TV News Desk - Page 107

Barack and Michelle Obama hire Priya Swaminathan, a seasoned entertainment executive with a background in documentaries and social activism, to work at the Los Angeles-based Netflix production company. She will team with the Obamas on developing new Hollywood projects, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It was announced Friday that Anya Taylor-Joy and “Game of Thrones” star Dean-Charles Chapman will lead the cast of “Here Are the Young Men,” according to Variety. The coming-of-age drama has also cast Finn Cole and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo.

Disney's Christopher Robin took in $1.5 million in it's Thursday-night previews at North American box offices, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Beck is proud to unveil his latest collaboration for the latest remix of the title track “Colors,” by contemporary Parisian duo the Picard Brothers (a.k.a. Clément and Maxine Picard)—now available to stream and download across digital platforms: http://beck.to/ColorsPicardBrosRemix

Mac Miller releases his highly-anticipated new album Swimming via Warner Bros. Records. The album arrives on the heels of his previously-released tracks 'Small Worlds,' 'Self Care' and 'What's The Use?,' the final of which finds Mac reuniting with longtime collaborators Thundercat and Dam-Funk.

CHVRCHES debut a brand new song “Out Of My Head” featuring acclaimed Japanese electro pop group Wednesday Campanella, alongside its accompanying animé video. Wednesday Campanella are a chart topping trio made up of Kom_I, Kenmochi Hidefumi and Dir.F, who made their debut in 2012 and last year released Superman, their first album for Warner Music Japan; they released their acclaimed Galapagos EP in June. The breathtaking video for “Out Of My Head” is created by director Junichi Yamamoto (Pop Team Epic, Batman Ninja) and art director Yoshiki Imazu (Ringing City, Fluffiction).

'Gabby Duran & the Unsittables' has received a straight-to-series order, and production is currently underway in Vancouver for a 2019 premiere on Disney Channel. Showrunners and writers Mike Alber and Gabe Snyder ('Kirby Buckets') serve as executive producers alongside Joe Nussbaum ('Just Add Magic'). Nzingha Stewart ('Grey's Anatomy,' 'Good Girls') will direct the first episode. Based upon the novel written by Elise Allen and Daryle Conners, this single-cam live-action comedy series stars 12-year-old newcomer Kylie Cantrall as the titular character. 

In its largest international scale production to date, FX has ordered Shogun, a 10-episode limited series period drama based on Shogun, the best-selling novel by James Clavell, it was announced today by John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions.

FX is taking viewers back to Fargo for a fourth time as the acclaimed and award-winning limited series is set to return next year with Chris Rock onboard to star, it was announced today by John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions.

Linda Cardellini returns to Netflix in Dead to Me, which co-stars Christina Applegate. According to Deadline, the show is a half-hour dark comedy series from writer Liz Feldman, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gloria Sanchez Prods. and CBS TV Studios. Cardellini will also produce the series.

This Friday night, multiple GRAMMY® Award winner Jason Mraz will bring his signature sound to AT&T AUDIENCE Network for a special, one-hour concert. Watch a "First Look" as Mraz performs "Let's See What The Night Can Do" off his new album Know. (out August 10 via Atlantic Records) on PARADE magazine today, HERE.

Paramount Network's reboot of the First Wives Club casts Grammy winner and actress Jill Scott and comedian Michelle Buteau as two of the three leads, Deadline reports. The 10-episode series is created by Girls Trip co-writer Tracy Oliver and Paramount Television.

Elizabeth Mitchell will play the daughter of Ellen Burstyn's character in the romantic comedy “Welcome to Pine Grove!” according to Variety.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have teamed up for a movie with Fox about the former cop who rigged the McDonald's Monopoly game to steal millions, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

New Girl's Lamorne Morris has joined Sony's sci-fi action superhero film Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel, according to Deadline.

According to Variety, Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions has optioned the rights to the children's book “The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.” 

HBO is developing a half-hour comedy series based on the Colleen Scriven's “Lesser Gods” podcast, according to Variety.

According to Variety, Super LTD has acquired Jack Bryan's documentary “Active Measures,” which details the decades-long connection between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, has been acquired by Super LTD. A release date has been set for August 31st. 

Kaitlin Olson returns to FOX only three months after her show, THE MICK, was cancelled, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Neil Argo, a composer and orchestrator who worked on such shows as Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Wild America, has died at age 71, according to The Hollywood Reporter.