Line of Duty
Filming has resumed this week on the sixth season of the BBC’s flagship crime thriller series “Line of Duty” following a lengthy production delay due to the pandemic. The production is utilising independent health and safety consultants and COVID-19 safety protocols.
Martin Compston, Adrian Dunbar and Vicky McClure are returning for the new season which will see the team investigating DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly Macdonald), the senior investigating officer in an unsolved murder case. Season six is now expected to air on BBC One next year. [Source: Sky]
Tell Me Lies
Emma Roberts’ Belletrist TV banner has signed a first-look TV deal with Hulu with projects to be developed that will focus on literary adaptations. Karah Preiss will serve as an executive producer on all projects.
The first project is an adaptation of Carola Lovering’s “Tell Me Lies” in which Lucy Albright arrives on the campus of her small college, away from her mother whom she’s never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. She embraces college life, but it all changes when she meets Stephen DeMarco, who has a mysterious past of his own. Meaghan Oppenheimer is attached to write the pilot. [Source: Variety]
Challenger: The Final Flight
Netflix has released the trailer for the four-part docuseries “Challenger: The Final Flight” which hails from executive producer J.J. Abrams. The series examines the 1986 Challenger space shuttle, which exploded shortly after launch as millions of Americans – many of them schoolchildren – watched live on television.
The series aims to celebrate the lives of the astronauts onboard, offering an in-depth look at one of the most diverse crews NASA has ever assembled. That crew included high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who was selected to be the first private citizen in space.
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
“Eureka” actress turned frequent TV helmer Salli Richardson-Whitfield has signed an overall deal with HBO to develop projects for them. As part of the deal she will also executive produce and direct four episodes of Julian Fellowes’ “The Gilded Age” and helming two episodes of Adam McKay’s upcoming untitled Lakers project. She currently has series in development as a director/producer at multiple streaming platforms. [Source: Deadline]
Grand Army
Netflix has premiered the teaser trailer for the ten-episode coming-of-age drama series “Grand Army,” based on Katie Cappiello’s 2013 play “Slut” offering a realistic portrayal of what today’s high-schoolers go through everyday. The series premieres October 16th.
Set in Brooklyn, the series centers around five students of the titular public high school as they wrestle with sexual, racial and economic politics and fight to succeed, strive, wild out, break free and become somebody. Odessa A’zio, Maliq Johnson, Amalia Yoo, Amir Bageria and Odley Jean star.
