Head of The Class: Isabella Gomez Snags Starring Role in HBO Max Reboot

RELATED STORIES Mere hours after One Day at a Time‘s second cancellation was made official, one of the beloved sitcom’s stars already has a Class-y new gig lined up. Isabella Gomez — who played Elena Alvarez, daughter of Justina Machado’s Penelope, on ODAAT — has landed the starring role in HBO Max’s in-the-works reboot of Head […]

DMZ Adaptation, Based on DC Comics, Snags Limited-Series Order at HBO Max

RELATED STORIES Civil war will officially be waged at HBO Max: The streamer has handed a limited-series order to DMZ, an adaptation of the DC comic book series by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli. Initially ordered to pilot in October 2019, the four-part DMZ series is set during a second American civil war that leaves […]

Night School Sitcom Based on 2018 Film Snags NBC Pilot Order

Kevin Hart is re-enrolling in Night School at NBC’s behest. The Peacock net has placed a pilot order for a multi-cam sitcom based on the 2018 Universal comedy pic that starred Hart and Tiffany Haddish, neither of whom will appear in the TV adaptation. Hart, however, is on board as an exec producer. The Community-esque project […]

The Bone Collector TV Adaptation Snags Pilot Order at NBC

One of literature’s most famous crime-solvers is coming to the small screen. NBC has handed a pilot order to Lincoln, a drama based on Jeffery Deaver’s series of Lincoln Rhyme crime novels, TVLine has learned. Originally titled The Bone Collector (which is also the first book in Deaver’s collection), Lincoln centers on legendary forensic criminologist […]

New Horizons snags image of distant Kuiper Belt target a month early

After NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft collected a trove of data from its six-month-long flyby of Pluto, it set its sights on a much smaller object in the Kuiper Belt — an object dubbed 2014 MU69. Scientists believe MU69 will likely be a rather preserved outer solar system object, one that could provide clues as to […]

Musical Dramedy From Sara Bareilles, J.J. Abrams Snags Apple Series Order

Apple is singing a new tune, with a key assist from Sara Bareilles. The tech giant has given a straight-to-series, 10-episode order to the half-hour dramedy Little Voice, featuring original music by the Jesus Christ Superstar Live headliner. RELATEDBig Sick Duo Developing Immigration Anthology Series at Apple Little Voice joins a robust slate of upcoming Apple […]

Netflix snags ‘Next Gen,’ a star-studded animated film about robots

Just because Netflix’s films got shut out of competition at Cannes doesn’t mean the streaming titan stayed home. The company won a worldwide (except for China) distribution deal worth $ 30 million for the animated film Next Gen with a star-studded cast about a pair of “two unlikely friends in a world filled with robots,” […]

Ricky Gervais Comedy After Life Snags 6-Episode Series Order at Netflix

Ricky Gervais is returning to the single-camera comedy world via Netflix. The streamer has given a six-episode series order to After Life, a half-hour sitcom starring the Office, Extras and Derek vet as a widower who abandons his internal censor. Here’s the official logline: Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, […]

James Webb Telescope sun shield snags, further launch delays likely

Enlarge / NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was placed in Johnson Space Center’s historic Chamber A for vacuum testing on June 20, 2017. (credit: NASA) A new report on the James Webb Space Telescope has found that ongoing technical issues with final testing and assembly of the $ 8.8 billion project will probably cause the […]

‘The Kindergarten Teacher’: Netflix Snags Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Award-Winning Sundance Drama

Another Sundance movie has found a home. Netflix has scooped up the rights to writer/director Sara Colangelo‘s The Kindergarten Teacher in the U.S. and Canada, and they’ll make the film available for subscribers to stream sometime this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal produced the movie and stars as a teacher who becomes dangerously obsessed with nurturing the […]