MTV plans Lohan beach club reality show
Lindsay Lohan’s reality-TV series is a go.
MTV on Monday confirmed the actor-entrepreneur’s earlier statements that the cable network was planning a behind-the-scenes reality show about her newly opened beach club on the Greek resort island of Mykonos. The series, under the working title Lohan Beach Club, has begun shooting and is scheduled to premiere next year.
“Pack your bags, MTV. We’re going to Mykonos,” the Mean Girls star, 32, said in a promotional video accompanying the announcement. “I’ve joined the MTV family, and I’m Lindsay Lohan . ... Get ready.” Lohan Beach House Mykonos, on the Kalo Livadi beach, launched on May 26. Lohan has not commented further on social media.
The star had first mentioned the series in an interview with The New York Times on July 2, in which the newspaper paraphrased her as having “plans for a ‘Vanderpump Rules’-style reality show for MTV centred around the club.” That Bravo show stars Lisa Vanderpump of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and centres on her West Hollywood restaurant and lounge Sur and the various romances and rivalries among the staff.
MTV also confirmed a Hollywood Reporter article of July 21 stating the series would be produced by reality-TV powerhouse Bunim/Murray, whose shows include Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Project Runway and the 2008 E! series Living Lohan.
As the network described the new series, Lohan “will lead a team of handpicked brand ambassadors” who “must prove their expertise, ambition and charm” as they establish “friendships and alliances while striving to rise above the temptations the Mykonos nightlife scene has to offer.”
Stone, Hill star in Netflix series
BEVERLY HILLS, California — Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are starring in a new TV series that tackles sensitive issues of mental illness and the pharmaceutical industry.
The Netflix series, a black comedy titled Maniac, follows two participants of a murky late-stage pharmaceutical drug trial.
Hill plays a man diagnosed with schizophrenia, while Stone plays a woman fixated on broken relationships.
Both sign up to test a mysterious pill believed to cure anything about the mind, but things do not go as planned.
Cindy Holland, vice-president of Netflix original series, announced its debut date, Sept. 21, during a panel at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting.
Holland called Maniac a “thought-provoking, fever dream of a show.”
The actors starred opposite each other in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad.