The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Ahead of its fourth season premiere on Friday, Amazon Prime Video has announced they have renewed “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for a fifth and final season. Filming is currently underway in New York City. [Source: Variety]
Julia
HBO Max has set a March 31st release date for its new comedy series “Julia” which follows the story of beloved cookbook writer and television chef Julia Child whose long-running series “The French Chef” was one of the first cooking shows on television. [Source: Collider]
Promised Land
New ABC drama “Promised Land” is moving over to Hulu with the streamer taking over the series for the final five episodes of the first season from March 1st. The generation-spanning drama follows a Latinx family vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley. [Source: TV Line]
Bloom County
FOX is developing beloved 1980s comic “Bloom County” into a primetime animated series with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist creator Berkeley Breathed on board to co-write and executive produce.
Bloom County centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in a small town in Middle America. [Source: THR]
The Crowded Room
Amanda Seyfried will join Tom Holland in Akiva Goldsman’s Apple TV+ series “The Crowded Room” for Apple Studios and New Regency. Kornel Mundruczo (“Pieces of a Woman”) will direct the ten-episode first season.
Inspired by the award-winning biography “The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes,” Holland plays the mentally ill man at the heart of the series while Seyfried will star as a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career who is also trying to balance her life as a single mother. [Source: THR]
