Gaston
Actor Luke Evans has offered an update on how the live-action “Beauty and the Beast” spin-off TV series for Disney+ is progressing. A prequel, the show will follow his character Gaston and his man-servant and friend LeFou (Josh Gad).
Evans says “we’re in fully fledged development. The second and third episodes have been written and we’ve heard some of the music by Alan Menken.” He also says Josh Gad came up with the show’s central idea and, after they fleshed it out, pitched it to Disney. [Source: Deadline]
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
The shock cancellation of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix this week has led to the obvious question of whether the show’s upcoming fourth season is a natural end to the show’s story.
Turns out it’s not as showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed on Twitter today that a crossover with “Riverdale” was planned for a fifth season but that’s no longer happening. Instead, the fifth season dubbed ‘Witch War’ will be continued in comic book form. [Source: Digital Spy]
Untitled Lucy Liu Pilot
Lucy Liu has been cast in the lead role of Shana Goldberg-Meehan’s multi-camera workplace comedy pilot at ABC, a series formerly known as “Bossy”. Liu will also serve as a producer for CBS Television Studios and 20th Century Fox Television.
Liu will play Devin, the fierce and powerful head of modern furniture company Shelter. She is a force and is unfamiliar with failure. But when she adopts a baby she is ill-prepared for the task of parenting and feels at a complete loss as to how to be a mom. [Source: Variety]
Ravenswood Manor
Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to develop camp-horror soap opera “Ravenswood Manor,” based on a live weekly episodic theatre production from writer and comedian Justin Sayre, for television.
Set in a small New England town during the Spring of 1976, Ravensport welcomes home its most famous daughter and movie star Bettina Doors. She returns to her childhood home as a series of ridiculous murders begins to unravel the town. It all ties back to her heritage – the Ravenswood sisters who were the last women in America to be charged with the crime of witchcraft. [Source: Deadline]
David Makes Man
HBO Max has released the trailer for coming-of-age drama series “David Makes Man” which originally aired on OWN nearly a year ago and will now make its streaming debut on July 16th. The series hails from Academy Award-winning “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney and follows a fourteen-year-old South Florida prodigy from the projects who is haunted by the death of his closest friend and relied upon by his hardworking mother to find a way out of poverty.
