Lashay Anderson (Rebel Cheer Squad) and Faith Alabi (Industry) have been cast as series regulars opposite Adrienne Warren, Mia Isaac and Ashley Thomas in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Additionally, Ahmed Elhaj (Grantchester) has been tapped for a recurring role in the project.
Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, with a flash...
Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, with a flash...
- 7/20/2022
- by Sofia Behzadi
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Denton Brierley, the UK agency representing stars from Ted Lasso, The White Lotus and Killing Eve, has signed talent agent Katy Wale.
Several agencies were vying for Wale, who brings clients to Denton Brierley including Lou Llobell (Foundation), Lyna Dubarry (Liaison), Luke Roskell (Outlander) and Hattie Gotobed (Game of Thrones).
She joins from Vivienne Clore Artist Management and previously worked at boutique agency Galloways.
Launched six years ago by Creative Artists Management alums Gavin Denton-Jones and Suzy Brierley, London-based Denton Brierley has slipped somewhat under the radar in the UK agency game but represents major established and up-and-coming talent including Ted Lasso Emmy-nominee Sarah Niles, The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall, who is starring in Netflix’s One Day adaptation, and Killing Eve’s Robert Gilbert. Other clients include. Sophia Brown (The Witcher: Blood Origins), Jefferson Hall (House of the Dragon), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Undeclared War), Richard Flood (Grey’s Anatomy...
Several agencies were vying for Wale, who brings clients to Denton Brierley including Lou Llobell (Foundation), Lyna Dubarry (Liaison), Luke Roskell (Outlander) and Hattie Gotobed (Game of Thrones).
She joins from Vivienne Clore Artist Management and previously worked at boutique agency Galloways.
Launched six years ago by Creative Artists Management alums Gavin Denton-Jones and Suzy Brierley, London-based Denton Brierley has slipped somewhat under the radar in the UK agency game but represents major established and up-and-coming talent including Ted Lasso Emmy-nominee Sarah Niles, The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall, who is starring in Netflix’s One Day adaptation, and Killing Eve’s Robert Gilbert. Other clients include. Sophia Brown (The Witcher: Blood Origins), Jefferson Hall (House of the Dragon), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Undeclared War), Richard Flood (Grey’s Anatomy...
- 7/18/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix’s tragi-comic romantic drama One Day has its love-cursed leads: The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall and This is Going to Hurt breakout Ambika Mod.
Mod will play Emma Morley and Woodall her on-off lover Dexter Mayhew in the Netflix UK series, which is an adaptation of David Nicholls’ bestselling novel charting a series of intense personal encounters between the pair that begin on their university graduation day on July 15, 1988.
Every episode of One Day will follow Emma and Dexter on that one particular day as they grow and change, move together and apart, and experience joy and heartbreak.
Mod was lauded for her heartbreaking performance opposite Ben Whishaw as trainee doctor Shruti Acharya in BBC One medical drama This is Going to Hurt, which was based on Adam Kay’s experiences as in the NHS. She recently finished filming a key role in season two of Sky comedy I Hate Suzie.
Mod will play Emma Morley and Woodall her on-off lover Dexter Mayhew in the Netflix UK series, which is an adaptation of David Nicholls’ bestselling novel charting a series of intense personal encounters between the pair that begin on their university graduation day on July 15, 1988.
Every episode of One Day will follow Emma and Dexter on that one particular day as they grow and change, move together and apart, and experience joy and heartbreak.
Mod was lauded for her heartbreaking performance opposite Ben Whishaw as trainee doctor Shruti Acharya in BBC One medical drama This is Going to Hurt, which was based on Adam Kay’s experiences as in the NHS. She recently finished filming a key role in season two of Sky comedy I Hate Suzie.
- 6/23/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Crystal Yu joining the Hulu musical pilot History of a Pleasure Seeker.
Yu will play Zhen Zhao, who was born in Shanghai and sold into a Geisha house in Tokyo. She fled to the West in her teens and and is now Europe’s leading beautician, with her skills in body transformation second to none.
The project, which is based on Richard Mason’s 2012 novel, is a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907 — a tale of a charismatic young man’s explosive adventures through all the temptations of the Belle Époque. It follows follows Piet Barol, who has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe’s leading hotelier – a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion on one of Amsterdam’s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world,...
Yu will play Zhen Zhao, who was born in Shanghai and sold into a Geisha house in Tokyo. She fled to the West in her teens and and is now Europe’s leading beautician, with her skills in body transformation second to none.
The project, which is based on Richard Mason’s 2012 novel, is a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907 — a tale of a charismatic young man’s explosive adventures through all the temptations of the Belle Époque. It follows follows Piet Barol, who has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe’s leading hotelier – a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion on one of Amsterdam’s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world,...
- 5/31/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Osy Ikhile (The Kill Team) and Caoilinn Springall (The Midnight Sky) are set as series regulars opposite Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Citadel, Agbo’s upcoming global thriller multi-series for Amazon Studios. Additionally, Stanley Tucci, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Susan Lynch, Sara Martins, Leo Woodall, Gráinne Good and Leo Ashizawa will recur in the series, a co-production with Midnight Radio.
The epic Citadel is described as action-packed spy series with a compelling emotional center.
Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio serve as writers and executive producers. Patrick Moran, Mike Larocca, and Joe and Anthony Russo serve as executive producers. The Italian series will be co-produced with Amazon Studios and Cattleya (Gomorrah), part of ITV Studios, and the Indian series will be developed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. (The Family Man) and produced with Amazon Studios.
Ikhile’s recent credits include Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier-nominated production of Sweat,...
The epic Citadel is described as action-packed spy series with a compelling emotional center.
Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio serve as writers and executive producers. Patrick Moran, Mike Larocca, and Joe and Anthony Russo serve as executive producers. The Italian series will be co-produced with Amazon Studios and Cattleya (Gomorrah), part of ITV Studios, and the Indian series will be developed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. (The Family Man) and produced with Amazon Studios.
Ikhile’s recent credits include Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier-nominated production of Sweat,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Ted Lasso” has added a new team member for Season 2. The Jason Sudeikis-starring Apple TV+ comedy cast Sarah Niles (“I May Destroy You”) as Sharon, a sports psychologist who has been brought in to work with AFC Richmond.
Good luck with that bunch, Sharon.
“Ted Lasso,” which on Sunday earned Sudeikis a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, is currently in production on Season 2.
In the show, Sudeikis’ Lasso was a small-time college football coach from Kansas who was hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. The premise is pretty much the same as those old NBC Sports digital shorts; much like the viral videos, hilarity ensues on “Ted Lasso” — and so does heart.
Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed also star in the series.
In addition to starring,...
Good luck with that bunch, Sharon.
“Ted Lasso,” which on Sunday earned Sudeikis a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, is currently in production on Season 2.
In the show, Sudeikis’ Lasso was a small-time college football coach from Kansas who was hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. The premise is pretty much the same as those old NBC Sports digital shorts; much like the viral videos, hilarity ensues on “Ted Lasso” — and so does heart.
Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed also star in the series.
In addition to starring,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
On the heels of the Golden Globe win for Ted Lasso star and creator Jason Sudeikis, Apple has announced a new cast member for the second season.
Sarah Niles has joined the hit comedy series as a new series regular. She will play Sharon, a sports psychologist who has been brought in to work with AFC Richmond.
Production on Season 2 is currently underway. The series received an early Season 3 renewal in October.
Ted Lasso, which hails from Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence, is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago. It stars Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed also star.
The...
Sarah Niles has joined the hit comedy series as a new series regular. She will play Sharon, a sports psychologist who has been brought in to work with AFC Richmond.
Production on Season 2 is currently underway. The series received an early Season 3 renewal in October.
Ted Lasso, which hails from Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence, is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago. It stars Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed also star.
The...
- 3/4/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Maddison Jaizani (Versailles) and Alex Saxon (The Fix) are set as series regulars opposite Kennedy McMann and Tunji Kasim in the CW’s untitled Nancy Drew pilot inspired by the classic mysteries about the brilliant young sleuth, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios.
Written/executive produced by Noga Landau, Schwartz and Savage and directed by Larry Teng, the untitled Nancy Drew project centers on 18-year-old Nancy Drew (McMann) and is set in the summer after her high school graduation. She thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation — and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined.
Jaizani will play Bess, a refined young woman whose wealthy background sets her apart from Nancy – but when they both become suspects in the same murder,...
Written/executive produced by Noga Landau, Schwartz and Savage and directed by Larry Teng, the untitled Nancy Drew project centers on 18-year-old Nancy Drew (McMann) and is set in the summer after her high school graduation. She thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation — and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined.
Jaizani will play Bess, a refined young woman whose wealthy background sets her apart from Nancy – but when they both become suspects in the same murder,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Talent agents Gavin Denton-Jones and Suzy Brierley have launched a new U.K. talent agency titled Denton Brierley. Denton Brierley will represent clients including “American Gods” star Ricky Whittle, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” star Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Paul Blackthorne of “Arrow” and Olivia Chenery from “Penny Dreadful.” “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Adam Brown, Chris Vance of “Transporter” and “Vikings” star Ivan Kaye are also part of the clientele. Also Read: Wme-img Expands in China with Sequoia, Tencent, FountainVest Denton-Jones was a talent agent at Creative Artists Management for seven years. Before that, he worked at agency Hamilton Hodell and the Ambassador Theatre Group,...
- 6/20/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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