LEGENDARY WW2 SERIES THE WINDS OF WAR GETTING A NEW TV REMAKE BY SETH MACFARLANE! ISRAEL PREPARING THEIR MOST EXPENSIVE EPIC TV SAGA EVER THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM! MEXICAN GOTHIC TV SERIES AT HULU

     'THE WINDS OF WAR' 

GETS NEW TV ADAPTATION

The new series will be shopped to networks

It was already adapted into a classic mini series with Robert Mitchum and Jean Michael Vincent which was a massive TV hit back in the 80s, and now THE WINDS OF WAR will be turned into a television series again by Seth MacFarlane at NBC Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Pulitzer Prize winning World War II epic novel by Herman Wouk, published back in 1971, tells the epic story of one American family’s turbulent voyage across the continents and across the years that spanned throughout the global war. The novel also got a sequel titled War and Remembrance later that same decade. The original TV series had more than ten Emmy nominations at the beginning of the 80s.

     'THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM' BESTSELLER

 TO BECOME ISRAEL'S MOST EXPENSIVE SERIES EVER

Yes TV has already ordered two seasons

Speaking of adaptations, Deadline reports that Israeli Yes TV has ordered two seasons of new series THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM based on the novel by Sarit Yishai Levy, which was a huge bestseller. Planned as one of the most expensive TV series in Israel the multi generational historical melodrama will be shot in Hebrew, English, Ladino and Arabic. Posed to air as soon as next year, the ambitious series will chart the passionate and tragic history of a family living through the Ottoman Empire, The British Mandate and Israel’s War of Independence. Beside Michael Aloni, Hila Saada, Itzik Cohen and Yuval Scharf, the cast will

Exclusive first look at the lead cast of the new series

also have a newcomer actress Swell Ariel Or who will play the title role of Luna Armoza, the beauty queen of Jerusalem.

     'MEXICAN GOTHIC' 

TV ADAPTATION AT HULU

Mexican Gothic will be adapted at Hulu

Hulu is, meanwhile, developing a mini TV series together with Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos as producers, of MEXICAN GOTHIC fantasy horror book by Silvia Moreno Garcia which was published in June. The story follows Noemí Taboada, a young socialite who travels to the Mexican countryside and the mountains of Hidalgo in hopes of rescuing her cousin, who has recently married into a reclusive mining family, after receiving a frantic letter in the mail. Noemí seeks to unveil the family’s violent and menacing secrets, but her confidence is quickly threatened and there may be no escaping the walls of her strange, new home.

COMEDY SUNDAY: MATT BOMER, DAVID SCHWIMMER, ADAM RIPPON TO GUEST STAR IN 'WILL AND GRACE'! KRISTA MARIE YU IS CHINESE EXCHANGE STUDENT IN 'LAST MAN STANDING'! 'SANCHEZ WAY' SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA, MARK CONSUELOS

   'WILL AND GRACE'

ANNOUNCES NEW GUEST STARS

Comedy Sunday this weekend! NBC has revealed some of the celebrities who will guest star in the second returning season of their WILL AND GRACE

Will and Grace returns this October

sitcom which is back on the small screens from October 4th with 18 new episodes! Matt Bomer will guest star as McCoy Whitman, a smooth talking, self satisfied TV news anchor who dates Will (Eric McCor- mack), while Minnie Driver is back as Lorraine Finster, Karen's (Megan Mullally) nemesis and stepdaughter. Olympic scater Adam Rippon is also appearing in one of the new episodes, while Friends star David Schwimmer will have a multiple episode arc as Grace's (Debra Messing) new love interest.  Alec Baldwin will be back as Karen's multi millionaire lover.

   'LAST MAN STANDING'

CASTS KRISTA MARIE YU 

Krista Marie Yu will play the Chinese exchange student

Over at Fox, where one of our dearest ever multicam sitcoms has moved this season, they also have new cast members. Tim Allen's LAST MAN STANDING will see Mike Baxter left in the house alone with his wife Vanessa (Nancy Travis), since his two older daughters are now both married and youngest Eve is at academy. This will inspire Vanessa to take a young scholar from China under her wing letting her stay with them while she completes her schooling in the States. Krista Marie Yu will play Jen who Vanessa feels particularly tied to  because she’s interested in geology and Vanessa’s always wanted to encourage

The Baxters are back September 28th, this time on Fox!

young women to go into the sciences. Since she comes from a different political system this will open some new fun discussions and conflicts with Mike. Seventh season is back September 28th!

   'THE SANCHEZ WAY'

 NEW SITCOM FROM KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS

ABC is developing new half hour comedy produced by Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos. THE SANCHEZ WAY will follow a loud, proud, Mexican American family that lives by a very strict working class code.

No word whether Kelly and Mark will also star in the new sitcom!

Show centres on Pedro Sanchez, the patriarch of the family, whose code is threatened when his “fresa” brother-in-law (a Mexican yuppie) moves to town and wants to be part of the family. No word whether Kelly and Mark will star in the sitcom.

'CHRONICLES OF NARNIA' TO GET EPIC REBOOT WITH 'THE SILVER CHAIR'! 'AZTECS' EPIC TV ADAPTATION OF DANIEL PETERS BOOK! ABC ORDERS NEW KELLY RIPA SITCOM, FOX NEW COURTNEY COX COMEDY!

'THE SILVER CHAIR' TO BE A

REBOOT OF NARNIA MOVIE SAGA

If you love legendary epic fantasy saga THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA from CS Lewis and are sad that the movie franchise ended last decade with three films, do not despair because the fourth one is coming in the future. Producer Mark Gordon has announced that it will be based on THE SILVER CHAIR book and will be a reboot - a start of a new franchise with new actors, directors and team. The story follows Dawn Treader's Eustace and his schoolmate Jill who end up in Narnia where they need to hunt down the ageing King Caspian's missing son.

'AZTECS' EPIC TV SERIES

BASED ON DANIEL PETERS' BOOK 'THE LUCK OF HUEMAC'

Speaking of book adaptations, Televisa USA will turn Daniel Peters' acclaimed book 'The Luck of Huemac' into AZTECS TV series! MARCO POLO's and BLACK SAILS' Mark Chernuchin will run the series about a family in the waning moments of a glorious but little known civilization as the Spanish invasion looms. As 'Deadline' reports the project will tackle of the subject of the pre-Columbian empire from the family’s vantage point, rather than that of Cortez and the Conquistadors. Intrigue, betrayal and romance told from the eyes of the people that built and lost this great civilization.

NEW SITCOM PILOTS FROM

KELLY RIPA, MARK CONSUELOS
Since it is the season when comedy pilots get ordered, here's the today's batch: ABC has ordered a pilot of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos untitled multicamera sitcom about husband and wife who are trying to fend off the gentrification of their neighbourhood in Brooklyn. When each of their three daughters announce they are romantically involved with the very people who irritate the two of them so much, they are forced to finally let these people into their lives.
AND COURTNEY COX
Fox is, meanwhile, counting on Courtney Cox in a pilot for new untitled single camera sitcom in which she would play a woman who inherits her late billionaire husband’s charity and quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.