A comedy series starring Vanessa Hudgens and set in the DC Comics world is coming to NBC.
The network said Wednesday it's ordered "Powerless" for the 2016-17 season.
Hudgens plays Emily, an insurance adjuster who specializes in damage caused by superheroes. She becomes a hero herself after standing up to the big shots after an especially messy fight.
NBC also is ordering "Trial & Error," described as by the network as a fish-out-of-water comedy. Nicholas D'Agosto plays a New York lawyer who takes on his first big case in a small Southern town.
The cast includes Jayma Mays and Sherri Shepherd, with John Lithgow as the defendant.
NBC and other broadcast networks are set to unveil their full new-season schedules for advertisers in New York City next week.
Barbra Streisand approves multi-part documentary that will draw upon her archives
A year after telling her story in a 1,000-page memoir, Barbra Streisand has approved a multi-part documentary about her life — to be directed by fellow Oscar winner Frank Marshall.
The documentary, announced Thursday by Sony Music Vision, is currently untitled and does not have a release date. It will feature rarely seen video, photographs and audio recordings from Streisand's personal archives. Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney, whose many credits include films about Paul Simon and Steve Jobs, will serve as producer.
"For years I've been thinking about the best way to share the vast amount of content I've been safely storing in my vault," the 82-year-old Streisand said in a statement. "These films, photos and music masters — many never seen or heard by the public — hold some of my most cherished memories. I'm so pleased that producer Alex Gibney and director Frank Marshall have agreed to take this journey with me."
Marshall, who has directed documentaries about the Beach Boys and the Bee Gees and produced such classics as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Sixth Sense," said in a statement that the Streisand movie would "illustrate why she has become an enduring icon to a global audience of all generations."
Sony Music Vision is presenting and distributing the project in partnership with her longtime record label, Columbia Records.
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