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Johnny Depp was once one of Hollywood's biggest and most versatile stars, appearing in both blockbusters and true-crime dramas. The American actor gained global superstardom for portraying the eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow in five Pirates of the Caribbean movies from 2006 to 2017, earning an Academy Award nomination for the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl. In the following years, Depp earned additional nominations for Finding Neverland and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Over his career, Depp has also appeared in an array of crime dramas, including 2001's Blow, playing a real American cocaine kingpin, George Jung, who was connected to Pablo Escobar. In 2009, Depp starred in Michael Mann's Public Enemies as the notorious bank robber John Dillinger, chronicling his final years. In 2015's Black Mass, Depp played American mobster Whitey Bulger. Most recently, he starred in 2018's City of Lies as a...

Paul Attanasio is an accomplished film and TV writer-producer, nominated for two Oscars and four Emmy Awards, whose credits range from the movies Donnie Brasco, Quiz Show and The Sum of All Fears to the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, which he created, House, which he executive produced, and Bull, which he co-created and executive produced.

And while Hollywood didn’t believe in him early on, one person always did — his longtime TV agent Tony Etz at CAA who died yesterday at the age of 64 after a long battle with Chordoma, a rare type of cancer.

“The world is very much diminished without Tony,” Attanasio said of the Illinois native. “He was really a beautiful soul.”

Here are the memories he shared of Etz:

A friend of ours talks about Tony’s essential Midwesternness: Midwestern decency and Midwestern grit. I don’t know if you have spent any time in the Midwest,...

Tony Etz, a 30-year veteran of the Creative Artists Agency, passed away yesterday, March 10, in Los Angeles, after a long battle with Chordoma, a rare type of cancer. He was 64.

Agenting was a second career for Illinois native Etz, an English major from Knox College with a Mfa from University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop who was a contributor on the 1989 book Off-Hollywood Movies: A Film Lover’s Guide. He started in the made-for-television movie business, co-executive producing/executive producing two miniseries and five telefilms, including NBC’s successful Jack Reed MOWs, in the early 1990s before joining CAA in 1994 as an agent in the Television department.

During his three decades at the agency, Etz established himself as a top TV lit agent and served in various leadership roles, including co-head of packaging. Even as his health was deteriorating over the past couple of years, he continued to work and...

A critical movie in the Jack Ryan franchise, The Sum of All Fears, is now available on Paramount+. It's a must-watch before John Krasinski's new Jack Ryan film arrives.

Ben Affleck stars as a younger Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears. The film was a reboot of the franchise, based on Tom Clancy's 1991 novel of the same name. Affleck took over the lead role from Harrison Ford, who previously played Jack Ryan in 1992's Patriot Games and 1994's Clear and Present Danger. Morgan Freeman starred alongside Affleck as Dci William Cabot.

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The Sum of All Fears sees an Austrian Neo-Nazi plot unfolding with the aim of triggering a nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

Paramount's Jack Ryan reboot movie, The Sum of All Fears, is climbing the Netflix charts and currently sits at number four. The film was meant to relaunch the Ryanverse with a younger cast, and featured Ben Affleck as the famous CIA analyst. The cast was stacked, with Morgan Freeman as Dci William Cabot, James Cromwell as President Fowler, Phillip Baker Hall as Defense Secretary Becker, and Liev Schrieber as fan-favorite John Clark.

Phil Alden Robinson (The Field of Dreams) directed The Sum of All Fears, and it opened on May 31, 2002, not long after 9/11. The film follows Ryan as he tries to stop nuclear war from breaking out between the United States and Russia, following a nuclear bomb going off in Baltimore. The villains are re-worked into Austrian neo-Nazis who want war to happen so they can create a new fascist state in Europe.

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The highly acclaimed 1990s American police drama Homicide: Life On The Street will finally be available to stream in the UK thanks to Sky.

While late and much missed Andre Braugher may have won legions of fans in recent years for his pitch-perfect comic performance as Sgt Raymond Holt in sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it is his towering performance as Detective Frank Pendleton in Homicide: Life On The Street that he made his name.

The show was created by Paul Attanasio, who went on to become Oscar nominated for writing the screenplays for Robert Redford’s Quiz Show and Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco. Attanasio based the show on the book Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by journalist David Simon, who himself went on to have huge success in television after creating The Wire.

According to Deadline, fans in the UK will now be able to watch the show,...

You guys really seem to be digging on Michael Crichton huh? Well let’s look at what almost stopped his adaptations from happening. After a heck of a run from his adaptations both good and mediocre, Sphere would be a big enough bomb that it would follow with two straight sub-par adaptations before a quiet death of his worked being put on the big screen. The movie should have been a no doubt success with stars like Dustin Hoffman, Sam Jackson, Sharon Stone and a more than capable, Oscar winning, director in Barry Levinson. What we would end up with is one of the biggest bombs of the late 90s and a movie that is derided or outright forgotten from the annals of 90s cinema. Was it the cast, the story, or the general public being over Chricton things that didn’t have dinosaurs in it that was the culprit.

Sky has taken all seven seasons of the remastered Homicide: Life on the Street.

The iconic cop show adapted from The Wire creator David Simon’s book was recently remastered in HD and Uhd by NBC and Fremantle, launching on Peacock last year and comprising a major part of Fremantle’s MIPCOM catalog.

Sky, which is in the same stable as Peacock, has now swooped in to strike a major UK deal for its channels and Now streaming service, coming a few days after the pay-tv giant bought Emmy-winner Hacks.

Starring Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto and Melissa Leo, Homicide ran for more than 100 episodes and seven seasons in the 1990s and is considered by many to be a precursor to Simon’s The Wire. Adapted from Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the series from Oscar nominee Paul Attanasio followed fictional Baltimore detectives, some of whom turned to violence.

When it comes to mob movies, certain titles immediately spring to mind, such as The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, or Once Upon a Time in America. But there's another gem in the genre that deserves a spot on this list– 1997's Donnie Brasco, where Al Pacino delivers one of his most nuanced performances as real-life mobster Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero. The film, which recently marked its 27th anniversary, offers a grittier, more intimate look at the day-to-day life of organized crime as opposed to its more bombastic counterparts.

Unlike the glamorous portrayal of mob life often seen in Hollywood, Donnie Brasco peels back the layers to reveal a world of small-time hustlers and aging wise guys just trying to get by. At its heart is Pacino's Lefty, a world-weary foot soldier who takes Johnny Depp's undercover FBI agent under his wing, unwittingly setting the stage for his own downfall.

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When Homicide: Life on the Street first aired more than 30 years ago, people didn't know what to make of it. With its jarring camera style and thought-provoking dialogue-heavy narrative, the show went against the grain of typical police dramas. Developed by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon's revealing 1991 book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the series brought to life Simon's gritty experiences as a reporter embedded with a Baltimore homicide squad. With the help of Baltimore native Barry Levinson and starring Kyle Secor and the late duo of Yaphet Kotto and Andre Braugher in career-defining roles, the show launched in January 1993. It was broadcast on NBC for seven seasons, culminating in 122 episodes and an extended feature, Homicide: The Movie.

The CBS series Bull offered a unique take on the familiar legal procedural drama. Rather than focusing on the lawyers or judges, the show centers the story on the people who really decide the outcome of a trial the jury. Bull starred NCIS' Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull, a psychologist who uses his expertise to sway the members of the jury. With the consulting firm the Trial Analysis Corporation, Bull led a crack team of experts in various fields, including the savvy hacker, Cable McCrory, played by Annabelle Attanasio, who abruptly left the show.

Cable was a major character in Bull seasons 1 and 2. Her fearless personality and cynical sense of humor brought a fresh perspective to the team that would be sorely missed both by the cast of characters and the viewers when she was unceremoniously killed off in season 3. However, as unsatisfying as Cable's death was there is...

Exclusive: After Homicide: Life on the Street landed on Peacock several weeks back, Fremantle has struck its first major deals for the remastered version of NBC’s iconic police series, while senior international exec Bob McCourt has teased a potential remake.

Israel’s Yes and Canada’s Bell Media have picked up Homicide, with more deals close, we understand. Starring Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto and Melissa Leo, the show based on David Simon’s book ran for more than 100 episodes and seven seasons in the 1990s and is considered by many to be a precursor to Simon’s The Wire. The HD remastered version launched on Peacock over the summer, and Fremantle, which holds non-u.S. rights, is prioritizing at MIPCOM Cannes, according to Fremantle Commercial and International COO McCourt, who said Homicide “revolutionized the crime genre.”

“We’ve known for a year that this is coming and have been...

A few fictional television characters will be remembered forever, and John Munch counts among them. Played by Richard Belzer and based on Jay Landsman (a central figure in David Simon's 1991 true crime novel Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets), the character first appeared in the procedural Homicide: Life on the Street, where his kindness and belief in conspiracy theories made him stand out from his gruff, tough-as-nails colleagues. When the show was canceled, Munch was quickly saved from the sinking ship and thrown into the robust lifeboat that was Law & Order: Svu. After all, he was too valuable to drown with the rest.

Figuratively, Munch never just stuck to his jurisdiction. The lawman appeared in various shows across different networks, suggesting that these productions all existed in the same universe. These include The X-Files, Arrested Development, The Wire, The Beat, American Dad, and 30 Rock. Munch...

Demi Moore is getting her due thanks to Metrograph.

The “Substance” actress and Hollywood icon is being honored by Metrograph with a five-film series of Moore’s most beloved features, as curated by the theater. Titled “We Want Moore,” the mini festival begins September 13.

“The rapturous reception of Demi Moore’s performance in Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ at this year’s Cannes Film Festival seems to have reminded many people that the New Mexico-born actress is a bona fide movie star — not just in terms of box office receipts and magazine cover shoots, but in her seemingly effortless ability to command the screen every time she walks into frame,” the Metrograph press statement reads. “In ‘We Want Moore,’ we’ve brought together some other timely reminders.”

Selected films screening in 35mm include Moore’s iconic turns in “Ghost,” “Indecent Proposal,” and “Striptease,” which Moore recently told Variety was one of her most under-appreciated performances.

Suits is one of the best and most popular legal dramas that managed to make the profession of lawyer cool again. Created by Aaron Korsh, the USA Network series follows Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who has a photographic memory and joins Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) at a prestigious law firm. The only problem with that is Mike didn’t actually go to law school and he doesn’t have a degree about which he has to lie to everyone. Suits ran for 9 brilliant seasons and ended its run in 2019. So, if you loved the witty banter, high stakes, and compelling characters in Suits here are some similar brilliant shows you should check out next.

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Pearson is a political-legal drama series created by Aaron Korsh and Daniel Arkin. The USA Network series serves as a spin-off to Suits, and it continues the story...

Sometimes it’s hard to revisit a favorite TV series you haven’t seen in decades. Will the show hold up or be hopelessly dated? Happily, NBC’s groundbreaking 1993-98 police series “Homicide: Life on the Street” is just as brilliant as it was three decades Peacock recently dropped all seven seasons as well as 2000’s “Homicide: The Movie.”.

As NPR noted: “It was a cop show without gun battles or car chases, with a bracing shot of street-level realism; film mostly in Baltimore. ‘Homicide’ presented stuff you just didn’t see on network television back then: shaky, kinetic camera work, working stiff police detectives cracking jokes at gruesome murder scenes…serialized stories that arced over several episodes, heart-rending killings that never get solved.”

The series, which was set in the fictional Baltimore Police Department Unit, was based on David Simon’s (“The Wire”) 1991 book “Homicide: A Year in the Life of the Killing Streets.

Before The Shield and The Wire, there was Homicide: Life on the Street. The NBC crime drama is widely considered among genre fans to be the cream of the crop, but it never reached the level of success it deserved. Now a whopping 31 years after the first episode aired in 1993, audiences old and new are finally able to stream the series on Peacock and understand why it still matters. Even with how television and the world have evolved since the 1990s, Homicide is still an elite piece of TV drama.

Homicide: Life on the Street Season 1 lasted just nine episodes, as the network didn't quite know what to do with it. Based on David Simon's acclaimed book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the first season hewed understandably closer to the real-life personalities and crimes outlined across those pages. Yet iconic director Barry Levinson, a crack team of...

Despite not ever garnering huge ratings on NBC, the critically acclaimed Baltimore-set police show Homicide: Life on the Streets won a number of awards, including several Emmys in its unexpected seven-season run (1993-1999). Created by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon’s nonfiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street, the show was innovative, beautifully cast appointment television that has had a profound influence on many fine shows that followed. And yet, though it was occasionally syndicated back in the day, Homicide was never available on streaming for fervent fans to rewatch and a new audience looking for fine fare to watch for the first time. That is until now when Peacock finally made it available for a new audience. TV Insider talked to executive producer Tom Fontana, who doesn’t watch his shows after the final edit), about his memories of the show, why it is considered a gem,...

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Homicide: Life on the Street — the most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July 2023 TVLine poll, and the recipient of 17 Emmy nominations and four wins during its 1993-1999 run on NBC — is finally ready to be streamed.

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Peacock is bringing you a comedy and drama-packed August as it will air some of the best films of this year that you missed in the theaters and some great original movies and TV shows you will want to see. With an original comedy series starring NBA great Stephen Curry and also a beloved romantic action-comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, Peacock is adding so much content in the upcoming month. So, we picked out the 7 best movies and TV shows you should look out for in August 2024.

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Mr. Throwback is a mockumentary-style sports comedy series created by David Caspe, Matthew, and Daniel Libman. The upcoming Peacock series follows the story of Danny, a down-on-his-luck sports memorabilia dealer and former basketball player as he looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, NBA legend Steph Curry. Mr. Throwback stars Adam Pally, Stephen Curry, and...

Peacock will bring the critically acclaimed police drama Homicide: Life on the Street, to streaming for the first time ever (via Deadline). All seven seasons of the groundbreaking series, along with its follow-up film, Homicide: The Movie, will be available on the platform starting August 19. The police procedural, which offers a vivid and honest look at the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit, has long been unavailable for streaming due to music rights challenges.

Homicide: Life on the Street, created by Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show) and based on David Simon's non-fiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, premiered on NBC in January 1993. It quickly amassed acclaim for its gritty realism, as the series offered a fictionalized yet authentic portrayal of the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit, diving into the challenges and realities of investigating murders. Simon, who contributed as a writer and producer, would later create another groundbreaking crime drama,...

Homicide: Life on the Street has been absent from streaming, but the critically acclaimed crime drama has finally found a new home and will launch next month. It has been announced that all seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street will be available on Peacock in the US starting on August 19th. All 122 episodes have been remastered for HD and 4K viewing, and Homicide: The Movie is also included.

The series was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and was created by Paul Attanasio. It followed the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit. Bleak and unglamorous, the show was praised for its more realistic treatment of detectives and their work; threads weren’t always tied up at the end, and criminals sometimes got away. It also boasted one hell of a cast, including Andre Braugher, Ned Beatty, Yaphett Kotto, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito,...

It's been a long time coming, but Homicide: Life on the Street is finally making its way to streaming. After it was recently teased that the show would soon start streaming, it's been confirmed that its new home will be at Peacock.

On Monday, it was announced that all seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street are coming to Peacock on Aug. 19, 2024. The show has never been made available on any of the major streaming platforms up to this point due to all of the issues with the rights that needed to be sorted out. Undoubtedly, this will be great news for fans who remember watching the series but have not since had a way to revisit it with other beloved classics from the era.

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“Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Homicide: The Movie,” which has been remastered to HD and 4K for the very first time, will make its streaming debut in the U.S. on Peacock beginning August 19. The police drama examines the calculating and exacting detective work of the often confrontational, passionate, and opinionated homicide department in Baltimore. With a determined cast of characters that never let up in their quest for truth and justice, this gripping hourlong series remains the standard bearer of how police handle the job both professionally and personally.

From Universal Television, “Homicide: Life on the Street” originally launched on NBC in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, for a total of 122 episodes. It was succeeded by “Homicide: The Movie” in 2000, which served as the series finale. The drama was created by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon‘s book “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.” Tom Fontana...

NBCUniversal has finally been able to clear the music rights for one of the most beloved dramas in TV history.

For fans of prestige procedural crime dramas, there has been no holier grail in the streaming age than “Homicide: Life on the Streets.” The iconic NBC series that starred the late Andre Braugher and wrapped up its run in 2000 has not been available to stream on any platform in large part due to music licensing rights. However, on Monday, NBCUniversal announced that the show will finally be available to stream on Peacock beginning in August.

Key Details: After years, NBCU has cleared the must rights that had prevented “Homicide” from streaming. The show will now begin streaming on Peacock in August. NBC has also upgraded the video quality to HD and 4K for the first time ever. Sign Up $7.99+ / month peacocktv.com

All seven seasons of the show and its...

One of the most revered police dramas of all time, Homicide: Life on the Street, examines the calculating and exacting detective work of Baltimore’s often confrontational, passionate, and opinionated homicide department.

With a determined cast of characters that never let up in their quest for truth and justice, this gripping hourlong series remains the standard bearer of how police handle the job both professionally and personally.

From Universal Television, Homicide: Life on the Street originally launched on NBC in 1993 and ran for seven seasons, for a total of 122 episodes. It was succeeded by Homicide: The Movie in 2000, which served as the series finale.

The series was created by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Tom Fontana was the series head writer and showrunner.

Throughout its run, Homicide: Life on the Street was critically acclaimed, receiving nominations and accolades from the Television Critics Association,...

One of the more critically acclaimed dramas of the past 30 years has at last found a streaming home.

Starting Aug. 19, Peacock will feature Homicide: Life on the Street. All seven seasons and 122 episodes of the former NBC show, as well as the series-wrapping Homicide: The Movie from 2000, will be available, remastered for HD and 4K viewing.

Homicide was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and created by Paul Attanasio; Tom Fontana was the showrunner and executive produced with Barry Levinson, Henry Bromell and Jim Finnerty. The series followed detectives in Baltimore’s homicide unit and was praised for its acting and a more realistic depiction of detective work — including some cases that don’t get solved — than on many other network crime dramas.

Over the show’s seven seasons, the cast featured Andre Braugher — who won his first Emmy 1998 for playing Detective Frank Pembleton — Ned Beatty,...

It’s official: Homicide: Life on the Street is coming to Peacock.

David Simon — who wrote the book on which the series is based — teased in June that the police drama was going to end up on a streamer. “Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets to a streaming platform,” he wrote on X.

All seven seasons of the series and Homicide: The Movie, which has been remastered to HD and 4K, will drop August 19 on Peacock.

From Universal TV, Homicide: Life on the Street followed the detective work of the homicide department in Baltimore. It originally launched on NBC in 1993 and ran for a total of 122 episodes.

The series was created by Paul Attanasio; Tom Fontana was the series head writer and showrunner. It starred Andre Braugher, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito,...

Homicide: Life on the Street — the most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July 2023 TVLine poll, and the recipient of 17 Emmy nominations and four wins during its 1993-1999 run on NBC — is finally ready to be streamed.

TVLine has learned that all seven seasons of the acclaimed drama series as well as 2000’s Homicide: The Movie wrap-up, all remastered to HD and 4K for the first time, will begin streaming Monday, Aug. 19 on Peacock.

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The streets are about to stream, as David Simon has announced that plans have moved forward to bring Homicide: Life on the Street to your TV sometime in the future. The groundbreaking series – a precursor to Simon’s The Wire – has been tied up in music rights limbo for years but now that red tape has been cleared, we’ll soon enough be crossing the police tape.

As David Simon posted on X, “Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets” to a streaming platform. Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy. Stay tuned for more details.” He would go on to credit showrunner Tom Fantana, EP Barry Levinson and producer Gail Mutrux for their efforts...

The hit crime drama series Homicide: Life on the Street will soon finally start streaming. The news comes 25 years after the series ended its run in 1999.

The show, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, was based on the book by David Simon. On social media, Simon revealed that NBC had finally managed to clear the rights to the music used for Homicide: Life on the Street, the apparent hurdle that has been holding up the show from getting a proper streaming release. While a specific platform has not yet been named, it seems that NBCUniversal's Peacock would be the most likely home.

Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets" to a streaming platform. Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon...

Homicide: Life On the Street is coming to streaming, according to David Simon, author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the book on which the show created by Paul Attanasio was based.

In a new post on social media, Simon said that NBC had cleared the music used on the series, and it would be coming to a streaming platform, with NBCUniversal’s Peacock the logical home.

“Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets to a streaming platform,” read the post shared by Simon on X, formerly known as Twitter.”

He continued, “Andre [Braugher], Richard [Belzer], Yaphet [Kotto], Ned [Beatty], and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy. Stay tuned for more details.”

Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure...

Michael Weatherly has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Weatherly continues to be repped by Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel.

Weatherly is best known for his time on the long-running CBS procedural “NCIS.” Weatherly portrayed Special Agent Tony Dinozzo on the hit show for 13 seasons. He departed the show in 2016, but made a special guest appearance in the second episode of the recent 21st season.

Weatherly will reprise the role of Dinozzo in a new “NCIS” spinoff series currently in the works at Paramount+ in the first streaming exclusive series in franchise history. He will reunite with Cote de Pablo, who played Special Agent Ziva David on “NCIS.” Weatherly serves as an executive producer on the series in addition to starring, as does de Pablo.

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So Help Me Todd is a fun comedy thriller series starring the always wonderful Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin. The legal drama series follows the titular character Todd, an out-of-luck private investigator, and her successful lawyer mother as they join hands to solve the crime. While So Help Me Todd isn’t a critical darling it is a fun watch that is being enjoyed by many people. So Help Me Todd is currently in its second and if you love the new episodes and are waiting for them to come out here are some similar shows that you can watch while waiting.

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In recent times there is no bigger TV show than Suits, and if you haven’t seen it by now you are missing out. The legal drama series places lovable characters in high-pressure situations, which should be enjoyable for So Help Me Todd fans.

Andre Braugher, the dynamic actor known for his outstanding work on such shows as Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died. He was 61.

Braugher died Monday after a brief illness, his longtime rep Jennifer Allen told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death turned out to be lung cancer.

Braugher starred as master interrogator Det. Frank Pembleton on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street for the first six seasons of the show’s acclaimed 1993-99 run, then played another cop, Capt. Raymond Holt — this time against type and for laughs — on the 2013-21 Fox-nbc sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

He won his first Emmy in 1998 for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Homicide after a season that featured one of its most memorable episodes, “Subway.” That was a two-hander in which Pembleton tries to unearth whether a man (Vincent D’Onofrio) pinned between a Baltimore subway train...

Say goodbye to Luca Guadagnino’s “Scarface” movie.

The “Challengers” and “Call Me by Your Name” director confirmed to The Hindu that he is no longer attached to helm a reinterpretation of the iconic mobster movie. Guadagnino was first attached to “Scarface” in 2020, with Ethan and Joel Coen writing the script.

“I’m not working on ‘Scarface’ anymore,” Guadagnino told the outlet in November 2023.

He later added of adaptations in general, “For me, when approaching any book adaptation or remake, it’s about understanding what the story carries within itself that goes beyond the form of the original work. So that you can tell that story from a completely different perspective. Whether it’s fresh or not, I cannot tell. But it’s different.”

Howard Hawks’ 1932 original “Scarface,” based on Armitage Trail’s novel, was later iconically remade in 1983 by director Brian De Palma using a script by Oliver Stone...

The Scarface reboot has been plagued by difficulties, with the latest blow being Luca Guadagnino's withdrawal as director, leaving the project's future uncertain. The reboot has seen a revolving door of talent, with various directors and screenwriters attached at different points, but has not progressed beyond pre-production. The constant changes and lack of a clear vision raise doubts about whether this retelling of Scarface will ever come to fruition, but hope remains for fans and Universal.

The Scarface reboot, poised to be a contemporary take on the classic, suffers a blow with Luca Guadagnino's withdrawal as director. The latest in a string of difficulties, the decade-long effort to bring the Scarface reboot to fruition falters again with another key figure's exit. First surfacing in 2011 at Universal, the Scarface reboot was set to revamp the tale of the notorious gangster immortalized by both Paul Muni in the 1932 classic and Al Pacino in the 1983 cult favorite.

The Scarface reboot, which has been in development for over a decade, has received another discouraging update. The new movie will be a reworking of the story, incorporating elements from both the 1932 and 1983 versions. Director Luca Guadagnino, who was previously attached to the project, confirmed that he is no longer working on Scarface, but no details were given about the project's status.

The Scarface reboot has received another discouraging update after more than a decade in development hell. The new movie is set to be a reworking of the story of the titular fictional kingpin who debuted in the 1929 novel Scarface. The book has been adapted onscreen twice, in a 1932 movie starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte and a 1983 movie starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, and the reboot is said to include elements from both iterations rather than properly remaking one or the other.

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A few years after retiring from his celebrating acting career, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Richard Belzer has died at the age of 78. Though having gotten his career started in the early '70s with his stand-up comedy, Belzer became best-known for portraying the Baltimore Homicide Detective-turned Da Investigator John Munch in Dick Wolf's interconnected crime drama universe. Starring first in Paul Attanasio's Homicide: Life on the Street, Munch would later return in the original Law & Order before acting as one of the main characters in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit right up until his retirement from acting in 2016.

Deadline has brought word that Richard Belzer has died at the age of 78. At the time of reporting, it's unknown what the actor and comedian's cause of death was, with Saturday Night Live alum Laraine Newman having first announced his passing while representatives later confirmed.

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FX is heading to The Border.

The Disney-owned cable outlet has ordered a drama pilot based on a trio of novels by best-selling author Don Winslow. The Border — named after the third book in Winslow’s cartel trilogy — will delve into the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border via the lives of several people on both sides of the conflict.

E.J. Bonilla (The Old Man) will star as Art Keller, a Mexican-American DEA agent. The cast also includes Frank Blake (Normal People) as Sean Callan, Annie Shapero as Nora Hayden, Sebastián Buitrón (Narcos: Mexico) as Adan Barrera and Luis Bordonada (Vida) as Miguel Angel Barrera.

FX optioned Winslow’s cartel trilogy — which also includes 2005’s The Power of the Dog (no relation to the 2021 film of the same title) and 2015’s The Cartel — in March 2019, shortly after The Border was published.

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Drew Goddard is branching into animation.

The Martian and Bad Times at the El Royale writer and director is writing and executive producing an animated comedy for FX. The cable outlet has given a pilot order to the project, which is called The Trenches and follows a modern family of monster hunters.

The project comes from 20th Television Animation, with Floyd County Productions (Archer) serving as the animation studio. Goddard has an overall deal with ABC Signature, which like 20th and FX are under the Disney umbrella.

The Trenches is one of several pilots FX has ordered in recent weeks. It joins dramas The Bends, from Paul Attanasio (House, Donnie Brasco) and The Answers, from writer Kit Steinkellner (Sorry for Your Loss) and executive producers Danny Strong and Darren Aronofsky. The outlet’s animated roster currently consists of the long-running Archer along with Little Demon,...

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FX is looking for a different take on The Americans.

The Disney-backed cable network has handed out a pilot order for drama The Bends, from writer Paul Attanasio (House, Quiz Show, Donnie Brasco) and The Handmaid’s Tale exec producer Warren Littlefield.

The drama follows a seemingly perfect American family in Berlin whose secrets come to light when they hire a new nanny, unaware that she is trying to expose the parents’ corrupt financial and familial ties. The Bends is based on Gerald Seymour’s book, Killing Ground.

Attanasio will write the script and exec produce the drama, which is produced in-house at Disney’s 20th Television and Warren Littlefield’s studio-based The Littlefield Co. Mike Barker, who worked with FX on Fargo and Littlefield on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, will direct the pilot.Exec producers also include Littlefield, who expands his relationship...

Paul Attanasio has set a drama pilot at FX based on the Gerald Seymour book “Killing Ground.”

The one-hour pilot is titled “The Bends.” Per the official logline, “the series follows a seemingly perfect American family in Berlin whose secrets come to light when they hire a new nanny, unaware that she is trying to expose the parents’ corrupt financial and familial ties.”

Attanasio is writing and executive producing, with Mike Barker set to direct and executive produce the pilot. Warren Littlefield, Ann Johnson, Graham Littlefield, and Lisa Harrison of The Littlefield Company also executive produce, as will Kathy Ciric. 20th Television is the studio. The Littlefield Company is currently under an overall deal with Disney, which owns 20th TV.

Attanasio has been nominated for two Academy Awards in his career, both for best adapted screenplay. The first was for “Quiz Show,” while the second was for “Donnie Brasco.” His...

FX has given a pilot green light to The Bends, a drama from Homicide creator Paul Attanasio and Fargo and Dopesick executive producer Warren Littlefield.

Written by Attanasio based on the novel Killing Ground by Gerald Seymour, the thriller series follows a seemingly perfect American family in Berlin whose secrets come to light when they hire a new nanny, unaware that she is trying to expose the parents’ corrupt financial and familial ties.

Mike Barker (Hit & Run) will direct the pilot, which will be produced by 20th Television and The Littlefield Company and stems from The Littlefield Co.’s overall deal with 20th TV and ABC Signature.

Attanasio executive produces alongside Barker as well as Warren Littlefield, Ann Johnson, Graham Littlefield and Lisa Harrison of The Littlefield Company, and Kathy Ciric.

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The 1997 mob movie, Donnie Brasco, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. This is almost as long as the real-life title character has been on the run with a half-a-million-dollar contract on his head. Johnny Depp plays Joe Pistone in the movie, an undercover federal cop codenamed “Donnie Brasco.” He gets so deep into the wheels of the Brooklyn operations of the Bonanno crime family that he almost becomes a made man. Donnie is one hit away from getting straightened out, joining the official rank and file of the organization, when the FBI pulls him in from the case. The mere notion that such an embarrassing breach could occur got the Bonannos kicked out of the Five Family ruling hierarchy. It turned out to be fortunate timing when the “Mafia Commission” went down in a federal rap, but at the time, forget about it.

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“Bull” is ending after six seasons on CBS.

Season 6 of the series began airing in October 2021 with the finale to air in the coming months. Series star Michael Weatherly announced on Twitter that he would be leaving the show to “pursue new creative challenges” after leading the legal drama these past six years.

“Hello all! It’s been my privilege to play Dr Jason Bull but after 6 Seasons of incredible storylines, I’ve decided it’s time to pursue new creative challenges and bring his story to a close,” Weatherly wrote. “It has been an honor to work with this talented cast, crew, and writing/producing team who helped reinvent the legal drama. Stay tuned for a big series finish…Thanks to all the fans from the bottom of my heart. You will always be a part of our Bull family!”

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The current sixth season of CBS’ legal drama Bull will be its last. The series’ star Michael Weatherly just made the announcement on Twitter. There are 12 remaining episodes, with the Season 6 — and series — finale expected to air in May.

The end of Bull was confirmed by CBS.

“For six seasons, Bull has established itself as a ratings winner with its fresh take on the judicial process never before seen on television,” the network said in a statement. “We extend our thanks to the talented cast, Michael Weatherly, Geneva Carr, Yara Martinez, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Christopher Jackson, MacKenzie Meehan, the incredible creative team led by Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard, and our hardworking crew, for bringing to life these innovative stories. We also thank our loyal viewers and look forward to providing them with a final run of compelling episodes filled with the humor, intelligence and twists that have made the drama a fan favorite.

“NCIS,” “Bull,” “Swat,” “Blue Bloods” and “Magnum P.I.” have all been renewed at CBS.

The network made the announcement on Thursday on Twitter. That will mean a Season 19 for “NCIS,” Season 6 for “Bull,” Season 5 for “Swat,” Season 12 for “Blue Bloods” and Season 4 for “Magnum P.I.” All four shows are produced by CBS Studios, with “Swat” being a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.

“NCIS” stars Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, and Diona Reasonover. Donald P. Bellisario created the series and executive produces along with Harmon, Frank Cardea, Steven D. Binder, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Horowitz and Scott Williams. Harmon is expected to return to the show after earlier reports indicated he was considering exiting the long-running drama. CBS is also currently working on an “NCIS” spinoff set in Hawaii.

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Sphere may not rank amongst elite properties sprung from the deep creative well of Michael Crichton, but the property, defined by the late author’s novel and subsequent adaptation movie, is getting revived as a peak television offering from HBO, which, of course, already happens to house a prominent Crichton adaptation series in Westworld.

HBO revealed that it is developing a Sphere series, for which it has appointed Denise Thé to serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer, bringing recent experience as an executive producer from this past spring’s third season run of Westworld. The series will adapt Crichton’s 1987 novel, which manifested as a sub-maritime sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists who discover a 300-year-old alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Upon making the deep-sea excursion to explore the technologically advanced vessel, they come upon what seems to be an alien intelligence, called Harry,...

They say any story worth telling is worth telling twice. It is an adage Hollywood heartily believes in, with an increasing number of new films being adaptations of existing IP, from comics to games, to older films. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, the mastermind behind previous remakes including Suspiria and A Bigger Splash, inspired by La Piscine, recently revealed to Variety the intention behind his next film, which is going to be a remake of Scarface.

"People claim that I do only remakes, but the truth of the matter is cinema has been remaking itself throughout its existence. It's not because it's a lazy way of not being able to find original stories. It's alway about looking at what certain stories say about our times."

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