The Salisbury Poisonings
AMC has announced that the BBC One hit limited series “The Salisbury Poisonings” will make its exclusive U.S. debut on the network this Fall. The four-part drama had the biggest overnight launch of a new drama in the UK in six years.
Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall, MyAnna Buring and Johnny Harris star in the incredible true story of the 2018 Novichok poisonings – an attempted assassination of a double agent in the British city of Salisbury with a lethal nerve agent (a half a teaspoon of which could kill 20,000 people). Within days hundreds of traces were found across the city. [Source: Broadway World]
Deacon King Kong
Sister Pictures has picked up the television rights to James McBride’s novel and the most recent Oprah’s Book Club selection “Deacon King Kong” which is inspired by McBride’s upbringing in the Red Hook housing projects.
McBride will pen the adaptation set in 1969 when a fumbling, comical old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of a housing project in south Brooklyn and shoots a local drug dealer at point-blank range. The novel then explores the causes and consequences of this burst of violence. McBride, Carolyn Strauss, Kate Fenske and Brian Taylor will executive produce. [Source: Variety]
Murder House Flip
Quibi has picked up its true crime home renovation series “Murder House Flip” for a second season. Josh Berman, Chris King, Katherine Ramsland and Sony Pictures TV produce the project which has been one of Quibi’s few hits.
Hosted by designers Mikel Welch and Joelle Uzyel, the unconventional show takes on the country’s most infamous homes where mysterious murders have been committed behind their walls. The aim is to remove the stains of the past and take these homes from morbid to marvelous. [Source: Deadline]
10-Year-Old-Tom
HBO Max has ordered the new adult animated series “10-Year-Old-Tom” which hails from writer and executive producer Steve Dildarian.
The series follows Tom grappling with being corrupted by the grownups around him each day just by leaving his house. Bad influences seem to lurk everywhere – litigious parents, drug dealing bus drivers, and band teachers who want to sleep with his mom. [Source: Variety]
Hanna
Amazon Prime has released the trailer for the second season of “Hanna,” its series adaptation of Joe Wright‘s 2011 high concept action-thriller and a sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin. The new season premieres July 3rd.
Int he new season Esme Creed-Miles is recruited into The Meadows, a secret conditioning school where assassins are trained to go undercover as everyday teenage girls. But a former test subject, Hanna, returns to infiltrate the facility and put an end to this shadowy organization. They took her father. They took her identity. But can they stop her?
