
The Italian Job is the latest feature film headed to television. The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that NBC is planning an Italian Job TV series, based on the 1969 heist classic and its subsequent 2003 remake. Scripted by Troy Kennedy Martin, the original Italian Job was a Paramount Pictures release directed by Peter Collinson. It stars Michael Caine as […]

FOX and Paramount Television have revealed the first photos for Grease Live, airing on Sunday, January 31 from 7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed. Grease Live stars Julianne Hough (Safe Haven, Rock of Ages) as the angelic “Sandy” – Rydell High’s most talked-about newcomer – and Aaron Tveit (“Graceland,” Les Miserables) as bad boy “Danny Zuko,” […]

Premium TV network EPIX announced today that it is adding original, scripted series to its programming slate, beginning with series from its joint-venture studio partners Paramount, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Two of the series will begin production this fall for premiere fall 2016. The series, “Graves” from Lionsgate Television and “Berlin Station” from Paramount Television, mark […]

Continuing the trend of picking up shows for the 2015/2016 season, FOX has revealed tonight that it has ordered both “Lucifer” and “Minority Report” to series. “Lucifer” stars Tom Ellis (Rush) in the title role as Lucifer, who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the […]

Deadline reports that Paramount Television is developing the film Galaxy Quest for a television revival. One of the film’s original writers Robert Gordon, who will likely pen the pilot script, is set to executive produce the series along with the original director Dean Parisot and producer Mark Johnson. It’s unclear at this point whether the […]

Nickelodeon and Paramount Television, the makers of the upcoming TV series remake of 2003 hit School of Rock, have taken out their guitars and plucked actor/comedian Tony Cavalero out of moderate obscurity to play Dewey Finn, the role made lovable by Jack Black in the film. Cavalero, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and […]

A television series based on Martin Scorsese’s 2010 feature Shutter Island (in turn based on the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane) is heading to the small screen. Deadline reports today that HBO is teaming with Paramount Television for the project, which has the tentative title “Ashecliffe” (named for the story’s fictional hospital). Scorsese is planning […]