NBC
NBC has released its formal plan to return to its usual schedule. The network will launch its Fall schedule in September with various unscripted series before slowly rolling out original dramas and comedies in November.
“The Blacklist,’ “This Is Us” and numerous Dick Wolf shows are all set to launch the second weekend of November, while others will wait until 2021 including “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Good Girls,” “Manifest,” and “New Amsterdam”. [Source: THR]
Maid
Margaret Qualley (“The Leftovers,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) has been cast in the lead role in the Netflix dramedy series “Maid” based on Stephanie Land’s novel. The series chronicles a single mother who turns to housekeeping to – barely – make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Molly Smith Metzler will serve as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner. [Source: Variety]
The Noel Diary
“This Is Us” and “Smallville” alum Justin Hartley is set to lead Netflix’s film adaptation of Richard Paul Evans’ 2017 novel “The Noel Diary” while Bonnie Bedelia and Treat Williams co-star. Hartley will play Jacob, a bestselling author who returns home during the holidays to settle his estranged mother’s estate after she passes away.
As he digs through the many items his mother hoarded over the years, he comes across a diary left by someone named Noel, which may hold secrets to Jacob’s own past. And when he receives an unexpected visitor named Rachel, a beautiful woman on a mysterious journey of her own, the two of them try to make sense of their pasts and rewrite their futures. [Source: TV Line]
Mother Land
Producers Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are developing the horror film “Mother Land” for Lionsgate. Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby (“Mesn Dreams”) penned the spec script centering on a family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and their surroundings come into question when one of the children questions if the evil is real. [Source: Lionsgate]
