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The FOX network is reportedly shifting its programming strategy around and will order series with shorter runs…Disney+ will be offered as an add-on for Hulu subscribers…HBO has announced that the Game of Thrones showrunners Benioff and Weiss’ controversial slavery drama series Confederate is dead since the duo are looking for a deal with a streaming service…there are ideas for True Detective season four but it will not be seen for a while…AMC has renewed NOS4A2 for a ten-episode second season…Cursed, the retake on the legend of King Arthur from Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler has been cast and the Netflix show will go into production soon…Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune will be two films…Game of Thrones’ Jerome Flynn has joined the cast of The Dark Tower TV series at Amazon Prime Video. He joins Sam Strike (Nightflyers) as Roland Deschain the Gunslinger, and Finnish actor Jasper Paakkonen (Vikings) as the Man in Black. The series will not connect with a film and just be a TV project…Bumblebee’s Travis Knight will direct the Six Billion Dollar Man, an adaptation of the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. Mark Wahlberg will play Col. Steve Austin…Netflix is in preliminary talks to buy the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

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