Baby Shark’s Big Show
Nickelodeon has greenlit “Baby Shark’s Big Show,” an animated preschool series based on the world-famous pop culture song phenomenon from Pinkfong. The show will debut with an all-new original holiday special this December ahead of a spring 2021 series launch.
The 2D-animated series will consist of 26 half-hour episodes and will follow Baby Shark and his best friend William as they journey on fun-filled comedic adventures in their community of Carnivore Cove, meet new friends and sing original catchy tunes along the way. [Source: Nickelodeon]
Langdon
Valorie Curry (“The Tick”) and Eddie Izzard (“The Riches”) are set to star opposite Ashley Zukerman in NBC’s drama pilot “Langdon” based on Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller novel “The Lost Symbol” from Imagine Television, CBS TV Studios and Universal Television.
Zukerman plays famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy. Curry will portray a scientist who studies how consciousness can affect the physical world. Izzard will play the Director of the Smithsonian and an influential mover and shaker in Washington. [Source: Deadline]
Conversations with Friends
Following their success with “Normal People,” Hulu and author Sally Rooney are re-teaming for a straight-to-series adaptation of her debut novel “Conversations with Friends”. Lenny Abrahamson will be lead director alongside Alice Birch as lead writer.
The series will consist of twelve half-hour episodes and follows two female Dublin college students forging an unexpected, strange and sexually charged relationship with an older married couple, which results in a complicated pair of love triangles that upends their lives. [Source: Variety]
The CW Series
Numerous series shot in Vancouver have set tentative production start dates as early as end of July with most hoping to resume filming in August after several months break due to the coronavirus pandemic. The CW’s “Supernatural,” “The Flash,” “Riverdale” and “Charmed,” ABC’s “The Good Doctor” and “A Million Little Things” and Netflix’s “Midnight Mass”. Earlier this month Canada’s British Columbia province lifted restrictions on film and TV production, allowing filming to restart. [Source: Deadline]
Peacock
The Peacock streaming service has released the official trailers for their upcoming originals premiering with the launch of the service this summer on July 15th. These include new promos for “Brave New World,” “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” “The Capture” and “Intelligence”.
