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[10/26/21 - 11:25 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, October 26
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:

Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!


CHICAGO MED (NBC) - Sarah Rafferty and Lily Harris are both bound for the veteran drama. Rafferty will continue to recur as Pamela Blake, "a quick-paced renowned transplant surgeon who wants things her way"; while Harris will make her professional acting debut as Astrid Meadows, "a young patient with hallucinations." (Deadline.com)
COMEBACK GIRL, THE (Showtime) - The pay channel's limited series about the life of legendary comedian Joan Rivers won't be moving forward as "Rivers' life rights, which are held by her daughter, Melissa Rivers, hadn't been secured by producers." (Variety.com)
I'M A VIRGO (Amazon) - Creator Boots Riley has signed a two-year overall television deal with Media Res, the company behind the upcoming Jharrel Jerome-led series. (Deadline.com)
IMMIGRANT (Hulu) - Writer Jenni Konner and director Ramin Bahrani have both signed onto the limited series, about the origin story of stripper troupe Chippendales. Konner will serve as co-showrunner alongside creator Robert Siegel while Bahrani will helm and executive produce. (Deadline.com)
UNTITLED BERNIE MADOFF PROJECT (Netflix, New!) - Director Joe Berlinger is spearheading a new docuseries about "the rise and fall of American financier and convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff. Madoff, once the most respected man on Wall Street and the biggest con artist it would ever see, pulled the levers behind a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that left a devastating financial and human toll. Madoff died in April at Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. at the age of 82." Jon Doran, Jon Kamen, Jen Isaacson and Samantha Grogin will also executive produce for RadicalMedia and Berlinger's Third Eye Motion Picture Company. (Deadline.com)
VAL ZOD (HBO Max, New!) - Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters have been tapped to pen a TV take on the DC Comics hero, "the story of another Kryptonian with powers who hails from the same doomed planet as Superman. The hero is Black, and he finds refuge on Earth 2. Like the original Man of Steel, he is sheltered on his adopted planet but eventually in the comics is pitted against a brainwashed Superman." Outlier Society's Michael B. Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo will also executive produce for DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. (Deadline.com)





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· CHICAGO MED (NBC)
· COMEBACK GIRL, THE (SHOWTIME)
· DEVELOPMENT UPDATE (TFC)
· I'M A VIRGO (AMAZON)
· MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET (NETFLIX)
· VAL ZOD (HBO MAX)
· WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES (HULU)





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