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[04/12/22 - 11:56 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, April 12
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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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!
ALPHONSE (Amazon, New!) - Nicolas Bedos has set up a series at Banijay and Prime Video about "a chameleon-like man whose main mission is to please women and satisfy all their wishes." Jean Dujardin will play the title role in the project, which also stars Pierre Arditi, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nicole Garcia. Montmartre Films' Alain Goldman is also among the auspices. Filming begins in June. (Variety.com)
AVALON (ABC) - Dana Calvo has been tapped as showrunner of the upcoming drama series based on Michael Connelly's short story. She'll also executive produce alongside Connelly, David E. Kelley, Ross Fineman, Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson. (Deadline.com)
CELEBRITY HUNTED - FRANCE - MANHUNT/LOL: QUI RIT, SORT! (Amazon) - The streamer has renewed both unscripted series. (Deadline.com)
COLONY, THE (HBO Max, New!) - Sarita Choudhury is attached to star in a small screen take on the 2018 feature "Stray Dolls" at the streamer, "a suspenseful and darkly humorous twisted family drama, exposing the pressures and tropes facing an immigrant family and what happens when they are dragged into a world of crime." The film's Sonejuhi Sinha and Charlotte Rabate are penning the project with Nicholas Weinstock of Invention Studios and Choudhury likewise executive produce. (Deadline.com)
COSMIC LOVE (Amazon, New!) - ITV Studios France has landed a dating series at the streamer "in which four singles, each representing one of the four Zodiac elements, rely on astrology to meet their match." The project is due later this year. (Deadline.com)
KILLER COASTER (Amazon, New!) - The streamer has commissioned a crime drama "that follows a sloppy cop disavowed by her department who takes on an undercover job selling cotton candy, only to stumble upon a major murder investigation." Nikola Lange and Thomas Mansuy are behind the project, which comes from Vacarme. (Deadline.com)
OURIKA (Amazon, New!) - Clement Godard, Elie Yaffa (aka French rapper Booba), Clément Gournay and Vincent L'Anthoën are set to team for a drama series at the streamer which "follows a drug dealer and a cop who go head-to-head in an urban western set against the backdrop of the 2005 Paris riots." Prelude, part of Vendôme Productions, and 7Scope are the producers. (Deadline.com)
PALOMINO (Netflix) - Evin Ahmad has scored the lead role on the upcoming drama series, about Erin Collantes, "a British teacher in Spain who finds herself caught up in a supermarket robbery. When one of the robbers claims to recognize her, her life threatens to unravel and in Palomino, a town of secrets, she must fight to clear her name and protect her family." (Deadline.com)
POKER FACE (Peacock) - Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star opposite Natasha Lyonne in the yet-be-detailed series which will reportedly "follow a procedural format and see Lyonne's character working to solve different murders in each episode." (Variety.com)
PURE (Peacock, New!) - Heather Regnier is developing a new drama at the streamer which "will chronicle the rise and fall of the relationship between Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis, two people who fulfilled each other's desires to live in a world that existed outside of reality - which ultimately destroyed them." Melngailis and Strangis are the focus of the recent Netflix series "Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives." Weimaraner Republic Pictures and Warner Bros. Television are behind the project, which is based on Allen Salkin's Vanity Fair article "The Runaway Vegan." Lynn Harris and Matti Leshem will also executive producing with Salkin as a consulting producer. (Deadline.com)
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[12/16/25 - 02:30 PM]
CBS News Will Air a Special Report for President Donald J. Trump's Live Primetime Address to the Nation from the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 9:00 PM, ET
The "Survivor" finale (starting at 8:00 PM, ET/PT) will resume where it left off immediately following the president's address for Eastern and Central Time Zone viewers on the CBS Television Network and air in its entirety.
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[12/16/25 - 02:15 PM]
FOX NFL Week 15 Scores 19.4 Million Viewers for "America's Game of the Week"
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[12/16/25 - 02:15 PM]
"CBS News Presents: A Town Hall with Erika Kirk" Boosts CBS' Time Period Performance in Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49
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[12/16/25 - 01:57 PM]
ESPN's Signature MegaCast Presentation Returns for College Football Playoff First Round Presented by Allstate
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[12/16/25 - 01:33 PM]
Next on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN - January 2026
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[12/16/25 - 01:04 PM]
FX's "Seven Sisters" Ordered to Series on Hulu
Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti and J. Smith-Cameron lead the new family drama featuring Anthony Edwards, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown, Carolyn Kettig, Philip Ettinger, and Ryan Eggold.
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[12/16/25 - 12:02 PM]
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[12/16/25 - 12:01 PM]
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New comedy series "Man vs. Baby" took No. 1 on the English TV list with 19.1 million views, with the Rowan Atkinson vehicle eliciting laughs over the bumbling Trevor Bingley trying to earn money house-sitting for millionaires while a lost baby keeps him on his toes.
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[12/16/25 - 11:01 AM]
Video: Trailer & Key Art - Hulu Original Series "The Artful Dodger" Season 2
The comedy-adventure series starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis and Maia Mitchell returns for season two on February 10 on Hulu and Disney+.
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[12/16/25 - 10:01 AM]
Snoop Dogg to Headline Lions-Vikings with "Snoop's Holiday Halftime Party" During NFL Christmas Gameday Live on Netflix
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[12/16/25 - 09:52 AM]
Video: "The Life of Chuck" - Trailer - Hulu
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[12/16/25 - 09:08 AM]
MGM+ Greenlights Series Adaptation of Iconic Western "The Magnificent Seven"
After a peaceful Quaker village is massacred by mercenaries working for a greedy and ruthless land baron trying to force them off the land he covets, seven gifted but flawed mercenaries are hired by the community to protect them from the land baron's hired guns.
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[12/16/25 - 09:01 AM]
"Miss Austen" Returns for Season 2 on "Masterpiece"
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[12/16/25 - 09:00 AM]
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[12/16/25 - 09:00 AM]
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Filmed in front of an intimate audience above the Musée du Quai Branly, Aguilera performs both holiday classics and her career hits against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, fashioned into a shimmering Christmas tree.
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