CBS orders ‘BrainDead’ from ‘Good Wife’ duo
CBS orders ‘BrainDead’ from ‘Good Wife’ duo
Robert and Michelle King, the team that brought the critically acclaimed drama “The Good Wife” to CBS, are bringing more politics – and some brain-eating aliens – to CBS.
On Wednesday, the network announced a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of “BrainDead,” a comic thriller from the Kings to be broadcast in summer 2016.
The Kings, who created and continued to act as showrunners on “The Good Wife,” recently signed a three-year producing deal with CBS Television Studios. “BrainDead” is the first project to stem from that partnership.
According to CBS, the series will follow an eager young Washington staffer who discovers that “1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.”
“We wanted to do a show that was a mix of genre-pulp and high-brow politics – ‘The Strain’ crossed with ‘The West Wing,’” said the Kings in a press release from CBS.
Flava Flav charged with DUI after arrest
LAS VEGAS
Rapper Flavor Flav has been charged with DUI and other counts after being arrested in May near the Las Vegas airport.
Clark County prosecutors charged the reality television star July 16 with driving under the influence involving cocaine, speeding and having an open container of alcohol.
The performer’s legal name is William Jonathan Drayton.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said he was pulled over on a freeway on-ramp May 21 near McCarran International Airport for traveling 87 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Drayton’s lawyer could not immediately be reached to comment.
Cheadle’s Davis biopic to premiere at NY fest
NEW YORK
Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic, “Miles Ahead,” will make its world premiere as the closing-night film at the New York Film Festival.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the selection Wednesday. The film has been a long-time passion project for Cheadle, who stars as the jazz musician and directs for the first time.
“Miles Ahead” concentrates on Davis’ reemergence in 1980 after his so-called “silent period” in the late 1970s. The film does not yet have distribution in North America.
The 53rd New York Film Festival runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 11.
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