The House Hunters franchise is expanding with a new spinoff. HGTV has ordered House Hunters: All Stars, set for premiere on Thursday, March 21. The 12-episode series will feature some of the network’s top real estate experts helping prospective buyers find dream properties in their own hometowns. Featured in the series are Galey Alix (Home in
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EXCLUSIVE: Astonishing stories of female heroism and bravery during World War II is the subject of an upcoming Woodcut Media history series. Channel 4 in the UK and SBS in Australia have pre-bought World War II: Women on the Frontline, which UK indie Woodcut is selling through its sales arm, Woodcut International. The three-part series is
Andrea Riseborough and Domnhall Gleeson are to star in a Channel 4 drama series created by Mad Men’s Victor Levin. The duo are leading Alice & Jack, the first major casting for Riseborough since the To Leslie Oscar controversy earlier this year. The pair play the title characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a
The White Lotus actress Sabrina Impacciatore is set for Call My Agent‘s second season on Sky Italia. She will join the likes of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Claud Santamaria in the Sky Original, which is from Sky Studios and Palomar and follows a group of agents trying to keep their demanding clients in work and
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ is moving into the contemporary UK thriller space with the greenlight of a series based on Alex Dahl’s parents-worst-nightmare novel Playdate. The Power of the Dog and It’s a Sin producers Tanya Seghatchian, John Woodward and Nicola Shindler are combining to produce the five-parter, which comes from the decorated trio’s Brightstar and Quay
Prime Video’s unscripted originals push in the Nordics is continuing. The Amazon-owned streamer has unveiled a 12-strong slate of unscripted shows that will launch this fall, including an expansion of the LOL: Last One Laughing format and new titles such as Girls of Oslo and Parneviks All In!. LOL is getting new versions in Denmark
EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Channel 5 are serving up a third season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries. As with Season 2, the U.S./UK co-commissioners are preparing a Christmas special along with six episodes. Filming is currently underway, with the Christmas special set to air on Acorn TV and Channel 5 in 2023, while
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is trying its hand at a game of Mexican bingo in its latest unscripted order. The network has greenlit Lotería Loca, hosted and exec produced by Jane The Virgin star Jaime Camil. The show comes from Jeff Apploff, the man behind Don’t Forget The Lyrics and Beat Shazam, and Warner Bros. Unscripted Television.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has put Bandidos, a thriller series about an underwater heist, into production. The drama follows the story of Miguel (Alfonso Dosal) and accomplice Lilí (Ester Expósito), who are joined by a group of bandits as they attempt to retrieve treasure from an underwater grave of a Spanish galleon that sunk in the Gulf
SkyShowtime has set its first Polish original, a fictional drama series that follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year old playboy. In Warszawianka, Franek Czułkowski aka Czuly, played by Borys Szyc, is a talented writer who has experienced success and failure and now finds himself trapped between his personal struggles and societal expectations. The show
EXCLUSIVE: The story of Alexander the Great is being given the docudrama treatment by Netflix. Following on from the success of shows such as The Last Czars and African Queens, the streamer has over the past year been forging a big-budget retelling of the life of one of world history’s most notorious figures, which currently
Wild Isles, the latest BBC nature documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, has been picked up by Amazon. The streamer will air the five-part series in the U.S. and around the world, excluding the UK, after acquiring the rights from distributor Banijay Rights. The series, which launched in the UK earlier this year, comes
The oft-rumored ‘Reba’ reboot has yet another clue Cast member Melissa Peterman submitted three posts on Instagram from a recent reunion of the CW sitcom’s gang, who all came out to support country superstar and head of the TV family Reba McEntire at a concert. The original series ran from 2001 to 2007 on The
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is continuing its natural history push. The streamer is launching new wildlife series Big Beasts, narrated by Tom Hiddleston. The series, which has been in the works for two years, takes viewers around the globe, from freezing poles to tropical rainforests, to meet nature’s most captivating giants. It features massive species filmed across
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian comedy Son of a Critch is establishing itself as a mainstay of CBC’s schedule as it is greenlit for a third season before the second has finished airing. CBC said Season 2, which finishes next week, is the pubcaster’s most-watched English Canadian comedy series and most-watched show with 18-49 year olds. The series
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote and Jay Ryan are set to lead Scrublands, a TV adaptation of Chris Hammer’s novel for Australian streamer Stan. We’ve learned production in underway in Victoria, Australia on the crime series, which is a co-commission of the Nine Network and its streamer Stan. Easy Tiger, which optioned rights to the
EXCLUSIVE: Showmax’s next original drama will explore marital power structures in Ghana. The Billionaire’s Wife is a 10-part series set to launch next month (March 2). New episodes will stream every Thursday and represent Showmax’s increasing investment in Ghana. The show marks the third Showmax Original-branded show from the country, following Shirley Frimpong-Manso drama ENO and docu-reality series My Perfect Funeral,
EXCLUSIVE: CNBC is building its own Dick Wolf block after ordering a new true-crime docuseries from the Law & Order creator. The network has commissioned Blood & Money, a series that is produced by Wolf Entertainment, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Alfred Street Industries. The series is a ripped from the headlines unscripted series that