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EXCLUSIVE: While it is super early in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that Netflix and director Greta Gerwig are aiming high for their next piece of casting on their Chronicles of Narnia movie, as Daniel Craig has an offer to join the cast.

One thing is clear from the response to Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, and that is the fact that the reverse of the title is very true.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner David E. Kelley, who created Netflix‘s The Lincoln Lawyer based on Michael Connelly’s novels, is helping bring another popular book character by a bestselling author to the streamer. The prolific writer-producer has teamed with Harlan Coben to adapt his Myron Bolitar novels as a TV series, sources tell Deadline.

Daniel Craig is reportedly a major contender for a role in the upcoming new film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia!

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Mike Verdu, who was tapped as Netflix‘s first head of its young video game division in 2021, has exited the streamer. Verdu left Netflix in February, Variety has confirmed, a move that came seven months after Epic Games vet Alain Tascan took over the top slot at the streamer’s gaming department.

The Wright family is brimming with joy as Jess Wright shares an outpouring of love for her brother Mark Wright and his wife Michelle Keegan after they welcomed their bundle of joy into the world. Former Coronation Street and Brassic actress Michelle gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, with the couple announcing the birth on social media.They chose the beautiful name Palma Elizabeth Wright for their daughter.

EXCLUSIVE: Nimesh Patel has signed with Range Media Partners.

Temptation Island is back!

The Perfect Couple is getting a second season!

Millie Bobby Brown is having fun with florals during the Electric State press tour!

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Perfect Couple” could be back for Season 2 — with a new story and a new cast. Variety has learned from sources that Netflix is developing a second season of the popular series based on the Elin Hilderbrand novel “Swan Song.” Given that book features an entirely different story and characters than “The Perfect Couple,” also based on a Hilderbrand novel, the idea is to go the anthology route with the series. Joanna Calo is attached to write, executive produce and showrun the new season, which has not been formally greenlit at this time.

Donald Trump rally last year, has landed a deal with Netflix, prompting some subscribers to consider a boycott.The streaming platform announced on Monday (March 10) that it will air three comedy specials hosted by the comedian starting on April 7, based on his popular podcast Kill Tony, plus a standalone one-hour standup special.Hinchcliffe drew criticism last year when he spoke at a rally for then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, held at Madison Square Garden in New York last October. During his segment, he performed the joke: “There’s a lot going on, like, I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, a drama starring Lizzy Caplan as a crisis PR executive has landed at Netflix for development, Deadline has learned. A rep for the streamer declined comment.

The Perfect Couple is becoming an anthology. Following the success of the limited series, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman and directed and executive produced by Susanne Bier, Netflix is developing a second installment.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Tyler Perry series “Beauty in Black” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, Variety has learned. The news comes less than a week after the debut of Part 2 of Season 1, which dropped on March 6. The first half of the series originally debuted on Oct.

Netflix has shared the first full trailer for its upcoming Devil May Cry adaptation – and fans have been left feeling “cautiously optimistic”Urban fantasy game Devil May Cry was first released in 2001 and went on to inspire a number of sequels, with the most recent being 2019’s Devil May Cry 5. The series is heavily inspired by Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy while the original game was based on a scrapped idea for Resident Evil 4 and follows demon hunter Dante as he battles various beasties who are trying to invade earth. Announced back in 2018, Netflix’s animated adaptation of the game is due out next month and takes heavy inspiration from 2005 prequel game Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening.

Netflix traditionally takes months to decide to cancel their television shows…so it was unusual when The Recruit was swiftly canceled just over a month after it premiered.

Meghan Markle’s new Netflix series “a bit pretentious.”Corrigan, who had previously prepared food for the royal family on several occasions, admitted that he watched the Duchess of Sussex’s “With Love, Meghan” series, but didn’t enjoy it all that much.“It’s a bit pretentious,” he told the Daily Mail. “I don’t like the pretense.

Naman Ramachandran Executive producers Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel are lending their star power to global impact campaign #StandWithHer, inspired by director Nisha Pahuja’s Oscar-nominated documentary “To Kill a Tiger.” Launching on Wednesday in New York City, the campaign aims to combat gender-based violence worldwide through a partnership between Pahuja and NGOs Equality Now, Equimundo and MenEngage Alliance. “Gender-based violence is a global crisis, yet too often, it remains hidden in the shadows,” Chopra Jonas said in a statement.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Netflix’s “The Leopard” is gaining global traction with viewers just as the streaming giant is taking the sumptuous Sicilian series on a tour involving gala presentations in Italian embassies in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Brussels and other world capitals. The high-end show, based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, dropped on Netflix March 5.

Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan.”The Canadian comedian, 41, who was previously an ardent supporter of the exiled royal, has appeared to change her tune after watching the “Suits” alum’s new 8-part cooking show.“I liked Meghan Markle. I was rooting for Meghan Markle… though she is very Hollywood – even for me – and I don’t like that in people,” the “Glitter Room” star said on her “Telling Everybody Everything” podcast of the Duchess of Sussex.“I see now, and maybe it’s just the projects she’s choosing, it does feel like she has lied about whether she knew who Prince Harry was, and these details about her childhood change and don’t add up.”Ryan, who released a series of stand-up specials on the streamer throughout her career, noted that there are some discrepancies in Markle’s stories about her childhood.“She said on her new Netflix show that they ate TV dinners growing up,” she said, referring to the claim Markle made, which was later slammed by her estranged brother as “malarkey.”“But then in an old interview, she was like, ‘We would eat farm fresh.’ Her whole act just seems very manicured and very forced,” Ryan added.The “In Trouble” comedian added that while she doesn’t see Markle as a “pad person,” she does think the former actress “likes cozying up to celebrities and she wants the hundred million dollar deal and she likes the fact that she’s married to a prince.”“Of course.