working in contemporary Belfast, who have to come to terms with a constant threat. The series is executive produced by Tommy Bulfin for the BBC, Stephen Wright for Two Cities Television and Louise Gallagher for Gallagher Films, and by Lawn and Patterson.

Another BBC One six-parter, “Better,” is from from the writers of “Humans,” Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, and “Chernobyl” producer Sister. Set in Leeds in Northern England, the series follows a corrupt police detective who undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing, but satisfying her newfound conscience won’t be straightforward.

The BBC has unveiled a slate of eight drama series, including the latest projects from the writing teams behind The Salisbury Poisonings and Humans, and a Maxine Peake series about sexual politics in the modern workplace.

The projects were announced on Tuesday by BBC drama director Piers Wenger and are designed to mark his unit’s contribution to BBC plans to produce more in the UK’s nations and regions. Each series will be made outside of London and Wenger said they celebrate the “true range of authorship” from Britain’s creative communities.

Among the series is the six-part, Belfast-set rookie police officer drama Blue Lights, from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn (see below for full details). It’s their first series since The Salisbury Poisonings last year, which was picked up by AMC after becoming the highest-rated new drama launch on British television since 2018. Two Cities is producing.

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The BBC has announced a slate of new commissions that it claims is part of its plan to stretch its creative muscle outside of London and portray audiences from across the U.K.

Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...

The BBC has announced a slate of new commissions that it claims is part of its plan to stretch its creative muscle outside of London and portray audiences from across the U.K.

Among the eight new series unveiled by Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama, is Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights from Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of 2020 hit mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, and Better, a redemption thriller set in the northern English city of Leeds from Sam Vincent and Johnathan Brackley, writers of the BBC/AMC sci-fi Humans, and powerhouse production banner Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London). Better also marks the ...

Exclusive: Netflix is bringing back its hit animated preschool series Hello Ninja for a 10-episode third season. The renewal comes less than a month after the April 24 launch of season two. Netflix is targeting a fall release for season 3.

Based on the book from N.D. Wilson, Hello Ninja chronicles the magical, problem-solving adventures of Bff’s Wesley, Georgie and their cat Pretzel, through an imaginary world where each episode they save the day by transforming into ninjas.

The show stars Lukas Engel (Paw Patrol) as Wesley, Zoey Siewert (Nina’s World) as Georgie, and Sam Vincent as beloved sidekick, Pretzel. All three are set to reprise their roles in season three.

“Hello Ninja began in such a personal way for me—as just one father making up ninja stories for his daughter,” said Wilson. “It’s incredibly gratifying to have those characters on Netflix,...

Exclusive: UK genre sales firm Devilworks has added two titles to its slate for the upcoming American Film Market. Matteo Rolleri’s outfit has boarded world sales rights to U.S. supernatural horror The Special by B. Harrison Smith (Death House) about a young man who is offered a night of pleasure beyond his wildest imagination. Davy Raphaely (Camp Dread), Dave Sheridan (Sky Sharks) and Sarah French (Ouija House) star. Alexander Bafer and Doug Henderson produce for Everything’s Fire Productions, Jonathan Ilchert is executive producer for Brick Top Productions. Also on the slate is Canadian horror Welcome To The Circle, written and directed by David Fowler (Born In China) and starring Heather Doerksen (Pacific Rim), Matthew MacCaull (Tomorrowland) and Taylor Dianne Robinson (Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn). Pic tells the story of a young girl and her father who fall prey to a secluded, madman-worshiping cult situated deep in a wood.

Gabe Khouth, known for his role as Sneezy/Tom Clark on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, has died. Khouth died July 23 after appearing to suffer cardiac arrest while riding his motorcyle in Canada, his friend, actor Peter Kelamis revealed on Twitter. Khouth was 46.

Khouth joined Once Upon A Time in the first season as a recurring in the role of Sneezy/Tom Clark, appearing in a total of 43 episodes over the series’ seven-season run. His other TV credits include The Crossing, Life Sentence, A Series of Unfortunate Events, iZombie, Supernatural and the role of Skip the Elf in the Santa Baby TV-movies. He also was a prolific voiceover actor with credits including series Beyblade Burst and Fruit Ninja, and features Barbie & Her Sisters in a Pony Tale and Escape From Planet Earth.

Once Upon A Time co-creator Adam Horowitz remembered Khouth as “a lovely man, a great talent, and...

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Unless a new producer/distributor steps in, we won't be getting any more episodes of android drama Humans.

Humans, the speculative fiction drama set in an alternate reality in which synthetic humans have been integrated into domestic life, has been cancelled by AMC and its British co-producer Channel 4 after three season. It's sad news for fans of speculative fiction—this was a good one, with a wonderful cast that includes Merlin's Colin Morgan and Crazy Rich Asians' Gemma Chan, among many others.

read more: How Crazy Rich Asians is Changing the Face of Hollywood

The news came from showrunner Sam Vincent, who created Humans with Jonathan Brackley. The show was an adaptation of a Swedish drama.

Here's what Vincent had to say about the cancellation via Twitter...

Some #Humans news... #HumansC4 #HUMANSamc pic.twitter.com/Uw0Uxt0iCe

— Sam Vincent (@smavincent) May 20, 2019

"Sadly, there won’t...

AMC and Channel 4’s sci-fi series “Humans” has been canceled after three seasons, an AMC spokesperson has confirmed to TheWrap.

Executive producers and writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent shared the news via Twitter on Monday.

“Sadly there won’t be a 4th season of ‘Humans.’ In this age of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints. Channel 4 & AMC were the perfect partners. They supported the show brilliantly and above all — let us make three seasons!” the pair wrote in a joint statement tweeted from Vincent’s account. “We know we left some threads hanging. That was the way we always wrote the show. Maybe one day we’ll get a chance to pick them back up. If there’s anyone out there with a few million quid and an interest in AI stories, we’re all ears.”

Also Read: 'Humans' Showrunners on Difference Between Us and UK Viewers and Why A.

‘Humans’ is no more.

Writer and executive producer Sam Vincent announced the news on Twitter that the show, which aired on AMC and the U.K.’s Channel 4, would not be returning for a fourth season.

“In this age of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints,” he wrote, adding that he and fellow exec producer Jonathan Brackley felt “gutted of course, but we were so lucky.”

“We got to make the show we wanted to make, for 24 episodes. The Humans cast and crew were and are the best, and we wouldn’t have got a 2nd season without their talent and dedication, let alone a 3rd.”

Some #Humans news… #HumansC4 #HUMANSamc pic.twitter.com/Uw0Uxt0iCe

— Sam Vincent (@smavincent) May 20, 2019

The show, which takes place in a parallel universe, was a sci-fi drama centered on humanoid “Synths” whose stars included Katherine Parkinson, Gemma Chan, Lucy Carless and Tom Goodman-Hill.

AMC’s sci-fi drama Humans is powering down after three seasons, TVLine has confirmed. The series, which was also produced by the UK’s Channel 4, aired its final episode in July 2018.

“Sadly, there won’t be a 4th season of Humans,” reads a joint statement from creators Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley. “In this age of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints. Channel 4 & AMC were the perfect partners. They supported the show brilliantly and above all – let us make three seasons!”

The statement also addresses the series’ unfinished and open-ended conclusion: “We know we left some threads hanging.

AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans is coming to an end. The Gemma Chan-fronted series has been cancelled after its third season.

The news came via a blog posted to social media by creators and writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent.

The pair wrote, “Sadly, there won’t be a fourth season of Humans. In this age of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints. Channel 4 and AMC were the perfect partners. They supported the show brilliantly and above all – let us make three seasons. We’re gutted, of course, but we were so lucky. We got to make the show we wanted to make, for 24 episodes. The Humans cast and crew were and are the best and we wouldn’t have got a second season without their talent and dedication, let alone a third. We can’t name anyone without naming everyone, and that would...

AMC and Channel 4 are waving farewell to Humans.

The U.S. basic cable network and the U.K. outlet — who both co-produced the scripted drama — have opted to cancel the series after three seasons. Writers and executive producers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent shared the news Monday via a heartfelt post on social media.

"Sadly there won't be a 4th season of Humans. In this agent of unprecedented choice and competition, we can have no complaints. Channel 4 & AMC were the perfect partners. They supported the show brilliantly and above all — let us make three ...

Longmire and Saving Grace alum Bailey Chase and David Andrews (Shooter) have joined the Season 4 cast of USA Network’s Queen of the South drama series in key roles.

Starring Alice Braga and based on the best-selling book La Reina Del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen of the South tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza (Braga), a woman who is forced to run from the Mexican cartel and seek refuge in America. In season four of Queen of the South, Teresa Mendoza expands to the East Coast by taking on the Big Easy. But when new enemies emerge and familial trust is broken, Teresa is forced to make difficult decisions that weigh heavy on her soul.

Chase will play Eddie Brucks, a musician attempting to overcome his personal demons who crosses paths with Teresa.

Andrews portrays Judge Cecil Lafayette, a member of one of the oldest blue blood families...

Has your head stopped spinning yet? Have you picked your jaw up from the floor? Have you slid back so that you're no longer on the edge of your seat?

Shooter Season 3 Episode 8 felt like the culmination of everything we've been waiting for this season. It felt like a penultimate finale, but it's not. That means we have more installments remaining, and the prospect of seeing where else this series will go is exciting.

It was evident the narrative would focus more on the Bamas and Swaggers on a personal front rather than the ongoing Swagger Squad goodness.

The Swagger Squad and the decryption card business took a backseat, and that could have easily been disappointing only because the team element has been such a highlight. However, this hour had Everything and was one of the best of the season thus far!

Related: Shooter Season 3 Episode 7 Review: Swing Vote

The...

Humans, the Gemma Chan-fronted sci-fi drama for AMC and UK’s Channel 4, is coming back for a third season and this time the robots are controlled by a predominantly female team.

Emma Kingsman-Lloyd has joined the Kudos-produced series as exec producer and Vicki Delow joins as producer. Jill Roberston, who previously directed series including Hulu’s Harlots, has come on board as lead director along with a multitude of female crew.

Kingsman-Lloyd, who has previously worked on shows such as Grantchester and Flowers, said it gave the latest season of the show, created by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, a different tone and a different feeling on set. “It was interesting coming in to a show that had been predominantly run by a male exec, male series producer and male producer. We were exciting to bring some female voices on to the team.”

Delow added, “It gave...

Overall and first-look deals still drive the television business.

Although some mega-producers have moved to the streaming world, including Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes at Netflix, the overwhelming majority of pacts are still at the studio and linear network level. These deals help lock in show services, as well as keep the development pipeline flowing.

Here is a snapshot at most of the deals currently in place across Hollywood, as of mid-May.

A+E Studios

Appletree Pictures

Ross Fineman

Sarah Gertrude Shapiro

Thruline (Ron West/Chris Henze/Jb Roberts)

ABC Studios

Eli Attie

Alec Baldwin/Mallory Schwartz El Dorado Pictures

Kenya Barris Khalabo Ink Society

Julie Bean

Kevin Biegel

Sherry Bilsing-Graham/Ellen Kreamer

Bluegrass Fanfare

Chris Brancato Churchill Road Prods.

Jeremy Bronson

Danny Chun

Adam Ciralsky

Eliza Coupe

Liz Craft/Sarah Fain

Carlton Cuse

Paul Davies

Viola Davis/Kaylon Hunt JuVee Prods.

Tim Doyle

Dan Dworkin/Jay Beattie

Randall Einhorn...

Dhx Media, Technicolor, and A Stark Production have greenlit a second season of the animated children's TV series, The Deep. The production has received season two renewal commitments for a new season of 13 half-hour episodes from Netflix in the Us, as well as over-seas partners. The show is based on the graphic novel series created by Tom Taylor and illustrated by James Brouwer. Taylor serves as co-creator and lead writer. Brouwer serves as co-creator and art director.The Deep follows the adventures of a team of underwater explorers -- the Nekton family. The voice cast includes Vincent Tong, Ashleigh Ball, Michael Dobson, Kathleen Barr, James Higuchi, Saffron Henderson, Michael Kopsa, Shannon Chan-Kent, Ian James Corlett, Cole Howard, Lee Tockar, Samuel Vincent, Kazumi Evans, and Brian Drummond. Read More…...

Exclusive: Buoyed by a fresh North American deal for Sundance hit Morris From America, Ryan Kampe jets into Berlin with a bevy of buzzy festival titles set to receive their market premieres.

The slate includes Ramzi Ben Sliman’s French drama and Berlinale selection My Revolution, about a French-Tunisian teenager who unwittingly becomes a poster boy for the Arab Spring as he tries to win the heart of his love.

Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lucien Le Guern, Lubna Azabal, and Samir Guesmi star. Visit represents worldwide rights excluding France.

Rotterdam title Suntan from Argyris Papadimitropoulos is a dark ‘coming-of-middle-age’ drama that just premiered in Holland and stars Makis Papadimitriou as a lonely, middle-aged doctor of a tiny holiday island who become obsessed with a young tourist.

Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali, and Marcus Collen also star. Odeon will distribute in Greece and Cyprus.

Visit’s slate comprises several Sundance titles led by [link...

AMC’s sci-fi drama Humans clocked 2.5 million total viewers in Live+3 for its June 28 series premiere, up 43% from Live+Same Day.

In the key demos, it scored 1.2 million adults 25-54, up 50% from Live+Sd, and 1.0 million adults 18-49, up 52% from L+Sd, according to Nielsen stats.

As noted previously, the debut of Humans was just over 30% of what it got in the UK when the Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley-written series launched there on June 14. The first showing of the sci-fi show with Gemma Chan as synth Anita had just over 4 million viewers and was Channel 4’s best ever original drama debut. The second UK airing on June 21 averaged 2.5 million total viewers in what is a busy 9 Pm Sunday slot.