Netflix remaking Al Pacino film And Justice For All as a TV series / Will Arnett joins Amazon’s The Challenger / WHCD rescheduled for July 24
PLUS: Karamo Brown says toxicity with Queer Eye co-stars led to him relapsing on drugs and alcohol.
Netflix remaking Al Pacino film And Justice For All as a TV series
“With The Lincoln Lawyer coming to an end, Netflix is on the lookout for a potential successor in the legal drama space. One of the hopefuls is And Justice For All, a series based on the 1979 movie starring Al Pacino,” reports Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva. “The project, now in the works at the streamer, comes from Sony Pictures Television whose sibling Columbia Pictures distributed the film.” Written by Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn, the And Justice for All adaptation is described as a gritty look at an idealistic attorney’s flawed life as he struggles to fight a corrupted legal system until he finally snaps. Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson earned an Oscar nomination writing the 1979 film, a box office hit directed by Norman Jewison. Pacino earned an Oscar nomination for lead actor for the And Justice For All, which had a cast that included Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson, Thomas Waites and Sam Levene. And Justice For All also produced one of the most memorable lines in movie history when Pacino’s Arthur Kirkland shouted in court: “You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! The whole system is out of order!”
Will Arnett joins Kristen Stewart on Amazon’s The Challenger limited series
Arnett will play NASA official George Abbey in the limited drama series that marks Stewart’s TV debut, in which she plays pioneering astronaut Sally Ride. Based on the 2023 book The New Guys by Meredith E. Bagby, The Challenger will recount the events leading up to the 1986 Challenger disaster, the investigation that followed, and Sally Ride’s groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space. “As director of flight operations for NASA, Abbey was the person who assigned Ride to the crew for a 1983 mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger, making her the first American woman in space,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Abbey later became director of the Johnson Space Center. Ride flew one more shuttle mission and was part of the ground-based flight control team on several others before serving on the commission that investigated the 1986 explosion of the Challenger.” Arnett’s most recent TV roles include guest appearances on The Madison and The Morning Show.
White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled for July 24 with heightened security
The WHCD will be held on a Friday night at a venue yet to be announced after the April 25 event was disrupted by a gunman at the Washington Hilton. “Rescheduling was not automatic. It was a choice that the WHCA board made after thoughtful consideration and input from our members,” said Weijia Jiang, White House Correspondents Association president and CBS News’ senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, in a memo to members. “I want to thank board members for the time and care they brought to this decision, particularly on the security front. The event will feature significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures. We will share additional details directly with attendees.”
Karamo Brown says toxicity with Queer Eye co-stars led to him relapsing on drugs and alcohol
“I was depressed,” he tells People of relapsing while filming Season 3. “It felt shameful because I was teaching people that they could be better, but in my own life I was trapped.” Brown says the tensions between him and his Fab Five castmates, which were exacerbated by bullying and unchecked bad behavior by executives and members of production, contributed to his relapse after 12 years of sobriety. “I struggled with not facing my demons and the things I was going through on Queer Eye,” he says. “It was: ‘I’m stressed from work, meet me at a bar for a drink.’ A drink would lead to weed, cocaine, pills. I wasn’t coping right, but I pretended like I was. I was so broken.”
Dewayne Perkins is set for his own Hulu comedy series
The Emmy-nominated former The Amber Ruffin Show writer and The Upshaws actor and comedian is writing, producing and starring in a potential series a group of friends in their 30s who decide to date by jury, meaning all of their relationship choices are determined by a group vote. Led by the “chaotically gay Denny” and “just trying his best straight Nelson,” the show “follows the friends at they attempt to not only help each other find their next potential loves but also help each other re-find their confidence, streamline their joy and define the next chapter of their lives,” according to the logline.
PBS Masterpiece’s The Marlow Murder Club renewed for Season 4
The six-episode Season 4 will be based on Robert Thorogood’s novel Murder on the Marlow Belle, along with new original mysteries.
Conan O’Brien and Trevor Noah’s podcasts are coming to Tubi
SiriusXM has inked a deal to bring Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, What Now? with Trevor Noah and true-crime podcast Rotten Mango to the Fox-owned free streaming service.
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney announces behind-the-scenes book about the hit series
I’ll Believe in Anything, which Tierney is writing with a forward by Game Changers author Rachel Reid, collects the first season’s annotated scripts and takes readers behind the scenes into the show’s casting, costume design and more. I’ll Believe in Anything will be released on Oct. 13. ALSO: Heated Rivalry is getting a collector’s Blu-ray edition in April 2027.
Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon recall the surreal experience of appearing on SNL UK
“Like, it was so weird,” SNL UK’s first host Fey said on The Tonight Show. “It’s like one of those dreams where you go into (a room and) you’re like, ‘Is this a room in my house I didn’t know was here?’ ‘Cause, it looked like SNL, but a little different, and everyone was, like, kind of the same jobs.” Fallon, who made a cameo on Nicola Coughlan’s episode, added: “Because you kind of know who everyone is (for) the American version, like, ‘Oh, that’s Donna. She does wardrobe,’ but it’s not. Her name’s not Donna. And I go, ‘That’s Louie, but it’s not Louie.’ And everyone has British accents.” ALSO: SNL UK producer Kruger Bratt said the show’s team used early skepticism and criticism to shape episodes.
Tom Holland: I’ve never hosted SNL because my dyslexia makes it difficult to read cue cards
The Spider-Man star explained on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast that while he “can read fine,” reading cue cards aloud presents a “mental block” that can cause him to “freeze.” “I’m heavily dyslexic which is one of the reasons why... I’ve never done SNL,” he said. “I’m just so petrified at the concept of trying to read something and they change.”
Rachelle Lefevre and Charlotte Sullivan board Little House on the Prairie Season 2
Lefevre will play Eva Beadle, the town schoolteacher, in a series regular role. Sullivan will play Margaret Oleson, mother of Nellie Oleson, who is played by another Season 2 newbie, Willa Dunn.
Fox sets summer premiere dates for Kitchen Nightmares, Beat Shazam and more
Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares returns July 21, while Jamie Foxx’s Beat Shazam will be back the following week, on July 28.
Life is Strange TV series adds five
Billy Barratt, Emily Carey, Esther McGregor, Faly Rakotohavana and Mia Isaac are the latest additions to the Amazon Prime Video video game adaptation.
Study: Ad-supported streaming subscriptions now make up almost half of subscription video on-demand plans in the U.S.
Analytics firm Antenna found that ad-supported plans, excluding Prime Video due to its default option including commercials, now represents 48% of all streaming subscriptions, up from 39% two years ago.
Owain Rhys Davies, actor on Twin Peaks: The Return, dies at 44
Rhys Davies’ brother announced the Welsh-born actor’s death in a May 30 Instagram post, writing: “While there are still questions that remain unanswered regarding the circumstances of his death, our understanding at this stage is that Owain passed suddenly, naturally, and peacefully,” the family statement also from father Conway Davies said.” Rhys Davies appeared on three episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return as FBI Agent Wilson. He also had a guest role on The OA. “I met David Lynch on the set for the first time,” Rhys Davies said in a 2017 interview, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I was a little nervous when he came over, and for some reason when I’m nervous I turn into a stand up comedian and tell a lot of jokes! He held my hand and said ‘Shall we …?’ We had a little chat about the character and then we started filming.”
Ernest Chambers, showrunner of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, dies at 97
Chambers, an 11-time Emmy nominee, died last Thursday. “During his half-century career in show business, Chambers produced, wrote or executive produced more than 1,000 hours of television, with his productions amassing 51 Emmy nominations,” Mike Barnes writes in Chambers’ The Hollywood Reporter obituary. “Chambers and (frequent writing-producing partner Saul) Ilson started working together in 1963 on the first season of The Danny Kaye Show, then landed on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, also for CBS, in 1967. They spent two seasons on the landmark variety program through April 1968, often tussling with network censors to ensure the counter-culture comedy of Dick and Tom Smothers made it to viewers across America.” In a 2017 oral history of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Chambers said: “We were part of something groundbreaking. It proved you could do topical satire, which has led to great shows today like The Simpsons and South Park.” Chambers was also a writer on My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bob Newhart’s variety show.
Silo’s Season 3 trailer offers some hints at major pieces of the sci-fi series’ lore
The new trailer hints that Season 3 will focus heavily on the past storyline, just as Shift, the second book in Hugh Howey’s trilogy, did. Silo Season 3 premieres July 3.
Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders wrestle with Netflix fame in America’s Sweethearts Season 3 trailer
Two seasons of America’s Sweethearts has done what 16 seasons of CMT’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team didn’t do: Make the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders internationally famous. America’s Sweethearts returns for Season 3 on June 16.
Paramount+ unveils the trailer for All the Queen’s Men’s fifth and final season
All the Queen’s Men returns June 10 with two episodes, followed by a weekly release through its July 22 series finale.