Exclusive: Chris Van Dusen, creator of Netflix’s Bridgerton, has found his next project.
Van Dusen is developing a TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s book Girl Abroad with A24 and Pacesetter Productions.
It comes after the team landed the rights after a four-way bidding war.
The book, which was published by Little Brown in February, follows the daughter of a retired rock star who finds herself entangled in scandal and romance after she starts studying abroad in London.
When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it’s the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She’s ready to be free, to discover herself―but first off, to meet the girls she’s rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys.
Van Dusen is developing a TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s book Girl Abroad with A24 and Pacesetter Productions.
It comes after the team landed the rights after a four-way bidding war.
The book, which was published by Little Brown in February, follows the daughter of a retired rock star who finds herself entangled in scandal and romance after she starts studying abroad in London.
When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it’s the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She’s ready to be free, to discover herself―but first off, to meet the girls she’s rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys.
- 5/2/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Pacesetter Productions, run by Black Mirror and Station Eleven exec producer Jessica Rhoades, is staffing up.
The company has hired Alison Mo Massey, who previously ran Jim Parsons’ production company That’s Wonderful! Prods, which was based at Warner Bros. Television, as EVP.
She joins a team that includes Bryan Daly, who was recently promoted to director of development.
Rhoades and Pacesetter have a first-look deal at A24
At Parsons’ company, she co-exec produced Fox’s Call Me Kat, starring Mayim Bialik, which ran for three seasons. In 2021, she produced Spoiler Alert starring Parsons and Ben Aldridge, directed by Michael Showalter, and produced two seasons of Special for Netflix.
Before joining That’s Wonderful, she exec produced documentary Strange Negotiations, which followed Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan that premiered at SXSW in 2019
She began her career at Exhibit A Film, Seth Gordon’s Sony Pictures Television-based production company.
The company has hired Alison Mo Massey, who previously ran Jim Parsons’ production company That’s Wonderful! Prods, which was based at Warner Bros. Television, as EVP.
She joins a team that includes Bryan Daly, who was recently promoted to director of development.
Rhoades and Pacesetter have a first-look deal at A24
At Parsons’ company, she co-exec produced Fox’s Call Me Kat, starring Mayim Bialik, which ran for three seasons. In 2021, she produced Spoiler Alert starring Parsons and Ben Aldridge, directed by Michael Showalter, and produced two seasons of Special for Netflix.
Before joining That’s Wonderful, she exec produced documentary Strange Negotiations, which followed Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan that premiered at SXSW in 2019
She began her career at Exhibit A Film, Seth Gordon’s Sony Pictures Television-based production company.
- 5/1/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Pacesetter Productions, the company established by Station Eleven and Black Mirror exec producer Jessica Rhoades, has teamed up with Campside Media, the company behind the Chameleon podcast franchise, to launch a new audio series.
The two companies are launching Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
The series will explore one of the most controversial cases of the 1980s that saw Kelly Michaels, a 23-year-old college student accused of Satanically abusing dozens of children in 1985 before being exonerated.
The podcast, which will launch on December 7, will feature access to Michaels. It will be hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, one of the co-founders of Campside, and Natalie Robehmed, who wrote the Wondery podcast WeCrashed that was later adapted for an Apple series.
Considered the Monster of Maplewood, Michaels’ case was the longest and most expensive in New Jersey history at the time, and she was convicted and sentenced to 47 years in prison. The accusations,...
The two companies are launching Kelly and the Satanic Panic.
The series will explore one of the most controversial cases of the 1980s that saw Kelly Michaels, a 23-year-old college student accused of Satanically abusing dozens of children in 1985 before being exonerated.
The podcast, which will launch on December 7, will feature access to Michaels. It will be hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, one of the co-founders of Campside, and Natalie Robehmed, who wrote the Wondery podcast WeCrashed that was later adapted for an Apple series.
Considered the Monster of Maplewood, Michaels’ case was the longest and most expensive in New Jersey history at the time, and she was convicted and sentenced to 47 years in prison. The accusations,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Network: Showtime
Episodes: 84 (hour)
Seasons: Seven
TV show dates: January 17, 2016 — October 29, 2023
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Åkerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile, Condola Rashād, Asia Kate Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Kelly AuCoin, Corey Stoll, Daniel Breaker, and Sakina Jaffrey.
TV show description:
This contemporary New York drama is set in the world of high finance. Wealth, influence, and corruption, connections, calculations, and machinations rule the day.
A sharp U.S. Attorney, Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) leads the charge against corruption in American finance. A storied prosecutor, Rhoades has reigned victorious in 81 insider trading trials. He has not lost one.
A self-made billionaire, Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), controls one of the most lucrative hedge funds in the world. This fortuitous 9/11 survivor remembers...
Episodes: 84 (hour)
Seasons: Seven
TV show dates: January 17, 2016 — October 29, 2023
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Åkerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile, Condola Rashād, Asia Kate Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Kelly AuCoin, Corey Stoll, Daniel Breaker, and Sakina Jaffrey.
TV show description:
This contemporary New York drama is set in the world of high finance. Wealth, influence, and corruption, connections, calculations, and machinations rule the day.
A sharp U.S. Attorney, Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) leads the charge against corruption in American finance. A storied prosecutor, Rhoades has reigned victorious in 81 insider trading trials. He has not lost one.
A self-made billionaire, Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), controls one of the most lucrative hedge funds in the world. This fortuitous 9/11 survivor remembers...
- 10/31/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for “Admirals Fund,” the series finale of “Billions,” now streaming on Paramount+.
“Billions” ends where it began. At the close of “Admirals Fund,” the series finale of the Showtime drama series, Bobby Axelrod is scheming once again to make a new fortune with his merry band of alpha-male traders, who are revved up by his leadership to kill in the name of capitalism.
The closing segment of “Billions” was unabashedly designed to appeal to fans of the sudsy drama, which turns on the crazier-than-fiction tales of hedge fund managers and traders. Axelrod, played with gusto until the final frame by Damian Lewis, winds up on top. His most recent foil, rival trader/investor Michael Prince (Corey Stoll), has been defeated, publicly humiliated — although he is destined to rise again. “As it has ever been for men like you over the centuries,” Prince’s loyal...
“Billions” ends where it began. At the close of “Admirals Fund,” the series finale of the Showtime drama series, Bobby Axelrod is scheming once again to make a new fortune with his merry band of alpha-male traders, who are revved up by his leadership to kill in the name of capitalism.
The closing segment of “Billions” was unabashedly designed to appeal to fans of the sudsy drama, which turns on the crazier-than-fiction tales of hedge fund managers and traders. Axelrod, played with gusto until the final frame by Damian Lewis, winds up on top. His most recent foil, rival trader/investor Michael Prince (Corey Stoll), has been defeated, publicly humiliated — although he is destined to rise again. “As it has ever been for men like you over the centuries,” Prince’s loyal...
- 10/27/2023
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
With Michael Prince potentially caught in the crosshairs, the nail-biting Showtime drama returned for its seventh— and final — season on August 11. Billions series co-creators Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin have drawn inspiration from Steve A. Cohen, Elon Musk and other famous billionaires to create their powerful and morally bankrupt cast of characters. Since the series premiere in 2016, audiences have followed former US attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) in his quest to bring these self-serving titans of industry to justice.
Most of the cast is back for season...
Most of the cast is back for season...
- 8/15/2023
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
It’s not about striking it rich, it’s about what you do to stay on top once you’ve made it there. Chuck Rhoades, Bobby Axelrod and their associates know this all too well in “Billions,” the long-running drama series that will air its seventh season premiere on Friday, Aug. 11 on Paramount+ with Showtime. The stakes have never been higher, but who will walk away with the biggest pile, and who will be left with nothing? You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus. You can watch Billions: Season 7 with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. You can also watch with Fubo, Amazon Prime Video, or Showtime.
How to Watch ‘Billions’ Season 7 Premiere When: Friday, August 11, 2023 Where: Paramount Plus Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus and 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$5.99+ / month paramountplus.com
For a Limited Time,...
How to Watch ‘Billions’ Season 7 Premiere When: Friday, August 11, 2023 Where: Paramount Plus Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus and 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$5.99+ / month paramountplus.com
For a Limited Time,...
- 8/11/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
*Warning: This article includes comments about suicide.* The family of late country star Naomi Judd is fighting to keep case materials from her death private. On Aug. 2, Naomi's husband Larry Strickland and daughter Wynonna Judd were granted a temporary order in Williamson County, Tenn. that prevents Williamson County Sherriff Dusty Rhoades from "disclosing certain records and other materials regarding the death of Naomi Judd pursuant to one or more Public Records Act requests," per the legal documents. They also requested an "emergency en parte restraining order" that would halt Rhoades from sharing any investigative...
- 8/4/2022
- E! Online
Exclusive: Shoshannah Stern, star of Sundance Now’s This Close, the first major U.S. series to be created and written by deaf people, is back at AMC Networks.
Stern is developing Disquiet, a drama thriller series about a Certified Deaf Interpreter, for AMC.
Deadline understands that the project, which Stern is attached to star in, write and exec produce, is in the early stages of development at the network.
The series follows Cassie Edwards, a Certified Deaf Interpreter (Cdi), who is called back home to assist in a case involving the mysterious death of the former head of the school for the Deaf she herself attended. A former student of the school is the only witness and Cassie may be the only one who is able to understand him, leading her deeper into the case and forcing her to confront her own past.
The one-hour drama project will be...
Stern is developing Disquiet, a drama thriller series about a Certified Deaf Interpreter, for AMC.
Deadline understands that the project, which Stern is attached to star in, write and exec produce, is in the early stages of development at the network.
The series follows Cassie Edwards, a Certified Deaf Interpreter (Cdi), who is called back home to assist in a case involving the mysterious death of the former head of the school for the Deaf she herself attended. A former student of the school is the only witness and Cassie may be the only one who is able to understand him, leading her deeper into the case and forcing her to confront her own past.
The one-hour drama project will be...
- 6/23/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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