Bill Lawrence
“Ted Lasso” co-creator Bill Lawrence has set a new five-year, nine-figure overall deal renewal with Warner Bros. Television that will begin in 2023 and run through 2028. Production on “Ted Lasso” season three begins next month in London. [Source: THR]
Immigrant
Andrew Rannells has been cast in a recurring role in the upcoming Hulu limited darkly comedic series “Immigrant” which tells the true story of Somen ‘Steve’ Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani), the Indian-American entrepreneur who started Chippendales.
Rannells will play the rich kid investor in Chippendales New York and the love interest of producer-choreographer Nick De Noia (Murray Bartlett). The series is written and executive produced by Robert Siegel (“Pam & Tommy”). [Source: Variety]
The Retreat
Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, Jermaine Fowler. Joan Chen, Raul Esparza, Edoardo Ballerini, Pegah Ferydoni, Ryan J. Haddad and Javed Khan will join Emma Corrin in the limited series “Retreat” at FX.
“The OA” creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are behind this “radical conceptualization” of the whodunit with a new kind of detective – a gen Z amateur sleuth named Darby Hart (Corrin). [Source: Deadline]
AMC
AMC has unveiled the first footage from the “Interview with the Vampire” TV series as part of a promo for several shows coming to the AMC+ service in 2022.
The clips offer looks at Jacob Anderson as Louis and Sam Reid as Lestat in the series while the promo also teases the final seasons of “Better Call Saul” and “Killing Eve” along with new shows “Dark Winds,” “Moonhaven,” “That Dirty Black Bag” and “61st Street”.
An expanded #TWD universe and even more coming soon to @AMCPlus. pic.twitter.com/wzLBFJZRCo
— AMC-TV (@AMC_TV) February 14, 2022
