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Patricia Arquette has been unveiled as this years Series Mania guest of honor and will deliver a masterclass.

The Oscar-winning Boyhood star will look back on her career during the Lille fest, which kicks off in just over two weeks.

Arquette is a decorated American actress who has won a multitude of awards including for Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, in which she played Mason’s mum Olivia. Other major past credits include True Romance, Stigmata and Medium.

More recently, Arquette has turned to TV and portrays Harmony Cobel in Apple TV+ hit drama Severance. She also starred in Apple dramedy High Desert, which she developed with Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe, 3 Arts Entertainment, Ben Stiller and Red Hour.

She recently made her directing debut with Gonzo Girl, a feature film based on the best-selling novel by Cheryl Della Pietra, which starred Willem Dafoe, Camila Morrone and Ray Nicholson.

Chances of a second season for Patricia Arquette's newest show have dried up. Apple TV+ has cancelled her High Desert series, according to the actress and executive producer. The show was created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe-House.

A single-camera dark comedy series, the High Desert TV show stars Arquette, Brad Garrett, Weruche Opia, Bernadette Peters, and Rupert Friend. Recurring players include Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Eric Petersen, Susan Park, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Eden Brolin, Carmine Giovinazzo, and Carlo Rota. In the story, Peggy Newman (Arquette) is an on-again-off-again addict. She decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother (Peters), with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California. Peggy makes the life-changing decision to become a private investigator. Read More…...

"High Desert', the new comedy TV series created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe-House has been canceled after one Season on AppleTV+:

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Well, this is sad TV news on this fine holiday weekend.

Apple TV+ has canceled High Desert following the conclusion of its freshman season, according to Patrica Arquette.

"A lot of you have asked about High Desert and if there was going to be a second season," the actress said in an Instagram video on Saturday.

"So I just wanted to let you know, we just found out that it won't be coming back," she added.

"So that's a sad bummer for all of us."

She thanked the crew, writers, actors and fans. "You can't win 'em all," she added.

Ben Stiller, who served as an executive producer on the series, also addressed the cancellation. 

"We are all disappointed," he wrote.

"Our entire #HighDesert cast was amazing and to all our fans, thank you for embracing this show."

"I Love Patricia Arquette, who gave an awards worthy performance," he continued.

The Apple TV+ series High Desert will not be returning for a second season, according to show lead Patricia Arquette.

The actress, who starred as Peggy, took to Instagram on Saturday to share the news in a video, with the caption, “It stinks.”

“A lot of you have asked about High Desert and if there was going to be a second season, so I just wanted to let you know that we just found out that we won’t be coming back,” Arquette said. “That’s a sad bummer for all of us.”

She went on to express her appreciation for the show’s writers, actors and the entire crew. “We just had a blast,” she added. “Thanks to you guys for watching. You can’t win them all.”

The comedy follows Peggy, a former addict, who decides to start a new life after the death of her mother and becomes a private investigator.

“High Desert” is headed beyond the horizon at Apple TV+. In a video posted on Instagram Saturday morning, series star Patricia Arquette shared that the production had not received an order for a second season at the streamer.

“A lot of you have asked about ‘High Desert’ and if there was going to be a second season, so I just wanted to let you know that we just found out that we won’t be coming back,” Arquette opened. “That’s a sad bummer for all of us.”

Arquette extended her gratitude to the crew, writers and actors on the series. The post was accompanied with a text caption: “It stinks.”

“We just had a blast. I love Peggy and that punk rock world,” Arquette continued. “Thanks to you guys for watching. Can’t win them all. You know, it sucks but… tough.”

Representatives for Apple TV+ were not immediately available for comment.

Patricia Arquette-fronted comedy drama High Desert is ending after one season.

Apple has axed the series, which launched on May 17 and ran through June 21.

Arquette revealed the news on Instagram. “A lot of you have asked about High Desert and if there was going to be a second season, we just found out that it won’t be coming back. That’s a sad bummer for all of us,” she said.

Arquette, who played Peggy, thanked the writers, crew and actors. “I loved Peggy and that punk rock world,” she added. “You can’t win ‘em all and it sucks. I’ve got this cactus and we’re going to hug it out.”

Arquette plays Peggy, an addict who decides to make a new start by becoming a private investigator after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small California desert town of Yucca Valley.

Chicago – One of the peculiar secrets … since revealed … in the new Apple TV+ series “High Desert” is that the icon Bernadette Peters portrays two characters. One is the mother (Rosalyn) of main character Peggy, and the other is mysterious actor Ginger who somehow ended up in California desert country. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

“High Desert” features Peggy Newman (Patricia Arquette), an ex-heroin addict who lives in arid California and needs a life change. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneer Town, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator,...

In the new Apple TV+ comedy noir series “High Desert,” Patricia Arquette and Matt Dillon play an off-and-on again couple so naturally that it seems like they must have starred together in some iconic 1990s indie movie. Surprisingly, they haven’t, but the off-kilter, sun-baked menace of films like Arquette starrers “True Romance” and “Lost Highway” permeates the new series, which is peopled with what Arquette calls “wild and weird creatures” in an environment that alternates between arid beauty and strip mall desolation.

In “High Desert,” Arquette’s methadone-dependent, perennial wild child Peggy Newman could not be more different than her buttoned-up “Severance” character Harmony Cobel, whether she’s piloting a dune buggy around the desert, swinging from a chandelier in a Pioneertown Old West show or getting mixed up with another half-baked scam. Peggy, who recently lost her mother, needs to raise money to stay in their house. She...

[This story includes spoilers from the first three episodes of Apple TV+’s High Desert.]

Patricia Arquette is continuing her relationship with Apple, but her new comedy, High Desert, is much different than last year’s Severance.

In the half-hour series High Desert from co-creators Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe-House, the Oscar winner plays Peggy, a recovering addict with a predilection for chaos who, after the death of her mother (Bernadette Peters), winds up working as a private investigator in the California desert town where she grew up. Jay Roach directs and Ben Stiller is an executive producer for the series that includes Matt Dillon as ex-husband Denny, alongside fellow castmembers Rupert Friend, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Christine Taylor, Keir O’Donnell and Eric Petersen.

During the below interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Arquette explains why she connected so personally to Peggy’s path, how her work on Severance impacted the new show, why Stiller was unable to direct the series as initially planned,...

Chicago – How has actor/singer/Broadway icon Bernadette Peters ended up in the arid lands of California? She is featured in the new Apple TV+ series “High Desert.” It has an ensemble cast led by Patricia Arquette as Peggy Newman, a recovering human being in an odd and spiritual place. The series begins streaming on May 17th.

Newman is an ex-heroin addict who realizes her life needs to begin again. That is difficult, for besides her visits to a local methadone clinic, she is just barely holding on as a performer in Pioneertown, a rundown tourist attraction. The only thing she desperately wants to cling to is the house of her deceased mother (Bernadette Peters), but her sister Dianne (Christine Taylor) is intent on selling it. Peggy needs to raise some extra cash, so she comes up with a plan to become a private investigator, in the office of Bruce...

Patricia Arquette is an Emmy favorite nowadays, and she’s not even “High Desert’s” most decorated performer. Between her, Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) and Bernadette Peters (“Ally McBeal”), the main cast of Apple TV+’s upcoming comedy series from “Miss Congeniality” writer Katie Ford and creative partners Nancy Fichman and Jennifer Hoppe-House has a total of 16 acting nominations and five wins.

Set in Yucca Valley, California, “High Desert” follows addict and former dealer Peggy Newman (Arquette), who decides to become a private investigator following her mother’s (Peters) death. Along Peggy’s hazardous journey toward self-discovery, she meets the uptight business owner who hires her (Garrett) and an anchorman-turned-desert-shaman (Friend). Other characters include her on-and-off parolee lover (Matt Dillon), best friend (Weruche Opia) and sister (Christine Taylor).

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Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for ‘High Desert,’ the new eight-episode dark comedy starring Patricia Arquette, who also serves as executive producer.

The series follows Peggy (Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

Directed by Emmy Award-winner Jay Roach, created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters, Rupert Friend and Keir O’Donnell also star.

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The half-hour series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, followed by new episodes weekly, every Wednesday.

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Patricia Arquette needs a change of pace, not to mention a car that isn’t crumpled, in the first full trailer for Apple TV+’s High Desert.

The eight-episode dark comedy series is set to launch May 17 from director Jay Roach and executive producer Ben Stiller. Arquette stars as Peggy, a former drug dealer and recovering addict who seeks a new path after her mother’s death and decides to become a private investigator in the desert town of Yucca Valley, California.

At one point in the trailer, Arquette’s character gets grilled about her past and admits to having sold marijuana but fires back after she’s accused of dabbling in cocaine. “Well, that was much later, and I did it — I didn’t sell it,” she clarifies.

Matt Dillon co-stars as Peggy’s ex, Denny, who has his own criminal past, and the trailer shows his rousing pep talk: “This is the time,...

Patricia Arquette is having a “Severance” reunion with a noir twist — in a show you probably haven’t heard of.

The Emmy winner collaborates again with “Severance” and “Escape at Dannemora” director Ben Stiller for Apple TV+ dark comedy “High Desert.” Arquette plays Peggy, an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Brad Garrett, Weruche Opia, Bernadette Peters, Rupert Friend, and Keir O’Donnell also star in the series. “High Desert” is created and written by Nancy Fichman (“Grace and Frankie”), Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality”), and Jennifer Hoppe (“Nurse Jackie”), who all also serve as executive producers. Both Stiller and Arquette serve as executive producers.

Jay Roach (“Meet the Parents”) directs all eight episodes of the half-hour series.

Oscar winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) stars as a wannabe private detective who has a lengthy history of drug abuse, a messed up personal life, and an unwillingness to do a job any earlier than 11am in the Apple TV+ comedy High Desert. The first trailer for the streaming service’s new dark comedy shows Arquette’s character’s basically a walking, talking trainwreck.

Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters, Rupert Friend, and Keir O’Donnell also star.

Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe created the series and serve as writers and executive producers. Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller executive produce, and four-time Emmy Award winner Jay Roach directs.

The eight-episode half-hour series will premiere on Apple TV+ on May 17, 2023 with the release of the first three episodes. Additional new episodes will premiere on Wednesdays.

Patricia Arquette stars in Apple TV+’s ‘High Desert’

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After announcing the series in 2021, Apple TV+‘s High Desert, a dark comedy starring Patricia Arquette, Matt Dillon, and Bernadette Peters and executive produced by Ben Stiller, is almost here. High Desert follows Peggy (Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. Watch the trailer above for a look at her life. The eight-episode comedy will premiere on Wednesday, May 17 with its first three episodes. Episodes will release once weekly after that. Additional stars include Christine Taylor, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Rupert Friend, and Keir O’Donnell. The series is created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality), and Jennifer Hoppe, with Emmy Award-winner Jay Roach serving as director. Arquette executive produces in addition to starring.

Apple TV+ keeps bringing us exciting new content.

Today, the streamer unveiled the trailer for High Desert, the new eight-episode dark comedy starring Patricia Arquette, who also serves as executive producer, Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters, Rupert Friend and Keir O’Donnell.

That's a pretty exciting cast, and the creatives behind the show are just as impressive.

High Desert is directed by Emmy Award-winner Jay Roach, created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, and executive produced by Ben Stiller.

The half-hour series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, followed by new episodes weekly, every Wednesday.

High Desert follows Peggy (Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California.

Peggy makes a life-changing...

Patricia Arquette is taking the world of private investigation by storm… as long as the gig doesn’t start before 11 am.

Apple TV+’s dark comedy High Desert (which will release its first three-of-eight episodes Wednesday, May 17, followed by one new installment weekly) “follows Peggy (Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, Calif., and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator,” reads the official description.

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Apple TV+ has released first-look images of its upcoming limited series “The Crowded Room,” which stars Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum.

The 10-episode thriller series will premiere with its first three episodes on June 9. The remaining seven episodes will then air one episode per week, concluding on Friday, July 28.

“The Crowded Room,” according to its official plot description, follows “Danny Sullivan (Holland) after he was arrested for his involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979. Danny unveils his life through a series of interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), and slowly details to Rya, and the audience, his mysterious past that led him to the fateful incident. As Danny retrospectively examines his life, he reckons with his past and a few pivotal moments, that ultimately leads him to uncover a life-altering revelation.”

The series also stars Sasha Lane (“Conversations With Friends”), Will Chase (“Dopesick”), Lior Raz (“Fauda”), Laila Robins,...

Apple TV+ today has announced the global premiere date for “High Desert,” and shared a first look at the new eight-episode dark comedy starring Patricia Arquette, who also serves as executive producer, Matt Dillon, Christine Taylor, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters, Rupert Friend and Keir O’Donnell. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Jay Roach, created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, and executive produced by Ben Stiller, the half-hour series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, followed by new episodes weekly, every Wednesday. “High Desert” follows Peggy (Arquette), an on-again-off-again addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother, with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. The series is created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality”) and Jennifer Hoppe,...

There is a lot of great entertainment featuring women and their voices of late, and we couldn't be more excited.

Apple TV+ today released the trailer for Roar, the highly anticipated darkly comedic anthology series set to debut globally with all eight-episodes on Friday, April 15 exclusively on Apple TV+.

Based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, the series is the first to be released under Roar creators and co-showrunners Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s (Glow) overall deal with Apple TV+.

The gripping trailer highlights the award-winning cast of actors that star across the eight distinct stories, including Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos), who also executive produces.

Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), six-time Emmy Award-nominee Issa Rae (Insecure), Emmy Award winner Merritt Wever (Unbelievable), SAG Award nominee Alison Brie, three-time Emmy Award-nominee Betty Gilpin all get showcasing episodes.

The Patricia Arquette-led Apple comedy series “High Desert” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.

Matt Dillon, Rupert Friend, Weruche Opia (“I May Destroy You”), Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters and Christine Taylor will all star alongside Arquette in the half-hour series.

The series follows Peggy (Arquette), an addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California. She makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. It was originally ordered at Apple in September 2020.

Dillon will play Denny, Peggy’s ex, and an undeniably charming parolee and a relentless operator. Friend will play Guru Bob, a local ex-anchorman, who, after a trauma, rebrands himself as a mystic desert personality. Opia stars as Carol, Peggy’s closest friend — the bored fiancé of an ER doctor, and a permissive new...

There’s something about the cast that Ben Stiller has assembled for High Desert, the Apple TV+ comedy he is exec-producing, now that Matt Dillon has joined the mix.

Created and written by Nancy Fichman (Nurse Jackie), Katie Ford (the Miss Congeniality films) and Jennifer Hoppe (Grace and Frankie), High Desert follows Peggy (played by Patricia Arquette), an addict who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, Calif. To that end, Peggy decided to become a private investigator.

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Apple TV+’s comedy series High Desert is adding to its cast. Matt Dillon, Rupert Friend, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters and Christine Taylor will star opposite Patricia Arquette in the half-hour series, which is exec produced by Ben Stiller and directed by Jay Roach.

Arquette plays Peggy, an addict who decides to make a new start by becoming a private investigator after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California.

Crash and Wayward Pines star Dillon will play Denny, Peggy’s ex, an undeniably charming parolee and a relentless operator. Homeland’s Friend will play Guru Bob, a local ex-anchorman, who, after a trauma, rebrands himself as a mystic desert personality. I May Destroy You’s Opia stars as Carol, Peggy’s closest friend, the bored fiancé of an ER doctor and a permissive new stepmother — who...

Apple is rounding out the cast for High Desert, the comedy that reunites Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette following Escape at Dannemora.

Joining the ensemble cast of the series about an addict named Peggy (Arquette) in Yucca Valley, California, who starts over as a Pi after the death of her mother are Matt Dillon, Rupert Friend, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters and Christine Taylor. Jay Roach (Bombshell, Game Change) has also been tapped to direct all eight episodes after exec producer Stiller was originally poised to helm the pilot.

Writer-creators Nancy Fichman (Nurse Jackie), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality) and Jennifer ...

Apple is rounding out the cast for High Desert, the comedy that reunites Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette following Escape at Dannemora.

Joining the ensemble cast of the series about an addict named Peggy (Arquette) in Yucca Valley, California, who starts over as a Pi after the death of her mother are Matt Dillon, Rupert Friend, Weruche Opia, Brad Garrett, Bernadette Peters and Christine Taylor. Jay Roach (Bombshell, Game Change) has also been tapped to direct all eight episodes after exec producer Stiller was originally poised to helm the pilot.

Writer-creators Nancy Fichman (Nurse Jackie), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality) and Jennifer ...

Apple has ordered “High Desert,” a half-hour comedy series starring Patricia Arquette that will be directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller.

The news serves as a reunion for Arquette and Stiller who previously worked together on the 2018 limited Showtime series “Escape at Dannemora.” Arquette starred in the series which Ben Stiller directed and executive produced. Stiller will direct the first episode of “High Desert.”

“High Desert” follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator. Apple did not provide a release date for “High Desert.”

The series is created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality” films) and Jennifer Hoppe, who will also serve as executive producers alongside Arquette and Stiller.

“High Desert...

Apple TV+ has ordered comedy “High Desert” that will star Patricia Arquette and be directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller.

“High Desert” follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

The series is created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, who will also serve as executive producers. Stiller will direct the first episode and executive produce through Red Hour Films alongside Nicky Weinstock. Molly Madden and Tom Lassally executive produce on behalf of 3 Arts Entertainment.

“High Desert” marks Apple’s second series with Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller. Arquette is set to star with Adam Scott in “Severance,” a workplace thriller that will be directed and executive produced by Stiller.

Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are becoming quite the double act as the Escape at Dannemora collaborators have reteamed on a half-hour comedy for Apple starring Arquette and directed by and exec produced by Stiller.

Apple TV+ has ordered High Desert, created and written by Nancy Fichman (Nurse Jackie), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality) and Jennifer Hoppe (Grace and Frankie).

The series follows Peggy, played by Arquette, a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

It comes after Arquette boarded Apple TV+’s Severance, a workplace thriller starring Adam Scott, which Stiller is directing and exec producing. In addition to the Showtime prison drama, the pair also worked together on David O. Russell’s comedy feature Flirting With Disaster.

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Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are set to collaborate once again on half-hour comedy series that has been ordered at Apple.

Titled “High Desert,” the show follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

The series is written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe, who will also serve as executive producers. Arquette will executive produce in addition to starring, with Stiller attached to direct the first episode and executive produce via Red Hour Films. Nicky Weinstock of Red Hour will also executive produce along with Molly Madden and Tom Lassally of 3 Arts Entertainment.

This marks the second Apple series on which Arquette and Stiller will work together. It was previously announced that...

Apple TV+ is sending Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller into the desert. The streaming service has given a series order to High Desert, a half-hour comedy about a former addict-turned-private investigator.

Per the series’ official synopsis, “High Desert follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.”

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Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are continuing their creative partnership.

Arquette will star in a comedy series called High Desert for Apple TV+, with Stiller set to direct the first episode. Both will be executive producers of the show, which the tech giant has ordered to series.

High Desert, from creators Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, is the third series — and second for Apple — that Arquette and Stiller have worked on together. Both earned Emmy nominations (Arquette for acting, Stiller for directing) for Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora. They’re also collaborating on Apple’s workplace thriller Severance in the ...

Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are continuing their creative partnership.

Arquette will star in a comedy series called High Desert for Apple TV+, with Stiller set to direct the first episode. Both will be executive producers of the show, which the tech giant has ordered to series.

High Desert, from creators Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford and Jennifer Hoppe, is the third series — and second for Apple — that Arquette and Stiller have worked on together. Both earned Emmy nominations (Arquette for acting, Stiller for directing) for Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora. They’re also collaborating on Apple’s workplace thriller Severance in the ...

Kim Basinger, Heather Graham, Catherine O'Hara and Jason Patric are all in final negotiations to star in the dark indie comedy "Fortune" for Nasser Group North says Variety.

The story revolves around four characters - a petty thief who seeks a way out of his life after a roadside killing, and two broke sisters who team to get the bounty on a female mobster. They all collide in Las Vegas.

Nancy Fichman & Jennifer Hoppe penned the script, Clark Johnson ("The Sentinel," "S.W.A.T.") is directing while Jack Nasser and Joseph Nasser will produce. Shooting begins August 29th in Canada.

As the saying goes, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" and it has served the foundation for many movies fromt the successful ("The Hangover") to the dreadful ("Saint John Of Las Vegas") and yet another is on the way. Variety reports that Kim Basinger, Heather Graham, Catherine O'Hara and Jason Patric will star in the indie flick "Fortune." Written by Nancy Fichman and Jennifer Hoppe (the duo have previously teamed on episodes of "Nurse Jackie"), the story follows "a petty thief who pledges to save his life after a roadside killing; and two financially destitute sisters who grudgingly team…...

Fortune smiles upon a handful of actors who appear to be joining director Clark Johnson.s dark indie comedy, Fortune. Kim Basinger, Heather Graham, Catherine O'Hara and Jason Patric are in .final negotiations,. according to Variety, to headline Johnson.s Las Vegas-set film, which finds a small-time thief and two broke sisters whose fates collide in the superficial gambling Mecca. Fortune will work off of a screenplay by Nancy Fichman and Jennifer Hoppe. Production reportedly will begin later this summer in Canada. Attaching Johnson seems to suggest that Fortune will have more action than conversation. A longtime character actor (who was so brilliant on The Wire), Johnson helmed two feature films in S.W.A.T. and The Sentinel, as well as multiple episodes of crime-based television series as The Shield, NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street. Will he bring those sensibilities to Fortune, or will this be ...

Clark Johnson, best known as the director of S.W.A.T. , is planning a dark comedy called Fortune and Variety has a first look at the likely cast. According to their report, the film should star Kim Basinger, Heather Graham, Catherine O'Hara and Jason Patric. With a script from Nancy Fichman and Jennifer Hoppe ("Nurse Jackie"), Fortune deals with a thief and a pair of bounty hunter sisters whose paths cross in Las Vegas. Johnson was originally going to direct the upcoming Halle Berry/Great White Shark action-thriller Dark Tide , but the project ended up going to John Stockwell instead.

As soon as we thought we could predict the outcome of the Oscars, here comes another surprise! This one's brought to you by the Writers Guild of America. Picked for Best Original Screenplay was Christopher Nolan's "Inception." The director, famously dissed for not getting a Best Director Oscar nomination, may just win the Best Original Screenplay come Oscar night. Oscar front-runner, "The King's Speech" was not nominated because it didn't quality under union rules which prompted Nolan to say during his WGA acceptance award that he looked forward to a time when he could accept the award "without qualification."

That could be the beginning of a great script Mr. Nolan, go write it :happy

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Writers Guild of America has announced the writers who receive nominations at next year's awards for their work in television. The most nod that one show gets is three, and that number is claimed by "Modern Family", "30 Rock" and "Breaking Bad".

"Modern Family" and "30 Rock", which have won Emmys, will be up against each other in comedy series and have each received two nods for episodic category. Meanwhile, "Breaking Bad" takes a nod in drama field and two additional episodic nominations.

AMC's "The Walking Dead" is vying for new series prize, battling "Boardwalk Empire", "Justified", "Treme" and "Men of a Certain Age" along the way. "Empire" in particular is also nominated for drama series against older and more prominent shows like "Mad Men" and "Dexter".

The WGA Awards will hand out the prizes in a ceremony held February 5 in Los Angeles and New York. Partial list of nominations can be...

HollywoodNews.com: The Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, news, radio, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2010 season to be honored at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards on February 5, 2011, in Los Angeles and New York.

Television Nominees

Dramatic Series

Boardwalk Empire, Written by Meg Jackson, Lawrence Konner, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Margaret Nagle, Tim Van Patten, Paul Simms, Terence Winter; HBO

Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Tom Schnauz, John Shiban, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC

Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Manny Coto, Charles H. Eglee, Lauren Gussis, Chip Johannessen, Jim Leonard, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattmann, Wendy West; Showtime

Friday Night Lights, Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Ron Fitzgerald, Etan Frankel, Monica Henderson, David Hudgins, Rolin Jones, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Derek Santos Olson, John Zinman; NBC

Mad Men,...

The Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, news, radio, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2010 season to be honored at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards on February 5, 2011, in New York and Los Angeles.

Here are the television nominees in soap-related categories:

Daytime Serial

* As The World Turns, Written by Susan Dansby, Lucky Gold, Janet Iacobuzio, Penelope Koechl, David Kreizman, Leah Laiman, David A. Levinson, Leslie Nipkow, Jean Passanante, Gordon Rayfield, David Smilow; CBS

* General Hospital, Written by Meg Bennett, Nathan Fissell, David Goldschmid, Robert Guza, Jr., Karen Harris, Elizabeth Korte, Mary Sue Price, David F. Ryan, Tracey Thomson, Michele Val Jean, Susan Wald; ABC

* One Life To Live, Written by Shelly Altman, Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Aida Croal, Carolyn Culliton, Frederick Johnson, Elizabeth Page, Gordon Rayfield, Melissa Salmons, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Courtney Simon, Chris...

As hard as it may be to believe sometimes, someone (or someones) actually sits down and writes a movie or TV show before you end up seeing it at your local multiplex or on your favorite TV network. The people who do the sitting and the writing are, surprisingly, called writers and, like the Directors, the Golden Globes and the Oscars, they have their own awards show.

This week, the Writers Guild of America, which is the trade group and advocate for writers, announced its nominations for outstanding achievement in feature film and television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2009 season to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards on February 20, 2010, in Los Angeles and New York.

We realize that these nominations may not be as glamorous as the Golden Globes or the Oscars, but we kinda like writers around here and think they do a pretty important job.

Awards heavyweights "Mad Men," "30 Rock" and "The Office" and buzzed-about newcomer "Modern Family" led the TV field for the 2010 Writers Guild Awards with three nominations each.

AMC's "Mad Men" and NBC's "30 Rock" and "The Office" are in the running for best drama/comedy series, and each received two nominations for episodic writing. "Family" made the cut for best comedy series, best new series and best episodic writing for a comedy series.

ABC's "Family" was one of two new shows to break into the best series categories along with Fox's quirky high-school dramedy "Glee," which faces "Family" in the best comedy series and best new series fields.

While the WGA Awards are still in its nomination phase, Fox's "The Simpsons" can already uncork the champagne. The veteran series is assured to win the animation category after landing all five nomination slots.

The biggest surprise among the series nominees was HBO's low-key baseball comedy "Eastbound & Down,...

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Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius

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