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Netflix revives ‘Tales Of The City,’ with Laura Linney, Ellen Page

the 10-episode season streams in 2019

Published

8 years ago

April 27, 2018

Mariah Cooper

Ellen Page (Screenshot courtesy of YouTube)

Netflix has ordered a 10-episode season of Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City,” according to Deadline.

The miniseries, which debuted in 1993, followed Mary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney) as she left the Midwest for San Francisco where she encountered issues such as gender identity, homosexuality and HIV/AIDS while living at 28 Barbary Lane.

Linney will reprise her role as Mary Anne, Olympia Dukakis will return as Anna Madrigal, Mary Anne’s old 28 Barbary Lane landlady, and Barbara Garrick is back as lesbian socialite DeDe Halcyon Day. New cast additions include Ellen Page as Shawna, Mary Anne’s adult daughter.

“Orange is the New Black” writer Lauren Morelli will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer along with Alan Poul, producer of the miniseries, Linney and Maupin.

“I couldn’t be more excited about this brand-new incarnation of Tales. It’s set in present-day San Francisco with all the joys and complications that might suggest for the residents of 28 Barbary Lane,” Maupin said in a statement released to Deadline. “Mrs. Madrigal’s tenants, both old and new, will be entangled in delicious new adventures and ever-expanding possibilities for love.”

The revival premieres in 2019.

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June 15, 2026

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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.

The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.

The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.

“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.

The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.

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