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Netflix has renewed Lost in Space for a third season, which will be its last.  The announcement comes just three months after the second season of the series launched on the streamer. “From the beginning, we’ve always viewed this particular story of The Robinsons as a trilogy,” series executive producer and...

The television adaptation of Night School adds to its cast.  Multiple outlets confirm that Josh Segarra has been cast in one of the lead roles in the upcoming pilot from NBC.   The series, like the film, follows a unique mix of adults at a night school GED prep class who...

Fox has canceled Almost Family after one season.  Multiple outlets confirm that Timothy Hutton and Brittany Snow-led drama will not return for a second season.  In Almost Family, Hutton starred as a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to conceive more than 100 children over the course of his career....

The Tracy Oliver-created series will return for another season. BET+ has renewed First Wives Club for a second season. "Tracy Oliver’s First Wives Club has been hugely successful on BET+, served as one of our signature originals at launch and helped us quickly become the largest African American focused SVOD service,”...

The No Strings Attached star and co-creator of Bless This Mess has signed a new pod deal via her Lake Bell Prod. banner with 20th Century Fox TV.  Her co-creator of the hit single-camera comedy series, Liz Meriwether, also inked a four-year overall deal with the studio almost a year ago.  20th...

Kumail Nanjiani has landed his next project.  Multiple outlets confirm that The Big Sick star has been cast in The Independent. According to Variety, he will portray a journalist who uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election in his hands with America’s first viable independent presidential candidate...

Netflix orders a new limited series Painkillers from Narcos: Mexico showrunner Eric Newman.  The eight-episode series delves into the origins of the opioid crisis and is based on The New Yorker article The Family That Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe and the book Pain Killer: An...

Quibi has cast another major name for one of its titles.  Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel is set to star in Die Hart. She will star opposite series lead Kevin Hart and previously announced John Travolta.  According to Deadline which was first to report the news, in Die Hart, “Hart...

Demi Lovato is the latest to collaborate with the forthcoming short-form content platform Quibi.  Multiple outlets confirm that Lovato has a new gig as the host of a new talk show for Quibi titled Pillow Talk With Demi Lovato.  In Pillow Talk, Lovato will conduct candid, unfiltered conversations with both expert...

Tabitha Jackson, the Emmy-winning filmmaker from the UK, has been named as the new director of the Sundance Film Festival.  News that Jackson will succeed outgoing director John Cooper, who served as the Festival’s director for the past 11 years, was announced during the festival’s annual awards ceremony in Park...