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Hollywood Accolade and Livi Birch in Shadrach [Photo: Courtesy of Great American Pure Flix 2024]

Great American Pure Flix has announced its fourth original series for 2024 titled Shadrach and starring Livi Birch and Cale Ferrin.

The new series will start streaming on July 25, 2024. The series also stars Catherine Urbanek and Phillip Boyd. Read on to find out more about the new, original series and its cast.

Great American Pure Flix announces original series, Shadrach

According to the press release, the new series comes from Affirm Originals, a division of Sony Pictures and Great American Pure Flix. Livi Birch (Tulsa), Cale Ferrin (Endlings), Catherine Urbanek (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life and Philip Boyd (The Haves & The Have Nots).

The series tells the story of how Young Anna Wilson (Livi Birch) and her family are experiencing loss after recently moving from the city to the country. However, when Anna takes an unexpected shortcut...

Aided by her imagination, her species-diverse friend group, and the mission of her idol, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dbe, nine-year-old Jane Garcia is on the world’s wild animals one epic adventure at a time. Ava Louise Murchison stars in the mission-driven, Emmy Award-winning “Jane,” which returns for five new episodes ahead of this year’s Earth Day. “Jane” Season 2 will premiere on Apple TV+ on Friday, April 19. You can watch Jane: Season 2 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

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From Emmy Award winner J.J. Johnson, inking Ship Entertainment, and the Jane Goodall Institute, “Jane” stars Ava Louise Murchison as nine-year-old Jane Garcia, a budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals. Aided by her powerful imagination...

Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer for the highly anticipated season two of Emmy Award-winning ‘Jane.’

The mission-driven series for kids and families is inspired by the work of world-renowned ethologist and conservationist, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dbe, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and Un Messenger of Peace.

Ava Louise Murchison (“Reacher”) stars as Jane Garcia, a nine-year-old budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals. Using her powerful imagination, Jane takes her best friends David, played by Mason Blomberg (“Shameless”), and Greybeard the chimpanzee on epic adventures to help protect wild animals all around the world because, according to her idol Dr. Jane Goodall: “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, can they be saved.”

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From Emmy Award winner J.J. Johnson, Sinking Ship Entertainment...

Past Lives is still showing in some movie theaters, so check local showtimes to see if you can catch it before it leaves. If you prefer watching movies at home, you can rent or buy Past Lives on various VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies & TV, and Vudu. Past Lives will also be available on streaming services like Paramount+ and Max in the future.

Past Lives is, rightfully so, receiving attention following its Academy Award nominations, and luckily, for those who have yet to see the movie, it is available to watch in a couple of different ways. The 2023 romantic drama was directed and written by Celine Song and served as her feature directorial debut. At the beginning of her career, Song wrote two plays — Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4. Additionally, Song was previously a writer on season 1 of the Amazon Prime Video...

Celine Song has thought long and hard about how her current choices will ripple out into the future. “Who we are now cannot escape from who we were once,” says the director behind this year’s indie breakout Past Lives.

To make her point, she starts to script a scene between her future self and mine. “What’s going to happen is, in 20 years’ time, you and I are going to have a conversation again about a movie that I just made,” she tells me. “I just know that you’re going to say, ‘You remember when you were 35 and you were promoting your first movie, Past Lives?’ And we’ll just look at each other and we’ll see very vividly what each other was like.” As she envisions it, we’ll think about where we were at this exact moment — our loves, our stresses, our likely outdated haircuts.

The Sundance Institute on Wednesday unveiled details for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s January 18 opening-night gala that kicks off the festival’s 40th edition.

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan will be honored with the first Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award, while Celine Song and Maite Alberdi — who premiered their respective films Past Lives and The Eternal Memory at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival — each will receive the Vanguard Award.

The annual opening-night gala raises money for the nonprofit’s labs, grants and public programming. The Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City and online from January 25-28.

The organization said the Trailblazer Award will recognize an artist’s unwavering dedication and notable contributions to the field of independent film. Nolan was celebrated by Sundance two decades ago when his breakthrough film, Memento, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award on its way to an Oscar Original Screenplay nomination.

Celine Song didn’t have any of the things that usually allow producers to trust a first-time filmmaker. In 2020, the New York Theater Workshop staged her play about the sea women of South Korea, “Endlings,” directed by Sammi Cannold; it received a mixed-to-positive New York Times review. However, there was no short film, no evidence of what Song herself might offer as a director. All she had, Song said, was her “seduction technique” — she believed that her script for “Past Lives” was so good that it would be the build-it-and-they-will-come of screenplays.

For so many indie filmmakers, that belief does not end well. In Song’s case, she was right.

“It’s the way that I could get collaborators to believe that I can do it,” she said over pre-strike drinks at the Culina Restaurant in Beverly Hills. “If you read the script, and you’re connected to it, then...

The work of legendary ethologist, conservationist and activist Jane Goodall has already inspired people to care for endangered species and the environment for decades — but the doctor’s latest endeavor continues her work in motivating the next generation.

Apple TV+’s mission-driven children’s series “Jane” harnesses the power of TV, with Emmy-winning creator J.J. Johnson using Goodall’s teachings to motivate kids to take a stand for endangered species and care for the environment. “Jane,” from the Jane Goodall Institute and Johnson’s company Sinking Ship Entertainment, premiered on April 14, with 10 episodes now available on Apple TV+.

“Jane” features eager 9-year-old environmentalist Jane Garcia (Ava Louise Murchison) — who is inspired to help save the planet, following in the footsteps of her role model, Goodall — along with her friends David (Mason Blomberg) and a chimpanzee named Greybeard. Each episode focuses on a different endangered species, such as Apis mellifera (Western...

It is not unprecedented to have a Sundance-premiering film play in the Berlinale competition. Yet director Celine Song’s journey with “Past Lives,” which received raves in Park City and makes its international bow in Berlin, feels like a fresh phenomenon. She’s a first-time filmmaker. Her movie has no big names. And it is unapologetically personal.

Breakthrough status suits Song, who told Variety, “Everything I do, I have to believe it is the first time I’m doing that kind of thing.” Her recent resumé bears that out: Since her Off Broadway play “Endlings” closed early due to the pandemic, she has written for Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” and mounted a production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” entirely within the Sims 4 universe on Twitch.

So “Past Lives” feels gorgeously new, but it’s also involved in evergreen ideas about love and fate. Tracing the decades-spanning, continents-bridging connection...

The 2021 Daytime Emmys were presented on Friday night, June 25 … but not all of them. Awards have already gone out to the best in soap operas, game shows, talk shows, and a few other fields. But on June 28 the national television academy revealed their second round of nominations focusing on animated, nonfiction, children’s, and daytime fiction programming. These winners will be announced on Saturday, July 17, and Sunday, July 18. Scroll down for the complete list.

SEE2021 Daytime Emmy winners list: Who won at the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 25?

“Sesame Street” is on top with 14 nominations if you count the main HBO series (which has seven) and its specials “The Power of We,” “The Monster at the End of This Story,” and “CNN/Sesame Street Town Halls.” Perennial digital drama champ “The Bay” is next in line with 12 noms; it was up for Best Limited Drama Series at the June 25 broadcast,...

The Banff World Media Festival announced Kenan Thompson, Danielle Brooks, Simu Liu and Sinking Ship Ent. are this year’s Rockie Award Gala recipients. Hosted by Jasmeet Raina, the ceremony will stream live on YouTube June 15 at 3 p.m.

Thompson, best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live” and now headlining the NBC sitcom “Kenan,” will be bestowed the Sir Peter Ustinov Award, which recognizes a creative talent who has made an outstanding comedic contribution to the media industry. Past honorees include Sean Hayes, John Cleese, Tracey Ullman, Bob Newhart, Tantoo Cardinal, John Candy and Bill Hader.

Brooks, who recently starred in “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia” and was on the long-running “Orange is the New Black,” will receive the A+E Inclusion Award, which recognizes an individual whose efforts and vision in the media realm champion and reflect the diversity of the world we live in. Past honorees include LeVar Burton,...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.

With more than 530 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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While the pandemic may have brought a temporary halt to programming pipelines, children’s broadcasters are using the opportunity to scope out the acquisitions market as well as applying strategies to entice tweens and teens back to their streaming platforms.

During Tuesday morning’s Mipcom Warm Up briefing on kids programming, BBC Children’s head of independent animation and acquisitions, Sarah Muller, admitted she was in the “unusual position” of being able to go on an international buying spree.

“I was able to go out and source content that we might not have bought in the normal course of events, because our schedule is normally so full,” she said.

Speaking to the session’s moderator, former Channel 4 commissioner-turned-consultant Sarah Baynes, Muller said that series acquisitions have included Australian broadcaster ABC’s four-part drama “First Day” which tells the story of a young transgender girl starting her first day at a new school.

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings.

With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Hulu is kicking off the new year with a mix of new and old movies and TV shows that will be added to the streaming service in January.

Reality series including “The Bachelor,” “Project Runway” will release this month, along with “Cooks vs. Cons” and “Cutthroat: Kitchen.”

On the film front, “13 Going on 30,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Forrest Gump” and “Little Miss Sunshine” are arriving early in January.

Several children’s classics will be added on the platform as well. “Dennis the Menace,” which stars a young Mason Gamble as a neighborhood hooligan, and the animated saga “An American Tail,” starring an adventurous mouse named Fievel, will be available to stream.

See a complete list of movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in January 2020:

Jan. 1

Bring It!: Season 4

Brockmire: Season 3

Damages

Deputy: Series Premiere

Divided States

Fox’s New Year’s Eve Special with Steve Harvey

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Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming in January, as well as everything that’s leaving at the end of the month.

Highlights include the Season 24 premiere of “The Bachelor,” available the day after it airs first on ABC — so Jan. 7 for Hulu subscribers. Get ready to see Peter Weber in all his glory.

“Homeland” Seasons 6 and 7 will be available Jan. 10, following CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and her mentor, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).

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U.K.’s “Love Island” Season 6 will premiere on Jan. 20, sans Caroline Flack. The second seasons of “Lodge 49” and “Shrill” premiere Jan. 13 and the 24th respectively.

Leaving on Jan. 31 are “The Fantastic Four,” “Crazy For Christmas,” and a handful of others.

Here’s the full list of everything coming and going to and from Hulu in January.

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