SSN Holiday Gift Guide: Kids’ Edition, SSN Awards Watch: First Round Of Misses, TV Development For 11/18/14, Tom Hardy Sells Show To FX

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SSN Insider’s Holiday Gift Guide: Uncommon Finds For the Kids In Your Life

Whether you’re shopping for a boy or girl, toddler or tween, it’s never easy to pick the right gift for kids. We’ve got everything a child could possibly desire from the educational to the wearable to the edible to the rip roaring, soaring fun. (SSN)

SSN Awards Watch: ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ ‘The Judge,’ and Others In the First Round of Misses

There’s a long history of movies that, though highly-anticipated going into awards season, lost luster once they actually premiered. This year is no different (SSN)

TV Development For 11/18/14: Don Murphy Heads Up ‘From Hell’ Adaptation, Netflix Drops $100 Million On ‘The Crown,’ and More

Other projects moving forward including a highly touted reality show starring newlyweds Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy and a new show from the creators of Will & Grace. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

And, the Latest Movie Star To Move To TV Is … Tom Hardy! 

The Dark Knight Rises star will executive produce and star in Taboo, a BBC period drama to be aired as an eight-part series on FX in 2016. Ridley Scott produces and Steven Knight is writing. (VAR)

It Was Only a Matter Of Time Before Billy Eichner Got His Own Show, and That Time Has Come

Amy Poehler will executive produce Difficult People, a buddy comedy starring Eichner and his Billy On the Street head writer Julie Klausner, who wrote the pilot, for Hulu. (THR)

Get Ready For a Stateside Version of ‘Luther’

Fox gives the go ahead to a pilot adaptation of the award-winning British show, from creator Neil Cross and starring Idris Elba. Cross will work on the American version, but there are no plans for Elba to star. (SAA)

CBS Films Is Interested In ‘Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark’

Company has bought the rights to all three of author Alvin Schwartz’s books, and has set John August to adapt the project into a horror movie fit for kids who revel in frightening films. (CB)

‘Let’s Be Cops’ Director Sets Up New Sci Fi Project At Gulfstream Pictures

Luke Greenfield, whose comedy grossed over $122 million worldwide, will develop, produce and direct Slingshot with writer and producing partner Trevor Sands. (DH)

In Case You Can’t Get Enough Of ‘Interstellar,’ Christopher Nolan Has a Lost Chapter For You

The writer-director teamed with comic book artist Sean Murphy and Wired magazine to fill in some backstory on a specific character. Warning: Spoilers abound. (WRD)

First Look: ‘Jurassic World’

A brand new viral website explores the world behind Jurassic World, the highly anticipated latest edition in the dormant franchise, from director Colin Trevorrow, scheduled for release June 12th, 2015. (MF)