Nine Perfect Strangers
Melvin Gregg (“Snowfall”) will join Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans, Manny Jacinto and Asher Keddie in Hulu’s tentpole limited series “Nine Perfect Strangers”. The project is a re-teaming of much of the team behind HBO’s “Big Little Lies” including author Liane Moriarty, writer David E. Kelley and various production companies.
The series takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. The series is targeting a 2021 debut. [Source: Deadline]
Mad Men
All seven seasons, 92 episodes of iconic drama “Mad Men” will be available to stream for free on Amazon’s IMDb TV platform starting July 15th. Amazon has also acquired the international rights to the series from producer Lionsgate Television, and will begin streaming it on Amazon Prime Video around the world later this week.
AMC will take the linear rights while Starzplay has it in some European and Latin American territories. The third season episode, which has Roger Sterling (John Slattery) appearing in blackface at a party, will not be pulled but will have a title card in front of it to “provide context for the blackface scene”. [Source: Variety]
Never Have I Ever
Netflix has renewed Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age comedy series “Never Have I Ever” for a second season just two months after the series achieved critical acclaim at launch. Kaling co-created the series with Lang Fisher, who serves as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stars as Devi Vishwakumar, a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl going through high school – an overachiever with a short fuse who also must deal with the sudden death of her father. [Source: THR]
Joy of Painting
Thirty of 31 seasons of Bob Ross’ public access television series “The Joy of Painting,” totaling almost 400 episodes, will be coming to Tubi by the end of the month. The first season of the show is not part of the launch. All 31 seasons of the show are already on YouTube, while Hulu and Amazon also have select seasons for subscription streaming. Also on Wednesday, Tubi announced an exclusive agreement with Foxtel Australia. [Source: Deadline]
