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For the second year in a row Deadline’s popular Contenders Television is going virtual as an astonishing 129 creatives and stars will be appearing in the all day event Saturday May 15, 2021 that features a total of 21 networks participating and 49 different shows.  This is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest ever as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.

It’s definitely not a requirement to be a well-versed cinephile to become a great filmmaker. However, you can’t imagine that it hurts to have a knowledge of some of the best directors around when trying to craft your own art.

Megan Thee Stallion is set to be the focus of a new online reality show, Off Thee Leash With Megan Thee Stallion.As Complex reports, the ‘Good News’ rapper’s unscripted project will come as part of the expanded Snapchat Originals series from Snap Inc.“[Megan will] be joined by celebrity friends and their pets hosted in a way that only Megan can,” an official synopsis reads.Announcing the venture on Twitter, Megan described herself as “one of the best dog moms ever on the planet”, adding: “I really wanna invite some other pet parents to come and get wild with me and my boys on the Hot Girl ranch.”You can watch that video below.New Series on @Snapchat “Off Thee Leash With Megan Thee Stallion” pic.twitter.com/vp88ua4bIh— TINA SNOW

Always Be My Maybe star and Baby Cobra comedian Ali Wong will join Amazon’s Paper Girls series, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel.

Apple TV+ has given a 10-episode series order to Hello Tomorrow!, a half-hour dramedy headlined by Emmy-winning The Morning Show star Billy Crudup who will also serve as an executive producer. The series, directed by Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F***ing World), hails from MRC Television and Mortal Media.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAli Wong is set to appear in the upcoming “Paper Girls” series adaptation at Amazon.Wong joins previously announced series leads Sofia Rosinsky, Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, and Fina Strazza. The series, which hails from Amazon Studios and Legendary Television in association with Plan B, is based on the graphic novel series by writer Brian K.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBilly Crudup has signed on to star in the dramedy series “Hello Tomorrow!,” which has been ordered to series at Apple, Variety has learned.The 10-episode, half-hour series is set in a retro-future world and centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Crudup stars as Jack, a salesman of great talent and ambition, whose unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.The series is written and executive produced by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe series adaptation of Mark Millar’s “The Magic Order” is back in development at Netflix, with Millar also announcing a new slate of projects at the streamer.In a blog post on Thursday, Millar shared that “The Magic Order” is back on track after the streamer opted last year not to move forward with the iteration that had been in the works.“Some time away has given us a chance to come back with a completely fresh look at the material, and we should be getting into our new writers’ room very shortly,” he wrote. “The Magic Order” was in early pre-production when it was announced in October 2020 that it would not proceed as planned.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

series of his family comedy The Scotts. Rab and fellow actor Iain Connell had already got together for a pilot BBC One show about feuding brothers Vincent and Henry in a dysfunctional family, with Barbara Rafferty as the matriarch.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

Stranger Things, but a new trailer has just dropped with the latest from Hawkins.

Little Mix briefly looked like they were going to announce a shock new member when Jade Thirlwall was swapped for Bobby Seagull in a BBC video chat.The girl group called in to an interview with BBC Breakfast on Thursday with video from their three separate houses displayed on the studio wall - but at one point, Jade disappeared and was replaced by mathematician Bobby. Host Ben Thompson tried to ask Jade a question, but looked confused at former University Challenge star Bobby popping up and said: "That's not Jade!" After the interview, his co-presenter Sally Nugent said: “I don’t know if any of you noticed, but for a short time there Little Mix did have a new member.

Being in one of the most successful girlbands of all time has been a dream come true for Leigh-Anne Pinnock. In the last decade, she’s toured the world with her “best friends” and sold 45 million records along the way.

I May Destroy You.In a new interview, the creator, co-director and actress of the HBO–BBC series said she was aware of Fonda admiring her show and imagined what kind of conversation they might have about it together, as Coel has been doing with fans who’ve approached her.“I imagine if I bumped into her outside of the supermarket, we’d be nerding out on all of the hidden meanings and layers because I can see that she really gets it,” Coel told Variety. “She watches it the way that I dreamed the audience would watch it.”Earlier this month Fonda gave a shout-out to I May Destroy You in her acceptance speech for the Cecil B.

HBO (and Adam McKay) apparently really likes Adrien Brody. Not only is he signed on to play a significant role in the upcoming Adam McKay-produced sports drama series about the Los Angele Lakers, but it appears the actor is being added to the growing cast of the network’s acclaimed hit, “Succession.” READ MORE: Alexander Skarsgård Joins The Cast Of ‘Succession’ For Season 3 According to Variety, Adrien Brody has been added to the cast for Season 3 of “Succession.” This news comes on the heels of the series adding Alexander Skarsgård to the cast of the HBO hit.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAgent-producer Brian Sher has been named president of Quality Films, the film and television division of Quality Control, the label and management company that spawned the careers of Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, City Girls, Migos and many more.According to the announcement, in his new role, Sher will oversee development and production of the company’s slate, which will emphasize culturally driven stories, as well as develop vehicles for the label’s artists. Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas are the founders of Quality Control and its ever-expanding media umbrella.“It’s truly an honor to join forces with Coach and P as they expand their empire into yet another media vertical,” said Sher.

BioWare has detailed the various display and framerate options for Mass Effect Legendary Edition.BioWare confirmed that players will be able to toggle between two different modes at any time on all platforms.The two modes are Favour Quality, which prioritises visual quality in exchange for a lower target framerate, and Favour Framerate, which aims for the highest possible framerate at the cost of lower graphical fidelity.Favour Framerate targets 60fps on all platforms, except the Xbox Series X, which targets 120fps, and PC, which is hardware dependent but is able to support up to 240fps with a 240hz refresh rate.Favour Quality aims for the highest possible visual fidelity, which includes the targeting the highest possible resolution.The PS5

EXCLUSIVE: The Commune, a buzzy Israeli Kibbutz drama series, is set for a U.S. remake with Orange Is The New Black writer Hilary Weisman Graham penning an adaptation.