Snowfall
The acclaimed 1980s California crack cocaine drama “Snowfall” has been renewed for a fifth season by FX. The show’s current fourth season seen a 41% increase in total viewers over its past season with an average of 5.1 million people across all platforms. Its finale airs on April 21st. [Source: TV Line]
The Girl Before
Ben Hardy (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”) has been cast in the upcoming BBC One and HBO Max four-episode series “The Girl Before”. The story follows a woman (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who gets the chance to move into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect (David Oyelowo).
The catch: occupants have to abide by his list of exacting rules. Hardy plays the dutiful yet insecure boyfriend of the prior occupant (Jessica Plummer) and the story is based on the J.P. Delaney novel. [Source: The Sun]
Gamestop
Jordan Belfort, the subject of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” will host the Discovery+ one-hour documentary special “GameStop: The Wall Street Hijack” on the videogame retailer’s stock price rise. It hits Discovery+ in the UK on April 8th and internationally later this year. [Source: Variety]
Landscapers
David Thewlis (“Wonder Woman,” “Harry Potter”) will star opposite Olivia Colman in HBO and Sky’s long-gestating darkly comic limited series “Landscapers”. Dipo Ola, Samuel Anderson and Kate O’Flynn co-star.
The pair play a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an extraordinary murder investigation when two bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham. [Source: The Live Feed]
