'Happy Face' Brings In The Kids And A Recurring David Harewood

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  The upcoming Paramount+ drama series Happy Face has found all of its series regulars and jonesed for its recurring talk show host and Melissa’s boss. The final series regulars found are  Khiyla Aynne   and Benjamin Mackey, while Supergirl alum David Harewood is racking in the ratings. As one could surmise, Aynne and Mackey play Melissa (played by Annaleigh Ashford )’s kids with husband Ben, played by James Wolk . Specifically, Aynne  plays Hazel, their  secure and happy  15-year-old daughter who initially believes that her mother is off on a simple business trip. However,  she soon starts suspecting that something dire is going on, beginning to investigate and uncover the shocking circumstances of her mother’s past.  Mackey plays  lively   9-year-old Max, who takes his stable upbringing for granted and doesn’t grow his older sister’s suspicions regarding mom’s sudden absence. He instead steadfastly believes she’s producing some sort of on-location segment for  The Dr. Greg Show . A
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Ex-'Tulsa King' Showrunner Terence Winter Rejoins As Writer

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The mob has welcomed back its former leader. Terence Winter, who stepped away as Tulsa King’s co-showrunner due to tensions and pressures from other co-showrunner Taylor Sheridan and star Sylvester Stallone, has rejoined the series as a writer.

Specifically, the factors were Sheridan’s “self-professed preference” for being very hands-on with his shows. Stallone, meanwhile, has firm writing opinions for his projects. He has of course written and co-written the screenplays for many of his hit films across his career. As it stands, Winter, who is co-writer of Bob Marley: One Love, continues as executive producer, while this new arrangement narrows his focus on the show’s writing amidst a busy schedule that includes co-writing and executive producing Midge, a film coming from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company, and writing and producing the adaptation of the Casey Sherman novel A Murder in Hollywood. His previous TV work includes writing and executive producing on the latter five seasons of The Sopranos and subsequently creating writing, and executive producing HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl, as one of four credited creators on the latter. The new position allows him to maintain his strong working relationship with Stallone, while kept a bit away from Sheridan. “He loves these characters and loved working with Sly and was glad his post-strike schedule allowed him to return to write but not run the show,” a source close to the production has said.

Meanwhile, Tulsa King will go on without a traditional showrunner and instead name an executive producer and director, whose deal is being finalized, to lead production going forward. It seems typical of 101 Studios productions. Stallone stars as New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who, after spending 25 years in prison, is unceremoniously exiled by his boss and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing the betrayal by his mob family was most certainly for their own interests over his, Dwight slowly builds a ragtag crew to help him establish a new criminal empire. The first season also stars Andrea Savage, Garrett Hedlund, Dana Delany, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, and A.C. Peterson. Stallone is also an executive producer with Sheridan, Winter, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Allen Coulter and Braden Aftergood. The series is also produced by MTV Entertainment Studios.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter


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