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The Set Up To Adapt Lisa Wilkinson’s ‘The Titanic Story Of Evelyn’
EXCLUSIVE: Australian bestseller The Titanic Story of Evelyn is charting a course to TV.
The Set Up, the newly minted television banner from Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Alison Hurbert-Burns, is collaborating with Australian journalist, writer and author Lisa Wilkinson for the TV adaptation of her bestselling non-fiction book.
Published in April 2026, The Titanic Story of Evelyn went straight to number one on the Australian bestseller list across all genres.
It tells the true story of Evelyn Marsden, the only Australian-born survivor of the Titanic. Evelyn started working as a stewardess on ocean liners before meeting and falling in love with a handsome ship’s doctor, William Abel James. Fate separated the couple when Evelyn boarded the RMS Titanic alone for its maiden voyage. As events unfolded, she helped save the lives of many passengers in the face of one of the greatest maritime tragedies the world has ever known.
Evelyn and William’s love endures many of the 20th century’s most momentous events, through World War One and the Great Depression, before they settle by the sea at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Wilkinson said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be teaming up with two such masterful tellers of women’s stories as Bruna and Alison.
“From Big Little Lies to Colin From Accounts, I’m a huge fan of their award-winning work, and I know that Bruna and Alison will be the very best team to bring Evelyn’s truly titanic story of adventure, heroism, tragedy and love-in-another-time, to the screen.”
Earlier this year we brought you the news that former Binge content chief Hurbert-Burns, who commissioned Colin From Accounts, had teamed with Papandrea and Hutensky’s Made Up Stories to launch a production business, The Set Up.
In a joint statement, the trio said: “The power of Lisa Wilkinson as a storyteller and a trusted voice for Australians throughout her long and celebrated career is unmatched. She has done an incredible job of bringing Evelyn’s remarkable, previously untold story to life.
“It’s the Titanic as we’ve never seen it, told through Evelyn’s eyes and those of the many extraordinary women on that ship, with a beautiful love story at its heart. We’re excited to bring it to the screen.”
Papandrea, Hurbert-Burns and Steve Hutensky will produce for The Set Up alongside Wilkinson, Nick Fordham and agent/producer Lee-Anne Higgins.
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Jennifer Coolidge Returns For Season 2 Of ‘The Watcher’
The real estate agent who sold Naomi Watts’ Nora Brannock and Bobby Cannavale’s Dean Brannock their nightmare home is returning for season two of The Watcher.
Jennifer Coolidge, who played the ambitious and brassy realtor who donned pastel-colored power suits, is back for the second season.
It comes after Netflix revealed that the second season of the series, from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, is going into production, nearly four years after being renewed. Production begins this fall in New York.
Coolidge joins Watts, Cannavale, Margo Martindale, who played nosy neighbor Mo, and Isabel Gravitt, who played the married couple’s daughter Ellie Brannock, in returning.
The series followed the Brannock family who moved into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, and quickly became a living hell. Ominous letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher” were just the beginning as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets came spilling out.
The season ended with the Brannocks moving out of the house to a New York apartment but Dean and Nora found themselves pulled back to the house.
Created by Murphy and Brennan, the latter serves as showrunner and the pair exec produce alongside Crystle Roberson Dorsey, who also directs, Nissa Diederich, Karl Frankenfield, Scott Robertson, Todd Kubrak, Tanase Popa, Naomi Watts, Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, Eric Newman & Bryan Unkeless, and Max Winkler.
The White Lotus star Coolidge recently starred in A Minecraft Movie and is starring in the sequel, A Minecraft Movie Squared as well as Rebel Wilson-directed feature Girl Group.
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Carla Gugino, Fred Hechinger, Tom Pecinka & Riley Prior Join ‘A View From The Bridge’
Additional cast for the upcoming Off Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge has been announced. Joining previously announced Sam Rockwell and Alfred Molina will be Carla Gugino, Fred Hechinger, Tom Pecinka and Riley Prior.
Performances for this strictly limited, 13-week engagement begin on November 27, with an opening night on Sunday, December 13, at the historic Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa.
Gugino will play the character of Beatrice, with Hechinger as Rodolpho, Pecinka (the Tony-nominated actor from Stereophonic) playing Marco and Prior as Catherine. (Marin Ireland, who had been previously announced for the role of Catherine, has left the production due to scheduling conflicts.)
The previously announced Molina will play Alfieri.
The new castings were announced today by producers Mark Berger and Sam Rockwell.
Neil Pepe directs, with scenic design by Scott Pask, costume design by Sarah Laux, lighting design by John Torres and sound design by Palmer Hefferan.
The synopsis: “Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge tells the story of Eddie Carbone (Rockwell), a Brooklyn longshoreman whose tightly held world begins to unravel when his wife Beatrice’s cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, arrive from Italy seeking a new life in America. As Catherine, the niece Eddie has raised as his own, falls in love with Rodolpho, Eddie’s protectiveness curdles into jealousy, setting him on a course toward an irreversible act of betrayal that fractures his family and his community. Set in the immigrant neighborhoods of 1950s Brooklyn, Miller’s searing tragedy explores the tensions between devotion and desire, justice and loyalty, and the promise and pressures of the American Dream.”
A View from the Bridge was first produced Off Broadway in 1965 at the Sheridan Square Playhouse starring Robert Duvall and Jon Voight, with direction by Ulu Grosbard and assistant direction by Dustin Hoffman. This 2026 production marks the first time since 1965 that it will have an Off Broadway production (it has been staged five times on Broadway over the decades.)
A View from the Bridge is produced by Play Hooky Productions.
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Sterling K. Brown Joins Baseball Drama ‘The Comebacker’
Academy Award nominee and Emmy-winner Sterling K. Brown has joined Tom Hanks and Callum Turner in The Comebacker, a baseball drama Marielle Heller is directing for Sony Pictures.
Patricia Clarkson and Amy Madigan are also in the dugout for what is being described as a love letter to baseball and is based on a short story by Dave Eggers, the author behind A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Heller wrote the script for adaptation, which tells of the relationship between a pitching coach (Hanks) for the New York Mets and his pitcher (Turner) who gets hit by a line drive while on the mound.
Madigan is the owner of the team while Clarkson is the coach’s wife.
Brown will play the manager of the team.
Gary Goetzman will produce for Playtone alongside Heller and Leah Holzer for Defiant By Nature. Major League Baseball and the Mets are also involved.
Working Barn will executive produce along with Charles Miller.
Brown is an Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award-winner who currently stars and exec produces the Hulu dramatic thriller series Paradise, recently renewed for a third season.
The actor earned a best supporting Oscar nomination for his work in American Fiction and is known for his work as one of the stars of This is Us. (And let’s not forget his wounded and tethering work in Black Panther.)
This year he earned strong notices for his work as a ruthless father in Amazon/MGM’s film Is God Is. Next up, he’ll star opposite Natalie Portman in Roadside Attraction’s The Gallerist and will appeaer in Amazon/MGM’s live-action film Voltron.
He is repped by CAA, JWM Entertainment Group, and Johnson Shapiro.
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