High Desert
“Escape at Dannemora” duo Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are re-teaming for the comedy series “High Desert” at the Apple TV+ service. Arquette will star with Stiller set to direct the first episode and boh will executive produce.
Arquette plays Peggy, a former addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley. Peggy makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. [Source: The Live Feed]
Florida Man
Joel Edgerton is set to star in and executive produce a limited series adaptation of Tom Cooper’s novel “Florida Man” for Anonymous Content. “Quarry” co-creator Graham Gordy is attached to pen and executive produce.
The darkly comedic generation-spanning story sees Edgerton as Reed Crowe, a middle-aged Florida beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains and amateur spelunking. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are his seedy businesses endangered, but so are his and the island’s secrets – including his birthright. [Source: Deadline]
The Pole
SYFY has handed out a green light for the six-episode edgy animated comedy series “The Pole” starring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell for its TZGZ animation block in 2021. Nicole Byer, SungWon Cho, Colin Joost, Tim Simmons and Sasheer Zamata co-star.
After a scandal involving ‘Saint’ Nick (Moynihan) rocks the holly jolly foundations of the North Pole, all hell breaks loose as the future of Christmas turns into a twisted power struggle for the Red Suit. As Nick, the 20th to wear the Suit, struggles with the age-old question of naughty vs. nice, his wife Mrs. Claus, aka Gretchen (Bell), works to keep the political machine that is toy production afloat. [Source: Syfy]
Schitt’s Creek
Following its unprecedented sweep at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” will launch in U.S. broadcast syndication beginning September 28th. The first five seasons of the CBC-commissioned sitcom is also is available on Netflix with the sixth and final one arriving October 7th. [Source: Deadline]
The Inheritance Games
Grainne Godfree (“Legends of Tomorrow”) has been set to write and executive produce a TV series based on Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s young adult novel “The Inheritance Games” at Amazon, Sony Pictures TV and Osprey Productions. The story begins when an eccentric billionaire dies and leaves his fortune to a teenage girl he’s never met, the world – and his relatives – are obsessed with figuring out why. [Source: Deadline]
