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Jul 23, 2018 · Janet Leahy, who most recently worked on one of the most successful period shows of the 21st century, Mad Men, will be creating the show. No word yet on casting but given Rhimes’ penchant for ...
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- Inventing Anna Will Star Ozark Emmy-Winner Julia Garner
- Bridgerton, Where Gossip Girl and Downton Abbey Meet?
- Anna Deavere Smith Adapts The Warmth of Other Suns
- California-Set Historical Drama Planned
- There’S Also A Dark Comedy Set at A Summer Camp.
- Shondaland to Adapt Ellen Pao’s Silicon Valley–Set Tell-All
- Scandal Isover, But Shondaland Hasn’T Left Washington
- Shondaland Fave Debbie Allen Featured in Dance Doc
- Pucker Up to Netflix Anthology Series Notes on Love
Rhimes is creating and exec-producing Inventing Anna based on the New York magazine storyabout con artist Anna Delvey. Remember that viral story about a young and posh 20-something who duped Manhattan’s elite (even one Vanity Fairstaffer) into believing she was an heiress? Well, according to the press release, Rhimes is going to make us wonder agai...
One of the first Shondland-Netflix collabs to hit the streaming site will be Bridgerton, a scripted soap set in the high society of Regency London, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will be narrated by none other than Julie Andrews as the unseen gossip writer Lady Whistledown, while For the People’s Regé-Jean Page plays a duke who has his pic...
(Photo by Photo By: Jason Mendez/Everett Collection) Esteemed playwright Anna Deavere Smith is making a TV show based on the Great Migration. Smith, who also appeared in Shondaland’s ABC drama For the People, is adapting author Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling historical non-fiction The Warmth of Other Suns into a series that the press release promi...
Mad Men and Gilmore Girls alum Janet Leahy is creating a series currently titled Pico & Sepulveda, which is set in the 1840s when the state we now associate with Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the beach was then part of Mexico. The press release says it will follow “the end of an idyllic era there as American forces threaten brutality and war at th...
(Photo by Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection) Writer-actress Jill Alexander — you may remember her as the oft-fired Hooli staffer Patrice from HBO’s Silicon Valley — is creating this half-hour series, titled Sunshine Scouts. The plot sounds ideal for anyone who enjoys Netflix’s teen-focused dark comedies like I Am Not Okay With This (85% on t...
Netflix and Shondaland have acquired the rights to Ellen Pao’s groundbreaking memoir. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Changedetails the former Reddit interim CEO’s life and career, including the lawsuit she brought against her former employer Kleiner Perkins that triggered lasting media attention to sexism in Silicon Valley and foreshadow...
Also on the docket for an adaptation: Kate Andersen Brower’s non-fiction book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House. While a head writer has not been named and the series does not have an official title, we are told that the series will follow in the footsteps of Brower’s book and give an “accurate insider’s account of White H...
(Photo by ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection) Tentatively titled Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, this documentary will go behind the scenes of the Grey’s Anatomy star’s (and frequent Shondaland series director) infamous Debbie Allen Dance Academy as they reimagine the classic ballet The Nutcracker with an inclusive cast and a blend of dance traditions. Oli...
Shondaland continues to add to its development slate, which now includes the anthology series Notes on Love. Announced in 2019, this episodic anthology series will explore the “unexpected, life-changing, euphoric, hilarious, surreal, and all-consuming places where love intersects with our lives,” Variety reports. The first season, which will focus ...
Jul 20, 2018 · On Friday, the streaming network announced that eight original series are in the works with the TV producing powerhouse’s team, which includes Rhimes’ longtime producing partner Betsy Beers.
Mar 24, 2022 · Pico & Sepulveda. TV drama that will cover the war that took place during the 1840s in the then Mexican state of California. Janet Leahy is on board to write who is most known for her work on AMC’s Mad Men. The show shares its name with the 1947 song by Freddy Martin. The title was announced in 2018 with no updates since. Notes on Love
Jul 20, 2018 · The other projects include “Pico & Sepulveda,” an 1840s-era series from Janet Leahy set against the backdrop of the then-Mexican state of California; the dark comedy “Sunshine Scouts,”...
Jul 21, 2018 · Emmy award-winning writer Janet Leahy will executive produce and create a series entitled Pico & Sepulveda, that will tell of the brutal war at the Mexican border in the 1840s — which...
Jul 26, 2018 · Emmy winner Janet Leahy will create and exec produce the series, which is set against the surreal and sensual backdrop of the then-Mexican state of California, and will track the end of an idyllic era there as American forces threaten brutality and war at the border to claim this breathtaking land for their own.”
