Diva alert: Judith Light! Bette Midler! Janet Mock!
- April 17, 2019
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By Romeo San Vicente
Ryan Murphy has yet another new show in the works. It’s called _The Politician_, it’s coming to Netflix, and it stars that adorable (and now openly gay)
Christmas Terror with NOS4A2 and Zachary Quinto
Christmas is coming early this year and it’s going to be horrifying. AMC premieres the new series NOS4A2 on June 2, starring Ashleigh Cummings (this fall’s Oscar-bait, The Goldfinch, from which you’ll no doubt be hearing more) and, as the Ben Platt, Santa of all, Zachary Quinto. Cummings plays a young woman who discovers she has a supernatural gift for finding lost things, which puts her at cross purposes with and battling against one Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a creature who feeds off the souls of children before leaving them in Christmasland, a place where it’s literally Christmas every day and unhappiness is against the law. It’s all based on the best-selling 2013 novel by Joe Hill, and we’re pleased to know that it will serve as a vigorously dark rebuke to the Hallmark Channel’s insistence on showing bland, white bread Christmas-themed TV movies every other night of the year.
Viola Davis brings Octavia Butler To TV
Viola Davis A-list status means she has a production company now. It’s called JuVee, and she and her production partner, Julius Tennon, have something in store for Amazon: a drama series based on the novel Wild Seed, the first of the Patternist series from legendary lesbian sci-fi author Octavia Butler. The story of two African immortals – one cruel, one healing – who travel from pre-Colonial West Africa into the far away future, it’s an epic of a struggle that spans history and shapes life on Earth. No cast is set yet – though, obviously, we know we want Viola in there, please and thank you – but it will be co-written by Nnedi Okorafor and filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, who will also direct. More on this one as it develops, because America is literally starving for lesbian-created sci-fi TV content and there will be no peace until that hunger is sated.
Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott and Mary J. Blige spread the gospel
Among the 150 films on Lifetime’s production slate – yes, you read that correctly, one hundred and fifty – one certainly stands out, and that’s because it’s from a power trio production team comprised of Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott
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