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Oprah Winfrey docuseries in development at Apple TV+
The series comes from the Whitney creative team
The docuseries is set to be a two-part event and will be directed by
Kevin McDonald.
Whitney, which won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Lisa Erspamer, who also worked on
Whitney, is set to executive produce.
Erspamer has a long history with Winfrey, producing
The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1999 – 2009.
Rolake Bamgbose, an Emmy-nominated director/producer, will serve as the showrunner.
Oprah Winfrey speaks during Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour presented by WW (Weight Watchers Reimagined) at Pepsi Center on March 07, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images)
Died: December 6, 2020. JIM HAYNES, who has died in Paris at the age of 87, was a bon vivant, an ever-generous host and a flamboyant character who forever had a twinkle in his eye. Formidably well-connected, he was a counter-cultural polymath who recalled introducing David Bowie to the mime artist, Lindsay Kemp, and was once described as being, in the early 1960s, the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland. He founded the UK’s first paperback bookshop, in Edinburgh; when he relocated to Paris, in 1969, he kept an open house, and his Sunday-evening dinners became the stuff of Parisian legend.
New Sex Pistols biopic series announced, directed by Danny Boyle Pistol will star Maisie Williams, Toby Wallace and Dylan Llewellyn
Sex Pistols
Danny Boyle is set to oversee a brand new series about Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones called
Pistol, it has been announced.
Based on Jones’ 2018 memoir
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex
Pistol, the limited FX series has also lined-up a stellar cast, including
Game of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams, who will play punk icon Jordan – aka Pamela Rooke – and
Babyteeth‘s Toby Wallace as Jones.
1917) will play John Lydon, Louis Partridge (
Enola Homes) will take on Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater stars as Paul Cook and Fabien Frankel (
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