HBO has announced a Sept. 9 premiere for Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, a documentary special produced by Sopranos alum James Gandolfini and his nascient Attaboy Films shingle. Alive Day Memories looks at the new generation of war veterans from the point of view of 10 soldiers.... Oscar nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) will play wife Clemmie to Brendan Gleeson's Winston in Churchill at War, HBO Films/BBC Films' follow-up to The Gathering Storm.
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• Jury Duty, a syndicated court show featuring celebrities as jurors overseeing actual small-claims court cases, has been cleared in 70 percent of the country for a September bow.• Also per Variety, Bravo has greenlit Paycheck, an adaptation of a U.K. gamer in which players try to guess each others' salaries. The show was previously known as your 10-year high-school reunion.• HBO and the BBC have teamed with producers Ridley and Tony Scott for Churchill at War, a follow-up to 2002's Emmy-winning The Gathering Storm and starring Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) as the former British prime minister, says the Hollywood Reporter.
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