BECOMING ASTRID TRAILER ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR! CBS ORDERS NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS: HALFWAY THERE, EMPEROR OF MALIBU, THE FOLKS, SIBLINGS, CAROL'S SECOND ACT, LIFE LESSONS, QUINTA & JERMAINE

   NEW MULTICAMERA SITCOMS

FRESHLY ORDERED BY CBS

Iliza Shlesinger will lead HalfWay There

A slate of new multicam sitcoms ordered by CBS: Iliza Shlesinger will star in HALFWAY THERE, which she also wrote, as a comic who prides herself on “guiding women” in her act. She is forced to put that to practical use when her half-sister moves in with her! CBS has also ordered a pilot for a comedy series from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan THE EMPEROR OF MALIBU about two very different families, one from Shanghai with new money and one from the U.S. East Coast with old money, who learn to co-exist when their children get married.

They also bought a Gail Berman multicam THE FOLKS which tells what happens when a momma’s boy marries a daddy’s girl, and their respective parents can’t let go. SIBLINGS multicam is also in development from Ranch and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia producers, which centres on two very different siblings who decide to live together and raise their kids

Patricia Heaton is returning to sitcoms in Carol's 2nd Act

after one of them gets divorced. Meanwhile, The Middle star Patricia Heaton will both topline and produce CBS new multicam sitcom CAROL'S SECOND ACT playing a woman who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. They're also doing a sitcom LIFE LESSONS from Eric Christian Olsen about a guy who is a professional failure at life and finds advice and friendship in the most unlikely of places… a class of first graders. Meanwhile, Superior Donuts star Jermaine Fowler will do another comedy for them: QUINTA & JERMAINE in which he and Quinta Brunson will star as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.

   'BECOMING ASTRID' TRAILER

ON PIPPI LONGSTOCKING AUTHOR

We've seen movies on Winnie the Pooh creator, the Tolkien one is coming soon too, but from Finland comes a movie on the creator of famous children

Becoming Astrid arrives this Autumn

character Pippi Longstocking! BECOMING ASTRID already played in their domestic cinemas last September as well as in Scandinavia, but will hit rest of Europe and USA in limited release this month and November. Alba August is playing the lead role in the biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking who found inspiration in being a very young mother herself. The movie was directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen who also wrote the film together with her husband who is also a children's book author.