Hightown
Following strong reviews and viewership numbers, Starz has given the greenlight for a second season of the Monica Raymund-led crime thriller “Hightown”. The Cape Cod-set tale follows a hard-partying Marine Fisheries Service agent (Monica Raymund) and her journey to sobriety, intertwined with an unfolding murder investigation tied to the area’s opioid epidemic. [Source: Starz]
Love Life
HBO Max has renewed the romantic anthology “Love Life” for a second season that will focus on a “whole new love story in New York City”. The order comes mere hours after the first season finale hit the service. The story will center on a new character’s journey, but Anna Kendrick’s Darby character will “appear occasionally”. [Source: TV Line]
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Actress Gabrielle Union (“L.A.’s Finest”) has acquired the rights to journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson’s memoir “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and will develop a series adaption with Sony Pictures TV.
The series of personal essays has Johnson talking about his childhood and adolescence as well as what’s its like growing up as a black queer boy in New Jersey and Virginia. His stories also explore topics of gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent and black joy. [Source: Deadline]
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
HBO Max has released the first four minutes of the first of its four “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” specials, this one focusing on the little robot BMO who must deal with a deadly space emergency in the farthest reaches of the galaxy. BMO’s special arrives on the service on Thursday, June 25th.
