Oscar and Grammy-winning actor, artist, activist and Chicago native Common and his Freedom Road Productions is teaming with Ample Entertainment and Rebecca Halpern Productions on a political docuseries set around the upcoming 2019 Chicago Mayoral race. The companies will begin pitching the project to premium cable networks and streaming platforms this week.
On February 26, 2019, Chicagoans could make history by electing their first black female mayor, their first openly gay mayor, or their first Latino mayor. The 21 candidates running for the city’s top job make up the largest, most diverse pool of hopefuls Chicago has ever seen.
Chicago/2019 is the real-time documentary television series that follows these candidates as they fight for votes in the most cutthroat arena in local politics. A city’s mayoral race doesn’t usually make national headlines, but Chicago isn’t just any city – it’s a political powerhouse, and...
On February 26, 2019, Chicagoans could make history by electing their first black female mayor, their first openly gay mayor, or their first Latino mayor. The 21 candidates running for the city’s top job make up the largest, most diverse pool of hopefuls Chicago has ever seen.
Chicago/2019 is the real-time documentary television series that follows these candidates as they fight for votes in the most cutthroat arena in local politics. A city’s mayoral race doesn’t usually make national headlines, but Chicago isn’t just any city – it’s a political powerhouse, and...
- 12/14/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ample Entertainment has named executive producer showrunner Alex Weresow as its new senior vice president of current programming, Variety has learned exclusively.
In addition, Ample has also promoted Darren Kane to the role of executive vice president of production. Both men will work out of the company’s Culver City office and report directly to Ample’s co-presidents and co-founders Ari Mark and Phil Lott.
Prior to joining Ample, Weresow served as executive producer and showrunner for the critically-acclaimed A&E series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” for which he won an Emmy award. Other credits include “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” for Oxygen, “Wife Swap” at ABC, “Undercover Boss” at CBS, and “The Glee Project” for Oxygen among many more.
“I am beyond thrilled to be joining the Ample team,” said Weresow. “Their commitment to creating artful, high-quality content is second to none, and I’m excited to keep...
In addition, Ample has also promoted Darren Kane to the role of executive vice president of production. Both men will work out of the company’s Culver City office and report directly to Ample’s co-presidents and co-founders Ari Mark and Phil Lott.
Prior to joining Ample, Weresow served as executive producer and showrunner for the critically-acclaimed A&E series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” for which he won an Emmy award. Other credits include “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” for Oxygen, “Wife Swap” at ABC, “Undercover Boss” at CBS, and “The Glee Project” for Oxygen among many more.
“I am beyond thrilled to be joining the Ample team,” said Weresow. “Their commitment to creating artful, high-quality content is second to none, and I’m excited to keep...
- 10/17/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Each season of series will tackle a new morality tale ’inspired by culturally consequential source material.’
Netflix has ordered anthology series What/If and signed Renée Zellweger to star in what will be her first regular series role.
Written and executive produced by showrunner Mike Kelley, best known as creator of the ABC network series Revenge, What/If is described by Netflix as a “social thriller” that will explore “what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things.”
The streamer says each season of the series will tackle a new morality tale “inspired by culturally consequential source material.”
The first season,...
Netflix has ordered anthology series What/If and signed Renée Zellweger to star in what will be her first regular series role.
Written and executive produced by showrunner Mike Kelley, best known as creator of the ABC network series Revenge, What/If is described by Netflix as a “social thriller” that will explore “what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things.”
The streamer says each season of the series will tackle a new morality tale “inspired by culturally consequential source material.”
The first season,...
- 8/17/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
This week Murder in the Heartland spotlights the killing of Marshall Dent, who disappears on Christmas Eve. Shawnee, Okla., on Christmas Day 2013 and 27-year-old Dent was reported missing by his family, he’d been out partying with friends and not been seen since. Initially the investigation did not get very far, until months later in 2014 a body was found buried on sacred Native American land. Forensics identified the body as that of Dent and an examination found he’d died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck. Detectives soon arrested 39-year-old George Edmond Walker, who admitted he’d gotten into a fight with […]
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- 5/31/2018
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
This week Murder in the Heartland spotlights the wishing-well murder of Alyce Seff, a case that took nine years to solve. The body of the 81-year-old landlady was found stuffed into a decorative well in the garden of a house she owned in German Village, Ohio, on July 9, 2008. She had been strangled, her hands bound with duct tape, and her body then dropped head first into the well. Police suspected robbery was the motive as Seff was well known for collecting her various rents in cash and carrying large amount of it about with her. The case — which...read more...
- 12/13/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
This week Murder in the Heartland examines the murder of Elizabeth Anne Baune in her home, a brutal crime that shocked the small town she lived in. November 7, 2007, near Payette, Idaho, and 45-year-old Elizabeth Anne Baune was found dead in her own home, she’d been stabbed in the head and chest 29 times. Detective thought the most likely explanation was a burglary gone wrong, given the preschool teacher was popular and had no enemies that they could identify. It turned out that it was Baune own good nature that led to her death. She had taken in her...read more...
- 12/6/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
SundanceTV is re-cracking the case of In Cold Blood. Recently, the network announced they've ordered a new event series called Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited.From filmmaker Joe Berlinger, the docuseries will re-examine the brutal 1959 murders of a small-town Kansas family. The case was made famous by Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood and its 1967 film adaptation starring Robert Blake.Read More…...
- 10/29/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger is set to explore the murders made famous by Truman Capote.
Berlinger is set to direct and produce “Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited” for SundanceTV. The four-part docuseries will dig even deeper into the 1959 quadruple murder that Capote made famous in his 1966 book “In Cold Blood.”
Berlinger, who has been developing the project for more than a year, revealed why he’s so thrilled at the opportunity to revisit the infamous crime.
“I have long been obsessed with Capote’s genre-busting masterwork, but even more fascinated by the underlying crime and its impact on the American psyche,” said Berlinger. “The opportunity to explore my obsession, in light of new information we have uncovered, with a network and brand that I have long been associated with and which represents cinematic quality at its most intelligent is a dream situation for a nonfiction filmmaker of my background.
Berlinger is set to direct and produce “Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited” for SundanceTV. The four-part docuseries will dig even deeper into the 1959 quadruple murder that Capote made famous in his 1966 book “In Cold Blood.”
Berlinger, who has been developing the project for more than a year, revealed why he’s so thrilled at the opportunity to revisit the infamous crime.
“I have long been obsessed with Capote’s genre-busting masterwork, but even more fascinated by the underlying crime and its impact on the American psyche,” said Berlinger. “The opportunity to explore my obsession, in light of new information we have uncovered, with a network and brand that I have long been associated with and which represents cinematic quality at its most intelligent is a dream situation for a nonfiction filmmaker of my background.
- 10/15/2016
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
SundanceTV has ordered four-part true crime documentary series Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited (working title), a reexamination of the crime chronicled in Truman Capote's landmark book and Oscar-nominated film, for premiere next year. SundanceTV has also obtained the rights to In Cold Blood, the 1967 film starring Robert Blake, which marks its 50th anniversary next year, along with the new series as a true programming event. Capote’s “nonfiction novel” In…...
- 10/14/2016
- Deadline TV
TBS has recruited Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson and rapper-actor Coolio to star in the upcoming original thriller Red Water. The film, from Sony Pictures TV, centers on a bull shark who wreaks havoc in a Louisiana river. Phillips and Swanson play a divorced couple searching the river for natural gas whose boat is hijacked by a pair of criminals (Coolio, Jaimz Woolvett) on a quest for stolen money dropped in the river. Recovery of the cash is complicated by relentless shark attacks. Charlie Carner is directing the telefilm from a script by Christopher Mack and J.D. Feigelson. Michael Larkin (ABC's Murder in the Heartland) is executive producing the movie, scheduled to premiere Aug. 10, with Mitch Engel (TNT's George Wallace) producing. On the big screen, Phillips next appears in Stark Raving Mad and the Ron Shelton-directed Two Cops.
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