The pioneering television personality is headed back to the small screen. HBO Max has given the green light to Julia, an eight-episode series based on the incredible life of chef Julia Child. Julia is inspired by Child's life as well as her pioneering television series, The French Chef .
Belatedly responding to everyone who wished Julie and Julia cut out the whole blogger plot, HBO Max has ordered a drama series based on the life of acclaimed chef, cookbook author and TV host Julia Child. "Julia" will star Happy Valley 's Sarah Lancashire as Child.
HBO dropped the latest trailer for the multi-Emmy-Award-winning weekly late-night hit Last Week Tonight with John Oliver entering its eighth season. As the highlight reel for its previous season begins, Oliver warns the audience, "Brace yourselves, because everything you're about to hear is horse shit."
HBO Max is launching a new landing page today (Friday, Jan. 15) highlighting the best animated content available on the platform, from adult animation hits to classic cartoons from yesteryear. The page will celebrate HBO Max's ever-growing animation library while also helping cartoon-lovers on the platform find their favorite content more easily.
Tessa Thompson, through her new production company Viva Maude, has inked an HBO deal with two shows already in the works. According to , Thompson's deal with HBO and HBO Max will see the actress executive produce two book adaptations for " Who Fears Death" and " The Secret Lives of Church Ladies ."
Rikke Ennis' REinvent has sold "Outlier," a female-led crime thriller, to major TV services, including HBO Nordic. Produced by Shuuto Arctic, the series follows Maja Angell, an acclaimed young academic in London who specializes in profiling serial killers and aims to develop analytical tools to predict serious crimes.
Later this year, James Gunn will breathe new life into The Suicide Squad , which premieres on August 6. The new film is primed to introduce a handful of breakout characters, including John Cena's Peacemaker, who's also headlining his own spinoff series on HBO Max.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson is moving into production in a major way with a new production company, a first-look deal at HBO and HBO Max and exec producing two big book adaptations - Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
When Warner Bros. TV and CBS Studios' $1 billion output deal with Netflix for CW content ended in 2019, the studios started shopping their CW series to streamers individually. Of the 2019 batch, WBTV's Batwoman and Katy Keene went to sibling HBO Max, while CBS Studios announced a deal for with its sibling CBS All Access.
After four seasons, HBO's pot-themed comedy series High Maintenance has come to an end, Deadline has confirmed. "Co-creators Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair have decided to take a break from producing High Maintenance to pursue other projects," HBO said in a statement. "We look forward to hearing what they come up with next."
HBO marketing veteran Lucinda Martinez has announced she's moving on. She leaves after two decades with the company, most recently serving as executive vp brand marketing for both HBO and streaming service HBO Max.
HBO Max is moving forward with a drama focused on the life of famed chef Julia Child. The streamer on Thursday announced an eight-episode series order for Julia, starring Sarah Lancashire ( Happy Valley) as the chef. Chris Keyser ( Party of Five) serves as showrunner on the drama from Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts.
Did "Wonder Woman 1984" fail to deliver the HBO Max subscriber haul WarnerMedia was banking on - or was its promo pricing so successful it reupped the deal? The media company, looking to lock up more paying customers for HBO Max through mid-2021, extended its 22% promotional discount for new subscribers who prepay for six [...]
A new series The Event, Season 4 of Search Party, and a new feature film Locked Down are all coming to HBO Max today, Jan. 14. The Event is a four-episode series that goes into the kitchen of Wolfgang Puck's elite catering company. They handle all kinds of exclusive corporate, cultural and entertainment events.
After ending an exclusive partnership with Netflix, The CW is looking to other streaming services like HBO Max to host The 100 prequel series. The planned prequel series to The 100 may be getting a new home on the HBO Max streaming service.
Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond and Jihae have been tapped for recurring roles on the upcoming third season of HBO's Emmy-winning drama series Succession . Season 3 is currently in production. Lathan will play Lisa Arthur, a high profile well-connected New York lawyer. Emond portrays Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven, a senior White House aide.
HBO Latin America veterans Luis S. Peraza, president of networks, and Roberto Rios, corporate vice president of original production, will depart at the end of February, WarnerMedia Latin America announced Thursday. Peraza (pictured, left) is part of the founding team that launched HBO in Latin America in 1991 and is a pioneer of the local audiovisual industry.
In today's Global Bulletin, WarnerMedia Latin America makes several leadership team changes; HBO Europe announces new true-crime docuseries "Pray, Obey, Kill"; Amazon Prime Video picks up "I Care a Lot" in several key territories; Piece of Magic hires Charlie Kemball as head of acquisitions and business development; San Sebastián opens the call for key sections; and "Mully" will stream free globally this Valentine's Day.
When retired Oregon detective Wendi Babst decided to look into her family tree, she discovered her biological father wasn't the man who raised her. The late Las Vegas fertility specialist Quincy Fortier is accused of using his own sperm to impregnate Babst's mother and other patients.