Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on TUESDAY November 8, 2022.
Where #funfact – Zac Efron and I have the same trainer. He just happens to actually go to the sessions, while I have to write this thing instead.
PLUS: A congrats goes out to Rebel Wilson on the birth of baby daughter Royce, via surrogate.
AND: Lauren Conrad makes Millenial history, joining the “Back to the Beach” podcast with Kristin & Stephen to re-live “Laguna Beach” and reminisce about that time with that thing (also on your podcast listening platform of choice).
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IN TODAY’S EDITION:
FOX orders another animated series as they expand to 2 nights next year
A busy day in the exec suite, at NETFLIX, UTA, WGA, TIME and more.
AMAZON launches an even lower priced INDIA offering – plus new subscriber numbers from Japan, as NETFLIX sets a new production deal
Network TV sets their Q1 mid-season schedules, as ABC bumps “The Wonder Years” to Summer
APPLE hits iPhone sales trouble, AMC sets… ZOOM deal, and more
📺 THE TV SET
NETFLIX renews Ryan Murphy “Monster” into a franchise, and “The Watcher” as well
“Monster” got a renewal for 2 more editions, to “tell the stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society”. So if you got a guy in mind…
And somehow they’re going to do more of “The Watcher”, although not really clear if they’re gonna find another house that was watched… or extend this story in which the perpetrator was never found. Either way the people have spoken, and now so has NETFLIX.
Both series come from Murphy and ”Glee” co-creator Ian Brennan.
No word what happens when Ryan Murphy’s $300 Million deal is up in the months ahead. /Deadline
FOX orders another animated series
This one is called “Universal Basic Guys/The Hoagie Bros.” (which yes is a working title). It’s from SONY TV and Adam and Craig Malamut, who created the “Game of Zones” NBA animated parody series at BLEACHER REPORT.
It’s about 2 brothers who become unemployed when the town’s hot dog factory gets automated… but the town institutes a Universal Basic Income policy, and they use their free time to combine “free time and stupid ideas”. Can’t wait for the FOX NEWS review.
FOX is already launching a 2nd night of animation on Mondays this May with the Jon Hamm series “Grimsberg” and Dan Harmon’s “Krapopolis” among others. /Deadline
NETFLIX doing movie & subsequent series based on hit video game “Gears of War”
Which… happens to be an XBOX game. Oh hi MICROSOFT. The series will be an adult-animated series but more due to V than S rating categories.
The property was previously developed at UNI under Stuber’s regime in the 2010s. No one seems to be attached to the adapting work here at the moment. /Variety
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