Andrew Fried: Celebs Rumors

EXCLUSIVE: Boardwalk Pictures, the company behind Netflix docuseries such as Cheer and Last Chance U, is working on a docuseries about Athletes Unlimited, a network of professional women’s sports leagues.

Mariska Hargitay will receive the Anniversary Tribute for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Peter Morgan will receive the Creator Tribute for “The Crown” and Lulu Wang will receive the Spotlight Tribute for “Expats.” The tributes will be presented during the inaugural ceremony on June 4 at Cipriani 25 in New York City. “In launching the 2024 Gotham TV Awards, we’re proud to carry on a longstanding Gotham Awards tradition in honoring iconic artists and creators who have enriched the landscape and pushed the boundaries of TV, making an indelible impact on the medium,” said Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of The Gotham Institute.

FX is pushing back its kickoff time for the third season of Welcome to Wrexham.

FX has renewed Welcome to Wrexham for a third season and is set to premiere in Spring 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg is no stranger to close encounters of the third kind.

Fans of the great Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ Welcome to Wrexham underdog story won’t have to wait too much longer for Season 2.

A second season of Men In Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham has been confirmed on Thursday.

devastating snowplow accident on Jan. 5, filmed the series last year.

Zack Sharf Jeremy Renner is still recovering from his critical snow plow accident, but he’s also getting fans excited for an upcoming new project. The actor recently took to Instagram to reveal a behind-the-scenes look at “Rennervations,” a four-part Disney+ series that follows Renner as he travels the world to help communities reimagine unique purpose-built vehicles. “Behind the scenes on [‘Rennervations’], coming soon on Disney+ around the world!” Renner wrote in a caption. “We are cueing up now with Disney and Disney+ to launch this amazing new show. More info to come.” Renner added: “Thank you for your patience…while I am in the shop now, working on me.”

EXCLUSIVE: The non-fiction space is heating up in terms of M&A as Boardwalk Pictures, the company behind long-running Netflix series such as Chef’s Table and Last Chance U, has struck a deal to sell a minority stake.

EXCUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment said Monday that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Accepted, the feature documentary from The Disunited States of America helmer Dan Chen that played at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Kate Aurthur editorDan Levy’s upcoming HBO Max cooking competition “The Big Brunch” has found its judging panel: Joining Levy at the judges’ table will be chef Sohla El-Waylly and restaurateur Will Guidara. The unscripted series — created and hosted by Levy, and produced by Boardwalk Pictures — will premiere on the streamer later this year.In the announcement, Levy and fellow executive producers Andrew Fried and Sarina Roma of Boardwalk Pictures said: “We owed it to our competing chefs to find judges who could help them in really meaningful ways — both in the kitchen and beyond, and Sohla and Will do just that.

Ellise Shafer “Flee” won best feature at the International Documentary Association’s annual awards ceremony on Friday night.Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, “Flee” is also nominated for best documentary feature at this year’s Oscars. Leading the ceremony with the most wins, however, was “Summer of Soul,” which took home the best director prize for Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson as well as best music documentary and best editing.The ceremony also handed out speciality awards, honoring Roger Ross Williams with the Career Achievement Award, Ronan Farrow with the Truth to Power Award, Cecilia Aldarondo with the Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award, Jean Tsien with the Pioneer Award and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh with the Courage Under Fire Award. Below, find the full list of winners.Best Feature“Flee” (Denmark, France, Norway / NEON, Participant.

Best Feature: “Flee”Director: Jonas Poher RasmussenProducers: Monica Hellstrӧm, Signe Byrge Sorensen and Charlotte De La GournerieBest Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”Best Short: “A Broken House”Director/Producer: Jimmy GoldblumProducer: Matt Weaver, Richard Gephardt and Harrison NalevanskyBest Curated Series: “Independent Lens”Executive Producers: Lois Vossen, Sally Jo FiferBest Episodic Series: “My Love: Six Stories of True Love”Executive Producer: Mo-young Jin, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard and Jordan WynnBest Multi-Part Documentary: “Exterminate All the Brutes”Director/Executive Producer: Raoul PeckProducers: Daniel Delume. Executive Producers: Remi Grellety, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Jamie Morris, Jack Oliver and Poppy DixonBest Short-Form Series: “Viral Dreams”Producer: Georg TschurtschenthalerExecutive Producer: Christian BeetzBest Stand-Alone Audio Documentary: “VICE News Reports: Monaea, A 2020 Diary”Reporters: Monaea Upton and Jen KinneyProducers: Jen Kinne, Ashley Cleek, Adizah Eghan and Adreanna RodriguezExecutive Producer: Kate OsbornBest Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series: “Suave” from Futuro Studios and PRX Reporters: Maggie Freleng and Julieta MartinelliProducers: Maria Hinojosa, Maggie Freleng, Julieta Martinelli, Marlon Bishop, Audrey Quinn and Stephanie LubowExecutive Producer: Maria HinojosaBest Music Documentary: “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”Director: Ahmir “Questlove” ThompsonProducers: Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David DinersteinDavid L. Wolper Student Documentary Award: “Seahorse”Director/Producer: Nele DehnenkampProducer: Christine DuttlingerBest Cinematography: “Faya

Marvel stars Brie Larson and Jeremy Renner are moving in to the unscripted space.

Bill Cosby. The comedian and Emmy Award-winning host of CNN's , directed the upcoming docuseries, a four-part series that explores the life, career and impact of Cosby, as well as how his sexual assault allegations forever changed his legacy.Bell serves as the narrator and co-executive producer of the docuseries with Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Jordan Wynn, Sarina Roma, and showrunner Katie A.

upheld Cosby’s conviction, rejecting his legal team’s argument that he wasn’t given a fair trial, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who arrested Cosby in 2015, was obligated to stand by his predecessor’s promise not to charge Cosby with any crimes when the comedian agreed to give potentially incriminating testimony in Constand’s civil case.The court called Cosby’s arrest and later conviction “an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was forgone for more than a decade” and argued that “fair play and decency” required the DA to honor his predecessor’s agreement.Steele is appealing that decision to the Supreme Court. “We Need to Talk About Cosby” is a Boardwalk Pictures Production in association with WKB Industries for Showtime, directed by W.

Amazon Studios has acquired US and Latin American rights to the documentary Val from A24. Amazon will release the docu later this year; A24 controls all remaining global rights.

Netflix is developing a docuseries following Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, as he competes for Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin’s 23XI Racing team.

Best Feature: “Crip Camp” Directors and Producers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara BolderBest Director: Garrett Bradley, “Time”Best Short: “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” Director and Producer: Matthew KillipBest Curated Series: “American Experience” Executive Producers: Susan Bellows and Mark SamelsBest Episodic Series: “Last Chance U” Director and Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley.

Lin-Manuel Miranda before he became a household name with In the Heights and Hamilton. Their origins and recent revival will be chronicled in the Hulu documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, which debuts Friday, July 17.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: As the much-anticipated Hamilton film debuts on Disney+ Friday and Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Love Supreme gets a July 17 premiere date, actor Christopher Jackson has signed with CAA, Deadline has learned exclusively.Jackson stars in director Thomas Kail’s Hamilton as George Washington, the character he originated in the Broadway production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical. As one of Miranda’s collaborators on the hip-hop improv show Freestyle Love Supreme, Jackson also appears in director Andrew Fried’s Hulu doc We Are Freestyle Love Supreme that premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, about the improvisational hip hop group that included Lin-Manuel Miranda before he became a household name with In the Heights and Hamilton, is headed your way sooner than planned. The film, originally scheduled for release on June 5 but delayed in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests, will now arrive on Friday, July 17.The 84-minute doc comes from filmmaker Andrew Fried, who began following the group in their early days during the summer of 2005 when they were just rapping and beatboxing on the streets to anyone who'd listen.