Russian Doll
Annie Murphy (“Schitt’s Creek”) has joined the cast of the second season of the time loop dark comedy “Russian Doll” at Netflix which is now filming. Details on her role are under wraps.
Created by and starring Natasha Lyonne, the story follows Nadia Vulvokov – a coder who is forced to relive her 36th birthday on a nightmarish loop when she keeps dying and coming back to life. [Source: The Live Feed]
Buck Schatz
Home Theater Films has optioned author Daniel Friedman’s Buck Schatz mystery novel trilogy with plans for a limited series. Actor Corbin Bernsen will produce and may take on a supporting role.
The story follows an 87-year-old World War II veteran and retired police officer Baruch ‘Buck’ Schatz, who must reckon with his past as a hard-boiled Jewish police detective in Memphis during the civil rights era as his mind and body begin to fail him. [Source: Deadline]
Slam!
HBO Max will adapt the female roller derby-themed graphic novel series “Slam!” into a rotoscoped 3D animated series. “Moana” co-writer Pamela Ribon, who co-created the comic, is adapting the work which will be produced by Rooster Teeth Studios, BOOM! Studios and Minnow Mountain.
The half-hour series, set in the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super-cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, follows two young women who will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line. [Source: Deadline]
The First Lady
Lexi Underwood (“Little Fires Everywhere,” “Criminal Minds”) has been cast as Malia Obama, the oldest Obama daughter, in the Showtime anthology series “The First Lady”.
She joins O-T Fagbenle and Viola Davis playing her parents Barack and Michelle in the series which is dubbed a “reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.” [Source: Variety]
Dark Horse
“Stumptown” story editor William Jehu Garroutte and his pilot “Dark Horse” has been picked up to series by ABC. Garroutte writes and executive produces while Jessica Goldberg serves as showrunner and will also executive produce.
Universal Television is producing the series about a passionate Indigenous woman on her unconventional journey into politics, wherein she reckons with her own troubled past while juggling obligations to her family, culture and to the government. [Source: Variety]
