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Telegraph
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Harry and Meghan's Netflix film ‘risks being scrapped'
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's £2.2 million ($3 million) film adaptation of a romance novel is on the verge of being scrapped, according to reports. Little progress has been made on the Netflix adaptation of Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune's hit romance novel, since the Sussexes secured the rights to produce the film in 2023. However two years later, the project does not have a director and is nowhere close to choosing the cast, the New York Post reported. It comes after the Duchess of Sussex apparently abandoned her Confessions of Female Founder podcast after just 11 episodes. Her previous podcast with Spotify, Archetypes, was not renewed after its first season. The reports come ahead of the end of the £74 million deal between Netflix and the pair, which expires in September this year. The New York Post claimed that more TV projects were forthcoming between Harry and Meghan's company, Archewell, and Netflix. But a Netflix source cited by the Daily Mail said that the company was counting down the days for the deal to expire because Meghan's last TV show, With Love, Meghan, was a ratings disaster. The first season of the show ranked 383rd on the streaming service, with 5.3 million views since its debut in March, a figure Hollywood trade bible Variety called 'very low'. The second season, which has already been filmed, is set to air later this year. The source said: 'This deal is dead. She (Meghan) had everything going for her - name, platform, press - and the numbers were dismal. 'They're just waiting for the credits to roll. They're letting it expire without drama. There's no appetite for anything new'. When the adaptation of Meet Me At The Lake was announced, Ms Fortune gushed about it on social media, writing she was 'so thrilled' to be working with the Sussexes and Netflix. Ms Fortune said she couldn't imagine a 'more perfect partnership' to bring the characters in the book to screen. At the time, commentators drew parallels between the book's plot and Harry and Meghan's love story as they both feature a whirlwind romance, and one of the protagonists lost a parent in a car crash. But now, after a two-year delay, a Hollywood insider quoted by the New York Post said: 'By this point, you would have thought they would have got a director on board and a cast. So, what is the delay? 'And when you make something for Netflix, it takes a long time for it to actually hit the streamer - there is so much to do in post production, to make sure it's ready for every country. If the deal is up this year, then when is this film going to be made?' Another potential Archewell project, a documentary about Africa, may not come to fruition either. The insider said: 'What's the betting that neither of these projects will see the light of day?' Harry and Meghan's biggest success with Netflix remains their documentary Harry & Meghan, in which the couple told the story of their romance and departure from the Royal Family. The show debuted in December 2022 and amassed 81.5 million viewing hours, making it the highest documentary premiere in Netflix's history. The insider said: 'Let's be honest... Netflix got what they really wanted out of the Sussexes - their documentary'. The Telegraph has contacted representatives for the Sussexes, Ms Fortune and Lemonada Media, which hosts the Duchess' podcast, for comment.
Hamilton Spectator
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Toronto Star bestsellers: Drew Hayden Taylor's play ‘Cottagers and Indians' joins fiction lists
Clearly, summer is a time for rediscovery. How else to explain how a Canadian book that has never made the Star's bestseller lists suddenly popped up this week in both the original and Canadian fiction rankings, at No. 5 and No. 2 respectively. I can't say why 'Cottagers and Indians' — the book version of a play by author and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor , first published in 2019 — has lately captured readers' attention. Suffice to say it has. In the play — inspired by a real-life dispute — Hayden Taylor dramatizes a tussle over land and water rights in Ontario cottage country between an Indigenous man and a Toronto woman. Hayden Taylor, who is Ojibway from Curve Lake First Nation, isn't the only Indigenous author with an older book on the lists. Jesse Wente 's memoir 'Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance,' which is in part about growing up in Toronto the son of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, is back on the original non-fiction list at No. 6 and the Canadian list at No. 5. It's the book's first appearance on original non-fiction since September 2021, although it was a regular presence on Canadian non-fiction that year. Hayden Taylor has even more company on the Canadian fiction list, where Waubgeshig Rice 's 'Moon of the Crusted Snow' (2018) returns at No. 6; Jessica Johns ' 'Bad Cree' (2023) at No. 8; and 'Medicine Walk' (2014) by the late Richard Wagamese , at No. 10. ORIGINAL FICTION 1. One Golden Summer , Carley Fortune, Viking (11)* 2. An Inside Job , Daniel Silva, Harper (1) 3. The Woman in Suite 11 , Ruth Ware, Simon & Schuster (2) 4. Don't Let Him In , Lisa Jewell, Atria (4) 5. Cottagers and Indians , Drew Hayden Taylor, Talonbooks (1) 6. Atmosphere , Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (7) 7. The Enchanted Greenhouse , Sarah Beth Durst, Bramble (1) 8. My Friends, Fredrik Backman, Simon & Schuster (12) 9. Broken Country , Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster (16) 10. Every Summer After , Carley Fortune, Viking (11) ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 1. The Idaho Four , James Patterson, Vicky Ward, Little, Brown (1) 2. Anatomy of a Cover-Up , Paul Palango, Random House Canada (6) 3. The Anxious Generation , Jonathan Haidt, Penguin (55) 4. The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (34) 5. One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (20) 6. Unreconciled , Jesse Wente, Penguin Canada (2) 7. Everything Is Tuberculosis , John Green (7) 8. Abundance , Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader (6) 9. 52 Ways to Reconcile , David A. Robertson, McClelland & Stewart (9) 10. The Crisis of Canadian Democracy , Andrew Coyne, Sutherland House (4) CANADIAN FICTION 1. One Golden Summer , Carley Fortune, Viking 2. Cottagers and Indians , Drew Hayden Taylor, Talonbooks 3. Every Summer After , Carley Fortune, Viking 4. Valentine in Montreal , Heather O'Neill, Arizona O'Neill, HarperCollins Canada 5. A Most Puzzling Murder , Bianca Marais, Mira 6. Moon of the Crusted Snow , Waubgeshig Rice, ECW 7. Finding Flora , Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster 8. Bad Cree , Jessica Johns, HarperCollins Canada 9. Everyone Here Is Lying , Shari Lapena, Seal 10. Medicine Walk , Richard Wagamese, Emblem CANADIAN NON-FICTION 1. Value(s), Mark Carney, Signal 2. Anatomy of a Cover-Up , Paul Palango, Random House Canada 3. Outsider , Brett Popplewell, HarperCollins Canada 4. One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart 5. Unreconciled , Jesse Wente, Penguin Canada 6. 52 Ways to Reconcile , David A. Robertson, McClelland & Stewart 7. Murder, Madness and Mayhem , Mike Browne, HarperCollins Canada 8. A History of Canada in Ten Maps , Adam Shoalts, Penguin Canada 9. The Massey Murder , Charlotte Gray, HarperCollins Canada 10. Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism , Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT 1. Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins, Scholastic 2. This Place , Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, etc., Highwater 3. Love You Forever , Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly 4. Dinosaurs Before Dark , Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca, Random House Books for Young Readers 5. The Summer I Turned Pretty , Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 6. Karen's Ghost (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #11) , D.K. Yingst, Ann M. Martin, Graphix 7. Binding 13, Chloe Walsh, Bloom 8. We Were Liars , E. Lockhart, Ember 9. Borders , Thomas King, Natasha Donovan, HarperCollins 10. Fearless, Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FINANCE 1. Atomic Habits , James Clear, Avery 2. The Psychology of Money , Morgan Housel, Harriman House 3. Rich Dad Poor Dad , Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata 4. How Countries Go Broke , Ray Dalio, Avid Reader 5. No More Tears , Gardiner Harris, Random House 6. Dare to Lead , Brené Brown, Random House 7. Surrounded by Idiots , Thomas Erikson, St. Martin's Essentials 8. Start With Why , Simon Sinek, Portfolio 9. Radical Candor (updated) , Kim Scott, St. Martin's 10. In This Economy? , Kyla Scanlon, Morgan Housel, Currency * Weeks on list The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada's national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Every Summer After : Everything We Know About the TV Adaptation of the Hit Romance Novel
All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by Glamour editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Glamour Illustration: Penguin Random House, Getty/Robby Klein/Jed Cullen The latest romance novel getting an on-screen adaptation is Every Summer After by Carley Fortune. Every Summer After—which spent 14 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list after its release in May 2022—is officially back on the charts following news that Percy and Sam's nostalgic love story is getting the Amazon treatment. On July 18, Prime Video announced their upcoming television series based on the nostalgic beach read—and if you're a friends-to-lovers girlie, this one is definitely for you. Thankfully, Prime Video didn't keep BookTok waiting for updates, immediately announcing seven cast members, including our main duo. You'll probably recognize leading man Matt Cornett from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, while Amazon tapped Saltburn's Sadie Soverall to play Percy. 'I couldn't be more excited about this fabulous cast! This is an enormously talented group of actors, whose auditions made me laugh, swoon and cry," Fortune said in a statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. "I know they'll have fans of Every Summer After falling in love with their favorite characters all over again.' Here's everything else we know about Every Summer After. When does Every Summer After drop on Prime Video? Amazon has not shared a release date, though the initial announcement revealed the series is already in production. What is the plot? Without giving too much away for those who have yet to read the book, Every Summer After centers on Persephone 'Percy' Fraser's return to the lake-town of Barry's Bay, where she spent her childhood summers with a boy named Sam Florek. According to the book's tagline, it takes 'six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.' Every Summer After by Carly Fortune $7.00, Amazon Who has been cast? Percy: Sadie Soverall (Saltburn) Sam: Matt Cornett (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) Delilah: Abigail Cowen (Fate: The Winx Saga) Charlie: Michael Bradway (Chicago Fire) Jordie: Joseph Chiu (Fear Street: Prom Queen) Who else is involved? According to THR, Amy B. Harris (The Wilds, The Carrie Diaries) will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Other executive producers include Lindsey Liberatore, Amy Rardin, John Stephens, and Grace Gilroy. This article will be updated. The Best Summer Beach Reads Worth a Spot in Your Vacation Bag 32 Days in May by Betty Corrello $19.00, Amazon BUY NOW Be the Bombshell: What Love Island Teaches Us About Dating by Rebecca Jennings $.00, Amazon BUY NOW 'Can't Get Enough' by Kennedy Ryan $18.00, Amazon BUY NOW Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake $19.00, Amazon BUY NOW Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza $19.00, Amazon BUY NOW In Pursuit of Beauty by Gary Baum $29.00, Amazon BUY NOW Last Night Was Fun by Holly Michelle $19.00, Amazon BUY NOW Love You To Death by Christina Dotson $30.00, Amazon BUY NOW Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum $29.00, Amazon BUY NOW Moms Like Us by Jordon Rotor $17.00, Amazon BUY NOW Not Safe for Work by Nisha J. Tuli $17.00, Amazon BUY NOW Now to Forever by Ashley Manley $18.00, Amazon BUY NOW One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune $29.00, Amazon BUY NOW Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox $28.00, Amazon BUY NOW Set Piece by Lana Schwartz $15.00, Amazon BUY NOW Too Old for This by Samantha Downing $30.00, Amazon BUY NOW Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss $19.00, Amazon BUY NOW Originally Appeared on Glamour
Hamilton Spectator
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Summer reads: Hamilton Public Library's 10 most requested books
Summer is the best time to sit under the sun and enjoy reading a book of choice. Hamilton Public Library has plenty of options, but some books are in more high-demand than others. While a self-help book tops the list, readers are largely vying for mystery, thriller and romance novels. Here is a list of the most sought-after books this summer. Want to read one of the books listed? The library has express copies, which cannot be put on hold, available for browsing and borrowing in-branch. Check the status of a book at or peruse the library's list of hidden gems . This Mel Robbins self-help book will be flying off the shelves for some time, with a whopping 436 holds on the 76 copies available across the city's public libraries as of July 10. The New York Times bestselling author also hosts and gives advice on 'The Mel Robbins Podcast.' Her new 336-page book is a 'step-by-step guide to stop letting other people's opinions, drama and judgement impact your life,' according to an excerpt from Robbins' website . Despite being released in December 2024, the book tops Amazon's most sold and read charts and the New York Times' Best Sellers list for Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous . Robbins' daughter, Sawyer Robbins, co-authored the book. 'One Golden Summer' by Carley Fortune. The Toronto award-winning journalist, editor and author Carley Fortune's 'One Golden Summer' makes runner-up. Released in May 2025, the library's 70 copies are under 299 holds. The 400-page romance novel follows a photographer named Alice who ends up back at a cottage town with her injured grandma for the summer. There, she begins to fall for a man from her teenage years. 'The Women' by Kristin Hannah. Kristin Hannah's 'The Women' follows a woman who joins the army nurse corps in the Vietnam War in 1965. The novel reflects on friendships and patriotism. The 480-page book has 281 holds on 81 copies at local libraries. It was released in February 2024. Hannah is also the author of 'The Nightingale' and 'The Four Winds.' 'Great Big Beautiful Life' by Emily Henry. Emily Henry's 'Great Big Beautiful Life' is about two writers who compete to tell the 'larger-than-life' story of a woman claiming to be Margaret Ives, an heiress, former tabloid princess and daughter of a scandalous family. Henry also authored 'Book Lovers,' 'People We Meet on Vacation,' and 'Beach Read.' The 432-page book was released in April 2025. There are 277 holds on 73 Hamilton Public Library copies. The chilling novel 'Don't Let Him In' is an Amazon suspense read bestseller that follows three women plunged into lies and secrets after an unexpected death. The book's author, Lisa Jewell, is a British creator of other books, including the 'Ralph's Party' series and 'Thirtynothing.' The 368-page book was published in June 2025 and has 272 holds on 50 copies from Hamilton libraries. Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Atmosphere: A Love Story' is a novel about love and life set in a 1980s space shuttle program. The 352-page book was released in June 2025. It has 257 holds on 55 copies from Hamilton Public Library. Reid has also authored 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' and 'Daisy Jones and The Six.' 'Broken Country' by Clare Leslie Hall. The romance-thriller 'Broken Country' is about a woman living on a sheep farm with her husband when her first love returns with his son. Novelist and journalist Clare Leslie Hall authored the 320-page novel, which was released in March 2025. It has 238 holds on 48 copies from local libraries. Fredrik Backman's 'My Friends' is about friendship, grief and the power of art. The book follows the main character, Louisa, who is on a mission to find the three figures in a painting. Backman also authored 'A Man Called Ove.' The 448-page novel 'My Friends' was published in May 2025. Forty-eight copies are under 223 holds at Hamilton Public Library. 'Nightshade' by Michael Connelly. Michael Connelly's 'Nightshade' is the first in a series. The novel is about a Los Angeles County sheriff who responds to a body found at the bottom of a harbour and uncovers hidden truths. The book, released in May 2025, tops Amazon's most gifted in police procedurals list. The 352-page book has 203 holds on 50 Hamilton Public Library copies. Freida McFadden's 'The Tenant' is a mystery thriller about revenge, privilege and secrets. The book is about a Manhattan-based marketing VP whose life goes downhill after being fired and renting out a space to cover bills. The 368-page read was released in May 2025. McFadden is an American physician specializing in brain injury who also authored 'The Housemaid,' 'The Coworker' and 'Never Lie.' Hamilton Public Library's 50 copies are under 189 holds. Cheyenne Bholla is a reporter at The Hamilton Spectator. cbholla@ .
CBC
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Cast announced for TV adaptation of Carley Fortune's blockbuster romance Every Summer After
Social Sharing The cast of Every Year After, the television adaptation of Carley Fortune's bestselling novel Every Summer After has been announced. Set over six years and one emotionally charged weekend, the dual-timeline Every Summer After follows Percy and Sam, two childhood friends whose close bond was shattered by a fateful moment that forced them apart — and the complicated love story that unfolds when they're reunited years later at a funeral. The book is set in Ontario cottage country. A fan-favourite character returns in Carley Fortune's One Golden Summer The Amazon Prime Video series will feature British actor Sadie Soverall as Percy and American actor Matt Cornett as Sam, Fortune said in a newsletter to fans. Soverall is best known for her role as Annabel in the movie Saltburn. She has also appeared as Beatrix in Fate: The Winx Saga and Maisy in Little Bone Lodge. Cornett was in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series as EJ and most recently, Summer of 69 as Max. "I was absolutely blown away by their chemistry reads and their auditions," Fortune said in the newsletter. "I held my breath, I swooned, I cried. You are going to fall in love with them — I promise." Fortune is a Toronto-based writer and journalist who has worked as an editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine and Toronto Life. Her books are One Golden Summer, Every Summer After, This Summer Will Be Different and Meet Me at the Lake, which was the first romance book on Canada Reads, championed by Mirian Njoh. Other cast members announced were American actors Aurora Perrineau as Chantal, Abigail Cowen as Delilah and Michael Bradway as Charlie. Canadian actor Joseph Chiu will play Jordie. "I was on set recently during the filming of the first season, and — it was so incredible to see how this series is coming together. Friends, it's so gorgeous and these actors are such a dreamy cast. I can't wait to share more with you as the series continues to come together, including when you can expect to see it on your screen."
