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Seasons three and four of FX's 'Atlanta' to resume production in 2021

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Guy D’Alema/FX(ATLANTA) — The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has halted yet another award-winning television show: FX’s Atlanta.

Variety reports the series, created by Donald Glover, will resume production for seasons three and four in 2021, according to FX Networks and FX Productions chairman John Landgraf.

During a virtual press conference, Landgraf praised Glover and “his intrepid team” for being able to finish writing both forthcoming seasons over the last few months. One season will primarily be filmed in Atlanta, Georgia as usual, while the other will be filmed in Europe.

Landgraf said the safety of the cast and crew is their “No. 1 priority,” which includes implementing new procedures, such as testing, social distancing practices, and contact tracing, as well as access to doctors, in response to COVID-19. 

It’s been a year and a half since the newest episode of the FX series, which originally aired in 2016. Glover also stars in the series alongside Lakeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, and Brian Tyree Henry as rapper Paper Boi navigating Atlanta’s rap scene. 

In 2017, Atlanta won a Golden Globe award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and an Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography a year later. Comedian Katt Williams received an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his guest appearance on season two.

Other FX series preparing to return to production this fall include Pose, Snowfall, American Horror Story and American Crime Story. Fargo just wrapped production on the final two episodes of its fourth season.

By Rachel George
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Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria welcome a son: “We couldn’t be happier”

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Matthew Simmons/Getty Images for SBIFF(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Baldwin welcomed their fifth child together, a son, on Tuesday night.

The couple announced the news via Instagram on Wednesday morning, with Hilaria sharing a photo from the hospital room of the parents gazing down at the newborn as she cradles him in her arms.

“We had a baby last night. He is perfect and we couldn’t be happier,” she writes alongside the photo.

Though the couple hasn’t shared the name of their new son, Hilaria enticed fans to “stay tuned” for the name announcement. 

Hilaria revealed that she was pregnant in April with an Instagram video that captured the sound of the baby’s heartbeat. The news came after Hilaria shared that she experienced two miscarriages in 2019.

“I’ll let the baby do the talking because I don’t have the words to express how this sound makes me feel,” she wrote at the time of the pregnancy announcement. “Just got the great news that all is well and all is healthy with this little munchkin…Here we go again.”

This is the couple’s fifth child together following seven-year-old Carmen, five-year-old Rafael, three-year-old Leonardo and two-year-old Romeo. The couple married in 2012. The 62-year-old actor also has a daughter, Ireland, from his previous marriage to Kim Basigner.

By Cillea Houghton
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'The Walking Dead' to end in 2022

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Jackson Lee Davis/AMC(ATLANTA) — The Walking Dead is ending after 11 seasons.

AMC announced today that the show’s upcoming 11th season will be its last. But fans can look forward to an extended season of 24 episodes that will air over the course of two years, beginning in late 2021 before officially coming to a close in 2022.

Additionally, AMC has also unveiled plans for a new spinoff series featuring beloved leading stars Norman Reedus, aka Daryl Dixon as he’s known on the show, and Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier. The new show is also created by TWD showrunner Angela Kang and former showrunner and current chief content officer for TWD Scott M. Gimple. It’s set to debut in 2023.   

Gimple is also developing a scripted anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead.

Prior to the final season, AMC will finish airing season 10, which was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season 10 finale will broadcast on October 4.  

The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 and at its height was the most-viewed scripted show on cable television. However, the show as seen a steady decline in its audience in recent years.  Star Andrew Lincoln left the series in 2018.  The spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead debuted on AMC in 2015.

By Cillea Houghton
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First trailer for 'Dune' reveals all-star cast, epic scale — and sandworms

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Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures(NEW YORK) — Just as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling fantasy book series of all time, Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune is science-fiction’s equal.  Now, fans are hoping Blade Runner 2049 filmmaker Denis Villenueve can do for Dune what Peter Jackson did for Lord of the Rings.

Judging from the just-released first trailer, things are very promising.

Set thousands of years in the future, Dune tells the story of the noble Atreides family, which takes over the desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. The planet is the sole supplier of ‘the spice,’ a substance that affords the ability to navigate space-time for interstellar travel, making it, and Arrakis, the most valuable commodity in the universe. But the evil House Harkonnen all but destroys House Atreides, leaving its sole heir, young Paul Atreides, to forge an alliance with the planet’s native population, the Fremen, who also believe Paul to be a prophesied messiah who himself will rule the universe.

Call Me By Your Name Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet stars as Paul, prominently featured in the trailer, which also gives us a generous sampling of Dune‘s epic scale.  That includes a really good look at Dune‘s signature creature, the mammoth sandworms — desert-dwelling behemoths that can swallow entire ships and vehicles, and which Paul comes to learn are the origin of the spice itself.

Dune was first adapted for the big screen in 1984 by David Lynch, an effort that was a box office flop but is now a cult favorite. SyFy later made Dune into two miniseries.

Dune also stars Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista.  It’s currently scheduled to debut in theaters December 18.

By Christopher Watson
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Sasheer Zamata explains why she's "thankful to be a part" of her new 'Woke' series

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Photo credit: Zack DeZon(NEW YORK) — Sasheer Zamata is excited for fans to see her in the new Hulu series Woke, where she’ll get to tap into her conscious side.

Zamata tells ABC Audio that unlike other series, which may focus on social justice and issues concerning race, her new series doesn’t hold back on delving into sensitive topics.

“I like this show because we really hit the issues head on and we’re not shying away from things,” Zamata explains. “Like the pilot episode, Lamorne Morris, the main character, gets stopped and frisked pretty aggressively by police and then the rest of the series is him dealing with that trauma.”

According to Zamata, there aren’t “too many things… seen in mainstream media that talks about the trauma that lasts after a racially incited incident.”

“And I think we’ll be a part of that,” she says of the new series.

Of course, being “woke” isn’t new to the Zamata or her Woke character, Ayana, whom the comedian says “runs a very progressive newspaper in San Francisco.”

“So I’m already “woke,” Zamata says. “And I’m kind of the guru that’s leading [the main] character into the woke light,” she laughs. 

Woke is now available to stream on Hulu.

By Candice Williams
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