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“Royal Rules of Ohio” - Season 1
Sink into a brand-new reality series when Freeform’s newest offering, “Royal Rules of Ohio,” premieres on Hulu Thursday, May 16. Living “a lavish life as the daughters of royal descendants of two of the most wealthy and powerful Ghanaian kingdoms,” the Agyekum sisters — Thelma, Brenda and Nana — are doing their best to navigate their 20s while living in Columbus, Ohio (per Freeform). However, with their parents,akili Bobo and Delali, along with their close-knit community, keeping a watchful eye on their every move, cameras get an up-close-and-personal look at the intense pressure and responsibility that they carry with their royal privilege. But will the sisters be able to maintain their clean reputations once cameras take a peek behind closed doors? Produced by Lionsgate Alternative Television’s eone, “Royal Rules of Ohio” is executive produced by Amy Callahan (“Growing Up Hip Hop”), Jayson Elmore (“Restaurant: Impossible ”), tara Long (“Encounter Party”), Kim Mckoy (“Clean House”), Ben Megargel (“Growing Up Hip Hop:atlanta”), Madison Merritt (“Flip or Flop Nashville”) and co-executive producer Vivian D. Payton (“Love & Hip Hop:atlanta”).
“Where the Crawdads Sing” (2022)
Find out what one woman did to survive the marshlands of North Carolina and the society that shunned her when “Where the Crawdads Sing” is made available to stream Sunday, May 12, on Hulu. Based on the novel of the same name by Delia Owens, the film follows Kya (Daisy Edgar-jones, “Normal People”), a young girl that decides to live off the land to escape her abusive father (Garret Dillahunt, “Raising Hope”). One day, Kya begins a relationship with Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson, “Triangle of Sadness,” 2022), the town’s star quarterback who promises her marriage.a year later, she breaks off the relationship when she finds out that Chase is engaged to another woman. However, when Chase turns up dead, Kya becomes the prime suspect. Rounding out the cast are Taylor John Smith (“Sharp Objects”), David Strathairn (“Good Night, and Good Luck.,” 2005), Michael Hyatt (“Nightcrawler,” 2014), Sterling Macer Jr. (“Dragon:the Bruce Lee Story,” 1993), Logan Macrae (“A Mouthful of Air,” 2021), Bill Kelly (“Found”), Jayson Warner Smith
(“The Walking Dead”), Dane Rhodes (“The Magnificent Seven,” 2016) and Ahna O’reilly (“The Help,” 2011). Directed by Olivia Newman (“First Match,” 2018) and written by Lucy Alibar (“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” 2012), “Where the Crawdads Sing” comes from executive producers Betsy Danbury (“Crash,” 2004), Rhonda Tollefson (“Finding Forrester,” 2000) and Jon Wu (“The Morning Show”); producers Reese Witherspoon (“Legally Blonde,” 2001) and Lauren Levy Neustadter (“Little Fires Everywhere”); associate producers Shannon Vayo (“Your Place or Mine,” 2023) and Veronica Moonhill (“America the Beautiful,” 2019); and line producer Bryan Yaconelli (“Spiderhead,” 2022).
“Shardlake”
Can one man, the titular Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes, “The Innocents”), overcome the seedy and corrupted system of 16th century England to shed light on a grisly murder? Find out in “Shardlake,” available to stream now on Hulu. Based on the first novel in the late C. J. Sansom’s internationally popular series of Tudor murder mystery novels, the fourepisode series follows Shardlake, a lawyer living with scoliosis, as he investigates the murder of a commissioner in the remote town of Scarnsea for Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean, “Game of Thrones”), the right-hand man of King Henry VIII. In addition to solving the murder, Cromwell tasks Shardlake with gathering evidence to close the local monastery for good, which puts the lawyer at immediate odds with the monks necessary for his investigation. From director Justin Chadwick (“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” 2013) and writer Stephen Butchard (“The Last Kingdom”), “Shardlake” also stars Anthony Boyle (“Masters of the Air”), Babou Ceesay (“Free Fire,” 2016), Paul Kaye (“The Stranger”), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (“The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” 2022), Peter Firth (“MI-5”), Matthew Steer (“The Crown”), Brian Vernel (“Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens,” 2015), Irfan Shamji (“Murder on the Orient Express,” 2017), David Pearse (“The Banshees of Inisherin,” 2022), Miles Barrow (“The Peripheral”), Mike Noble (“Home Fires”) and Kimberley Nixon (“Wild Child,” 2008).