Winfrey hits the road for new season

Winfrey To help promote the second season of her OWN series, Oprah Winfrey is hitting the road.The former talkshow queen will head to St. Louis on March 26 for a live episode of "Oprah's Lifeclass" and then shift to Gotham for a live April 2 taping at Radio City Music Hall. In St. Louis, which is the home of net's reality series "Sweetie Pies," Winfrey will chat with Bishop T.D. Jakes and author Iyanla Vanzant. In NY, she will converse with Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins.She will also tape two additional episodes in both cities, and then move to a yet unnamed city where two more episodes will be taped to close out the six-week season."Oprah's Lifeclass," which is produced by Harpo Studios and debuted last year with a five-week run in October, averaged 291,000 viewers in its first first season. Millions also watched the skein online. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Sundance Selects picks 'Never Sorry'

Sundance Selects has bought North American rights to director Alison Klayman's "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" and plans a major summer theatrical release which will coincide with the artist's first trip outside of China since his detention. Deal was announced Monday on the heels of its screening as an official selection in the Berlinale Special at Berlin following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance. Film was produced by Klayman and Adam Schlesinger and exec produced by Karl Katz, Julie Goldman and Andrew Cohen. Pic's presented by United Expression Media in association with Muse Film &Television. "Never Sorry" explores the story of a dissident for the digital age who blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Klayman gained access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Top Moments: Panda Sex with Jon Stewart and Ough Gervais and Revenge's Killer Reveal

Stephen Amell, Kristin Kreuk The fall TV several weeks are materializing. Systems have bought a lot of new aircraft aircraft pilots starring familiar faces including Zachary Levi, Mindy Kaling, Mandy Moore and Sarah Silverman, and from proven producers like Josh Schwartz, J.J. Abrams, Greg Berlanti and Kevin Williamson. Also developing a comeback this year: Legendary figures including Eco-friendly Arrow, Barbara Bradshaw, An Online Detective and wonder as well as the Animal. To keep close track of who's doing what, read our complete list of all the series projects in contention and search back for updates by themselves status. Listed below are the CW aircraft aircraft pilots: (Check out ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.) DRAMA Arrow Hung's Stephen Amell stars as Electricity superhero Eco-friendly Arrow in this particular modern retelling in the legendary archer's adventures. Brothers and sisters & Sisters' Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim will executive-produce while using Vampire Diaries' Andrew Kreisberg. Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, David Ramsey and Susanna Thompson may even star. Beauty as well as the Animal Loosely using the 1987 CBS series a great ADA together with a noble guy-animal who produce a connection, the up-to-date love story - with Smallville's Kristin Kreuk since the Beauty - includes a procedural twist. Felicity's Jennifer Levin and Brothers and sisters & Sisters' Sherri Cooper will write and executive-produce. Austin Basis may even star. The Barbara Journals Using the novel by Candace Bushnell, a far more youthful Barbara Bradshaw steps to the limelight as she comes old inside the eighties, asking her first queries about love, sex, friendship and family while choosing the cell phone industry's of secondary school and Manhattan. Bushnell will executive-produce alongside Gossip Girl duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein and Sex as well as the City author Amy Harris.Stefania Owen will co-star. Popularity a rash of disappearances together with a likely murder, an inquisitive, youthful female production assistant (Melrose Place reboot star Jessica Lucas) around the very popular tv series referred to as Cult joins a journalist blogger in considering the rabid fans in the series who might be re-creating crimes seen round the type in real existence. Rockne O'Bannon will write and executive-produce alongside Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Len Goldstein. Alona Tal may even star. First Cut Glad to go away her nerdy past behind for just about any new beginning inside the adult professional world, a lately minted physician discovers that, sadly and comically, existence within the hospital where she works is equivalent to secondary school. Gilmore Girls' Jennie Snyder Urman will write and executive-produce with Pushing Daisies' Serta Jinks. Joey Dakota In this time around around-travel musical using the Israeli series Danny Hollywood, a documentary filmmaker travels towards the the 19 nineties, where she meets and falls deeply deeply in love with the rock star who's the subject of her film. When she all of a sudden returns to the present, she need to get her sometime ago for the past to reunite with him and prevent his untimely dying. NCIS' Mark Harmon executive-produces with Kim and Eric Tannenbaum. Bert Royal (Easy A) written the script. The Option The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor in this particular project using the approaching book series by Kiera Cass. Popular romance set 300 years afterwards, an unhealthy, youthful lady is chosen by lottery to register in the competition being the next filled with the war-torn nation inside a crossroads. The Vampire Diaries' Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain will write and executive-produce. Shelter The completely new and returning staff inside a historic Colonial summer season resort cope with the needs from the site visitors while moving their unique associations, rivalries and romances. J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk executive-produce. Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill) written the script. Which aircraft aircraft pilots appear interesting for you personally?

Establishing the 'law'

Rachid Bouchareb is moving ahead on "Bill's Law," an British-language pic based on Jose Giovanni's 1973 classic mental drama "Two Males aroundInch (Deux hommes dans la ville).Pic is produced by Bouchareb and Jean Brehat via their U.S. shingle Taghit in addition to their Paris-based outfit Tessalit Prods. Pathe reps the film in worldwide areas.Forest Whitaker is installed on topline just like a Muslim ex-disadvantage on parole as (Daily Variety, August. 15).Jean Gabin and Alain Delon starred inside the original film, which concentrates on the friendship from the awesome gangster and also the parole officer.Bouchareb, who's penning the script along with his writing partner Olivier Lorelle, is transposing the knowledge from seventies France to modern-day America. Pic will probably be occur the and surrounding suburbs in Arizona, near to the Mexican border, mentioned Brehat, adding the film will talk about American politics and anti-Arab paranoia.It's allotted at about E15 million ($19.8 million).Pre-production will beginning in the year. Lensing is predicted to begin in October and November."Two Males aroundInch marks Bouchareb's followup to Sienna Burns starrer "Like a Lady," another pic searching within the relationship between Arabs and Us citizens.Tessalit Prods may also be behind Roschdy Zem's Oscar-nominated feature debut, "Omar Destroyed Me." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Discovery inks deal with Colombia gov't

Discovery Communications has forged a co-production partnership with Colombia's Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (TIC) to produce content for and about Colombia as well as to promote and spur television production training programs in the country.Multi-year alliance is the first media partnership for the Colombian government and a first for Discovery in Latin America. Discovery has inked similar initiatives elsewhere, the latest, dubbed "China Imagica," was with China's State Council Information Office in 2010 to co produce docus showcasing the singular aspects of China for international auds.Latest pact raises a number of questions about the sharing of expenditures and revenues, which a Discovery spokesperson was not at liberty to discuss.Discovery plans to tap local talent including producers, writers, crew etc. It has also opened an office in the Colombian capital of Bogota, making it its fourth in the region after Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo and Mexico City.While no specific projects have yet been announced, the principal mandate is to create documentaries about Colombia across non-fiction genres, including engineering, science, natural history and investigation.An advisory board of Colombian and international experts will work to ensure that the topics chosen will appeal to local as well as international auds. The partners expect to bring their first co-production to Discovery and Colombian public TV this year.Discovery follows a string of media companies that have set up shop in the country including Sony Pictures Television, NBCU's Telemundo and Fox. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com