{"id":8119,"date":"2017-07-28T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/chris-pine-reunites-with-wonder-woman-director-for-tnt-drama\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:49:49","slug":"chris-pine-reunites-with-wonder-woman-director-for-tnt-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/chris-pine-reunites-with-wonder-woman-director-for-tnt-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Reveals New TBS & TNT Highlights, Chris Pine Drama Among Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
Turner’s TNT has given a straight-to-series order for the new drama One Day She’ll Darken<\/em>, which reteams Wonder Woman<\/em> director Patty Jenkins and actor Chris Pine.<\/p>\n Jenkins (Wonder Woman<\/em>, Monster<\/em>) is attached to direct the pilot and potentially additional episodes, and Pine (Wonder Woman<\/em>, Hell or High Water<\/em>) is attached to star. Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter’s Heart<\/em> and The Disaster Diaries<\/em>, is set to write the six-episode series, inspired by the autobiography of Fauna Hodel.<\/p>\n The series is being produced by Turner’s Studio T, with Jenkins, Michael Sugar (Spotlight<\/em>, 13 Reasons Why<\/em>), Sheridan and Pine serving as executive producers. The drama will shoot this fall.<\/p>\n One Day She’ll Darken<\/em> tells the story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. Hodel begins to investigate the secrets to her past and follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the spider in the web around the legendary “Black Dahlia” murder. Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter\/paparazzo.<\/p>\n Additionally, TNT has renewed its original drama Animal Kingdom<\/em> for a third season. Produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television, the series is airing with new second-season episodes across TNT platforms on Tuesdays at 9 p.m., with the season finale set for August 29. TNT plans to launch the third season in 2018.<\/p>\n Over at sister network TBS, the comedy Angie Tribeca<\/em>, starring Rashida Jones, has received a fourth-season order. Season four will welcome a new cast member: two-time Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire<\/em>). TBS’s fall slate features three new series, alongside returning hits. On October 24, the network will debut its new scripted comedy The Last O.G.<\/em>, starring and created by Tracy Morgan alongside creators and executive producers Jordan Peele and John Carcieri. The new head-to-head celebrity rap battle competition Drop the Mic<\/em>, hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin and based on the popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden<\/em>, premieres October 26. A comedy-driven reboot of a classic game show, Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild<\/em> is also coming this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turner’s TNT has given a straight-to-series order for the new drama One Day She’ll Darken, which reteams Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and actor Chris Pine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[766,653],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-tbs","tag-tnt"],"yoast_head":"\n