{"id":1589,"date":"2026-10-30T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:06:58","slug":"in-brief-donald-glover-to-write-star-in-live-action-series-pubg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"In brief: Donald Glover to write, star in live-action series &#8216;PUBG&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-10-29\/E_inbriefgraphic.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>The Glover brothers have a new project on the way. Donald Glover is attached to star in a new Netflix live-action series based on the video game <em>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (\u201cPUBG\u201d).\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/pubg-live-action-show-netflix-donald-glover-stephen-glover-1236934277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>reports he and his brother, Stephen Glover, will write and direct the show. Plot details have not been released, only that the show will be based on the battle royale game in which 100 players are dropped in a \u201cshrinking battleground,\u201d according to the game\u2019s official description, fighting their opponents to become the lone survivor \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Bosch: Start of Watch <\/em>will begin this winter. MGM+ is teasing the release of the new TV series with first-look photos of Cameron Monaghan in action as rookie cop Harry Bosch and Omari Hardwick as veteran officer Eli Bridges. The prequel series will explore the origin story of Michael Connelly\u2019s legendary detective Harry Bosch, according to MGM+. He was first brought to the small screen for Prime Video\u2019s <em>Bosch <\/em>drama series. <em>Bosch: Start of Watch <\/em>follows 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his earliest days as a rookie cop in Los Angeles. The series debuts Jan. 10 on MGM+ &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The family is growing. Eight cast members have been added to Prime Video\u2019s dark comedy series <em>Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/everyone-in-my-family-has-killed-someone-series-cast-1236934156\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports. The cast additions include Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Marvel, Sean Astin, Annaleigh Ashford and Felix Solis. Penn Badgley was previously announced to star in the show as Ern Cunningham, a man who reluctantly agrees to attend a family reunion,\u00a0only to get trapped with them in a snowstorm.\u00a0The series is based on comedian Benjamin Stevenson\u2019s novel of the same name. Also joining the cast are Chris Walley, Daniella Garcia and Eliza Bennett &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glover brothers have a new project on the way. Donald Glover is attached to star in a new Netflix live-action series based on the video game PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (\u201cPUBG\u201d).\u00a0Variety reports he and his brother, Stephen Glover, will write and direct the show. Plot details have not been released, only that the show will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}