Based on the first book in Nancy Springer’s YA Enola Holmes series—“The Case of the Missing Marquess” — about Sherlock Holmes’ precocious younger sister and the various mysteries she has to solve, Netflix’s movie adaptation of the inaugural book is an absolute delight. Charming and fleet-footed, with a dynamic sense of frisson and clever chutzpah, “Enola Holmes” is a compelling mystery and a sprightly adventure with a feminist streak that’s a perfect showcase for the winsome talents of “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown.

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If standard episodic television is comparable to pop music – designed to be instantly pleasing, catchy, moreish, and to adhere to familiar patterns – “The Eddy,” Netflix‘s new 8-part limited series has the admirable ambition to be jazz. Set in and around the struggling eponymous club, in an untrendy quarter of modern-day Paris, it’s truly impressive the degree to which it succeeds: over its eight episodes, seven of which follow different individual members of The Eddy’s house band or someone intimately associated with it, it becomes a single, long, rambling number, full of detours and details that spotlight first this soloist, then the next, each riffing almost unrecognizably on the same themes, before touching back in with the ensemble.

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One of the year’s most anticipated series, “The Eddy,” is less than a month away from arriving on Netflix. The series, which comes from the minds of filmmakers Damien Chazelle, Alan Poul, and Jack Thorne, features a great cast, a beautiful setting, and, as you might expect from a Chazelle production, plenty of jazz.

As seen in the trailer for “The Eddy,” jazz is a big part of the series, but there’s plenty more going on in the new drama.

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You could throw a rock in Hollywood and hit a TV series based on a popular fantasy book series. With the rise of “Game of Thrones,” as well as the success of films such as “The Chronicles of Narnia” and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ studios all around are trying to snatch up the rights for popular fantasy novels and turn them into sparkly new TV series.

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With our report earlier today that AMC is keeping ‘The Walking Dead’ around until the proverbial wheels fall off, it’s almost refreshing when a network or filmmakers explain that a TV series has a definitive beginning, middle, and end. And with the upcoming HBO/BBC co-production, “His Dark Materials,” producers Jane Tranter and Jack Thorne want fans to know that this is not a show that is going to drag out three novels over the course of 14 seasons.

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Welp, it was bound to happen. “Star Wars: Episode IX” is getting a rewrite. Lucasfilm has tasked English writer Jack Thorne, known for his work in theater, TV and film, to take a new pass at the script.

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In the U.K. Thorne is primarily known for his work writing for TV— “Skins,” “ This Is England” ’86, ’88 and ’90, “The Last Panthers,” the “National Treasure” mini-series— recently penning the stage play for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which was based off a new original new story by Thorne, J.K.

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Once upon a time, a movie director would only really go off and direct TV projects if they found it difficult to get feature work. But it’s a mark of how things have shifted now that it’s become a measure of success to have some kind of prestige TV project in the works — lauded and impossibly successful directors as different as J.J. Abrams, David O. Russell and Barry Jenkins are all developing small-screen projects alongside their movies, and a show like “Big Little Lies” attracts just as much attention, if not more so, than a multiplex hit.

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