“It’s amazing isn’t it? How someone can get so into your blood,” says Emma Corrin in a new trailer for “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” The Emmy-nominated star of “The Crown” toplines Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial 1928 novel.

The film follows Lady Chatterley (Corrin), the former Constance “Connie” Reid, whose marriage with her Baronet husband Sir Clifford Chatterly (Matthew Duckett) begins to feel like a prison for the young woman. Despite the luxurious trappings of nobility, Connie grows more and more disaffected with Sir Chatterley after he is paralyzed waist-down by an injury sustained in WWI. 

As the caretaker of her ailling husband, Connie must choose between her spousal

“A Black Lady Sketch Show’s” Lauren Ashley Smith is developing a family comedy for ABC. The network won the project, titled “Moore & Moore,” in a “competitive situation,” per Deadline. 

A single-camera comedy, “Moore & Moore” follows “a close-knit group of mostly-gay sisters who have a familial identity crisis when the lone bi sister brings her male fiancé into the family.”

Smith served head writer and co-executive producer for the first two seasons of HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” Robin Thede’s Emmy-winning sketch comedy series. She previously collaborated with Thede on BET’s “The Rundown with Robin Thede,” which she served as head writer on. 

Along with her sisters Rachel

Ever dreamed of pitching to the likes of Netflix and HBO? This spring, that dream could become a reality for selected TV scribes of the 2023 Women’s Weekend Film Challenge’s (WWFC) pilot accelerator. A press release announced that applications are now open for the organization’s second annual virtual program. 

Launched in 2021, the pilot accelerator helps six to eight budding scribes advance their careers as well as increase visibility of women and non-binary folks working in the TV industry. The program elevates “strong, completed pilot scripts who lack the industry connections to sell their series or break into the writers room,” per the release.

Set to kick off March 30,

Lena Waithe will serve as the ambassador of next year’s American Black Film Festival (ABFF). The 27th edition of the fest is set to take place June 14 to 18 in Miami Beach followed by a virtual event June 19-25 on ABFF PLA. A press release announced the news. 

As ambassador, the Emmy-winning writer, actor, and producer will raise awareness for the fest’s mission to elevate Black talent and amplify emergent voices in cinema. Former ambassadors include “Insecure” creator and star Issa Rae, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, and “Empire” alumna Taraji P. Henson.

“I am excited to collaborate with the festival to shine a light on unique and groundbreaking stories

If you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to spooky season, you may find solace in the fact that “Wednesday” is launching on Netflix this month (November 23). Jenna Ortega is following up roles in “Scream” and “X” with a fresh take on the beloved Addams family character. The supernatural mystery sees Wednesday working to master her psychic ability and investigating her school’s many secrets. For those seeking more nostalgia-fueled entertainment, November will also mark the premiere of “Blockbuster” (November 3). Created by “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” alumna Vanessa Ramos, the comedy is set in the last Blockbuster Video store in America.

Documentaries debuting this month include Alexis Aggrey’s “Afrofuturism: The Origin

Listen up, writers, directors, and cinematographers! Women in Film (WIF) is now accepting applicants to four of its filmmaking programs uplifting women and non-binary industry newcomers. The organization announced in a press release that applications are open now for four of its career acceleration programs for the 2023 year: the Episodic Lab, the Feature Residency, the Director Fellowship, and the Cinematographer Fellowship.

WIF acknowledges that “achieving equal cultural representation within our media narratives requires a representative number of skilled storytellers.” To this end, the collective has collaborated with The Black List, a platform where scribes can have their writing showcased and evaluated, to create the WIF Writing Labs, which include

Maïmouna Doucouré is following up 2020’s “Cuties,” her Paris-set portrait of a pre-teen Senegalese immigrant who joins a dance clique, with the story of a trailblazing dancer, singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Variety reports that the French filmmaker will write and direct a Josephine Baker biopic being developed by StudioCanal.

An American-born French performer who was born in 1906 and died in 1975, Baker famously refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States. “She worked as a secret agent for the French Resistance during WWII, then supported Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, speaking at his side during his 1963 March on Washington,” the source details. The

“The truth’s gonna come out. It always does,” Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are warned in a new trailer for “Dead to Me’s” third and final season. Jen (Applegate) and Judy (Cardellini) have survived a hit-and-run but the BFFs are still in hot water. Steve’s (James Marsden) body has been found, and the police and FBI agents investigating the murder of Judy’s ex are suspicious of her and Jen.

It’s not all doom and gloom for the pals, who continue to swap jokes and share laughs. The self-described “badass bitches” give themselves “outlaw names:” Judy Five-Fingers and Bitch Cassidy.

Both Applegate and Cardellini have received Emmy nods for “Dead to