Harley Quinn
HBO Max has revealed that the third season of its animated “Harley Quinn” series will arrive on the streaming service in July. A specific date within that month hasn’t been locked though.
The network has also set a July 21st release date for the six-part HBO Max Original docuseries “The Last Movie Stars” which hails from actor-filmmaker Ethan Hawke. The series revolves around the fascinating lives and love story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. [Source: Paste Magazine]
The Buccaneers
Apple has handed out a straight-to-series order for an eight-episode drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel “The Buccaneers”. Katherine Jakeways created and writes and filming is already underway in Scotland
Alisha Boe, Kristine Froseth, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse and Mia Threapleton star in the series which revolves around a group of fun-loving young American girls who exploded into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. [Source: THR]
The Driver
Paula Malcomson (“Redemption”) will star opposite Giancarlo Esposito in AMC’s six-part remake of the British drama series “The Driver”. Theo Travers serves as showrunner.
Esposito plays a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports. [Source: Deadline]
1883: The Bass Reeves Story
“Yellowstone” co-creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan will himself direct the first two episodes of the six-part limited spin-off series “1883: Bass Reeves”. The show stars David Oyelowo as the legendary Wild West Black lawman who arrested thousands and gunned down fourteen outlaws who challenged him. [Source: Deadline
Jake Chang
“Riverdale” is coming to an end, but The CW is sticking with Archie Comics as the network has begun developing the ‘soapy teen drama with a neon-noir aesthetic’ series “Jake Chang” based on the publisher’s comic title.
“Sabrina” series duo Oanh Ly and Viet Nguyen are behind this project about a 16-year-old Asian-American private investigator navigating the racially and socioeconomically diverse worlds of his ever-gentrifying home of Chinatown, and the elite private high school he attends. [Source: Deadline]
